Not your father’s macro lens.
For a preamble on macro lenses, please click here.
Over the past five years anytime I wanted to get really close to something meant using my Olympus C5050Z five megapixel digital. Quality is decent, it focuses postage stamp close and framing using the built-in LCD screen is dead accurate. Rack […]
Nikon looks to the future.
Nikon has added an in-camera vignetting adjustment in their latest D3 software release:
Now their approach is pretty limited, you cannot see the effect in other than Nikon software (Duh! What are they thinking of?) and many of the lenses that probably benefit most (like the 20-35mm D) are excluded. […]
Has the world gone mad?
They are actually trying to make a virtue out of LiveView, the Rube Goldberg approach adopted in some digital cameras to previewing the scene on the LCD. What the devil was the viewfinder made for, bozos?
Time to update.
Canon has released firmware 1.1.1 for the 5D.
Download is free and installation instructions are included.
Here are the changes:
Here’s the installation in progress:
For me the significant feature is that high capacity 8gB and 16gB cards are now supported. I’m not rushing out to buy these but it’s nice to know I can use […]
Some neat editing.
Panasonic LX-1, 28mm, 1/1000, f/3.6, IS 100
Snapped in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The editor of this little comedy had even gone to the trouble of trying to match the paint color, and while I may not agree with the result, it is every bit as tedious to be constantly reminded of the purported […]
A fine, unobtrusive street snapper.
I bought the Panasonic LX-1 a couple of years ago with but one purpose in mind. It was to be an unobtrusive street snapper, both smaller and more capable than the Leica M2 it replaced.
You can see my various ramblings on the subject by clicking here.
Since then Panasonic has ‘upgraded’ […]
A quick look.
Panasonic LX-1, 28mm, 1/1000, f/3.6, ISO 100
Spotted in San Francisco’s Chinatown yesterday. The small and unobtrusive Panasonic is ideal for this sort of thing and has mercifully low shutter lag, which distinguishes it from most point-and-wait pocket digital cameras.
A welcome ‘feature’ of the 5D.
I mentioned a while back that I was moving to 2gB cards in the 5D, from the 1gB I started with.
The welcome capacity increase and falling price made sense.
With an empty 2 gB card
The 5D continues to dutifully reports room for 120 RAW pictures on a blank card, yet the […]