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Sony HX-100V

There is a class of cameras popularly called "Superzooms". These are fixed lens cameras with small sensors and very broad zoom ranges. At the long...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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June 21, 2011

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14 minutes read


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William Neill eBooks

William Neill(Bill) is widely recognized as one of America's finest landscape photographers. Widely published and exhibited, his work is truely inspirational. Bill is also acolumnistfor...
William Neill

William Neill

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June 20, 2011

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14 minutes read


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Yellowstone National Park Photomap

Yellowstone NP Photomap The online version of the Yellowstone NP Photomap is an all new creation for 2011 . It is the second in our...
Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker

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June 3, 2011

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2 minutes read


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Grand Teton National Park Photomap

Grand Teton NP Photomap In our first two travel location articles we have introduced the concept of geotagged photosites to the Luminous Landscape readers. Geotagged...
Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker

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May 28, 2011

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2 minutes read


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Teton Crest Trail

    The Teton Range located in Grand Teton National Park, in the state of Wyoming, is in many people's opinion the most photogenic mountain...
Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker

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April 29, 2011

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8 minutes read


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Site Contents Index

Columns Essays Galleries Locations Product Reviews Techniques Tutorials Understanding Series Workshops ...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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April 15, 2011

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Mountain Climbing Photography

Climbers on the summit mushroom of Nevado Chopicalqui, 6354m high, in Peru Introduction In my (very biased) opinion, mountains are the most beautiful environment on...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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April 15, 2011

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34 minutes read


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Understanding ProPhoto RGB

Most photographers work under the assumption that Adobe RGB 98 is the most suitable working space within Photoshop. Everyone also knows that the sRGB working...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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March 31, 2011

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11 minutes read


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Polarizers

Care, Feeding & Proper Use There are few more important things that a nature photographer can do to improve his or her photography than becoming...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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March 31, 2011

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9 minutes read


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Understanding Video

RED Scarlet Prototype(Coming in 2009) The world of image recording seems to consist of two isolated realities – video and still photography. Though they are...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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March 31, 2011

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40 minutes read


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Canon iPF5000 Printer Review

A First Look and Appraisal In May, 2006 Canon began shipping theiPF5000printer. This is a 12 ink, pigment-based, 17" carriage photographic printer capable of printing...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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March 23, 2011

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40 minutes read


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Some Noise About Noise

Introduction and Summary Findings To judge from the various threads in discussion forums and web reports with performance tests, the arrival of the latest crop...
Mark Segal

Mark Segal

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March 22, 2011

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26 minutes read


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Curves

Since the appearance of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta with Camera Raw, then CS3 with Camera Raw 4.x people have been asking about...
Mark Segal

Mark Segal

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March 22, 2011

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3 minutes read


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Epson 4900 Printer Review - Addendum February 2011

by Mark D Segal Introduction Readers of the Luminous Landscape Forum (/forum/index.php?topic=49968.0and/forum/index.php?topic=49443.0) will recall that a question was raised about whether prints from the new...
Mark Segal

Mark Segal

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March 7, 2011

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21 minutes read


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DxOMark Sensor For Benchmarking Cameras

An Analysis by Peter van den Hamer DxOMark Sensor is a raw benchmark for camera bodies. It is “raw” not just because it looks at...
Peter van den Hamer

Peter van den Hamer

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February 20, 2011

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45 minutes read


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Thoughts on Ansel

William Neill and Ansel Adams "...It is difficult to explain the magic: to lie in a small recess of the granite matrix of the Sierra...
William Neill

William Neill

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February 16, 2011

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6 minutes read


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Epson RD-1 Lens Report

By Sean Reid of Reid Reviews It has often been remarked that one of the prime markets forEpson's R-D1digital rangefinder camera is the group of...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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56 minutes read


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Epson R-D1 Review

A Field Test By: Sean Reid Northampton, Massachusetts, Overcast: Epson R-D1, Canon 28/2.8 ISO 800 1/194 sec. Seiko Epson and Cosina Voigtlander jointly developed the...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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54 minutes read


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Digilux 2 Review - Part 1

By: Sean Reid For most serious photographers, Leica is a name that needs little introduction. For decades now, the German company has produced some of...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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20 minutes read


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Leica M8 Preview

By: Sean Reid September 15, 2006 Leica has just announced their new digital rangefinder camera which is called the M8. It is probably the most...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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4 minutes read


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Leica X1 Field Review

Take the 12.2 Megapixel Sony-fabricated sensor that's likely the same one found in the Nikon D300, put it in a pocket-sized Leica-designed body with a...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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February 13, 2011

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29 minutes read


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Yes, It Matters

By Sean Reid of Reid Reviews Editor's Note: The publication in early March of my essay Your Camera Does Matter turned out to be controversial. This was...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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11 minutes read


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Olympus E-1 Second Opinion

Review By: Sean Reid Photos by: Sean Reid & Bruce Snell Olympus E-1, Zuiko 14-54, ISO 400,  1/500@ F/8, Existing Light   Photo by Sean Reid...
Sean Reid

Sean Reid

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February 13, 2011

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25 minutes read


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Are your pictures out of focus?

"Lilac Breasted Roller" Canon 1Ds MKIII with 400mm DO lens wide open Introduction One of the questions I get asked the most is :  Why...
Mark Dubovoy

Mark Dubovoy

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January 20, 2011

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11 minutes read


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Bobcat Photo Site

Carefree  © David Brookover CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO SEE GOOGLE MAP LOCATION SEASONS Like most wildlife, the coat on bobcats looks the best in winter...
Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker

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January 11, 2011

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1 minute read


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Immersion Course: Essay and Photographs by William Neill

Black Oak Leaves, El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park, California  1983 Camera: Wista 45  Lens: Rodenstock Sironar-N 210mm f/5.6 One important goal for landscape photographers,...
William Neill

William Neill

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January 6, 2011

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7 minutes read


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Leica S2 Firmware Update

As I reported recently in my articleThoughts on Medium Format Cameras, Leica was about to introduce new firmware for the Leica S2. They showed a...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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December 23, 2010

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2 minutes read


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On the High Road to Taos

  On the High Road Santa Fe, New Mexico was established as the capital of the Spanish "Kingdom of New Mexico" in 1607. It is...
Miles Hecker

Miles Hecker

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December 19, 2010

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8 minutes read


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Marshall V-LCD50 Portable Monitor

LCD50 shown attached to a Pre-Production Panasonic GF2(Playback monitoring only, not live HDMI)  I photographed with large format technical cameras for many years. I also...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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December 16, 2010

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10 minutes read


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Capture One 5 Tutorial

FREE PREVIEW Learn Capture One From The Experts This Tutorial Covers The Features of Capture One 5 See below * for Capture One 6 Capture...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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December 2, 2010

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4 minutes read