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Reading the promotional literature for the Z50 it is clearly targeted at the social media user. The camera is built to be as small as possible, as simple to use as possible and has the connectivity capability required by the demanding social media user. Goal stated, goal achieved.
Read MoreWith CES around the corner and this year being an Olympics year, it’s safe to presume that there will be new gear on offer from the big players.
I don’t get press notices from all the makers, and to be honest, don’t really go looking for them, but both Canon and Nikon hit the inbox today and I thought that it would be worthwhile to look at the announcements.
Read MoreYep, the end of another year, and one that I found a bit disappointing photographically. Allow me to explain.
In the different forums, message boards and communities that I support, I found that there was less attention being paid to the photographic creative process, or the video creative process and more time being spent worrying about non-existent gear and a demand to increase volume of lookalike work to get more likes. As an artist, I find this trend both sad and offensive. Let’s start 2020 with some alternative thoughts
Read MoreI have several Drobo’s. Most of them are dead. Yesterday, another one blew it’s brains out with no warning. I don’t mean that a disk died. I have not had a disk go bad since I stopped using Seagate drives many years ago.
Read MoreHere’s my hands-on review of Nikon’s Z6 Mirrorless. Is it awesome and amazing? You’ll have to read the entire article!
Read MoreDSLR vs mirrorless is a pointless and stupid time wasting discussion. So why are people still asking the question?
Read MoreI recently did a presentation on firmware updates for my camera club at the request of a member. I discovered that there is a lot of bull out there about firmware, updates to firmware and whether or not it makes sense to keep firmware up to date.
Read MoreI have to be straight up here. I’m writing about digital noise in photos and I am going to tick off some readers who have different perspectives, some of them finely polished and honed by years of incoming BS. I’m not suggesting that these folks are stupid, but that they may have chosen to believe crap from some alleged experts, or are, to be blunt, doing things incorrectly and building skyscrapers out of tiny bits of Meccano.
Read MoreIt’s been about six years since I wrote on this topic and while the concepts have not changed, some of the vendors and methodologies have evolved. A recent question via email has prompted this new article.
Read MoreThe buzzword in photographic editing is AI or Artificial Intelligence. Sorry mirrorless lovers, Mirrorless is no longer the buzzword of the year. AI sounds all marvellous and such but are these software packages really artificial intelligence, or are they really just a package of more sophisticated algorithms. Or worse, are they encodings of popular looks to be found on Social Media.
Read MoreA question that I get, and see very frequently on forums that I moderate is the one about the super telephoto zoom. The flavour of the month in these critters is the 150mm - 600mm variant, with most of the discussion around the different Sigma and Tamron lenses.
Read MoreIf you are a photographer of any kind of tenure or success, at some point you will be asked this question. Most of us really want to be helpful, but many times we end up doing the wrong thing in our desire to help. I try not to make this mistake any longer, but certainly did in the past. Some of that comes from having worked in a camera store where the A priority was rarely what the customer actually needed and partly because I failed to understand that what I liked had a strong probability of being completely inappropriate to the buyer’s needs. If you are the person seeking the recommendation, you are most likely to approach knowledgeable friends or family or if you have the good fortune to know and trust a professional in a camera store, you may go there.
Read MoreNow wait just a darn minute there! Every ad and review I see says that this new camera is going to make better pictures than the one that I have! Are you, Mr. Photo Video Guy, trying to tell me that the makers are lying to me?
Yes.
Read MoreI have to give full credit for this post to my friend Fernando Santos who asked it on the KelbyOne community. He asks such questions from time to time, perhaps to get people engaged, perhaps because he is simply interested. Either way, it’s a question that comes up in its own way on multiple occasions.
Read MoreA reader asked me to go over this topic. So here we go.
There are lots of misconceptions about memory cards, and frankly, a lot of no longer useful information marked all over them. Let’s see if we can make some sense of this.
Read MoreThis cartoon made me laugh. I thank my good friend Gordon for sharing it with me. It’s also kind of tragic because it is more often accurate than not. Contrary to what the web and the makers will tell you, gear will not make you a better creative.
Read MoreThis question keeps coming up. Let’s deal with it quickly.
All cameras of any real utility have a tripod mount. If yours does not, this doesn’t mean it’s junk, only that this article will not be relevant for you. If your camera takes interchangeable lenses, that’s when this article really matters.
Read MoreA reader of my work recently sent me this question, as noted in the title. He had been worried by an article suggesting that he could/would lose access to converting his existing RAW files at some point in the future, and was curious to know my thoughts on using JPEG and or TIFF as an independent archival methodology. I so appreciated the question, I decided to turn my response into a formal article.
Read MoreApple will announce at their Worldwide Developer Conference that this fall we will see the availability of macOS 10.15.
This is a pretty big deal, so let’s examine why.
Read MoreI was asked by a client to write about this topic and thought that it would have even wider resonance because it can be such a great conversation. I have often heard that it’s important to break the rules of photography, but what is consistently left out is that to know when to break the rules, one has to first understand them. Doing otherwise, is very much putting the cart before the unicorn.
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