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Using the smaller bodies like the 3 Olympus EM10s I own (1 infrared), you can build a capable 2.8 zoom travel kittravel kit in a bag that will have trouble containing more than a FF body + one 2.8 zoom.
I've replaced the big 40-150 2.8 Olympus lens with the Panasonic 35-100, the 9-18mm Olympus with the 7-14mm 2.8 Olympus and the small Olympus flash with a small Flashpoint (Godox) flash + controller, but you get the idea from this picture.
The Biggest (Smallest?) Reason to Go Micro 4/3
Left lens: 360g, $1,100. Right lens: 1,480g, $2,100. Visit Camerasize This is the argument for Micro 4/3 in one illustration if you ask me. Both lenses have the same angle of view, within the approximations of the aspect ratio. Plus, as if that weren't enough, the smaller lens will give you mo...
The Whitney is downtown at a Renzo Piano designed new building overlooking the Hudson River and the High Line in the Meatpacking District.
The Metropolitan Museum leased the old Whitney building and it is called the Met Breuer now. It is being used for more modern and contemporary exhibitions by the Metropolitan. The Met is supposed to be readying a new modern and contemporary wing in the meantime but is running into money trouble.
Question for New Yorkers
Um, could someone please just fill me in on this—is the Whitney no longer the Whitney? I'm talking about the Marcel Breuer -designed building on the upper East side where successive levels jutted out over the sidewalk like inverse stairs. I obviously missed something here. When I lived in D.C. I...
Let's see how long it will take for the Cubs fans to turn this feel good story into douche baggery, the way the Red Sox fans did in short order.
Thursday Open Mike: Cubs Fans Morose (OT)
Chicago, USA—Fans of the Chicago Cubs are dismayed this morning that the team has broken one of the proudest and longest records in sports. A hundred and eight years is longer than the lifetimes of all but 43 Cubs fans, of whom 17 were capable of understanding the latest perplexing development i...
"The pictures are staged or shot to look as if they were."
These are going to be fighting words for a photojournalist like McCurry, aren't they?
The McCurry Takedown
Seems like the entire photo world—or that subset of it that cares about pictures, anyway—is talking about Teju Cole's article "A Too-Perfect Picture" at the New York Times Magazine. In reviewing Steve McCurry's new book, India, Cole calls McCurry to task not just for taking pictures that "are st...
I agree with bencr. Not sure why a 300mm f4 for a 1/2 crop sensor is as large as it is or as costly. If it was a 2.8 that would be another thing. The 40mm-150mm 2.8 is a very nice lens, and cheaper than the FF equivalent.
Micro 4/3 Flexes Its Muscles
For reach-way-out-and-grab-it, nothing helps like a smaller sensor. It was one of the big arguments for 35mm back in the film era. And few things in my life as a photo writer surprised me more than when I learned, at the dawn of digital, that photographers—most photographers—don't actually care....
Not sure why people would still be clamoring for the D700 when both the D800 and D600/D610 are superior, excepting the unfortunate D600 design flaw which is finally being rectified properly. The D600/610 in particular are probably superior to the Canon 5D series for much less.
Why Didn't Nikon...?
I'm interested mainly in photographers and what they do with cameras, rather than cameras and how they're made. Of course the two aren't mutually exclusive. What I'm saying is that I'm not an industry analyst like our friend Thom Hogan, who knows ten times as much about the industry as I do. (Is...
I don't get this Sony.
It's an Alpha, but it doesn't use the Sony/Minolta A mount.
What are they doing?
I thought their big push with the A cameras was an EVF with a version of a pellicle mirror that they have been trotting out for successive generations now. Does this new camera signify Sony is going to standardize on one mount?
New and Newly Discounted Cameras
New Sony A3000 New Sony stuff: Sony last night introduced a new camera, an updated camera, and two new lenses. The 20-MP Sony A3000 is the first NEX camera to have an SLR form factor (compare to the Panasonic GH3). Sony also introduced the new Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16–70mm ƒ/4 ZA and Sony E ...
I don't understand how the snap, crackle hiss of a record doesn't bother other people. I really dislike when my digital versions of old music have an audible hiss, listening to stuff on a record player would drive me up the wall.
Open Mike: Is Vintage Audio Any Good?
My Audio Adventures Part I My Audio Adventures Part II This is Part III Nice, but seriously? Well, "Open Mike" is back. Last week I tried to write about climate change. That's why there was no "Open Mike" last week. Abort! Abort! Danger, Will Robinson. This week, a mild and friendly question:...
Any love for the Aurora Borealis?
This looks pretty cool to me!
http://ctein.com/Auroral_Flames.jpg
Heads Up: The Scoop
A brief print sale update. The Michael and Paula print sale was a big success, with something right around 237 prints sold altogether (tying up a few loose ends will determine the actual number, but it will be very close to that). The two of them are immersed in work right now, trying to get all...
Framing is exactly the sort of service that people are not going to be able to afford.
How many hours does it take to frame a print?
More than 1?
People are charging more than doctor's hours for framing.
I smell a rat.
How Should You Frame a Photograph? Part III
Great discussion following the framing posts. Thanks for that. Various people have made a number of suggestions, quite naturally reporting on other options, reporting their own tastes or practices, and so forth. I suppose I'd really like to encourage something a little different. First, backing...
Ahhh, Dave Butz- he of the battle scarred helmet almost as big as his son who used to carry it after the games.
Memories of my childhood.
No More Football for You
One of my football memories is watching wild celebrations in the Redskins locker room after one of their Super Bowl wins, when the camera panned around to number 65, soft-spoken defensive tackle Big Dave Butz (that's what they called him, Big Dave, because at the time he had the distinction of b...
Something about framing doesn't compute.
