Tag: camera
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What He Said
” He ” being the chap who wrote the advertising copy for the agency selling new digital cameras. What he said was you have to buy the new digital camera from the manufacturer and you have to give the shop some $ 3500.00. If you don’t, you’ll be in trouble. Know what I mean…? Well……
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Which Gen Are You?
Apparently you get a choice between X, Y, and Z, and your taste in clothes, music, and social opinion is assigned to you on that basis. But if you were born before theses letters, you are to be lumped into a broader category – the Baby Boomer. I think this is silly and unscientific. I…
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How Do You Know You Have A White?
Oh, I can see the politically-correct guns training on me now and the crews opening the breech blocks… But this one is not racial, nor political, nor legalistic – this one is technical – how do you know your camera is recording a pure white for you – and then passing it on down through…
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Suppose You Only Had One Job
And your camera only had one setting. You’d be in Box Brownie land. Would there be a sale for a camera that had one – fixed – lens? Yes, they sell very well, as Leica, Sony, and Fujifilm will attest. People pay real money for the Q, the X-100, etc. Would there be a sale…
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When It Costs As Much As Your Car
It had better also have four wheels and be able to get you from home to the grocery store pretty reliably. If it’s just a camera you’ll need a better damn excuse to buy it than ” I just want it. “ You may have that excuse if the device will earn back its cost…
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It Came With The Camera
Few of us opening a new camera discard the charging block and electric cord. We plug it all together and start to feed electricity into the battery. Likewise we carefully look out the lens cap or back cap when we buy a lens for the body. We might file the bits away for future use,…
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Roachproof
Finishing up last night I called past the photo room to make sure everything was turned off. There, on the top of my secondary work camera – set up on a tripod on a semipermanent basis – was the biggest cockroach you could imagine. Balanced on the shutter buttom. I swatted it away with a…
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Just Seen It
Just watched the Fujifilm live show from Omiya in Tokyo. It was an advertisement, of course, but as it was an unveiling of the a new camera and several new lenses it formed an useful thing for a photo trade writer. Fujifilm have a new R&D centre in Omiya – a modern building that is…
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” Digital Photography For Beginners “
…Said the advertisement. And I’m sure it is telling the truth – the organisers will present a course on how to take digital photographs for people who have never done so before. Well and good. What we need, however, is a course entitled ” Digital Photography For The Old And Jaded “. I think it…
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In Which I Gain New Respect For…
Professional sports photographers. Hitherto I have been bored by professional sports. Not as bored as I have been by amateur sports, but bored enough. This will not change, but I have decided to decouple my distaste for the play and players from a growing regard for the sports photographer. I attended a product launch recently…