…technology, which has been in academic journals since the time of Leonardo as he relates in his thesis, it looks like he may be the first to realize it in a consumer camera. This is not idle theorizing. Ng’s thesis (2006) includes illustrations of a Contax 645 modified to include the light field receptors: The results are simply stunning. Your…
Cost to build. For an index of all my Mac Pro articles, click here. My 2009 Mac Pro – Turbo model. Beauty and a beast. Not an external enclosure in sight. In Part IX I looked at the upgrade costs of a 2009 Mac Pro compared with a like specification Hackintosh. This was relevant to my case as I was…
…produced rival those from the MF Pentax 645 51mp sensor! More on where Olympus is going with this exciting technology – not new but very much a first for MFT – appears here. By the way, the 8-shot function even works with studio strobes and Oly has thoughtfully included an adjustable delay setting between shots to give the flash time…
You know, the things in the back of drawers you haven’t seen for ages As I clear out the last of my film equipment I find I am still left with a lot of, well, stuff. None of this has much value and the effort-to-dollars-realized ratio is not very exciting but, having sold off most of the big dollar items,…
Who needs it? I was making an 18†x 24†print the other morning for a friend and noted, with mild annoyance, the presence of grain, however fine, in the blue sky. The original was a 2 1/4†square medium format Kodak Portra VC160 negative, taken on a Mamiya 6, aand scanned in a Nikon Coolscan 8000 scanner. All sold…