City Hall and the El
Two more Pinwide shots from the end of yesterday:
Wanderlust Pinwide On the Street
Stopped just south of City Hall to experiment with the Pinwide outdoors in bright sunlight. This first one was probably the best of the bunch, with the ghost of a woman crossing in the middle of the street layered on top of another woman standing on the concrete island in the background: 5 seconds, ISO […]
Springtime in Vienna
Selective focus on micro-4/3rds can be hard to achieve, but the 45mm/f1.8 makes things easier Spring is for photography—everything’s blooming and colors come back full-force. Took the camera out into my in-laws’ backyard. Lately I’ve decided to hunker down and learn the ins-and-outs of this E-P2 that I got just before Sophie was born. I’ve […]
Luminous Landscape on the Fuji X-Pro 1
The report sounds very much like reviews of the X100: beautiful camera and files balanced by some quirks and middling performance. The photos made by that 35/f1.4 look very, very nice. Part 1 Part 2
Pentax Q
You have to hand it to Pentax: they always seem to be thinking on a different wavelength, finding niches in the camera marketplace instead of following the lead of Canon and Nikon. This new Q system looks like a really interesting camera—small as a point-and-shoot, but with interchangeable lenses. The Online Photographer has a good […]
Fuji X100
Officially announced today. $1200 dollars, incidentally, is what I paid six years ago for a Bessa R2A and a Zeiss 35/2.0 lens.
Converting Canon T1i Video for the PS3
Joseph and Kristen have been experimenting with their Canon T1i’s video lately. The MOV files don’t have native support on the PS3, so Joseph and I went digging for a way to convert them. The default PS3 setting in Handbrake resulted in unreadable files, so we experimented with a variety of things: custom recipes for […]
Ricoh GR-D II
The new GR Digital II was announced yesterday, finally replacing the two year-old GRD. Not much different here — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Ricoh claims that a new processing engine has “dramatically reduced noise” but every camera maker says that. I’m doubly skeptical since they jammed in an extra 2 megapixels, which can’t […]