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neo_nights
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Dr Blackjack: Nice fun looking gadget!
He called it "gadget" so people will take it as an offense. Don't have to worry about someone saying nice things here!
;P
Inspired Shot: I like it. There's no need to hate it. Of course you can do this manually, but what's wrong with having this tool available?
I think mmx was being sarcastic...
stratplaya: If that camera got Barney a date, then the a9 (by all raving accounts) will get me a permanent mistress.
Ironically, for those who are married, buying a camera such as the A9 (or any other PRO level) may cause a divorce! Hahahaha!
I'm with those who read the entire article just to know more about the date.
C'mon, Barney!!
How come this TBT is not about the Sony A9?
Hahahahaha!
Just teasing you, guys. Actually I don't feel bothered about the amount of attention the A9's been getting. I'm just trolling those who DO feel bothered about it!
:p
(BTW, this Minolta camera is very similar to the Sony T series)
TillmanB: I've been enjoying the throwback Thursday pieces and generally rebuff those who bristle that it's too far off topic, but c'mon. This is about a game that some millennials played in the 90's where instead of shooting the little bastards you're photographing them. Lame.
Don't worry. There's always next week!
I was already in my mid-teens (16) when I played Pokémon Snap. It was one of those simple-yet-addicting games!
The biggest challenge was, of course, to 'capture' Mew!
(IIRC Sony did release a safari themed photography game, maybe for PS3, so they could promote their DSLR cameras)
Only three paragraphs?
C'mon, guys!
You can make a better TBT than that!
davesurrey: Throwback Thursday started out as a great idea and was well received. Sadly the last few articles have been just a few paragraphs and nothing like the quality of the initial articles.
Judging by the comments from your readers this can be an interesting series. So please put back the effort you made in the initial articles.
I completely agree with Dave: the first articles were real fun, where you guys shared some info of WHY that camera was important for you and was chosen to feature the TBT.
But now it's just been "Hey, look at this old camera here! And there's the link to its review. KTHXBYE".
entoman: The vote page for Nikon Small World 2016 is blocked by Norton antivirus, who say it is a malicious security risk.
Norton Anti Virus is clearly anti-Nikon!
They're bragging about getting the highest DxO Mark score yet and they show a graph stating that the second best smartphone is the iPhone 7 with a score of 86. Well, they conveniently forgot about the Samsung Galaxy Edge S7, HTC 10 and Sony Xperia X with a score of 88...
While, yes, it IS true that the Pixel is the smartphone with the highest ranking, it's not by that much.
sh10453: I don't see how # 3 (the cave) is related to weather, or how it got 2nd prise, but that's just a personal opinion.
You know, the contest was held by The Weather Channel, but its theme was 'It's Amazing Out There'... so it's clear (or it should be) that the contest was NOT about the weather.
steven8217: On Fisherman on the Dam, I wonder why there are light reflections on the water when the light source (perhaps street light?) are behind the dam? Unless the light source are right on top of the dam?
An interesting light source that can illuminate the face of all 3 fisherman?
Also interesting for all 3 fisherman to spread their leg that far apart at the same time in normal walking posture?
Is there an additional layer of texture on the upper part of the photo?
Overall it seems like a stage outdoor type of stage <studio light> shot.
So I was not the only one to see that picture and think "Well, it's nice and all, but... it looks SO staged!". Probably it was.
My 'less ancient' Sony P10 has those same bleep and bloops sounds as well!
neo_nights: You know when those rich people buy some exotic animals because they are 'cute' and 'trendy' (as in 'everyone else is doing it') and, after some time, the trend wears off, they realise that that animal should be taken care of (it's not just a 'thing') and then they just abandon it somewhere?
Well, that's Flickr for Yahoo!. Flickr never had a decent treatment from Yahoo! and now it's just being thrown away because Yahoo! failed to take good care of it (Flickr) in the first place.
If Flickr doesn't disappear altogether, I hope it gets bought by some company that will take good care of it.
@joey6pack - Erm... get killed? But some do get adopted. I have a friend of mine that adopted a pug on a very bad shape but she was able to save/heal/shelter/take care of him, fortunately. (I know, it's a dog and not an 'exotic animal', but it's one of those small, 'cute', dogs that some people buy as a toy and then throw away when they realise they don't like taking care of animals)
You know when those rich people buy some exotic animals because they are 'cute' and 'trendy' (as in 'everyone else is doing it') and, after some time, the trend wears off, they realise that that animal should be taken care of (it's not just a 'thing') and then they just abandon it somewhere?
Well, that's Flickr for Yahoo!. Flickr never had a decent treatment from Yahoo! and now it's just being thrown away because Yahoo! failed to take good care of it (Flickr) in the first place.
If Flickr doesn't disappear altogether, I hope it gets bought by some company that will take good care of it.
DGYu: My initial thought is "Yeah, Mobile APP!", but looks like DPR is getting a new face and some features.
Actually, DPR has been with this face for like.... forever. They hire people for their technical stuff from time to time and they've never ever changed the main 'feeling' of the site.
PeaceKeeper: Fine... I'll do it. But I demand a hefty expense account and airline vouchers.
And a flexible schedule.
VERY flexible.
I may not come in at all.
Thanks for the laugh you both!
:)
AndroC: "Ricoh got back to us as of March 3, 2016 and has agreed to allow us to publish the K-1 samples here at a resolution of 2000px on the longest side."
Speaking as somebody who is keenly interested in moving to the K1 from my beloved Sony A850, I am disturbed by the question of why Ricoh is restricting resolution on published images. After all, it is only a matter of two or three weeks before the camera is available - are they seriously going to make firmware changes in the short time before that, and produce stunningly much better images? I find this strange. Would it not be more convincing to show the full detail of what this camera may do?
Hey, AndroC!
"But with only a few weeks to go? "
Hhmm... that I cannot tell!
Maybe, as someone else said already, it may be part of a marketing strategy... well, let's just wait for a few weeks unti we can all see the real stuff!
:)
But, let's face it, I barely doubt that the K1 will bring any significant improvement over IQ compared to everything else I've seen. All the cameras today have "good enough" image quality and what makes the difference today are other features; focus speed, handling & operation, price, lenses etc. etc. etc.
AndroC: "Ricoh got back to us as of March 3, 2016 and has agreed to allow us to publish the K-1 samples here at a resolution of 2000px on the longest side."
Speaking as somebody who is keenly interested in moving to the K1 from my beloved Sony A850, I am disturbed by the question of why Ricoh is restricting resolution on published images. After all, it is only a matter of two or three weeks before the camera is available - are they seriously going to make firmware changes in the short time before that, and produce stunningly much better images? I find this strange. Would it not be more convincing to show the full detail of what this camera may do?
Simply because it's still a pre-production camera.
It's safer for PentaCoh to forbid the use of original sized images than to allow them, people getting upset about the "lack of quality" (even though it's clearly stated that the firmware isn't final) and then trying to undo the harm.
IIRC Ricoh isn't the first company to make that decision.