Taken with a camera you wouldn’t think of for wildlife, and an adapted lens. It’s camera and lens release season again, due to the recently cancelled CP+ show – while the show fell victim to the coronavirus, many of the cameras and lenses scheduled for the show are already announced and more are coming soon. Hopefully, the epidemic eases soon, with no further disruption to … [Read more...]
A PowerBook Once Again?
A PowerBook/MacBook Pro family portrait (mostly Apple marketing images) – 1991 to 2019 28 years ago this fall, Apple released the first Mac PowerBooks. They weren’t actually the first portable Macs. Outbound Systems and a couple of other companies had made portable computers that required the ROM chips from a Mac in order to run. Apple themselves had previously released … [Read more...]
PhotoPlus report – digital SLR and mirrorless cameras.
A Fujifilm X-Pro 3 in gleaming titanium. PhotoPlus 2019 was the smallest it has been in the decade or more I’ve been attending regularly. Sony didn’t attend, preferring to host their own event nearby, which was both inconvenient for those of us who knew about it, and I talked to several photographers who said “where was Sony”, not knowing about the separate event. Apart … [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 Phones, Pixels and Photons – why a 100 mp cell phone is not a GFX 100
Samsung has just released a 108 MP phone sensor – a wild headline number that may mean little in practice. Is 108 MP in a phone valuable? Is it anything like 100+ MP in a larger camera? 50 MP? Even a good 24 MP APS-C or full-frame sensor? Or is it just sheer numerical hype? We won’t really know until we see raw files not just from this sensor, but from the sensor, lens and … [Read more...]
