Greg VdB

Greg VdB

Lives in United States Bern (Switzerland), United States
Works as a geologist - happily working in Switzerland
Has a website at www.pbase.com/gbleek
Joined on Sep 6, 2002

Greg VdB's recent activity

  • Not entirely sure as to why DPR threw the much more expensive Canon primes into the mix, other than the fact that the 100-400 L still has to be tested... (listed as will-be-tested-in-May on DxO,...

  • you're welcome! As a mineral collector/amateur photographer I've been wanting to apply these techniques for quite some time now, but I haven't done so yet because it demands...a lot of time ;-)

  • I like my images to look natural, so the war-movie treatment will never do it for me anyway, but what concerns me most in the case of "documentary" photography are staged images.

  • ...and now imagine a product with a much more complex geometry, internal reflections, and imperfections that you want to hide. Welcome to the world of mineral (crystals)...

  • Commented on Theme and Variations article

    Very nice write-up Carsten, and I definitely agree that landscape photography benefits greatly from familiarity with and easy acces to a certain area. Whilst travelling, one depends highly on luck,...

  • @rrccad: naturally turning up the ISO is to some degree a substitute for mechanical image stabilisation, but this is a camera feature and so is rather beside the point of this lens review.
    And let...

  • My appologies, I did not see that the Tamron already features in the lens widget.

    Still, what one calls "the very best" is up for debate. In terms of sharpness, the Canon indeed leads the pack...

  • "The Tamron looks like a very worthy competitor, offering impressive image quality, image stabilisation and weathersealing all in one package, and we aim to assess it fully in the near future. But...

  • It will be a crop lens: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/14/samyang-10mm-f2-8-  That 14mm on your full frame must be impressively wide already though!regards,
  • that's probably gonna be a very nice niche lens as well, but unfortunatly for me it's not a niche I'm particularly interested in :-)
  • For anyone else eagerly awaiting the launch of the Samyang 10mm UWA: their official facebook page says it won't be there untill the end of...
  • Commented on Rick Sammon's Realistic HDR World challenge

    It's only a low percentage of the entries in which I could see an advantage of using HDR/tone mapping. Luckily the 1st ranking image is a good example of that!

    In many more cases the use of a...

  • Commented on Photokina 2012: Around the Show article

    Nice reports and interviews DPR Team, thanks. But did I miss something or did you? Wasn't Samyang going to present their 10mm f/2.8 prime?

  • Commented on ''Water Dance'' in the Be Vegan, Make Peace challenge

    Esthetically this is a sublime image, and since 'some postprocessing' was allowed also a deserved win I guess.

    Could you tell us more about exactly how you did the pp? (mirroring the top part and...

  • Submitted a challenge entry Carving
    Winter is Coming! (can't wait to be on the slopes again)
    Placed 7th in the challenge. Winter is Coming! (can't wait to be on the slopes again)
  • Commented on Everyday Life - The camera strap challenge

    Instead of just removing the 'winning' picture because it was stolen from someone else, couldn't the Host or DPreview delete the 1st entry all together so that everybody moves up one place? As it...

  • Commented on Gordys in the Everyday Life - The camera strap challenge

    Congrats slaughtr, you just won a Challenge!

    (the person that 'won' stole his picture from someone else: http://lammertbos.blogspot.fr/2011/07/kevin-richardson-lion-whisperer.html )

  • Commented on 1strap in the Everyday Life - The camera strap challenge

    Yep, this blogpost from over a year ago clearly shows that our friend joelnoscal is a fraud:
    http://lammertbos.blogspot.fr/2011/07/kevin-richardson-lion-whisperer.html

    So pathetic...

  • @grafli: Oh my, should I really have specified that my comment about the 300$ p&s was sarcastic?

    Anyway, what I wanted to say is that different people and different occasions give rise to...

  • which point-and-shoot do you suggest for ~300$ that has the same low-light qualities and manual settings as your dSLR body?

    Even IF the lens isn't very sharp, there's many valid reasons why people...

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