About two months ago, I got to have personal hands-on fondling time with the Canon G12. Last year, the G11 seemed to be a big winner for them and so Canon has only minimally changed their winning philosophy but has added features that people were asking for before. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to put a card into the camera as it was mostly still a very rough prototype. While you’re at it, you may want to see my comparison of the LX-5 vs the S95.
The Samsung NX100 is the latest mirrorless camera in the line and it doesn’t seem to disappoint in some areas. For every photographer that has wanted a Leica-like body, this is perhaps the camera that you’d want to get your hands on. That said, it is also the largest mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses that I’ve ever held (the exception being Leica M bodies.) However, one can easily see themselves slinging it across their shoulder or body as well as being pleased with what it can do.
Olympus has announced a new DSLR, a Successor to E-3, the E-5. The E-5 Now Supports class 6 SD cards along with Compact Flash Unlike the E-3 which was only able to use CF. The Sensor has been upgraded from the E-3 ‘s 10 Megapixel to a 12.3 Mp High speed Live MOS Sensor for stills and movies which can be viewed through a 3 inch Swivel VGA LCD. The Camera has a 100% field of view and it will have the ability to shoot in the region of 5 frames per second.
A lazy Saturday and I had the urge to get into nature a little. I am no Art Wolfe or Ansel Adams but I do enjoy and taking landscape photos. One of my goals in Photography is to create a collection of landscapes in New Jersey. Landscape photography can be very Wabi Sabi (imperfect temporary beauty). The AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4 is a great lens for capturing this.
Flickr user missapril1956 snapped this photo during Fashion’s Night Out in NYC recently. To my eye, it looks like there are lots of white lenses in there. Perhaps part of this could be due to Canon’s revamped autofocus system in the 7D and 1D Mk IV? There do seem to be a couple of cameras in there with battery grips attached, as well as a random Rebel.
I’d love to thank April Palmieri for letting me use her photo. Be sure to check out The Phoblographer on Flickr, our 7D review, comparison against the D300s, 1D Mk IV review, and Rebel T2i Review.
We’re currently nearing the end of a review of the Fujifilm Instax MINI 7sand so we thought we’d share a couple of that old-school film goodness with you. Here are some of the images scanned in at an 800 DPI Tiff and then broken up in Photoshop and resized for the web. As a quick preview, this is an instant film camera and in the long run it will be much more affordable than color Polaroid film. The Impossible Project currently is responsible for creating the new batches, and it isn’t cheap. But if you’re going to be part of the recent trend of going back to film, you’ll probably want to give this little camera a try. Each pack of instant film contains around 10 shots and can be purchased at Amazonor B&H as well as in a packagefor you to enjoy. To be honest, I’ve never had this much fun reviewing a product, ever. Hit the jump for each image all split up.
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Roman Kogan, a student at Stony Brook University in New York, has developed a simple program that turns your webcam into a scanner camera of sorts. Above is a photo I did with my Macbook’s built in webcam. It works by taking one pixel line at a time and arranging those slices in a line to produce the image. Thus one dimension of the image is spacial, and the other is temporal. It was buggy on Macs before, but Roman seemed to have fixed the problem.
Give it a try for yourself by checking out the site Roman set up.
Pentax has been know to create limited editions of their camera (but different than the way Leica does.) While on Reddit the other night, I was able to find this rendering of the Pentax K-rKorejanairobot limited edition. Cameras like these are fascinating: so much power inside but no one can take the outside seriously. Perhaps they’re great for street photography because of this or for the simple reason of disarming the subjects you’re photographing. In contrast, the rumored K-5 is looking like an extreme beast of a camera.
On my second day with the camera I just decided to do some casual shooting—taking pictures of various things around my house inside and outside. One picture that did come out very strong was a picture I took of my puppy. In daylight or areas with a good amount of lighting the camera performs very strong. At this point I feel as though I have become totally comfortable with the camera as far ergonomics go. It is a really comfortable camera to use and every shot I was able to keep my eyes trained on the subject in the viewfinder without having to stray to make sure I was pressing the right button to take the shot or adjust the exposure, etc.