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MrBrightSide: This is too sad. Yes, it's wonderful that the factory is up and running. But it's like hearing a condemned man whistling as he walks to the gallows only in this case the condemned man is film photography and the judge, jury, and executioner is a world full of people who care not one whit about beauty, artistry, and the unquenchable human need to release the excruciating feelings imprisoned in the human heart.
Bright side, you say?
i'm looking forward to part 2!
Subject matter aside, I really like your style, Chris—it's always a pleasure, and I consider you a major assett to DPR.
I see subtle CA with the 100V lens towards the edge of the image. Look at the controls on the light meter on top of the Nikon in the third image (with the globe).
It's also visible near the corners of the standard studio scene in the review.
D7000ShooterUK: He looks like someone from the band Boston circa 1975
"He looks like someone from the band Boston circa 1975"
...complete with brain damage.
Bernie Ess: Yuck. When I look at those pictures, I know that in a foreseeable future I will not buy a Nikon camera. Their colors never cease to suck. Color science at it's worst. Look at the gallery of the X-Pro3 by Fuji, and see the difference. Oh yeah, you can edit that in post, but I don't want to fight with each and every photo. I once sold my d700 because of that, and didn't touch a Nikon since. Although I totally was in love with my 105mm D.C.
I wondered the same. The colours look realistic to me.
Sure, the photo is great—but that sweet expression...!
Russell Dawkins: I guess the presenter doesn't have a clue what binaural sound is, even though he is careful to use that exotic-sounding term in the title.
This, emphatically, is not binaural—it is not even proper stereo; it is dual mono, the lowest form of "stereo". I say this as a perfectionist recordist with 30 years experience in real stereo and 40 years experimenting with binaural.
Click bait. This really should be removed.
I skipped through this in about a minute; that's all it took to confirm suspicions generated in the first 10 seconds.
'Real stereo'
https://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/realstereo_e.html
is characterized by creating, on playback, a virtual image of what is being recorded; an acoustic equivalent to a visual holographic image. To my mind and to other engineers who have bothered to investigate this in detail, there is only one pre-eminent technique for accomplishing this with loudspeakers and that is the so-called Blumlein technique i.e., a crossed figure of eight pair of microphones. Playback needs to be via speakers in a good acoustic environment and at angles of ±45º relative to the listener's frontal axis. Ideally the playback should be capable of passing the mono test, where a mono signal appears to come from a very tightly defined position centred between the speakers. Allan Blumlein took out the world's first patent on stereo in 1931 and his technique has not been improved upon yet—at least for two speaker playback.
Optimally done, the playback speakers disappear as apparent sources of the sound.
I guess the presenter doesn't have a clue what binaural sound is, even though he is careful to use that exotic-sounding term in the title.
This, emphatically, is not binaural—it is not even proper stereo; it is dual mono, the lowest form of "stereo". I say this as a perfectionist recordist with 30 years experience in real stereo and 40 years experimenting with binaural.
Click bait. This really should be removed.
I skipped through this in about a minute; that's all it took to confirm suspicions generated in the first 10 seconds.
Yes.
Wow!
pro photo 2011: Update:
1. The D-LUX 7 and its predecessor the Typ 109 do not have the same physical dimensions. The 7 is slightly narrower by 3mm. That means a 109 half case will not fit.
2. There is no external battery charger provided. You must charge the battery while it is inside the camera. Or you can get one plus extra batteries on eBay.
Under "in the box" on the B+H website it also lists a CF D Flash Unit. Is this actually true?
They were always my favorite reviewers.
Welcome!
Good move, DPR!
Once again, listed as a limitation in the mention of the GRII there is reference to the mono microphone, as was the case in the full review of the original GR in 2013. It is STEREO and sounds good, to boot.
I have mentioned this years ago to DP reiview, but the error remains in the specs list for the original GR.
I would have thought it would be easy to change, but—maybe it's not....?
Somehow it seems to have got lost in the mists of time that the original GR (this one) had stereo recording capabilities in video mode, not mono as indicated in the specifications above.
Jeff Greenberg: Only The Youngning die good.
Not impressed with your attempts at humour, Greenberg.
Jeff Greenberg: Worst of all about this tragedy,
it reminds me I can't do even one proper pull-up.
Is that the worst of all, Greenberg?
Note the hang glider near the centre.
Cariboou: Sorry but 4.300,00 $ are too much also for this great camera
I can't afford it either, but I still think it's fair value considering everything, including the heritage and experience behind this camera. The colours, the bokeh in the images it produces are just right to my eyes and that's worth something, even if I can't afford it!
krloz: I really wanted to purchase the Sony, but in the image quality department (at least judging from DP review's testing) the Q's looks much sharper and resolve detail way better than the Sony. It seems Sony's image look kind of blurry. I am shocked. Is it right? Too bad te Leica is out of reach budget wise.
Absurd as in excellent?