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Picking the first lens is easy: Panasonic 25mm f/1.4. It has has some magic touch to it, specially for people. The best lens I ever had in 20 years in the hobby and 30 lens or so.
The second one is much harder, as there is only one left. Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 is lovely, but would miss tele too much. I think it would be the Panasonic 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6, a great all around lens.
BTW, another great question is, how many lens you have and how many you really use (e.g. take more than 10% of pictures with it). I bet many people who have many lenses use only a small subset of them.
Lens Geek (Wednesday Open Mike)
I've been on a "thinking about gear" kick recently. You might have noticed. Yesterday, Thomas Rink wrote a nice comment: I find that too much product researching and testing is just confusing. Therefore, I tend to keep my "gear footprint" low—for the last two years, I used a single camera body a...
I also did not get it why no IBIS on the 6300. They lost a client on me right there...
The Sony A9 Omigod! (Nextmania)
I'm not sure I'm the best person to talk to about rumors. I just seem to lack the gene that gets all tweaked out for upcoming things. Where is the world headed to?!? What's going to happen to it? Like, it's been spinning on its axis rilly rilly fast while traveling in this giant arc around this ...
Hi Mike!
Would something like the Motorola Atrix address your needs? (I don't fully understand why it is not popular.)
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Walfredo
The Computer of the Future
I don't suppose any company ever made money by consolidating its products, which is why we have proliferation in models, lines, and categories of virtually everything. But it strikes me that I now own and maintain four lines of products from Apple, and I probably only need one. One that doesn't ...
An old prosumer body, say, Canon 10d or Nikon d70. (I had a 10d and it produces wonderful images.) They are better built than the entry-level (say, Canon Rebel) and you can have a body + lens for ~ $250 on ebay.
Not sure about fish-eye. Maybe he can get a 50mm (a good idea anyhow) and a fish-eye filter?
Your Advice Needed
Here's the question: young photographer (~20), in college, wants/needs DSLR. Money is somewhere between tight and very tight. Will be doing photojournalism for college classes and action photography. Seeks: best balance of used but not too obsolete, inexpensive but not too shoddy, and as respons...
It was the Olympus E5 + Panasonic 20mm for a while. Now it is the amazing Sony RX100, expect if it is night but not a party, when I go back to the E5. :-)
The Out-the-Door Test
Those of you who own just one camera, or just one good camera, obviously don't have the following problem. That's the way I used to be, and the way I like to think of myself still—even though it no longer applies. A one-camera kind of guy. Have axe, will chop wood. An old fave. This one belon...
Mike, you are forgetting the amazing Sony RX-100, the best pocket camera at the moment.
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Walfredo
Calling All Geeks! Part I
So I'm compiling a list, a Buyer's Guide, for the fall, to be called "Small Cameras We Love." "We" meaning, vaguely, the TOP writers and the TOP community. My question is, what small cameras do we love? I'd like to consider various cameras brand-by-brand—that is, look at which Fujifilm cameras s...
I got it when it was $420 because I was interested in the lens and having a back-up body doesn't hurt.
The lens is awesome!! In the same league of the 20mm f1.7. And the body is lovely. The sensor won't let you down unless you are printing *huge* sizes (totally fine for 13x19", which is the largest I typically print). The only thing I complain about the body is the lack of IS.
I was very happy with my purchase at $420. For $100 less, this is a no-brainer.
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Walfredo
Micro 4/3 Blowout
Amazon's "Deal of the Day" today is the super-compact Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 with a 14mm ƒ/2.5 ASPH pancake lens for only $314. That's another $80 off yesterday's already end-of-model-life bargain-basement price. It's not the best Micro 4/3 camera (12MP, last-gen sensor), but on the other han...
Thanks so much for the very insightful article, Ken! You changed the way I photograph!!!
My first digital camera was the awesome 3MP Canon G1 in 2000. At the time I did a careful RAW vs JPEG evaluation. RAW was clearly better. I never reevaluated that... until I read your article.
I redid my own test with my favorite camera of today: Olympus E-P1. The JPEGs are just nicer than my Lightroom-processed RAWs, specially with the lovely Olympus 45mm. I don't doubt that, given enough time, I could make the RAWs look as good as the JPEG. But, I can use my time for other things... :-)
So, expect for special conditions (which you described well), JPEG it it!!
Thanks a bunch!!
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Walfredo
Ken Tanaka: Shooting JPEG Instead of Raw
Sony NEX-5N camera JPEG, 1.6 sec. @ ISO 800, –3/10 EV By Ken Tanaka A couple of months ago I suggested keeping an open mind toward using in-camera image processing, and a number of people asked me to expand on the subject. So I thought I'd just share the logic behind my suggestion and some note...
Swan M10, Mike? :-)
BTW, your posts on Audioengine and tube amps a couple of years ago started my on audiophilia. :-) It has been great fun!! Looking forward to your article next Sunday.
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Walfredo
Blog Note: Upcoming 'Open Mike'
Just a warning. For those few readers who still seem to be shocked or affronted that I occasionally take an interest in things non-photographic, I should probably mention again that on many Sundays I write a deliberately off-topic post. I call these little sorties the "Open Mike." Get it? My nam...
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