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Hiya,
Thanks for a good blog. I'm Mark Jones from Canon USA.
The 1Ds IV is coming out in June. It will have 65 megapixels and 233 focus points. It will shoot 14 image per second, and more if you reduce resolution. It will have no noise at 25,000 ISO. It will weigh three pounds more than the mark III.
Camera manufacturers, has this ever happened to you?
Camera manufacturers, have you tried to leak your camera, but no one noticed that the specs were live on your Luxembourg website for two hours? Have you sent an anonymous email with the specs to a blogger, who thought it was sent from some crazy person and ignored it? Have you accidentally left a...
Octagon, my ass. I've always said a circular sensor is the only one which will fully utilize the lens' image circle!
Start with the sensor, *then* we'll work on monitor manufacturers and paper mills.
As the Pentax K7 world turns (and a Megapixels vs FPS poll)
We have a new episode of the limited-edition series "Waiting for K7d". This time, Pentax USA executive Ned Bunnell chimes in on the rumors (see Saturday April 25 post), and discusses the mythical "35mm full frame" DSLR. After reading his post, one can safely assume that the K7 will not be a 35mm ...
I know that I definitely have a touch of "Magic Bullet Syndrome". "Ooooh, 22 megapixels! With that I could really make great art!"
The Magic Bullet, Revisited
Just added to the archives: The Magic Bullet, a column from 2005 that remains apropos today, especially in light of the dazzling recent new camera announcements from Canon and Nikon. ______________ Mike
"The Canon G9 will be available in October for $499.99. The Canon G9 will be available in the UK from September 2007 priced £429 / €629 inc. VAT."
Oh, that is wrong. Almost twice the price in Eu/UK! The pound is now twice the dollar, but you'd never know it looking at prices.
Amazon Leaks Canon 40D and 1Ds Mark III
Amazon has leaked the details of the new Canon 30D replacement, the Canon 40D , as well as the Canon 1Ds Mark III which will have 21 megapixels and cost $8,000. Both are apparently available for pre-order. Read more news at PhotographyBlog. _______________ Mike (Thanks to Mark Goldstein) UPDA...
Mike Johnston, I understand what you're saying.
I am not entirely sure of the ramifications or consequences.
Perhaps somebody should invent a digital camera which has built-in memory, and could only print directly to a printer, not via a computer or any other way of manipulation?
Digital and its Discontents
The article by Erwin Puts that I posted a link to last Thursday has not gone down at all well with our commenters, but his underlying argument—or what I believe to be his underlying argument—is one for which I have a great deal of sympathy. I should first state that I'm not speaking for Erwin. ...
I've read Erwin's article now, and my reaction can be summed up in one word: "What??"
Even assuming he has some kind of point, he hasn't expressed it so I can understand it.
Photography Does Not Exist Any More
Thesis and evidence. _________________ Mike
Great, thanks, Stephen.
Indeed, the bigger the print, the less the pixel density needs to be, because viewing distance increases. I find 300 Pixels Per Inch (not DPI as it's often called) is only useful for small prints. For 8x10 to 15x20, 200 PPI is plenty. And for bigger, less will do.
Fuji FinePix F50fd Just Announced
New Pocket Champ, or Pocket Chump on Megapixel Steroids? By Stephen Gillette Those of us who are rather serious about our photography (and that would be nearly all TOP readers) divide into two camps. Camp One has a difficult time with the notion of small-sensor cameras being being good for muc...
"Lynx"... o dear. That was too subtle for me. :)
Will You Look At Me? Yeah
I've got to admit that my "lynx" link on this page doesn't have very many links yet. Hey, I was sick for a while, remember? That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. In the meantime, here are a few links to one thing and another, some sent to me by helpful readers—maybe you'll like one or two. Eo...
When I was a teen photo-nut in the late seventies, my home town had four camera stores, and the town I live in now has three. I've frequented all of them. And none of those seven stores, to my awareness, had/has owners or staff which seem to either know or care a lot about cameras or photography. I dunno.
The Photographer's Mecca
In a comment to the previous post, "Unbound" wrote: Is your essay a simile for what is happening to mom-and-pop camera stores? Or should I use past tense, since they virtually don't exist any more? Let's see, I can buy a DSLR for $2500 online, or I can buy the same camera for $2750 locally, plus...
We must remember that noise which looks the same at 100% on the screen will be much less noticeable when you see the whole image, at higher resolution. Because each pixel will be printed or viewed much smaller. In other words, if a twelve megapixel camera is a bit noisy, it will matter less than if a six megapixel camera is.
Fuji FinePix F50fd Just Announced
New Pocket Champ, or Pocket Chump on Megapixel Steroids? By Stephen Gillette Those of us who are rather serious about our photography (and that would be nearly all TOP readers) divide into two camps. Camp One has a difficult time with the notion of small-sensor cameras being being good for muc...
At least at ISO 100 as they are, I think those image samples are really impressive.
I love my F10. If performance at ISO 400, and of the IS is good, I might get this one.
