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...]
Travels to Costa Rica: A Photo Adventure
Costa Rica is truly a photographer’s dream come true – whether it’s the beaches, volcanoes, rivers, jungles or the exotic flora & fauna – Costa Rica has it all with some of the friendliest people I've ever met. There are only a handful of destinations around the world where the prospect of animal interaction is central to the visit, and Costa Rica is certainly one of them. … [Read more...]
Sean Tamblyn follow-up: The Final Shuttle Launches
https://luminous-landscape.wistia.com/medias/potwnnwg5u In this follow-up to our piece on Sean Tamblyn's Georgian Bay photography, we take a look at the opportunity Sean had to document the end of NASA's space shuttle program, which first got him interested in remote camera work. Enjoy! Nick Taylor December 2019 … [Read more...]
Batteries, Power and Workflow, Oh My – Part 1 of a series of short reviews of photographic accessories.
A Zendure SuperTank powering and charging a 15” MacBook Pro and an iPhone 6S+ while charging a camera battery. Note: Most of the equipment in this article was supplied for review purposes by manufacturers or distributors. Much of it will receive fuller reviews in the future, or appear in reviews of other equipment. Most photographers enjoy a good photographic gadget, … [Read more...]
Of the Leica SL2
The Leica SL2 A week after I thought there were no more cameras coming for the year (except possibly for an irrelevant Leica SL2), the surprising Leica SL2 arrived. What surprised me isn’t that an SL2 came, but that it isn’t irrelevant. Until it actually arrived, it was broadly assumed that the SL2 would be essentially a Panasonic S1r in a nice metal shell, for about … [Read more...]
