Franka T.L.

Does that mean the big guns like Getty can get away of making money on works some other made and donate to the public domain .. ?? food for thought indeed, and what does donate to public domain means by copyright legal term. My understanding ios that unless copyright is intentionally given away ( as legal documented ); otherwise the Author would still retain copyright. Allowing the public to use the image does not mean the copyright automatically get transferred.

I suppose that pretty much prove the original concept placed by the Panasonic G1 to be sensible and pretty forward looking. For a long while the mirrorless community was too concerned with the concept placed upon by Panasonic's GF-1 that is for a slim, compact LCD only body but in the end, ergonomics, needs and reality catche on. We just cannot have everything needed in such slim compact package, or if we do we need to made fairly significant sacrifice ( as in Panasonic's GM ). The new slew of real EVIL, are to a size that's more ergonomic and still compact relatively speaking. Canon had do the wise thing not to stick with the original EOS-M form factor. Not that the form factor itself is anything bad, but its not really hitting the market sector as it should be.

Oh , that really bring back memories ...

Finally, this one and its contemporary peer, the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58/2.0 were the premiere standard lens of its age and they work real great as a portrait on APS-C, not so great on FF though. Wonder if new coating of todays and advance in all the know how and material would made any difference

Its more like the namesake, a version 1.5 of the game .. for real I cannot say the camera is bad, but then for its price its definitely not attractive. The still camera part is a joke, glad that came off. But then the slow lens still a major culprit. In short , a decent sensor, a solid backend ( codec, imaging engine ) but only a so so front end ( nothing fancy about the control , it works but its well so so, ergonomic is somewhat a limitation or an advantage depending on how you shoot ).

it does not take a rocket scientist to lnow that what's being asked for basically is not physically viable. Its not the camera or Pentax, its just a n in build limitstion of the sort regsrding thr techniques.

the old Dental Macro come back to town ... >o<

There are many others that should have made the list. I think this list is way too , well, recent , in a fashion ... there are gadgets that are far more reaching and turn into far more involving tech in daily life. Electricity ( both on battery and main ) is a curio in its days as show props, but what will we be without it.

The Honda Cub , and of course the Piaggio Vespa ; say . All the early automobiles ( more plaything for wealthy, aka gadgets ) ... many many more

I suppose if they do not want their copyrighted image to be searchable, then they should give " right to forget " request to all search engines. And might be they should even not be putting those image online.

I can understand their frustration but its no reason to ask others not to provide their service ( search engine function ). This is not something that any legal wrangling could ever resolve.

lol, back in my youth, the Trioplan was well known for its mediocre performance, low price and generally a down market alternative to decent lens like the Zeiss Tessar. Still got plenty of good old photo of mine taken with this baby .. do not recall though about anyone particular sacred about their Bokeh ( or rather more rationally termed defocusing blur back then )

I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad one ... \@.@/

sounds interesting and seems well suited for scientific , and industrial / automotive / security use. Not sure if it had much for general photography at this moment of development.

Reading about it, it seems there is still quite a number of factors that need to be addressed , but that's new technology as they are anyway

if this is what Hassy been saying , that exciting new product, then I must say I am so disappointed. Sure its got a new sensor, 4K UHD, bla bla bla, but all that pretty much expected as the sensor is nothing new and the capability of that sensor is well known already , the H series can hardly be termed a new product either. A evolution update it is, a new product it is not, let alone an exciting new product

for a $2.5K hybrid, that cannot even record RAW on still capture, I doubt it can really be termed a hybrid. A capable camcorder it is, but its not a hybrid by any mean. Any of those with a larger sensor, interchangeable lens mount, and far cheaper can do both quality capture on both Still and Video; those are hybrid for real ..

I wonder if they still take order for Glass Plate like they used to .. oh good old days that is ...

Well , Large Format Film capture incorporated into post development digital workflow is not uncommon. Or in reverse, Digitally recording to Sheet Film, or for the more involved, digital negative and expose to sheet film .. these are all very viable methods of imaging

I think we are talking about different matter here, what I mean is not about Android not open to hack, what I mean is Android device do not need to be bound by using the factory OS and thus not bound by limit of the development, There are many indie / 3rd party ROM for various device that are update often .. But if its security, then all of iOS, Android and Window phone ( all version of them ) are all pretty open to hack and also all Device Mfr are guilty of lacking in security update. In a fashion I think this is partly to be blamed on the user. After all, once sold its also up to the user to maintain the system so can't really blame that all on Mfr or anyone else.

this is no something of a news at all, collaboration in tech sector is nothing new .. cross licensing, licensed manufacturing ( OEM ) in this case commissioned by Samsung and fulfilled by Sony. And by any mean this technology is neither Samung nor Sony innovation, nor even Canon. it was just that they bring that to consumer electronic market but the tech had been used in prior application by others for a long long time