kenyee
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AF with the optics it the manual focus 135/2 would be amazing... That honestly doesn't look that large for a 135/1.8...
Basecamp would be useful if it supported the Grad filters
I thought the model was great! Obviously had a lot of experience posing and emoting.
What is interesting is that the mentioned at shoots, clients are used to looking at images on a laptop or tablet now... this just makes everyone take more images and makes clients value photographers less IMHO. If the clients were forced to only allow N images, it would make them slow down and be better clients too..
Affinity feels cleaner than Photoshop to me...simpler UI and better grouping of features into "personas" once you figure out they did that.
One big negative is the file sizes it saves in its native format are huge...like 3x the size of Photoshop or GIMP images :-(
For video, Panasonic's GH4 isn't mentioned enough...strong manual controls, adaptability to all lenses, no overheating issues, first w/ 4K, yet the 1080p support is still stronger than the M5's? Canon hasn't even caught up w/ a 2yr old camera but at least they started the HDSLR movement... :-P
Sony is probably the best dark horse in a combo HDSLR if it weren't for their chronic overheating issues and really bad UI/controls.
If they had made this K mount and collaborated w/ Pentax, it would have sold a lot more :-(
What would be even more innovative is to work w/ camera manufacturers to do what Flucard did w/ Pentax...full aperture/shutter/focus point control as part of the eye-fi :-P
ditto WR....doesn't make sense to just add an HD coating to these :-P
And I still like my FA lenses..just wish they were WR..
(4) you still get perspective distortion unless that girl has an unusually alien-like large forehead :-)
m4/3s cams like the GX1 and OM-D aren't a bad compromise either, though none have the X100s' leaf shutter because they have interchangeable lenses :-(
Marty4650: As far as that fine line goes... I don't think there was much the photographer could have done to help anyone unless he had some very specific medical training. When something like this happens, people rush to "help" and often get in the way of the EMTs and police.
Well meaning good Samaritans often add to the confusion and hinder the rescue effort. Panicked people without the proper training would do best just to stand clear, unless they are specifically asked to do something. This is the real fine line to worry about. Are you really helping or are you just getting in the way?
This isn't like the case of the man who fell into the subway pit, where some said the photographer should have pulled him out rather than taking photos. Even in that case, the train was moving so fast and the photographer was so far away that he couldn't have done anything.
Someone is bleeding, you can go get things to stop the bleeding with...hold something against the wound, use your belt as a tourniquet. These are all basic things everyone should know w/o medical training.
It's not as clear as helping a man who fell into a pit, but it's not as clear as saying "I'm not a doctor" either...
Pentax used to make colonoscopy scopes. Should we dump all our Pentax gear because no one should be subject to a butt probe? :-)
Optics is a business...
Anyone know the real wifi transfer rate?
The Eyefi only does something like 15mbit/sec (so it's around 2MB/sec)...
The photographer should be pushed in front of a train along w/ the guy who did the pushing. Add the NY Post's editor to that list and we'll make the world a better place.
He took 45 photos...internal flash would have been at full power w/ those dim conditions...it should have been more like 90 seconds instead of the 22 he claims. He just made a lot of excuses publically so the non-thinking public would think he didn't have time to do anything and the photos were just a mistake where he could crop stuff out...
It's better than a lot of camera phones except the Nokia 808 which has a great lens comparatively.
But to put it in context, most lenses on cellphones will have dust and fingerprints all over them....it's a miracle you can get anything decent out of them, but they're good enough for instagram and facebook so everyone is used to mediocrity :-P
great article...people think it's just photography sometimes when it's really the team and marketing that makes people stand out..
No more Pentax mount? :-P
About time someone had the guts to stand up. And I'll bet they'll end up hiring a "free" photographer off craigslist who wants to "do it for the experience" :-P
But I guess it's ok to pirate that band's crappy music ;-)
"With the buttons arranged over such a large camera area, we found key controls difficult to manipulate without large shifts in your hand position. While you can reach both the red and exposure compensation buttons with your hand in the shooting position, neither of them are particularly comfortable, as they are set so far to the rear of the camera plate."
Soooo not like Pentax which used to have the best ergos around :-P