The Death of a Thousand Cuts I got a glimpse into the reality of amateur photography this weekend and it is worrisome. Amateurs are generally male and while they might own many expensive cameras and lenses do not make their living with this equipment. Theirs is an interest in photography which is more deeply tied [...]
Summary Before you read any further check out this article on the LYTRO. This is a camera isn’t just “pie in the sky” it has indeed been released and reviewed by a reputable photographic reviewer. What this does is reinforce for me the fact that the world is once again shifting under my feet. I’ve [...]
Summary On the way back from Native Foods Cafe Connie forms a pace line along Wood Street to fight the wind.
Summary Rocky and Bullwinkle have gone into therapy as they wrestle their separate “demons”. Despite the fact that Rocky is a flying squirrel he has a fear of heights. It has driven home to strong drink and worse. Meanwhile Boris and Natashe have discovered that Bullwinkle the Moose has been a secret gamer for nearly [...]
Hi Beezedog, You are correct, however, Cristopher Strachey is quoted by Bill McKeeman as having said “The fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with the tip of your nose doesn’t prove its a good way to do it”. (I hope I remembered it correctly) Strachey also created a macro [...]
Summary WTTW Channel 11 is the local Public Television Station here in Chicago, IL. Their byline is “A Window to the World”. It is a play on their call letters. Not far from where Channel 11 does its broadcasts is the local Garmin Store. What you might not expect is that there is a confluence [...]
Non-professional photographers come in several shades of gray. There are the ones who unabashedly belong to and support photography clubs. These folks are generally found huddled in the back of club meeting rooms comparing the lengths of their lenses. Once the meeting starts its off to “pixel-peeping” land. A guest judge starts pontificating on the [...]
By Dave Etchells, The Imaging Resource (Thursday, September 22, 2011 – 18:32 EDT) Imaging Resource Publisher Dave Etchells had a few minutes to sit down with Masahiro Suzuki at the Nikon 1 rollout in New York the other day, and took the opportunity to discuss the new model line and some of the technology that went [...]
Summary Today was the day that Nikon released update 1.11 to its firmware for the Nikon 1 V1. I installed the version that was on the European website deciding not to wait until the guys stateside had eaten their donuts and drunk their coffee before mounting the same for us Yanks. The primary purpose of [...]
Nikon1-Dynamic-Range-Control (PDF) Summary As good as digital cameras have become they still are plagued by contrasty scenes. The film camera users of the past employed a technique where they “exposed for the shadows and developed for the highlights”. If the scene was exceptionally contrasty the photographer had to use a delicate agitation scheme during the [...]
Problem Statement Lots of whining going on in the DPReview Nikon 1 Forum over the issue of BURST mode on the Nikon 1. It would seem that if you want to take pictures of birds in flight (BIF) you would like to have the images captured with a minimum of visual hindrance. This is largely [...]
Summary The DPReview Forum had a thread in which it was debated whether or not the 10mm lens for the Nikon 1 V1 had more or less distortion than its more versatile cousin the 10-30mm zoom lens. I for one had it in my head that a prime (i.e. single focal length) lens should on balance [...]
Summary Meanwhile back at the ranch, Gene Autrey disguised as a pool table… – Nonsense Verse The 1 Nikkor 10mm prime lens and filter arrived today from B and H Photo in New York City. The Nikon 1 V1 continues to be a fun camera to “play” with. So much of photography is like life [...]
Summary I have grown quite fond of my Nikon 1 V1 camera and lenses. This has been a real joy in that once again I have a camera that while small and convenience is more than capable of some really nice image making. The Nikon 1 is essentially a point-and-shoot camera without the byzantine button [...]
Gordon Laing, December 2011 cameralabs.com The Nikon V1 is a compact interchangeable lens camera (ILC) with 10.1 Megapixels, Full HD video, a selection of innovative shooting modes, quick burst modes and what Nikon describes as the world’s fastest AF system to date. The V1, along with the simpler J1, are the first two models in [...]
Summary The skies this afternoon on the way into the Loop area were crisp and clear and the sunlight at 3:00PM was amazing. But it was not until I reached the downtown area that I was able to stop and get a good image, long after the sun had dropped below the point where it [...]
I have been photographing as an amateur enthusiast for the better part of four decades. Before moving to our current home I had built a darkroom in the basement of our previous home and developed and printed images from my Leica M4-P and my Zone Six 4×5 View Camera. Even earlier I had owned a [...]
Summary The highlight of these gatherings is when the children get their presents. But I am getting ahead of myself. The story begins with a bit of difficulty. I’ve been trying to pass on an Apple PowerBook G4 to my niece. But I need to wipe the hard drive clean and reformat it. It seems [...]
Summary Tried out the Nikon 1 V1 camera on the way home from inside the car.
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