OK, maybe 99.9% is overstating things. Maybe it’s only 99.8%, or 99.7%. You get the idea though.
There’s a lot of information on the Internet in blog posts and videos about astrophotography. In this case I’m taking about what is called wide field astrophotography.
Continue reading →As photographers, we tend to believe what camera manufacturers tell us. Why, generally, would we question something as supposedly simple as the accuracy of shutter speeds? Well, it turns out we should in certain situations.
Continue reading →Photography is a very technical, and technology-driven pursuit. Camera makers continue to try to outdo each other with various improvements in features and functionality and tout these in big, bold headlines. But are these improvements really beneficial or just bleeding edge incrementalism that is intended to get the ‘photo press’ all agog and photographers to part with money? Continue reading →
I’ve been reading blog posts and watching videos from people who’ve switched from Canon or Nikon to one of the mirrorless camera lines and it got me thinking about a number of things.
The advances in mirrorless cameras are great but are they ready for prime time? In all situations? Personally, I don’t think so. Continue reading →
As I had mentioned in my write-up on the Fuji X-T1, I intended to order a lens adapter to use my Nikon lenses on the Fuji. After doing some research, I settled on the Metabones version. This is not the SpeedBooster, just the regular mount adapter so it has no glass element. Continue reading →
There are several articles and videos on the interwebs about the Fuji X-T1, Fuji’s new flagship in its wonderful X-Trans sensor line of cameras. This isn’t going to be a hardcore, pixel-peeping, measurbating, test-bench jockey review like some of the others. I will go through some of the performance aspects of the camera but I’m also going to discuss some of the user-related aspects. I’m more concerned with how the camera operates in actual shooting conditions. At 16 megapixels, the pixel pitch, or size, is the same as on the full-frame Nikon D800.
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If you read my write-up on the camera in the Nokia 1020 from back in November, you’ll know that I found a number of shortcomings with it. At that time, I noted that there would be a firmware update coming that would give RAW capture to the phone in the form of DNG. It was called the Lumia Black update. Continue reading →
