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“Full Frame” Unfulfilled 11 Aug 2010 | 12:56 am
If you put any faith in DxO Mark scores (and I do understand their limitations), today’s best $500 DSLRs make better images than all of the sub-$4000 cameras sold until 2008. Largely that’s thanks to ...
Samsung TL500 (EX1) Emerging 2 Jul 2010 | 09:59 am
Samsung’s new “enthusiast” compact, the TL500 (or EX1 outside the US) was announced at the PMA show in February; but as of this writing, it’s not yet available from the usual mainstream sources. Howev...
DxO Mark Relaunch 23 Jun 2010 | 03:34 am
As of 22 June 2010, the DxO Mark website has been redesigned and greatly expanded—now adding tests of lens/sensor combinations. There’s certainly an enormous amount of new information there to chew o...
Photokina 2010 7 Jun 2010 | 09:33 am
I’m puzzled why there is so much buzz recently about cameras & whatnot which might be introduced “at Photokina.” Has everyone forgotten that it’s more than three months away?
Pentax: Sensors or Lenses? 31 May 2010 | 06:34 am
On Pentaxian discussion boards, one dispute that absolutely refuses to die is whether Pentax will (or should) introduce a “full frame,” 24x36mm sensor DSLR. The pleading for 24×36 often comes from th...
BSI: No Panacea 22 May 2010 | 04:39 am
In a few earlier posts I have mentioned the new generation of Sony sensors boasting “back-side illumination,” and marketed as Exmor-R (as distinct from Sony’s conventional sensors, just branded Exmor)...
A Nameless EVIL 14 May 2010 | 08:31 am
The introduction of Sony’s NEX-3 and NEX-5 has once again thrown a weird anomaly into sharp relief. Even 20 Months after the introduction of the Panasonic G1, there is still no universally-agreed-upo...
Sony: Less EVIL Than Feared 12 May 2010 | 04:43 am
Well, the much-anticipated “EVIL” cameras from Sony have finally arrived, the NEX-3 and NEX-5. Big Sensor, Small Camera The fullest NEX-5 review available so far is at Imaging Resource (while DP Rev...
Whither Pentax? 8 May 2010 | 08:54 am
I guess this was the week for Pentax’s European executives to go rogue. Hiroshi Onoda made some comments to the Spanish Pentaxeros website, hinting at future “more professional” DSLRs (google transla...
Zooms—The Silent Killer 5 May 2010 | 12:52 am
Despite endless technological evolution, one photography convention has endured for more than a century: Our numbering system for lens apertures. That is, the familiar “f-stop” scale: 1.4 2 2.8 ...
