Archive for February, 2010

I am a huge fan of street photography, partly because I am rubbish at it myself, so I was pretty impressed when I saw this YouTube video of Felix Lupa’s work. And the sound track takes me back too.

Given all the problems the EOS-1D Mark III had with its auto focussing, you would have thought that Canon would have pulled out all stops to make sure their new flagship was with out fault. Rob Galbraith takes it out to test and the results certainly aren’t as good as I would have expected.

Rob Galbraith DPI: An analysis of EOS-1D Mark IV autofocus performance.

Photo by Rob Galbraith/Little Guy Media

Have you ever wanted to know what the difference between a SLR and Rangefinder is? Well this article explains it beautifully.

I have used both, and while the SLR is more versatile, the RF is more fun. I would love a little digital RF, but I fear the cost might keep me away.

SLR vs Rangefinder.

Kodachrome curtains, originally uploaded by yarnzombie.

Well, not exactly a photo of the day, but I had to blog it because it is such a terrific idea.

Now, where to get a stack of old slides?

Technology, it isn’t going to slow down any time soon, and with a new camera being announced as often as the sun rises, it is difficult to keep on top of everything that has happened, and is happening.  The old chestnut of megapixels being the measure of a camera (even if it is not entirely true) seems to be fading in favour of higher ISO abilities. How long until a camera can see in the dark? Gizmodo have a look at this current trend in the following article.

Giz Explains: Why ISO Is The New Megapixel | Gizmodo Australia.

It is a very good read, and worth a look for anyone interested in camera trends.

The sample photo below was apparently taken at over 100,000 ISO!!!

There are some very cool sites that intergrate into Flickr, but if you are looking for one that will get you out there exploring, this has to be one of the better ones. It is a bit buggy at the moment, so I wouldn’t be purchasing the iPhone app just yet.

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Here is a bit of an explanation from their site.

What is Noticings?

Noticings is a game about learning to look at the world around you.

Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don’t take in the things around us.

Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower, and having a look around you. It doesn’t require you change your behaviour significantly, or interrupt your routine: you just take photographs of things that you think are interesting, or things you see. You’ll get points for just noticing things, and you might get bonuses for interesting coincidences.

So if you have lost you phojo of late, maybe had a crack at noticings. A novel and interesting concept.

An interesting email landed in my inbox the other day. A disclaimer first up, the email was sent from Sony PR, nothing unusual there, I have been getting loads of emails like this of late. Lets start out with one of the shots that was attached.

Quite a spectacular shot. What made me sit up and take more notice was when I viewed it at 100%. Check it out here for the full resolution shot. (You made need to click on it to see it full resolution). That is pretty impressive. It certainly got my attention, so I read the rest of the email. Gary has done a collection of high speed bird photographs, using the Sony a900, the rest you can see at http://www.garyheery.com/photographer/winged/ which is part of the Sony campaign make.believe. which launches this weekend.

Not knowing a real lot about the A900, I headed over to DPReview for a gander at their write up. It is certainly an interesting camera, and you cant argue with the results Heery is getting out of it.

For people who have a range of Minolta lenses, and are keen to jump into digital photography, this seems like a great camera to drag you into the digital age.

New to photography, well take note.

He is doing it right.