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I consider my photographs to be photographs once they are up on flickr. That means they have been edited (in camera!) and only jpeg files remain. I don't tinker endlessly with the raw files and any unedited file remains on the camera until it's edited. Perhaps a wierd process but it keeps me sane! The very best photos get on the wall or in a photobook, printed by a lab, for personal consumption or as gifts.
The Fixed Object (A Spiky Thorny Question)
How very curious that even only a few hours after posting, we had gotten several diametrically opposed answers to the question in the the previous post. One comment, however, spurred a different but related question in my mind. Paul Giguere said, "I recently bought a Sony RX100 Mark III for $750...
I bought my XT-10 in February 2016. I'm itching to upgrade to XT-2 for the larger viewfinder, weather sealing, and acros film simulation. Rumors of XT-2s may make me wait more than the 2 year minimum I had given myself. Not because I want the IS, but because the price of XT-2 will likely drop.... My general strategy is to buy last year's model.
The Lifespan of a Digital Camera
I said yesterday that I tend to replace my main camera every three years. You remember the old Hollywood joke about the stages of an actor's career? Who is Johnny Doe? Get me Johnny Doe! Get me a young Johnny Doe. Who is Johnny Doe? (I've seen versions of the same joke applied to both models a...
My small and large camera have same size sensor: Ricoh GR and Fuji XT-10 (will likely upgrade to XT-2 in next year or two). I predict you'll keep missing the Fuji--they have some great zooms!
A Bigger Sensor and a Zoom
Nothing makes whatever expertise I possess vanish faster than when I'm camera shopping. When I'm shopping I become the same mass of angst and insecurity, the same jumble of fretting and theorizing and furtive obsessive review-reading as anybody else. Automaniac A few years ago, I tried "splittin...
I think you'll miss the Fuji. But if you insist on switching, I bet the GX8 will be the most comfortable in your hands, and have the better user interface.
Quick Take: Your Opinion Please
My brother Scott always said I'm great at giving other people advice but not so good at knowing what to do for myself. Whether he's right about that or not, here's my dilemma. I love my Fuji X-T1, but I need a camera with IBIS (in-body image stabilization). Here's the reason. The three top conte...
I bought an XT-10 back in February and love it. I played around with both XT-10 and XT-1 at the store and couldn't justify the more expensive option. However, I did buy the 35mm f2 and plan on getting the 16mm f1.4 next, with an eye on buying an XT-2 down the road, for the weather resistence and Acros film sulimulation if nothing else. The two things that bothered me about the XT-10 were the shallow eyepiece and small grip. I bought a 3D-printed fix for the former, and the metal grip for the latter. Probably would have done the same with an XT-1 though, and would have bemoaned not waiting for the XT-2 :)
The Smartest Way to Buy a Camera
Hearken ye! I'd like to blather just a bit about a very old word, yeoman. But first: I'm being kind of a stumblebum this year. A sluggard. What used to be called, back in the dim, swiftly receding days of the 'nineties, a slacker. I posted Part I of the "Recommended Cameras" list way back on Dec...
I bought a black X-T10 with 16-50 lens, spare battery, and 32gb card for $750. I will eventually get the 35mm/f2--when they discount it. But unfortunately bought it before you had the link up! It was tricky to find the correct link for that combo though. Somehow got to it through a comment on fujirumors.com
Fuji Event
B&H Photo is having a massive Fuji sale event—all or at least most of Fuji's digital cameras and lenses are available at significant discounts. The X100T is $200 off; save $300 on either X-T1; the popular new weatherproof 16mm ƒ/1.4 is $200 off and so is the brilliant 50–140mm ƒ/2.8 constant-a...
I think the Minolta Maxxum 600si I bought in 1999 may just edge out my current Ricoh GR in current dollars. My next purchase will probably be an X-T10 or X-T2. Maybe an E-M2 if it comes with a sensible user interface.
What's the Most Expensive Camera You've Ever Bought?
A comment from Josh Hawkins today brought this up. Josh is now a dad and living in Las Vegas, but back when I lived in Oak Park, Illinois, he was the manager of Oak Park Camera, which in those years was a lovely old-time camera store more or less around the corner from where I lived. Josh mentio...
An exhibit under the same name is currently showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/829.html
TOP Photobook of the Year 2015
This post is a mere prelude. I'm just not ready to write at length about Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath yet. The only thing I know definitely is that this is my favorite photobook this year. The reason I can't write about it yet is that it's so incredibly rich. I just have...
I never made a concious decision to do OCOLOY. But in a sense I did. Since February, I have been shooting solely with the Ricoh GR. The decision to purchse the GR had little to do with its 28mm (eq) focal length, as I've always preferred the standard 50mm. And I do not shoot every day and rarely print but have really learned to appreciate the basic OCOLOY pricipal. Selected results can be seen here: http://sixblockseast.tumblr.com
Open Mike: OCOLOY Show in Sicily
I was sitting at a table in a hillside vineyard restaurant the other day waiting for the TOP reader who was scheduled to be my third portfolio review client (more about those in a future post) when the mail alert sounded on the phone. It was from a reader in Italy, Massimo Cristaldi. The link ...
My personal six finalists (in order of appearance):
Walk this way
Linemen
Turkey man
Vincent Manna
Trench diggers
Fisherwoman
'People Working' Contest Semifinalists, Batch 3
Photo by Scott Marriott "A New Zealand teenager dives for money left in a hat some thirty feet below a high point of the Te Papa Tongarewa museum on the Wellington waterfront, 2011." Photo by Olaf Dreyer "On a recent tour of the harbor in Hamburg I saw these guys on their way to touch up ...
But Mike, if you had been photographing instead of just walking, the hawk would have probably long been gone by the time time you photographed the boy with the balloon, the family feeding the mallards, etc :)
Open Mike: The Red-Tailed Hawk
(Note that there's no picture with this post.) I've taken to walking to try to improve my deteriorating heart-health (having your ankle chained to the leg of the desk all day isn't all that good for you, turns out). I walk a circuit around the river (bridge to bridge) because it's flat. Our thou...
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