By pascaljappy | Monday Post , Opinion
It’s funny how some topics follow ebb and flow patterns in our newsfeeds. For some reason, mine were recently flooded by doomsday perspectives on tourism. “Who killed Tulum?” “Les excès du tourisme” “Barcelona’s tourism headache”, just to name a very few. A couple of weeks ago, it was all about tick-spread diseases, go figure. […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Sony own a major Hollywood film studio. Thus they know film history. After they’d established the market for FF mirrorless, they watched their competitors, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic even, come out with products specced and designed so similarly it was impossible not to see them as clones. Clones going after Sony, as in The Attack of […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
So, that’s it. I broke DS … and this is how it feels. This may just be a hobby website, it’s still been a big part of my life over the past few years and, up to recently, plain … sailing. Also, the update process is not what I’d prefer. If this was […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
I’ve just returned from a 10-day break with family in Brittany. For food, photography and hiking, my habitual vacation trifecta, that place is right up there. More info and photos to follow, but here are a few sprinkled throughout this return-to-school post. Technically, this scene of Mont Saint Michel, isn’t really in Brittany, […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Medium format cameras are irrelevant, aren’t they? Their numbers are dwarfed by those of full frame (35mm) cameras. And the progress of said full-frame cameras has made them even more irrelevant, until their inevitable extinction, right? Well maybe, but maybe not. 4 recent entries into that very limited space indicate that “someone” believes this demise […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Over the past few weeks, two new 100mm lenses have been announced and alarmingly stretched my zygomaticus : the super duper Zeiss Otus 100 f/1.4 and the intriguing Laowa 100/2.8 Macro Apo. In many ways the two are similar, in many ways they are polar opposites. The Otus is a surprise because an […]
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By paulperton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Two days running I’ve received pre-release announcements from software companies making post processing applications for photographers. The first came yesterday, with On1’s blare about its upcoming 2019.5 release and this morning, I found an e-mail from Skylum, trumpeting its latest Luminar AI-based wonder. On1’s Photo RAW has progressed from its early, under-powered, […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
I started DearSusan 8 years ago, before vlogging and becoming a YouTube star was all the rage because a tiny book (On Photography, by Susan – The Susan – Sontag) had given me the shock necessary to lift my photography out of a tourist rut and into a deeply satisfying creative hobby, something I wanted […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
More pixels don’t mean better pixels. Rant – and counter rant – on.
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
The results are in, and the Haiku challenge has turned up amazing shots by DS contributors. Previous challenges, the same. Not wanting to let Pascal have all the fun, I thought I should try my hand at this. So here goes: In China, the concept of ch’i matters. It is the ch’i of tai ch’i, […]
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