All the options may leave some of us thinking the picture is a bit hazy? Mirrorless options have proliferated in the past year, and trends have become clearer. Canon and Nikon have shown their initial hands and Leica’s L mount has moved off the fringes as Sigma and Panasonic join in. Fujifilm has made it very clear that their answer to high pixel-count full frame … [Read more...]
The Present State of Mirrorless Part II: Manufacturer/mount summaries
Sony: A Sony E-mount lens family portrait Beyond question, the mirrorless market leader as of July, 2019, Sony also manufactures image sensors for most of their competitors. Sony has been in the mirrorless camera business since 2010, and their unofficial motto has always been “how much sensor can we stuff in there”. The early Sony mirrorless cameras were APS-C, and the … [Read more...]
The camera as a tool for exploring the world.
An ordinary-sized human being (Apple’s Phil Schiller) with an enormous iPhone looming over him. A Phase One XT – a camera for contemplation and exploration. There was exciting new tool for photographic art released on September 10, 2019. It is perhaps the most contemplative digital camera I have yet seen – manual focus only, uncompromising resolution, shift as an … [Read more...]
Of Tools and Art
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams – one of the trickiest images to print in existence – the best of silver gelatin printing, in the hands of a master, is barely good enough. As any art form matures, tools become first good enough, then much better than good enough, and we can come to first develop the techniques to use those tools to their fullest capability, … [Read more...]
The Game is Afoot – first of the 2020 crop of sports cameras announced
No matter how much it might look like it, this is not a D5 with a D6 label on it... The prism housing is slightly different. At midnight Eastern Daylight Time, September ¾, 2019, Nikon announced the development of the D6 professional sports/photojournalism DSLR. The timing may be (mildly) newsworthy, but the development announcement of the D6 was approximately as … [Read more...]
