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Sometimes something happens in the world of photography that I didn’t expect and it takes me by surprise. Some things are to be expected, like RED’s now year old announcements seeming to be vaporware, but some things pop up out of the blue. In the spirit of these moments and with the assumption that someone might read these thoughts and find them interesting, I will attempt to start a new type of post for this site. [...] Continue reading Surprises: Ricoh GXR edition This might well be one of the stranger interchangeable camera concepts that I’ve seen lately but it’s not without its benefits. Instead of interchangeable lenses the system comes as a body component which accepts a range of lens-sensor modules. This could provide ideal performance for each lens-sensor pair as well as huge zoom reach if paired with a smaller sensor in the module, but it can also be taken other directions. [...] Continue reading Leaked Ricoh GXR proposes interchangeable lens-sensor modules I’ve been wanting to visit this location for months now, but somehow it was always just out of reach due to all kinds of scheduling conflicts. Finally on Saturday (the 7th) Andrew coordinated a trip to visit a few locations: the Subway, ALMC and Jewel. We didn’t make it to Jewel, that was planned for last, and I didn’t shoot any at the subway but the four of us had a good time. [...] Continue reading Finally! Exploring the abandoned American Laundry Machine Company in Rochester Unfortunately I managed to miss opportunities to do much shooting when there was more color, although even that is a relative term since trees around here don’t seem to coordinate their color changing. Since neither of us had done much shooting lately we got together at Sips Coffee (neat little place) and then went off to the park. It was a cool day but nice and we saw a number of other people enjoying the park as well, walking the various trails throughout it. [...] Continue reading Catching the last of the color at Durand Eastman Park 2009 PhotoPlus has come and gone, and the current economic conditions have definitely taken their toll on the show. Some brands didn’t bother to show and there was less free swag than last year. Still, not a bad show and it was nice to check out some of the new toys as always! My last post already got the ball rolling on covering what we did at the show. [...] Continue reading 2009 PDN PhotoPlus Expo & NYC Time to get started with the report from this weekend! The big news that seems to have spread like wildfire is the photos my friend Bruce took with the 1D Mark IV to test its image quality at a range of ISOs. Unfortunately nobody here thought to test the D3s so a juicy comparison isn’t in the cards. If I had known he was going to do that while I was at the show I might have tried to sneak a few from the D3s. [...] Continue reading 1D Mark IV test shots from PhotoPlus After all the packing, charging and formatting I am hopefully all ready for the weekend. I’ll be back Monday evening and will get show impressions, photos and other good stuff up throughout the rest of next week! [...] Continue reading Off to NYC, Long Island and of course PhotoPlus! After all the rumors the final result is a 16 megapixel, 10fps overhauled 1D camera with extensive video capabilities and ISOs to match Nikon’s latest. The sensor has been redesigned to support the 6 extra megapixels with more transmissive color filters, improved gapless microlenses and changes to the actual circuitry design in the sensor. If this actually adds up to performance to match the D3s at ISO 102400 it will indeed be impressive. [...] Continue reading Canon’s 1D Mark IV is here and wants you to take video recording seriously Historically it hasn’t been possible to get in to any new medium format digital systems without spending at least around twice what the top tier full frame cameras like the D3x or 1Ds cost. Leaf’s new Aptus II 5 digital back now makes it possible to jump in to a medium format system for a much more reasonable price. The new back sports a 48x36mm 22 megapixel CCD imager and costs $8000. [...] Continue reading Leaf Aptus knocks the price of medium format systems down to DSLR territory I’ve always found a lot of the special edition cameras to be rather amusing. Usually it involves some sort of metal bling like silver, gold or titanium colors. Pentax has gone all pre school with the Kore Ja Nai robo toy themed special edition K-x. Considering that Pentax will be offering the K-x with 20 body and five grip color choices that you can configure with an online creator, I’m sure that it wasn’t a big stretch for Pentax to put together this multicolored camera. [...] Continue reading Special editions get weirder with the multicolored Pentax K-x 
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