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So. For twenty years I traveled with a 500 series body and three or four lenses and film backs for color and BW. The pro-lab 16x20s I hung in my office were state-of-the art prints that were the best travel images possible.
Now the 16x20s from my D800e look so much better - printed at home - that I wonder why I fooled with the Hasselblad. Oh - it was the best we could do for a long time. I thought I'd never say this, but I'll never ever feel the need to go back. I just regret that my 503CW isn't big enough to use as a boat anchor. Useless.
Hasselblad Confirms the End of an Era
Hasselblad 503CW is the last of the classic Hassies Hasselblad has confirmed, in a press release dated today, that the V-System has officially been discontinued after more than 50 years. Descended from the original innovations of Victor Hasselblad, the Swedish medium-format camera was for a n...
Hey Joe B - You just specified the new Fuji X20. I know I do like mine a lot so far. Interior shots at f/2 are surprisingly sharp with minimal vignetting and surprising depth-of-field (smaller sensor). Plus a passable viewfinder.
Cool New Ricoh GR
You thought we already had an embarrassment of riches in the small enthusiast camera category? Well, it just got worse! I mean better. Wouldn't you know this would come up when I've overextended myself and badly need sleep (note the timestamp of today's [or rather yesterday's] first post, and th...
Too wide. I don't want the whole world in each shot. I'd love one of these with a 50 equivalent. Yes, I know it would be a larger package, but that's okay. I sold my X100 because even 35 wasn't a do-everything view for me. So for now I love my new Fuji X20 and that neat zoom. Just wish it had a bigger sensor.
Cool New Ricoh GR
You thought we already had an embarrassment of riches in the small enthusiast camera category? Well, it just got worse! I mean better. Wouldn't you know this would come up when I've overextended myself and badly need sleep (note the timestamp of today's [or rather yesterday's] first post, and th...
Nope. Too wide. Look at that first sample image. Put a 50 on it and I'm in. Or not. Got a Fuji X20 coming.
Deluxe, Fixed-Lens Compact from Nikon
The new Nikon Coolpix A, just announced, is a small 16-MP point-and-shoot with a fixed 28mm-equivalent (moderate wide-angle) retractable lens and a large APS-C sensor. Signaling its aspirations of high quality is a high price: a cool $1,100 in black or silver. It's Nikon's first Coolpix compac...
Wow. Never thought I'd read that! My first Tri-x was exposed in 1972... I've had a darkroom wherever I lived up to this day.
On the other hand, it's been four years since I've written a check for a Kodak anything.
So blame me, and blame yourself.
Still sad, though.
Kodak to Sell Film and Paper Business
Building 23 at Kodak Park—the Engineering building—is demolished on July 1, 2007. In a rather opaquely worded press release issued today, Kodak has announced that its photo paper and still film businesses are going up on the sales block. For us, the lede is partly buried: From paragraph 1: "t...
The website you linked to said it all under the photograph. "Buy this Art". Oh, they have to tell us that that's what it is.
It's Not Two Dogs in a Boat
William Wegman has the strangest career in all of art photography, maybe in the history of art photography. He takes pictures of trained dogs in costumes and in odd poses. For some odd inexplicable reason, he got started off being thought of not as cutesy and kitschy, but conceptual and deep. Se...
I've realized that a static charge can fog the image if you shoot a digital file while grounded. Now I jump into the air and release the shutter. It also keeps me from having to use the blur filter in Photoshop as much. Alternatively you could wrap your memory card in saran wrap before putting it in.
Proper Handling of Memory Cards for the Digital Photographer
By Lamberto Go SA* Tip #1. Download, email, post-process and/or print your images promptly. If you wait weeks or months, the colors could fade, saturation could suffer and color balance could shift. Or worse, image files could become corrupt or you could misplace your card. Tip #2. When you're ...
Well. I just told somebody last week that after 30 years with a Hasselblad I have finally decided that the D700 is finally the end-all digital camera that does everything I need better than 120, and I might never feel the need to replace it. I believed that all morning today. At lunch I read the news. Within two minutes I was on the phone with Dave ordering a D800e. Now I won't sleep tonight.
Nikon D800, Woo-Hoo!
It's here, folks. The long-awaited and much-talked-about (and probably natural-disaster-delayed)...drum roll...Nikon D800. Nikon's replacement for the superb, much-loved, and undyingly popular D700 (a.k.a. the digital F100) is everything that was rumored: full-frame and 36 megapixels. And it's e...
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