After just a short while working with full frame, high resolution DSLRs the need for tilt lenses has really come home to me. Most lenses deliver their best results at fairly wide apertures like f8, it’s easy for detail to begin to look soft and lacking impact if you are forced to stop down to . . . → Read More: Tilt-shift with full frame DSLRs
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 7 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Photo Techniques, Studio  A900, Alpha 900, ARAX, control, depth of field, DSLR, focus, focus plane, Hartblei, lens, movement, Nikkor, PC-E, Pentacon, perspective, Schiempflug, sharpness, SLR, Sony, tilt-shift, TS, TS-E This set of full size shots was taken with the still life left set up, because the Nikon and Canon cameras were not here at the same time. It compares the A900, 5DMkII and D3X using the converters supplied by the makers – Image Data Converter SR2, Digital Photo Professional, and Capture NX2. Each small . . . → Read More: Studio comparison A900, 5DMkII, D3X Share this: 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), Equipment Reviews 5D MkII, 5DMkII, A900, Canon 5D MkII, comparison, D3X, DSLR, EOS, flash, ISO 100, Nikon D3X, Sony Alpha 900, Studio, test For any large circulation magazine to create a page section which folds out to view a A2 size is too expensive to consider – but Photoworld, subscribed to by enthusiasts and printed in a short run of only 1,600 copies, goes out on November 5th with a foldout sample image. . . . → Read More: New Photoworld – Alpha 900 A2 foldout poster Share this: 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), News Alpha 900, DRO, DSLR, flash, landscape, magazine, Minolta Club, photoclubalpha, Photoworld, Sony If you are on the verge of making a decision, I’m here to help your think clearly – even if it means breaking some cherished behaviour patterns. I am going to help you think of the Alpha 900 not as a logical progression from the 700, but as a different camera system entirely. . . . → Read More: Do you really need an Alpha 900? Share this: 19 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount 900, Alpha, Alpha 900, buying, choice, choosing, DSLR, Sony, Sony Alpha 900, use, using Duncan McEwan spoke, in his usual very steady and friendly manner, about his experience of using the Alpha 900. He showed a selection of images taken – remarkably – over a period of just 10 days preceding the event, using a 24-70mm CZ and his own 70-200mm Minolta SSM. Here is his own ‘script’ for . . . → Read More: Alpha 900 launch: Press Conference Part 4 Share this: 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), News Alpha 900, DSLR, Duncan McEwan, Edinburgh, launch, photos, Sony OUR final production Alpha 900 body arrived on Saturday September 20th, and went along to photokina 2008 on Monday 22nd where it was used in a routine way – without flash – to take whatever pictures were needed for magazine reports. Sometimes it can be better just to use a camera on whatever difficult or . . . → Read More: Alpha 900 and photokina: Part 1 Share this: 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, News 900, A900, Alpha, Alpha 900, bar, camera, Cologne, DSLR, Köln, messe, Papa Joe's, performance, photokina, quality, report, sharpness, Sony Nikon has introduced some of the technologies we might expect to see from Sony, apparently using the IMX021 sensor (the pixel count on the long edge is 4288, rather than 4272 as normally processed from a Sony Alpha 700 file, but this is within the usual limits of different raw conversions). The D90 is an . . . → Read More: Nikon D90 – 4.5fps, HD video, 12 megapixels CMOS Share this:Canon has today officially announced the 15.5 megapixel APS-C EOS 50D. This is a 1.6X factor sensor, packing a density well in excess of the Alpha 350 – if Sony was to make an Alpha with the same pixel density it would be 17.5 megapixels, and a full framer would be 38.5 megapixels. . . . → Read More: Canon EOS 50D faces up to Live View Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), News 50D, camera, Canon, Canon EOS 50D, DSLR, EOS 50D, launch, Live View, specifications At the end of September 2006, I set off for a quick visit to photokina in Cologne, having parted company with Icon’s am-pro magazine ƒ2 and not really needing to report on the whole show in detail. Here’s the report I wrote then, with photos, and some thoughts for the 2008 show. . . . → Read More: Photokina – a look back, and forward Share this: Comments are closed Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount 2006 report, A900, Alpha, Alpha 900, DSLR, fair, Germany, Köln, launch, lens, messe, photokina, Rhine, September 2008, show, Sony, stand, trade There seems to be a lot of speculation about the Alpha 900 or Pro, and uncertainty about the timing of introduction. The August 14th date is not the 900, it’s two Cybershot models. The Alpha 900 will, as far as we are aware, be shown to the press on September 9th/10th worldwide. . . . → Read More: Alpha 900 launch Share this: 9 comments - (Comments are closed) DK's ramblings, News A900, Alpha 900, Alpha Pro, DSLR, launch, Sony |
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