Tape5

What The Fruit ?!

The most important element of a good photo in my view is the photographer's distinct humanity, invisible in all of these photos.

In photo 1, the nocturnal bokeh is so poor I am thinking 'Leica please come back, we didn't mean any of the nasty things we said.'

This stop-start by Canon only shows their panic market behaviour.

Canon aficionados must be super loyal in the US.

This is the camera I would buy if I were a vampire.

Could you also inject some emotions in your reviews. The tactile factor, how it feels and balances itself, the inertia, if you can effectively hold it in one hand and move/rotate it with speed, the look, the seeing through the VF, the "type" of colour and contrast it replicates in different light conditions before you take the shot, the feel of the shutter, the sound of the shutter, how easily could it be heard, did you like or dislike the camera for reasons you cannot pinpoint. Subjectivity.

Maybe ask every reviewer to write a short poem about the camera at the end of each review. A lot of people choose their cameras that way, using these perceived subtle emergent qualities.

Das ist gut.

How else can you tell the people of the world that you own a Leica? Having given up taking fancy pictures with it to show them, it is possible that the owner got his second camera out, killed his Leica and took some pictures. After hammering the granite.

I like to see his smiling face to believe the story.

China is the place to go when desperate for a "man bites the dog" type of story.

To create something as significant as they did with Canon 5D MII, if we take into account all that's happened in the camera world since then, Canon would need to shoot much higher to really deserve sweeping these awards, or it will transform into a brand of second grade sensors inside over-priced cameras bodies.

If Sony's aggressive manners in sensor and camera R&D is the measure of who is more likely to last, Canon will be sweeping its own ashes in the foreseeable future.

The paparazzi are just trying to feed their families.

Who are the people, the end users who are buying these photographs and the magazines by millions? Don't they understand that most people don't appreciate to be photographed against their consent? How come nobody is calling them names? They are the ones who are strangely punishing their idols by financing the paparazzi. Maybe people get a kick out of inflicting pain on the rich and the famous.

That is where the money is, deeply seated inside the psyche of a very large number of people. It is called voyeurism and projection. It is a form of collective aberrant behaviour that needs legislation to change, not spitting at the photographer.

Find me :

1 A softly spoken lady head of a state that has been seeing tens of leaders of nations from around the world for the past tens of years and never ending a dialogue with harsh words or animosities,

2 With a uniquely large body of cultural and political experience that is second to none globally,

3 Is unquestionably loyal to the country and its citizens,

4 Cannot be bought by any money

5 Has been reading and writing and working relentlessly since her first foreign visit in 1953,

6 Is still engaged with tens of humanitarian and environmental activities around the globe, and a whole lot more,

And then tell me that man's fees.

Accumulation of wealth or spending are not in her top 100 priorities, and the gold goblets she drinks in, belong to British people. We pay to keep an institution alive, because it is our heritage and our history. The Queen is a trusted partner who is doing all the hard work.

Harry's champagne bills go with the show.

"They, by birth, not achievement are born to lives of opulence,"

Silly me. I thought nearly 100% of all the opulent souls out there have only their papas and mamas to thank.

Left eye, if you like "keepers", my suggestion is thinking lenses not cameras.
We don't live in a keeper camera world, as tech in sensor and camera is moving substantially faster than lens tech.
Good lenses always come to stay, but the best cameras never live as long. Think Leica 8 and Noctilux.
That is if as a pro or an amateur, you feel that photography is going to remain a part of your life. For anything less significant you can take your pick and a few lenses. I suggest holding the cameras in your hand and deciding which one feels right for you.
A camera is a hand-arm-head device.

This camera is a top sensor and a lens lover. But best of all it is more throw-away than anything the competition can make.
Very soon, Sony will produce cameras that would be first choices for any lens collection and in many ways we are there already.

Poor video? What else has it got then?

You have to love this camera though. It's like watching your grandpa dance.

All good things are overpriced.

"Fujifilm is aiming it at hobbyist and a younger generation of creatives: essentially those who might not be able to afford (or don't want to spend more than $1000 on) the X-T1, but still want the same image quality it offers."

Isn't not being to afford sort of similar to not wanting to spend more?

I knew technology would soon resolve this photographic nuisance we call darkness.

I just hope they don't end up inside the eye sockets of ill meaning robots.

The whole different aesthetic advantage of a pocketable camera this good, is that you park the camera in your pocket and you relax and start SEEING.
Then you take the camera out of your pocket and take a shot.

It is a camera that is a slave to your eyes and not the other way around.