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LarryLatchkey: Wow, a lot of luminance noise at higher iso (studio scene)! really grainy… but that way it seems to keep considerably more low contrast details than competitors, even entry-level D-SLRs.
Olympus will be forced to lower the price of its M4/3 cameras soon, because this one comes with a nicer kit lens & (to my taste) better IQ at exactly half the price of an E-M5 or an E-P5! Even the E-PL5 is more expensive.
Plus, I actually find the A1 feels more comfortable in your hand than the Olympuses. (is that the correct plural of Olympus? ^^ )
Don't listen to him. Olympuses was correct. The apostrophe is only used for possessives or contractions, neither of which applies here. For plural, add "es" as you did. The variant of "than those from Olympus" was also correct.
qaz111111: No one has ever said anything when I was taking photos during any segment of a flight; including take offs and landings.
Me either, and I've done it many times. Tough to get decent pics through those thick windows, though.
coudet: I called it 2 months ago. ;)
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52003260
Good call, coudet!
zodiacfml: After looking mostly at the comments, I think I'm the only excited with this. I'm only excited if this will eventually contain an EVF/LCD to allow composition. This will become my ultimate carry always camera, even for travel photography.
If you want with an LCD, it's called the RX100.
CarVac: They just need to make a nice DSLR with real ergonomics.
Fuji's X-series is nice, but I really crave the look of a big, bright, MF SLR viewfinder (fully silvered mirror) with a true matte, along with the refined ergonomics, build quality, and compact size of something like the Contax 139.
I loved the Contax G series, but the fact that Kyocera shuttered the Contax brand should tell us something about the viability of that product line.
This thing takes narcissism to a new level.
I don't get it. For years, now, you plop in a regular Eye-Fi card, shoot, and with zero extra steps, your stuff (including RAW if you care about that) is on Dropbox and/or Flickr, ready to be edited on your phone, tablet or computer. This new Mobi card helps in situations where you're not connected and feel a desperate need to edit your photos before you are connected. That's all. I'll stick to my normal Eye-Fi cards.
Peiasdf: That's why camera with wi-fi is a great idea. Save us $50 and we can use any card. Hear that Nikon, Canon, SONY, Pentax and Fuji?
To me it makes much more sense to put wifi in the card. Spend $50 once and use it in any camera.
Alternative Energy Photography: I made a small donation once to the American Red Cross to help the people who suffered the devastating Christmas tsunami.
What I got in return was a lesson in persistence. Or just punishment. It was a new and constant flow of US Postal Mail, email, and online harassment; sometimes two or three times per week in each method, asking for more money "because the need is so great!"
My guess is that the Red Cross must have data mined my bank check somehow and got a lot of information that I didn't want them to have.
After a year or so, I had just had too much of it. I called them and asked to be removed from all mailing lists. I entered my name into the national "do not call" registries. I cleared my browser cookies and sent ARC mail to my junk folder. I returned their US Mail with "Return to sender - Remove this address from your mailing list" scrawled in big black Sharpie script.
It took almost 5 years to stop the harassment. I will NEVER send money to the ARC again. Ever.
I totally agree with your point about the harassment some charities will inflict upon you if you donate. I have started to donate using PayPal only. This way, the charity does not get any information about me other than my email address, and I can usually unsubscribe to any email they later send.
To the loud people screaming about how Adobe sucks, you're doing your side no favours. You might want to tone it down a bit if you hope to be taken seriously.
Octane: It's not 'cloud based'. In fact it has nothing to do with cloud storage or cloud based computing. Adobe just calls it that way for marketing reasons as it's a cool term right now.
What it really is, that you don't get a copy of your software, instead you have to buy a subscription plan to be able to use their software. They increased the price significantly (after the initial discount) and they give you no option to choose if you want to pay for a certain update or not. To use the software you will have to continue to pay from now on until the end of the days. You don't have the option to say, OK I'm happy now I will continue with what I have for the next 2 or 3 years.
All this talk about 'cloud' is nonsense, because that's not at all what Adobe is offering. It's a forced subscription plan that is very one sides and not to the end user's advantage.
This is incorrect. You do get cloud storage with your subscription, and can save your files directly to it. It isn't cloud computing, but cloud storage is definitely part of the package. You can even sync your Adobe cloud storage with your local storage, similar to Dropbox.
An honest question for those of you upset with this: why not just use another product? There are plenty of imaging editors out there that will read your Photoshop files. Some of them are free and open source. Some are free and web based, although those tend not to be as powerful.
As I see it, Photoshop, like any premium product, has the right to charge what it likes, how it likes. The consumer has the right to accept or reject their value proposition. I accept it, myself, and actually prefer it, but you all have choices. Why not just choose instead of going on about how awful it all is?
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4900069
http://pixlr.com/editor/
http://www.sumopaint.com/app/
I have a few thousand dollars in current cameras, and I've spent much more than that over the last twenty years. I'll bet most of you have, too. Why exactly are you all screaming about $20/mo like Adobe is killing your children? Take their eyes away from the viewfinder and photographers seem to lose all sense of perspective.
Anepo: There is nothing conveniant to wireless charging when you have to place the phone on a device that has to be connected to a computer, how about just connecting it to a socket seeing as no matter what you have to connect wires.
The idea, of course, is that you leave the charging station plugged in permanently and just put your phone on it whenever you're at your desk (or wherever you put your charger).
I've been using wireless charging with my Nexus 4 for a few months, now. I'll never go back. I look forward to cameras adopting this tech. Cables are for yesterday.