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You are 200% honest, salute!
We only need the most essential, versatile, functional and ergonomic tool for anything to get job well done.
I never understand why people love to buy vintage looking cameras with a ton of disadvantages and cost them a lot of fortune.
It's more like showing the world, hey now I can afford something that I couldn't buy years ago when I was a broke chap with a lot of dreams.
I Am NOT Saying the Fuji X-Pro1 Sucks...
By Ctein Those of you who are regular readers of my columns know that I've been kinda sorta of shopping around for a new camera. My Olympus Pen E-P1 still works just fine and produces files of quite satisfactory quality. But after four years, camera technology has progressed enough that there ar...
I know another myth:
The best achievements are made when you are still a free single guy.
'At What Age Do You Have the Most Free Time?'
Little Brown Mushroom asks the age-old question—does it matter what age, or how old you are? Is photography a young person's game? Seems to me that how you frame the question has a lot to do with the answer (LBM's framing concerns "most influential work"), and that the bell curve of most such da...
When Kirk decided to turn off his blog. In sadness I deleted VSB bookmark on my browser.
Later I experienced that Kirk start to write again from Mike's site. So you writers and we readers are somehow interconnected.
Now Visual Science Blog comes back in my bookmark list.
PS: I group my bookmarks under several disciplines and go through each morning with my coffee whenever I have time. The list is synched with the firefox server so I can find the same bookmark list on any computer I use.
Kirk's Take (Kirk Tuck #1)
Series Introduction: Photographer, photo book author , and once and future photography blogger Kirk Tuck will be writing a regular column on TOP that will appear on the last Saturday of every month. That's the plan, at any rate. Welcome, Kirk. —Mike What I learned when I stopped writing a phot...
Since my childhood the name Nikon means "future proof professional quality". I think this is still valid for the "1".
I strongly believe that:
1. "1" will get Camera Awards everywhere for it's unconventional and new features.
2. Nikon's big name will attract customer prefer Nikon "1" system.
3. Asian particularly will be the markets since Asian loves to explore new things.
4. Big "1" user base will not only bring cash but also learning curve for new technologies embedded in V1 and J1
5. Everything works in "1" will be seen in future DSLRs
I read people's anger everywhere against "1" system. I think most people always look back and cannot digest that things continously change and people have to adapt to it as well.
The Tail that Wags the Dog
We got some very interesting and perceptive comments around here yesterday, for which thanks. The trouble with focus groups Phil Thomas wrote: I keep hearing about people who want to upgrade from compacts to interchangeable lens cameras without DSLR bulk but I have never actually met one. They m...
I see many people have problem with explanation with framework like this:
"A is A, but A is not A. Considering the assumption to each conclusion depends on which approach of time-space method is being used"
To have a lethal debate over technical stuff at least some science and mathematical thinking is involved. Not just like religious mindset which only recognizes black or white, good or evil :).
Keep going on Ctein!
Size Doesn't / Does Matter
By Ctein The recent spate of camera announcements has brought forth many half-informed comments about sensor sizes and pixel counts. Let's clear some stuff up. You can make great, as in fully professional quality, photographs with small sensors. I'm not talking about artistic subjectivity, I'm t...
The samples are good though.
It tempts me :)
But price is bad.
Mighty Nikon Joins Mirrorless Revolution
Sample ISO 100 Nikon V1 image. Giant version here, more samples here. Surprise! Mighty giant Nikon has landed with fanfare in the mirrorless market pioneered by Olympus and Panasonic and Micro 4/3. As expected, Nikon opted to create its own proprietary system rather than join the Micro 4/3 sta...
Yeah, So Funny!
For more than 15 years I have only one Nikon F3 with 3 lenses. And reluctantly survived the digital wave attack until Coolpix 5100 popped up after my son's birth.
Unsatisfied with the quality, I started searching wildly over Internet and found sites such as uncle Ken's and Dpreview's.
The Mind Infiltration phase has just started.
I bought 2 Nikon DSLRs, 5 new lenses one old Elmarit R. Guess, I am reading the reviews from the site and still unhappy.
Now I sold all my VR junks, and keep only my old manual lenses and pro grade AF-D and slowly using more negative film again.
Today I just bought one Mamiya 645 Pro TL via ebay. And next week I plan to order one Epson V600 for scanning film.
I feel like a stupid Hamster running in a 'please trade again' cage. Digital Photography is not a discipline of art but consumer electronic business where "Keep Buying New Models" is the main objective.
PS: Phase One still tempts me :)
Does Equipment Matter? (Indigestion)
This morning, B&H announced some rebates on Canon Rebels. And I found myself composing a sardonic little notice to the effect that 96% of photographers could probably do everything they needed or wanted to do just fine with a Rebel, a 3100, or a K-r—and 96% of the other 4% could get by with one ...
What usually happens to me: people look at your shots. They like it, envy you and want such a shot desperately. Finally they will ask you what equipment you have or they should buy.
Then with a good thing in mind and expensive equipments in your hand you will start with the classic opening speech: Good equipment doesn't guarantee good results ...
The problem is usually they will get angry thinking why you are hindering people to make good photographs by telling them not to buy things we owned.
In rage they will copy our equipment, spend couple thousand of dollars and wondering at the end why the result is different.
Does Equipment Matter?
Wow, yesterday was a hard day. It's funny how much of life with a dog is based on mutual understandings—you don't realize how much until all your normal routines are interrupted. I'm sure things will get better as we ease into a routine, but we're in the adjustment phase now. Lulu was up all nig...
I think we can raise our quality of life by reducing several 'needs' such as bringing gadgets which at the end more like a burden than a help.
A good reference regarding this issue is 'To Have or To Be from Erich Fromm'
Thanks.
PS: I am also in high-tech sector but try to minimize gadgets in my personal life.
Why I'm Getting an iPad 2
(But you don't need to) By Ctein Last summer I wrote "Why I Needed an iPad (and You Might Not)," which explains why the iPad is an invaluable tool for a traveling photographer like moi. Well, as soon as the pipeline refills, and who knows when that will be, I plan on moving to an iPad 2 (missed ...
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