I was browsing through photo galleries for the recent Earth Day event, during which people (and many cities and businesses) were urged to turn off their lights for one hour in a symbolic effort to cut back on energy usage. Photo coverage of the event centered on many night cityscape photos which showed cities’ buildings [...]
Casio’s compact FS10 records 6MP at 30fps, with a maximum reduced-resolution speed of 1000fps
Press release
I’ve never paid much attention to Casio in the past, admittedly. While Panasonic was the microwave maker that defied conventions, Casio pretty much made the kind of digital cameras (generic, 3x zoom ultracompacts) that you would expect a watch maker to [...]
In part 2 we’ll take a look at the huge realm of cameras outside DSLRs. A boatload of compacts and ultrazooms and budget cams get announced every half-year, so I won’t highlight every single one, but we’ll take a look at some of the interesting products and general trends.
Bajillion-x Megazoom
An interesting thing about the “Megapixel [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Market Analysis
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Tagged Canon SX1, Canon SX200 IS, CMOS sensor, compact ultrazoom, Kodak Z980, megazoom, Nikon P90, Olympus SP-590 UZ, Panasonic TZ7, Panasonic ZS3, Pentax X70, PMA 2009, ruggedized cameras, Samsung HZ15, shockproof, Sony HX1, ultrazoom, underwater cameras, waterproof
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The Photo Marketing Association’s Annual show – PMA 2009 – recently came and passed. For those of you who don’t know, PMA is like the E3 of photography, where companies making everything from cameras to printers bust out the goods and new releases. It, along with the bi-yearly Photokina in the Fall, are when the [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Market Analysis
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Tagged Canon 5D Mark II, DSLR video, EVIL, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon 35mm f/1.4 AF-S, Nikon D90, Olympus E-620, Panasonic GH1, PMA 2009, Samsung NX, Sigma, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 HSM, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4 HSM OS, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC HSM, Sigma 50-200 f/4-5.6 HSM OS
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So the last and final installment here is all about my third and last trip out to cover the election story, which finally resulted in the little image that ended up gracing the cover of the next day’s special Elections issue:
As the clock struck midnight and November 5th dawned, I was just headed out of [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Making the Shot, Skills of the Trade
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Tagged Bancroft Way, Barack Obama, Berkeley, celebration, crowd, crowd shots, Daily Cal, Daily Cal election cover, Durant Avenue, election 2008, election night, flags, girl, photography, photojournalism, student, symbolism, Telegraph Ave, The Daily Californian, united states presidential election, woman
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