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Damn! And I sold my F and FM2n !!!! Whether they ever do it or not, I am not selling my S-2 rangefinder .. in case they actually do this for cameras that have removable backs! Or as the poster below said... I can just shoot film and scan it! Nothing is impossible, but it would be like putting a jet engine on a Ford Model T -- it can be done, but why do it? Besides, today's automotive cup holders are light years ahead of anything a Model T had. And the autofocus, ergonomics, etc., of today's cameras blow the doors off our beloved classics!
Reilly Diefenbach: Homo Sapiens, the oversized locusts!
You're always welcome to check out! I tend to look at the positive impact humanity has made in addition to our shortcomings. Remember, God made the world for mankind and gave us dominion over it. We have not messed it up too bad, despite what some radical environmentalists would have you believe!
flying the space shuttle would be easier than taking a photo with this button-festooned machine! Simplify it a bit and Ill buy one!
There never was the perfect 35mm rangefinder, SLR, medium format, etc. and so why expect there to be a perfect digital? But I say we already have the perfect SLRs Canon 50D, 5d, 6d, Nikon D600, yadda yadda. The Fuji X100 in black is sweet, but maybe something APS-C with interchangeable lenses (a pancake among them) with optical hybrid viewfinder and under $800! I will keep dreaming...
Amazing time lapse, but sad in the bigger framework... I saw the first orbiter arrive at Kennedy in 1979 -- it was the beginning of a wonderful era... seeing this orbiter arrive at its tomb underscores the fact we have ended large-scale manned space flight, maybe forever. I hope not, but I don't see a groundswell of support for even the minimal support NASA had for shuttle ops. I thought for sure I heard "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" as they pulled the orbiter to its final resting place...
Why do we call this tiny sensor a 1-inch sensor when it's not! One inch is 24.7 (something) millimeters... this is much smaller... call it APS-T (tiny)...
I really don't like the effects of the tiny sensors and I welcome the further development of a class of 4/3 sensors and APS-C sensor-based compacts with good zooms 24-28 to 90-100 with 2.8 apertures or better... or interchangeable lenses and OPTICAL VIEWFINDERS, even if its just a slide-on accessory like the ones I use on my 35mm rangefinders! We're getting closer and closer, but still too many turns onto dead end streets IMHO.
Isn't this a bit early for the April Fool's edition?
Geez, now that I bought a used Canon 70-200 2.8L IS... can they put out a version in the putty white color with a red band at the top? Nice to see that this once-pro-only lens will show up in the kits of many of us amatures at a resonable price! Ain't capitalism great?
Remember when a fixed lens "rangefinder" like this was about half the price of an SLR? Wish those days would come again in the digital era!
The human spirit... amazing and inspiring!
Rotherhithe: @Paul - Neil could have said "how about a few of me" if he was really bothered, but we hear a lot about his modesty and I don' think he was bothered, so why should anyone else be.
You shouldn't have to ask and besides... the other astronauts were livid! For me it was a sad footnote to history.
an historical tidbit: all of the main photos (Blad shots) are of Buzz... because Buzz didn't photograph Neil!!! Now when a crapstorm broke upon their return to earth over the lack of shots of Neil on the lunar surface, Buzz said "it wasn't in the photoplan and I wanted scientific material..." only the other astronauts and even flight directors have said otherwise. Sad. Buzz is still my hero... but talk about a missed shot!! The only shot of Neil is the closeup of Buzz... you sell a distorted image of Neil in buzz's mirrored visor.
Rest in peace Neil... you had the true spirit of class and humanity and you are a hero and an inspiration to us all!
mandm: The sad part of digital is all the family images lost forever when computers fail or people do stupid things like reformat their external hard drive when they believed they were reformatting a memory card and lost 10 thousands pic's (post on DPR). For the few that backup family pic's, they buy the cheapest C/D's and DVD's that only last 10 to 20 years. 50 years from now people won't even know what a DVD is, or be able to get prints from it, remember floppies, the computer companies don't care what they made yesterday.
Last week my mother showed me a picture of her grandmother made in the late 1890's and asked if I could copy it, I scanned it and made a few prints, easy. 50 or 75 years from now my kids/grand kids will still be able to scan film to view or maybe even make prints!
My parents shot 35mm slide film for all vacations and special events, I copied the slides to DVD's.
It's sad that in just 2 or 3 decades from now, most will not have any family pic's to view.
Well you've never experienced a house fire, flood, tornado, or Uncle Louie's crazy filing system that prevents anyone from finding negatives? Fact is prints will last just as easily, if not more so, in the digital age. If the PC crashes, that is the same as mom and dad not filing their negatives properly or even tossing them. Long live digital!
Dear Nippon Kogaku Designers:
close, but still no cigar! OPTICAL VIEWFINDER!!! And I'd buy one!
Really, I mean it!
Well I wouldn't buy a book of this stuff, but if folks are buying it, then good for him! The nice thing about street photography (and most photography in general) is that with the passage of enough time the work becomes interesting to historians and old farts like me (Sambo's Restaurant) for the historical paralax evident in the images.
Getting to a viewing point away from light pollution is the key! Living in Cleveland I've seen the occasional Perseid meteor, but back in the late 90's my wife and I were in Chincoteague, VA (very dark) and I was flabberghasted by the amount and brightness of the showers! If only we had clear skies in Cleveland and more darkness.
Chahn: Seems Hitler got his ideas for concentration camps from the designs of the U.S. Indian Reservations.
Don't be an assh*le... there are no Gestapo on reservations and no gas chambers. After 120 years you have to be able to say "I am responsible for my current situation." From past crimes from the white man to their current crimes of drugs and gang violence, that is the story I want to see in this documentary. Not all NA reservations are like this. What is different about this one?
Fogsville: These images are so awesome.
And I'm actually glad Cameron's 3-D entertainment game didn't end up in the mix. I think it's better that Hollywood doesn't get to cash in on this.
The real deal are the men and women at JPL and CalTech. They know how to get it done even while on a tight budget and schedule. That's what ingenuity is all about.
I agree with your points, but I have to make one of my own... this way (no computer game from Cameron) NOBODY under age 25 will give a fiddler's fart for the Mars rover or see any image beyond what the press is pushing today. We have lost our next generation to the most powerful, brain killing drug of all... computer GAMES!
Abe "Friggen" Lincoln on MARS!!!! It doesn't get better than that! And to think only last month he was a Vampire slayer! I am rather sad that unlike the Viking landers from 1976, which had US flag decals on them that could be seen in the photos, this lander apparently is generic, sans nationality. Don't think the Russians or Chinese would do that if this was their Billion dollar hardware.
"Four score and 92 million miles ago, our forefathers forgot their patriotism..."
the amount of violence over the slightest things... a different tribe, a cross look, being in the wrong place when terrorists strike... you can take images, but then put the damn camera down and help someone in need. Been there, done that.