TL;DR version: A long diatribe on how the latest Canon releases completely underwhelm in the face of competition, especially from Nikon. The 7D is a decent upgrade that’s completely overrated simply due to marketing. The 1D Mark IV sounds nice and has the capability the 1D Mark III probably should’ve had – unfortunately its functionality [...]
In what many see as the next big evolutionary step for digital cameras, Panasonic and Olympus made a bold move with their introduction of the Micro Four-Thirds system, an electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens (so-called “EVIL”) system that eschewed the mirror assembly found in traditional SLR cameras and offering image preview via a live view feed only.
Aside from [...]
Following up on their K-7, Pentax has now come up with an entry-level K-x. While it doesn’t bring anything groundbreaking that wasn’t already seen on the K-7, it packs in many of the features seen on many competitors’ midrange model, and perhaps pending reviews on image quality and disregarding the overall Pentax system upgrade options, [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Tagged budget, Canon Rebel T1i, Canon Rebel XS, comarison, custom colors, DSLR, entry-level, K-7, K-x, Nikon D3000, Nikon D5000, Pentax, red, space white
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Apologies to all for dropping the ball for the past three months – it’s been a whirlwind start to the semester here. Big, recent developments:
Nikon SLR Refresh
Nikon introduced a couple of new SLR updates, the updated D300s and D3s. The D300 is a pretty incremental upgrade to the mid-level D300, offering a modest +1fps improvement [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Tagged 70-200, 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, D3, D300, D300s, D3s, DSLR, ISO100k, ISO102400, nikon, price
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Possibly the biggest announcement in the compact sector since the Panasonic TZ1 – Fujifilm finally puts together not just a compact ultrazoom but an ultracompact ultrazoom (0.9 in thin), and manages to fit in a half-inch SuperCCD sensor to boot. If ever a camera came along with the potential to dethrone Panasonic’s vaunted TZ/ZS-series, this [...]
In a release that they’ve hyped for weeks now, Olympus finally pulled the covers off their first Micro Four-Thirds format camera, the E-P1.
For those of you not already in the know, Micro Four-Thirds is a new interchangeable lens system developed by Olympus and Panasonic which is the first mirror-less digital camera system to feature interchangeable [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Tagged 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6, 17mm f/2.8 pancake, Canon G10, digital camera, EVIL, Fujifilm F200EXR, high quality compact, M.Zuiko, Micro Four Thirds, mirror-less SLR, Olympus, Olympus E-620, Olympus E-P1, Panasonic, Panasonic G1, Panasonic LX3, Sigma DP1, Sigma DP2
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Canon announces a new firmware update which provides full exposure controls while recording video – HUGE news for DSLR video makers.
As some of you might have noticed, Canon had to take down Vincent Laforet’s sample 5D Mark II video Reverie after an enormous amount of traffic. Vincent’s recently reposted the video up, now hosted on SmugMug. You can find the link here:
http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY-A-LB
There’s also a behind-the-scenes video you can check out here:
http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6021407_xEg87/1/#378608891_Jd2CT-A-LB
Some comments on the video [...]
With the recent announcements of the D90 and perhaps more prominently the 5D Mark II (since it actually has the features to make video usable… like AF and external mic jack), photography circles have been alight with excitement (and a fair amount of naysayer criticism) about video on SLRs.
It’s probably no secret where I stand [...]
Today is the day Adobe announces the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which comes with a whole slew of new Adobe products for everything from grahic design to layout management to video editing to flash animation. For us photographers, the headline here is going to be new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and an updated [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Camera Raw 5, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Bridge, Bridge CS4, content-aware resizing, content-aware scaling, Lightroom, Photomerge, Photoshop, Photoshop CS4, seam-carving, software
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