Daniel Bliss

I've not shot with film in several years but I'm looking at all the Fuji Provia in my freezer and the F100 on my desk and thinking I need to do something with it. The thing is, though, digital is...

If you're going to switch cameras you need to play to the strengths of whatever body you get.  The D800 is only about four or five ounces lighter than the D700, but it has better than a full f-stop...

That's the best kind of conditions.  Ideally sheets of rain alternating with cloudy intervals, and then as the cold front goes through and it starts to turn to blustery showers, during that...

For whatever reason, the D600's innards are not coherent enough to avoid scattering junk around the inside of the camera. I hope they solve the problem without having to use brute force in the form...

1) they didn't have enough bandwidth with their current chips to improve significantly on D300 throughput without expensive, power-consuming kludges such as whatever they've done to get to dual...

I got the 70-300 Nikkor a couple of years ago and it seemed sort of ho-hum for a time . . . . that was until I got very serious about a) AF fine tuning it and b) giving it a chance in more...

As a couple of other people have said, what does Elon Musk know about selling computer systems and servicing applications? I think once all the dust is settled, likely by the middle of next year,...

7 and 9 are very good too.  All three of these make use of light in a way that is above and beyond the rest of the series.

I think it's partly neglect of the system by Nikon, and partly the switchover from in-camera focus drive to AF-S. The first point explains why we don't, for example, have any AF counterpart to the...

I don't buy for a minute that you have to make that choice.  Yes, the 35/2 is second-rate, but it was second-rate to begin with because — as with the 5-element Series E/AF/AFN 28/2.8 design — Nikon...

Only a single prime?  It can't be the 85; it's simply not a versatile enough focal length.  It would have to be 50 or 35.  For me the 35 as I live in the city.  If you are routinely a bit farther...

That thread you reference regarding Leica touches on quite a debate among Leica owners between the M9 and the M Type 240.  The 240 takes a much more D800E kind of approach, a very, very good 24MP...

Didn't Aptina say something about the first quarter of 2014 for the new sensor?  I'd assume that has something to do with it.  That, and revisiting the wreckage of introducing product for x dollars...

I think DXO also kind of borked their test of the Nikkor 17-55. Their perceptual resolution shows the 17-55 at only 6MP on the D7000, a performance that would leave it well short of 35mm film and...

The strap (just make sure it doesn't get caught around anything other than your shoulder or neck). Bags that are sufficiently well designed that you'll actually use them. Foam inserts (e.g. for...

Well, this isn't the central government, it's probably either the Hong Kong city government (which is highly autuonomous from Beijing thanks to the treaty between Britain and China that governed...

Actually, I'd say this is a go-to landscape lens; it takes probably the two most useful prime lengths for landscape (something in the 85 to 105 range plus a 180) and makes a single zoom lens out of...

What would make a D800 better?  More megapixels, not likely — there are already enough as it is with diffraction and hard drive storage and everything else.  Better dynamic range?  Always welcome....

Well, that and diffraction.  It gets to the point where you've got to ask, how many terabytes can you handle for a feature that might only allow meaningful increases in resolution at apertures of,...

The Day-Glo Mountain Lion icons on wide-gamut monitors are something else.  It seems as though Apple has come up with a way of setting Adobe RGB monitors in sRGB for photos and Adobe RGB for system...