Stig Nygaard

Don't care must about build-in cameras. More important that you can import from your camera or card-readers usb-port. Wi-fi only? Use your phone as a wi-fi hotspot, so don't see a big drawback there. Now I'll admit that I haven't read all the tablets reviews in this article, but looks like you primary look at the resolution when judging screens. I like to know how well the screen looks with colors, brightness and contrast. Though I don't imagine doing serious editing on a tablet, something that's not to far away from my calibrated screen at home is definitely still preferable.

The first two examples from Oregon coast looks kind of okay, except they seems over-saturated to my eyes - especially the second one.
But the last panoramic example is clearly over-the-top for me. The clouds are weird, not bright enough, and the ground just much to saturated and contrastful. Looks artificial and not very pretty to me.
I do like the idea of HDR, but it is just so rare I see photos that actually looks nice when people tell the technique was used. If that is because it's actually technically difficult to make it natural looking HDR or if it is the photographers mind that play tricks when editing, I'm still to find out...

Edit: Ups, there's a page 2 too... Sorry, don't like the examples on page 2. They definitely looks unnatural and HDRish in my opinion...

Hi Mike Deerkoski,

Thanks so much for the answer. I will be patient for some time and keep my fingers crossed for you making the right decision to backfill :-)

@maiaibing, I have been a paying customer since 2005. Recently renewed my account; It was just 5 days before they announced the new sizes (and that they would *only* be available for new uploads)... :-/

Hi Mike Deerkoski...

Long comment - Part 2:

Do you know if this weird decision is like "forever ever", or do you think (or know?) that it might be reconsidered soon? I know for sure that I WANT all my photos available in display sizes larger than 1024px wide. I'm told the "replace feature" doesn't solve the problem, but even if it does, this will break any external "embeddings" of my photos, so I don't consider this a real option. That means that my option is to start re-upload all my photos again, meaning I will loose all faves, all comments, all notes, and have to start over reorganizing in Sets and Collections, etc. Wait, if I loose all this, why not start from complete scratch and evaluate other options than Flickr? Not saying I will choose another service, I haven't evaluated the alternatives yet. But if I will have to re-upload anyway, I would be stupid not to evaluate alternatives to Flickr.

I hope somebody at Flickr still are evaluating this stupid decision?

/Stig

Hi Mike Deerkoski, "Engineering @ Flickr" (Maybe you shouldn't have told, because...;-)).

Long comment - Part 1:

I think I have been waiting two years for sizes bigger than 1024px on Flickr (besides my superbig and heavy originals). And finally you introduced 1600px and 2048px wide sizes not long ago. I was really REALLY happy,... for a few minutes... Then I realized, that the new sizes are only made for photos uploaded since March 1st, and Flickr do not have any plans to create the new sizes for my older photos. What?!?...

For me, my "old" photos are just as important as the newest uploads, and the only reason I didn't really considered moving to another service in the last two years was that I thought you sooner (and expected much sooner than now) or later would make those big sizes available. And I never thought about a possibility you could implement such a thing for new uploads only, it has never been the policy of Flickr to forget about the old customers.

/Stig

Would have loved Raw support too, but 24mm/F2.0 in the wide sounds very nice compared to for example Canon D20 which is only 28mm/F3.9. For underwater photographer I think 24mm/F2.0 will be a BIG plus (and if the camera had Raw I had ordered it as soon as I can).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller

For Android you might want to take a look at DSLR Controller for Canon cameras:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller

Works fine on my Samsung Galaxy S II together with my Canon EOS 50D. Your phone/tablet must have USB Host Kernel + API support (Android 3.1+ comes with the API if the device has the kernel support). You might also need a USB Host cable, but besides that no additional hardware are required. Also see http://dslrcontroller.com/ .

"We don't have the curve adjustment tool in the RAW editor"

Actually nonsense I wrote there. There is a curve adjustment tool in ACR, but I'm not sure it can be used to "drag in" information outside current set absolute black- and white-points like Recovery and Fill Light does (in PV2010) ?

Some people commenting seems to miss we are working in RAW here. We don't have the curve adjustment tool in the RAW editor. And if you use the curve adjustment tool in "plain" PS instead, you wont have as much data to work with as we have in the RAW editor.

I don't particular like the look in this demonstration. Looks too much like HDR which I (almost) always find plain ugly. Hopefully the new RAW editor can also do these things without getting that HDR look...

"most of the PV 2012 controls are scene adaptive"
- Hmm, doesn't that give me a problem if I want a series of shot to be processed 100% similar? For example if I want to stitch several shots together to a panorama?...

> Trey Ratcliff being the pied piper of that...

And if you are not a fan of Treys HDR work or HDR in general, Thomas Hawk and Scott Jarvie are examples of other socially active photographers on G+. Well, and a lot of others, had to stop somewhere :-) ...

Yes, if you only want to show them to your friends :-)

Yes maybe, but the answer depends highly on how you use the services. In my opinion people should stop comparing FB and G+ like they are same kind of service. They are not. I have 85 friends on FB and only a handful of these are on G+. But I only use FB to connect with friends, and have never been tempted to use FB to anything else but that. G+ on the other hand, is very nice place for interest-based networking IMO. On G+ I follow almost 700 other users sharing on or more of my interests (mostly photography), and more than 4000 users have chosen to follow me.

My guess is, that your point is that more people will see your photos on FB. But as you can see that highly depends on how you choose to use the services...

mkln, maybe I misunderstand you. But on an APS-C camera the 24 2.8 is similar to how a 38 f/2.8 IS would be on a fullframe (Regarding DOF, f/2.8 on APS-C is like f/4.0 on a FF). I'm not sure we disagree, just in doubt what you are trying to say :-)

While at it, other interesting Android apps for photographers could be:
Sun Surveyor, LightTrac, Sundroid
PhoforPHO, Photo Tools Pro
Gifinator

Definitely missing Android app Magic Hour in this overview. And also Lightbox Photos and Snaptastic I would say...

Magic Hour: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kiwiple.mhm

Lightbox Photos: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lightbox.android.photos

Snaptastic: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mcurrent.snaptastic

Your firmware version. See comment further below.

USB HOST REQUIRED. Phones running Gingerbread or earlier do not officially have USB host support, BUT the Samsung Galaxy S2 (firmware KG1/2.3.4 or newer) does support USB host. Currently, NO OTHER PHONE is supported.

At least in my region 2.3.3 is newest available firmware available for Samsung Galaxy S II (through Kies). I think this KG1/2.3.4 is a leaked firmware? I hope Samsung Mobile puts out a firmware upgrade soon. I want this on my phone :-)

You can always reprocess raw files with new settings.