The actual image capture- doesn't cost anything once you pay for your camera and computer.
The print- large prints for less than $50, with good quality, and getting cheaper all the time.
Framing- the sky's the limit on pricing.
Really? Framing is not the most important part of the process, I'm sorry.
How Should You Frame a Photograph? Part III
Great discussion following the framing posts. Thanks for that. Various people have made a number of suggestions, quite naturally reporting on other options, reporting their own tastes or practices, and so forth. I suppose I'd really like to encourage something a little different. First, backing...
That's a nice picture. Of course it seems to have some noise. And it's in black and white.
Random Excellence: John Bohn
Photo by John Bohn, 1990. For your delectation today, a T-Max P3200 picture, which seems only appropriate. The photography staff at The Boston Globe were among the first photographers to ever use the film—they received several pre-production batches, in unmarked black cassettes and plain yello...
I have a D7000, which is just about the same pixel pitch as this D800. I had a D200 prior to that. I have not had to throw out any lenses and things have not gone downhill.
Similarly, I'm sure lenses will remain usable on this D800.
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...
It's fascinating how Kodak frittered away all their legacy advantages and even their lead in digital imaging. Meanwhile the whole net is ablaze with excitement over Fuji(film)'s impending camera. Kodak's managers did it no favors.
Penn Camera Bankrupcy and Kodak Death Watch Update
Click on image to open larger version I went to the Corcoran School of Art for "college" (it was called the Corcoran School in those days, and for a century prior, and I think of it that way despite the new inflated term—in today's America, every school is a college, and every college is a univ...
Well- if the D7000 is a stop or so behind the D700 in noise performance, and the D800 has the pixel density of the D7000, with some Nikon sensor magic this may just have the same sort of noise performance as the D700 with 3 times the megapixels.
Nikon D800 Coming
...It's just that nobody's sure when. Nikon Rumors thinks it has a handle on the upcoming D700 replacement...it's to have 36 megapixels and will be smaller and lighter than the D700. Note the name of the site, however ("rumors"). I haven't got a good read on just how disruptive the Japanese tsun...
Hello. I don't often use a tripod, but when I do, I ALWAYS use an L-Plate.
Oly 45 Arrives at TWH
The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm ƒ/1.8 arrived here at TOP World Headquarters (a.k.a. my house) yesterday. It's a lovely little thing, seeming somehow tinier than the 40mm pancake because it's so much narrower, even though of course it's longer. The silent autofocus is almost disconcerting at...
Yes, if you use makeup and control the light well, any halfway decent imaging device will turn out good product. I bet it would have looked good on a Holga, too. It's the lighting and preparation that's the rub.
It Won't Be Long
Olivia Price by Lee Morris...shot with an iPhone. And speaking of the possible disappearance of the camera as a single-use still-picturetaking device, check out "The iPhone Fashion Shoot" at FStoppers. Photographer Lee Morris shot model Olivia Price in the studio with the whole fashion protoco...
http://www.economist.com/images/20090627/20090627issuecovUS400.jpg
This is also a made up cover. Is it worse than what we're talking about?
KGB'd!
So news photographers can't alter images in any way, but new publications can? Shame on Emma Duncan, The Economist, and Reuters. The original picture was taken by Larry Downing of Reuters. The cover crop and alteration was the responsibility of Emma Duncan, Deputy Editor of The Economist. W...
I agree with Keith, it's an opinion magazine and their covers are done for effect. They make points with their covers, and this cover certainly makes a point.
KGB'd!
So news photographers can't alter images in any way, but new publications can? Shame on Emma Duncan, The Economist, and Reuters. The original picture was taken by Larry Downing of Reuters. The cover crop and alteration was the responsibility of Emma Duncan, Deputy Editor of The Economist. W...
Great stories, great insight. The times I've gone into his Soho gallery, I thought most of the pictures were anodyne. Going through his website, many of those pictures really are great, and it wouldn't even matter whether the subjects are famous or not.
Artists Ain't Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010
By Ctein I'm feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and to give some lectures. There are no details at this time. I imagine his body simp...
How about a map showing the demographic and socioeconomic statistics superimposed on the locations of the high volume centers for these various procedures? Could this study telling us that minorities are staying close to home for care, and the high volume centers are not where they live?
More bad news about racial disparities in healthcare
Many studies have documented the fact that patients of color are less likely to receive the same quality of medical care as whites, and that those differences often translate to worse health outcomes. The pattern holds up even after taking into account demographic factors such as income, educati...
And The Economist covers more of the world than either era of Time knew existed. I would be interested to see 1968 Economist vs. present day Economist.
Old TIME, New TIME
Time from olden and current times I mentioned in the comments the other day that I first read an issue of Time magazine cover-to-cover when I was eleven years old, and that I felt very grown up and proud of the accomplishment for having done it. That happened in the summer of 1968. I even reme...
But citizen, surely you aren't suggesting that the state would take advantage of its powers and harass innocents, are you? Only those with something to hide have anything to worry about. Why are you so interested in this topic anyway, citizen? Is there something you should tell us????
U.K. Photographers Protest Police Harassment
Photo by Michael Perrin This past Saturday, reports the BBC, more than 2000 photographers protested the indiscriminate harassment of innocent photographers under Britain's anti-terrorism laws. The protest took place in London's Trafalgar Square. Britain's law allows police to stop and search ...
You can take the people out of communism, but it's not so easy to take communism out of the people. People with authority like to use it, I guess.
She likely doesn't know the "right" people in Uzbekistan, so she's being persecuted. The pictures on display don't seem particularly political, so I wonder what else she's done, either in this project, or in the past. Or does she just have bad luck?
The Plight of Umida Akhmedova
Photo by Umida Akhmedova Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk that contains approximately 100 of her photographs of life and c...
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