The Sigma Bigprint Unofficial National Tour
So I mentioned in the previous post that Sigma digital camera devotees are a small but hardy band. Many of them hang out on the Dpreview Sigma Forum, withstanding a regular barrage of slings and arrows from trolls. And the...
Dealz! Dealz! Nikon, Canon, Sigma
The Sigma SD1 "Merrill." See below. • One thing traditional DSLRs have over the shiny toney newfangled Mirrorless paragons of wonderfulness: they can be cheeper. The forthcoming OM-D that's currently polarizing the happy opinionators on the web is going to...
The Consider/Dismiss Binary Switch
Grant me that I read the web for a living, so maybe I've become, shall we say, sensitive. But, often, when I read peoples' comments on new or just-introduced cameras—here or elsewhere—I fancy I can usually tell whether, deep down,...
GaaaAAAAAHHH!!! It’s HERE!!!
Big, beautiful sensor in a tidy, conservative, traditional wrapper is at the heart of the 5D series' appeal. Long awaited—much coveted—endlessly discussed—eagerly anticipated—the Canon EOS 5D Mark III is finally here and finally available for pre-order! Here's a link to...
It’s the Future Calling
Every now and then I think I've landed in an alternate Universe—this time, because what I'm reading reminds me of one of those jokey posts from about 2004 where someone specifies "what I want" and exaggerates everything to a ludicrous...
New OM-D E-M5 Available for Pre-Order
The new Olympus OM-D "flagship," the E-M5, is available for pre-order from B&H Photo. I think I'm just going to have to collect Micro 4/3 cameras, because I can't seem to decide among them. I really like the GX1 and...
Panasonic Plans ‘Very High Quality’ Micro 4/3 Camera
Amateur Photographer (U.K.) is reporting that Panasonic is restructuring its compact camera line to counter the coming entry of industry megalith Canon into the compact system camera market. Part of the restructuring will include a "very high end" model above...
Mastering the Fuji X100
That was fast! Michael Diechtierow's Mastering the Fuji X100 is due out in a matter of days, from Rocky Nook. It must be frustrating these days for people who write aftermarket camera manuals. You have to work fast, because people...
New Olympus E-M5 (OM-D): First Look
The E-M5 could be the centerpiece of a capable lightweight camera system. By Eamon Hickey Last week, I had a relatively brief chance to handle the new OM-D E-M5, courtesy of the folks at Olympus America. I thought I'd report...
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...
