By philberphoto | Review
OK, people, bad news first. Yes, I played with one the very first Sony RX-1 to ship in Europe. To wit, I haven’t seen any pictures from European cameras yet. Wait, how can that be bad news. Is it not after all probably the most daring product to appear on the camera scene since, probably […]
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Now that don’t happen often, does it? Unless you live in Egypt or Australia (or …), ibises don’t fly that often into hotel rooms. So imagine my surprise when a 5 stop IBIS landed right in the palm of my hand in the very center of Paris? Gone potty? Not really, as I’ve always had […]
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Obviously, going with 4 camera bodies ( a brand new Canon 5D III, with 5D II as backup, a new Sony NEX 7, wth 5N as a backup) was over the top. But I can say that only because nothing went wrong. On a previous trip, in the Lofoten island, my 5D II shutter failed […]
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On a recent evening, Philippe and I met up on the banks of the Seine river in Paris to make pictures of Notre Dame. Sounds terribly exotic, doesn’t it? Except it was one of the coldest, wettest, foulest days in living memory and it took all of Philippe’s Patagonian training and my experience of 30+ […]
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THIS IS A ROLLING REVIEW Intro : Welcoming the Olympus OM-D E-M5. Episode 2 : The Olympus OM-D E-M5 as a street photography camera in Paris (with plenty more) Sometimes, things just don’t happen the way you expect them to. As I picked up my little Olympus OM-D E-M5 a few days ago, simultaneously letting […]
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UPDATE : Rolling review on the way Episode 1 : The review begins Episode 2 : The Olympus OM-D E-M5 as a street photography camera (with plenty more) I am writing these initial words in Notepad, tearing along the vineyards of Burgundy at 200mph in the fast train taking me from Paris back to my […]
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Facebook’s spectacular acquisition of Instagram recently prompted a discussion between my friend and tech startup expert Roxanne and myself. Roxanne loves Instagram. Not being much of an iPhone person, I had never tested it and the app simply sounded too much like work (my day job is Web marketing). But with the arrival of Instagram […]
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UPDATE : A summary of all this website’s reviews of the Sony NEX-5n and NEX-7 is now available. It has been a great week for Dear SusanS: a new author, Philippe, has joined the crew. We met over comments and since met in real life to swap lenses for our Sony NEX-5N cameras. Philippe does […]
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UPDATE : A summary of all this website’s reviews of the Sony NEX-5n and NEX-7 is now available. As part of my ongoing review of the Sony NEX-5N, this post describes the various possibilities offered by that lovely little camera for making panoramas without resorting to expensive dedicated cameras or to elaborate stitching software. Panoramas […]
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UPDATE : A summary of all this website’s reviews of the Sony NEX-5n and NEX-7 is now available. For my review of the NEX-5N camera with Leica & Zeiss lenses, I was loaned a Leica Summarit-M 75/2.5 by co-author Caroline and really like it a lot. It made me long for a longer 😉 lens, […]
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