Sweet story.

Sweet story.

5D samples

Oddly, good Canon 5D image samples are appearing before good 50D samples. Anyway, despite the high rez, they are very impressive. The 1600 samples are smooth as a baby bottom. Which means that for general use, 1600 ISO can be the new standard setting for many photographers. Who'd have thought.
I know I’ve said it before, but: imagine what they could do with a 12MP full frame sensor. I'll bet it could gain a full stop over the 21MP one.

... It's true though that the 800 sample is sharper than the 1600 one (amazingly sharp actually). Perhaps it would be different if one turned off in-camera noise reduction, it often does a poor job.

By the way, talking about high resolution: I wish that some of the new super-sharp lenses that Canon and Nikon are bringing out would be slower and have stabilization. Sure, 2.8 is better than 4.0 all other things being equal, but all other things are never equal. A professional 2.8 zoom lens is very big, very heavy, and very expensive. 4.0 would make a lot more sense. And to release any new lenses at all without stabilization is just daft, so long as they don't even have any bodies with it built in.

The Y-strap for cameras

I haven't received my own copy yet, but Sean Reid's word is as good as gold with me, so I trust the Y-strap will be a really cool product. I've been struggling for years to find just the right camera strap.
His Wrist Wonder and No Pod also seem promising.

Let's make a new bubble

"Let's make an investment bubble of photographs", including sound insight on what value is. Article by Ctein.

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On the same site, good SLR deals right now.

Street photographer down

Botany porn

(Tech note: Nikon D200, Micro-Nikkor 60mm F:2.8.)


Maybe I got too inside-jokey with the title there. I think it's usable, because it's enjoyment of pretty botany. But also it was a reference to a post from yesterday called Camera Porn. Closeups of cameras.

A Tale Of Two Loaves

This picture, like the camera picture below, exists for several reasons:

1. To play with my new studio light. Real kool.
   
2. To play with depth of focus software. Even at F:22 you don't get all of a subject like this all in focus, and apertures smaller than around 11 sacrifice sharpness. But you can combine exposures in software. Also amazing.
   
3. Because I like the subject. This is a home-baked white/wholewheat bread with raisins and a wholewheat/rye bread. (You can see a dent from the breadmachine's kneader.)
   

Coined a phrase

Desire is a clinically insane taskmaster.

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It was my answer to one of my friends saying to me: "The trouble with being fifty is that even the girls who are too young for me aren't young enough for me."

Fine Art or Camera Porn?

Well, if it was camera porn, I'd have dusted off the camera, so it has to be Fine Art. You can spell that with quotes, "art", if you're feeling contrarian.
It's an early experiment, but I sorta like it meself.

Image samples

Canon 5D2 image samples one and two. Lovely quality, lovely bokeh, lovely models.

Man, 21 megapixels is huge! Even on my 30-inch screen I have to scroooooll around in the picture.

There are some interesting internal-reflection artefacts on the first picture, especially just to the right of her face (her left). I wonder what it is.

Too many megapixels

Just what I've been saying!
"The [Canon] employee told Tech Digest that Canon have the technology to "blow the competition away" in terms of image sensors, but are instead being asked to focus on headline figures like the number of megapixels a camera has."
Article.

Trois Millions de pixels

(Obviously an old ad.) Only in France could this be seen. Anywhere else, the feminists would tear down the publisher's building.


I want to see how she looks now, with the 14-megapixel cameras...