Nikon D800, Woo-Hoo!
It's here, folks. The long-awaited and much-talked-about (and probably natural-disaster-delayed)...drum roll...Nikon D800. Nikon's replacement for the superb, much-loved, and undyingly popular D700 (a.k.a. the digital F100) is everything that was rumored: full-frame and 36 megapixels. And it's essentially no bigger...
Random Excellence: Colin Steel (Nikon V1)
Photo by Colin Steel. Notice the young monk on the far left? I was talking to my friend Kevin Kallenbach the other day—Kevin's a sales associate at my local camera store, Mike Crivello's Camera Center in Brookfield—and he was saying...
First Fuji X-Pro1 Images Hit the Web
Very small detail of a much larger portrait shot by Michael Coyne with the new Fuji X-Pro1 at ISO 1000. Early trials don't contradict the notion that X-Pro1 image quality will be state of the art. AIPP Australian and Western...
Eagerly Awaiting the New Camera
I had to learn my lesson. I had joined a studio with three other photographers, and I was the odd man out...I used a Contax and had only two lenses, and my three new partners all used Nikons and had...
A Guess
I'm just gonna throw this out there. (Hey, it's a blog. It'll disappear in the pile in a week and no one will remember it in a month.) I know nothing—absolutely nothing—and I haven't even been around to the various...
OM Goodness
We—and by we I mean "a bunch of us"—have been asking for it for years. How many times have you read it on forums and photo site comments sections? "I'm waiting for a digital FM3a." "Why can't they just give...
Lenses are to Cameras as Applications are to Computers
By Ctein I got a bit of amusement from Mike's #1 choice for "Most Desirable Camera on the Planet" a few weeks ago because only two days previously I had been thinking about that very same camera and...well.... I was...
Amazon Deal of the Day: Canon XS DSLR
Amazon's Deal of the Day today (I pass these along if they're directly photo-related) is the Canon Rebel XS on closeout, with the surprisingly good EF-S 18–55mm ƒ/3.5–5.6 IS lens, for $399. The recently discontinued XS, you remember, was the...
Up With Squares! More on Square Sensor Cameras
By Eduardo Cervantes I was interested in Mike's article the other day called "Why Not Square Sensors?" I have advocated before for square sensors. In the case of a full-frame DSLR, an ideal square sensor would be 36x36 mm in...
Canon G1X and Fujifilm X-Pro 1
Well now this is interesting—and unexpected. Here I was looking around at the official announcements for the very cool new Fuji interchangeable-lens X-Pro 1 at CES, and what crops up but this Canon "G" camera with a nearly APS-C-sized CMOS...
Kirk’s Take (Kirk Tuck #3)
The Synergy of one system from two companies. We're talking about Micro Four Thirds. By Kirk Tuck My friends thought I was nuts when I went out and bought another compact mirrorless camera to add to the growing collection in...
Nikon D800 Coming
...It's just that nobody's sure when. Nikon Rumors thinks it has a handle on the upcoming D700 replacement...it's to have 36 megapixels and will be smaller and lighter than the D700. Note the name of the site, however ("rumors"). I...
