By philberphoto | Monday Post
Where is our industry going? Sales have started falling off a cliff some years back, and give no signs of recovery. Indeed, smartphones are getting better with time, whereas mass-market compact cameras are not, so the trend is unlikely to reverse itself. What triggered my thinking is this post, from Mirrorlessrumors: Trouble at Ricoh Ricoh, in […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
By modern standards, my Sony A7r2 is getting long in the tooth. It used to be that we bought cameras and kept them for decades. Not anymore, as sensor technology has been making great strides in the past few years and cameras in our price bracket come with the sensor glued in. So, depending on […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
At the risk of sounding like a pervert, I’ve got three Macintoshes. You’ll note the capitalised “M” that ought to put me in the clear, however. One is a MacMini which I inherited almost new from my father. It operates 24/7 as a server to our AppleTV, to provide television watching. […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
[Pascal notes] It happens to the best and, apparently, it happens to us as well. Missing a date, that is. Or maybe that was intentional, in a post dedicated to going slow. Who knows … [/Pascal notes] In the times of film photography, everything took time. From shooting, “slow photo”, by today’s standards, […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Pascal commits … After 600 episodes, you may wonder what keeps us going. And you may have that overwhelming feeling that our photography is so vastly superior to the rest of the world’s that it’s almost painful to step out of DS and into … well, anywhere else, really! You’re right, of course, and […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Around DearSusan (DS)’s founder, let’s call him Mr PJ (no, no connection to sleepwear), photographers have congregated from around the world. Mr PP (no, not post-processing), Mr BH (no, not Mr B&H, don’t I wish..), Mr SM (no, not S&M..), Mr AB (no, not testing), and yours truly, let’s call him Mr YT. Photo gear […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Jonathan Crossfield recently published an interesting article titled Is it time to abolish social media ? In it, he makes the point that using the term social media to name what is really a huge variety of interactive venues (online media / blogs and comments, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and dozens of other platforms) is […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Over the years, I’ve collected several hundred URLs as bookmarks, each pointing to a photoblogger of one stripe or another. Lots of them have provided unwitting assistance, much of which has guided me well, others just offered direction, a daily image or some sage words. Bored and between afternoon drive time radio, dinner […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Futurists have long foretold the rise of the machine. Novelists put it into words. Film makers added apocalyptic video to the narrative. Robots crushing humans, AI taking over decision centers, you know the drill. So much so that it’s become a future we simultaneously accept (it will come) and reject (but not just yet, this […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
The photographic media everywhere has been awash this past week with news of Sony’s A9 camera. Here at DS, we’ve exchanged a lot of e-mails about this new and possibly groundbreaking (if it delivers Sony’s hype) camera. Some of them might even be suitable for publication. In short, the extended DS team is […]
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