I don't miss viewfinders. There was never a good one on a compact camera anyway. I like using an LCD. More flexibility of viewpoint, even if it's not tiltable (which is best).
Fuji FinePix F50fd Just Announced
New Pocket Champ, or Pocket Chump on Megapixel Steroids? By Stephen Gillette Those of us who are rather serious about our photography (and that would be nearly all TOP readers) divide into two camps. Camp One has a difficult time with the notion of small-sensor cameras being being good for muc...
I have just posted this on eolake.blogspot.com:
Thanks to Mike Johnston for pointing to this video about Henry Wessel's photography.
For some reason I was not aware of Wessel's work, but it's really wonderful. Exemplary "street photography".
The video itself is also impressive. It shows the difference between the typical U-toobe video and a professionally produced one. Even in the sheer image quality: you can view it at 200% and it's still sharp and no artefacts.
I would debate this, though:
Henry Wessel: "In the still photograph you basically have two variables—where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have."
Well, you also have:
* Choice of B/W or color.
* Direction in which you shoot.
* Contrast.
* View angle of the lens.
* Aperture.
* Shutter speed.
* Focus.
* Exposure.
* Framing. (Though this is a result of a few of the above.)
* Camera format (influences sharpness etc).
Notable also that Henry uses the kind of camera that we are still waiting for in digital photography: compact, high quality build and high image quality, light weight, very responsive, fast, simple to use.
Henry Wessel Video
Henry Wessel: "In the still photograph you basically have two variables—where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have." There's a really nifty KQED Arts profile of my Favorite Photographer (caps intentional) online at this link. Highly recommended, not just for the chance...
Yes, I mean coating, and also angle of incidence.
But if they are new designs, surely they've thought of that. And they do seem pretty big, which indicates it.
Zeiss Lenses To Be Available for Pentax Mount
Great news for Pentax shooters! Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen, Germany, has announced that it will make its premium line of manual-focus SLR lenses available for the Pentax K-mount beginning in August. The lens line will be called ZK. The ZK bayonet will based on the KA standard and permit the ...
I couldn't agree more, Mike.
On my personal site I don't worry about copyright at all, I post very large pictures, and sometimes I bother to put the domain on them.
On my commercial site (the "tasteful nudes" one) I bother only a little. If somebody posts thousands of pictures, I complain to the host. If somebody posts less, I consider it free advertising. And a big portion of my sales comes from this kind of thing.
Eolake Stobblehouse
Keep Your Freakin' Hands Off My Picture
I hate writing about copyright, I really do. It's one of those perennially misunderstood subjects like depth-of-field and angular perspective that never fails to get people quarreling, and that seems to resist clear explanation. Moreover, even clear explanation sometimes doesn't help, because no...
"Personally, I feel that it's worth it to make your work look good and suffer some piracy, rather than be miserly about it."
I totally agree. I think that posting tiny images just so they won't get stolen is like a greengrocer pouring gasoline over his fruit to make it unpalatable to thieves.
Presenting and Protecting Your Pictures Online
It's late as I write this and I want to get back to "regular programming" tomorrow (Ctein has a post awaiting publication, and I'd like to say more about Wood, Water, and Light by Mendlowitz and White), so just a few final final recommendations, after three days of vigorous chewing on the issue ...
"(I'm particularly sensitive about the corporatization of art—so sue me)"
Join the club.
I once saw a TV programme satarizing the fact that some Danish theatres were putting sponsors in their shows somehow. And they interviewed a corporate moron who said that "this wonderful energy you get from a good theatre performance... you might as well *use* it for something."
So if art does not sell a product, it's wasted. What an idiot.
Marketing That Works
I'm not a big fan of marketing. I'm not terribly good at it, and not terribly susceptible to it. (Although I sometimes practice a sort of anti-marketing reaction, consciously deciding not to buy a particular product, for example, as a response to an obnoxious advertisement or some other corpora...
Yes, yes, yes!!
I've been bitching about this for years.
Another one, mostly about newspapers: Have they not heard of verbs? Why do they think that making headlines in incomplete sentences make them more readable?
***No Pun Here***
I don't know why it is that newspaper writers and editors think that perfectly competent and serious newspaper articles beg for titles that are puns. It's been a longstanding tradition—blight, is more the term—and for some reason it soldiers ever onward, ever undiminished. A newspaper writer or ...
I have had good experiences with eBay, except one: a guy who sold me a Nikon FM. The pictures were not of the sample I got, and mine was clearly in a poorer condition. Fortunately the pictures showed the serial number to be different, so I got my money back from eBay!
Beware Blurry Pictures on eBay!
I've argued in the past that resolution isn't necessarily a mandatory quality that fine art photographs need to have. There are plenty of great photographs that have low resolution. The toy-camera subgenre makes a virtue of it. In fact, at the turn of the last century, there was a whole style bu...
I don't have the rights to them, and I have never found the authors.
Balitski
Here are some of the earliest pictures on the site.
These are like ten years old, so I doubt it.
Balitski
Here are some of the earliest pictures on the site.
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