By Ian Varkevisser | Opinion , Travel Photography
I am not one to put much score by gear technicalities but hold that thought. As for GAS I am not sure I can stomach it either , if you excuse the pun. A lot has be written about the advent, advancement and coming wave of the cellphone camera tsunami. I have tried taking photos […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
Philippe and I are reviewing a new camera that stands out from the crowd in many interesting ways, one of them being a perceived colour accuracy that seems to put most current manufacturers to shame. Perceived accuracy is a topic that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention. So let me once again plunge into HiFi analogies […]
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By Frank Field | Opinion
In DearSusan #1032, Pascal provided a thought-provoking opinion piece on the future of photography (flavored with some wonderful images in DS’s fine tradition). In this opinion article, I’d like to provide a few observations about the nature of innovation in general and draw on my own professional experiences in data communications networks specifically for parallels […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
“Why do we fall Master Bruce?”“So that we can learn to pick ourselves up” Co-conspirer Philippe recently wrote a farewell to Olympus in which he described the terrible decline of the photo market. More recently Steve Huff posted a similar obituary under the title Photography has become disposable. This may feel sad, particularly […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
The camera market may be 84% off its peak, a horrendous fall, and that even pre-COVID, but that doesn’t stop the release of new gear. In this instance, 3 new camera bodies in just a few weeks, each of which is significant in its own way. Meet the Canon R5, the Leica M10R, and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Imagine you could have the camera you want, any camera, any resolution, any feature set, any lens compatibility, anything … what would it be? To answer this for myself, I turned to my local HiFi retailer 😉 Steve Jobs was notorious for ignoring such user input and one upping it with some far […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Whiling away the hours hasn’t been as difficult as I’d imagined it might be. Anyone of retirement age and beyond knows the pleasure of easy days, falling asleep with a good book, binge watching, early starts, late starts, early nights, late nights, opening a beer before 06:00, afternoon naps and more. Watching our adult children […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
The tethering cable for my X-H1 arrived a couple of days ago. It’s a beast; bright orange, 5m long and weighs about as much as a photocopier. I’ll need to anchor it properly to the tripod, or it’ll rip the USB port out of my camera. First job – test with Lightroom to see if […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Five years ago, I would have begged to have such a sensor in my camera. How about today ? Several readers have sent me the news about the new thechnology. Curved sensors, at last, seem to be ready to take a giant leap from the realm of tiny dimensions into the hairy-chested kingdom […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
At uni, we (computer science and robotics students) were given fantastic Spark workstations made by Sun. I couldn’t believe my luck, or understand where the money came from. But they ran Unix and students in other departments were handed much less interesting and powerful computers that ran the first version of window-based operating systems. And […]
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