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I was hoping for a G12 with BICMOS

colorblinded — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:30:35 +0000

Canon must have spoiled me with the SD4000. Their first back-illuminated CMOS (I’ll call this BICMOS for short) camera was a surprise and I had hoped we’d be seeing that sensor technology creeping in to other cameras soon. While Canon is updating the SD4000 with the new SD4500, using the same sort of Canon-made sensor, it seems it may not be moving to anything else just yet. [...]

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Upcoming Rochester Subway excursion shut down

colorblinded — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:13:51 +0000

A Rochester “Crime Prevention Officer” has put the kibosh on the subway walk that Rochester Subway had been planning. It’s a good thing too, because otherwise we would have had a careful, respectful and organized group of people touring the subway’s length while it was still possible. Now there will just be more small groups exploring it, being reckless and causing mayhem. That’s definitely better. [...]

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When 10 is greater than 15… megapixels

colorblinded — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:06:55 +0000

Canon Canon caught some heat for the 15 megapixel G10 from a broad range of sources and justifiably so in my opinion. The sensor produced great detail as long as you were at low ISO but was severely limited in what it could do once the ISOs started creeping through the triple digits. [...]

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Capture One 4.8.1 is crashy

colorblinded — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:59:26 +0000

… don’t use it! For whatever reason it keeps saying it is running out of memory and when it doesn’t do that it just gives up and crashes. I went back to 4.8 and all is well, I’m not sure what the .1 got me anyway! [...]

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Flickr Explore needs a new compass

colorblinded — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:55:50 +0000

Flickr is an interesting site; I like it a lot in spite of the various quirks it has or performance problems I have had with it. There are many great community aspects of the site and obviously the amount of photography on display is tremendous and there are many very talented photographers on Flickr who share their work and often their insight and knowledge. [...]

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The new full frame cameras (Canon, Nikon and Sony)

colorblinded — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:26:00 +0000

Having finally had the opportunity to play with the new batch of “affordable” full frame cameras I wanted to write down my thoughts on all of them. They’re all impressive cameras in their own respects, each with particular strengths that make them stand out among the rest and I enjoyed using and handling all of them at the recent photo expo. [...]

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I think I said something about this before

colorblinded — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:11:11 +0000

Oh… wait, yes I did: add more pixels please Please just stop! I appreciate the effort put in to these cameras like including GPS location tagging but 13.5 megapixels in a 1/1.7 inch sensor’ Unless this camera is carrying a new sensor exhibiting some breakthroughs in sensor design, it’s going to be pretty much terrible at anything above base ISO. Fortunately Nikon saw fit to offer ISOs up to 6400! That obviously improves things. My fingers are crossed that this is fake. [...]

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Come on Canon!

colorblinded — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:33:20 +0000

Nikon has a shiny new 105mm 2.8 VR macro, so where is the image stabilized version of my 100mm 2.8 USM macro? I would like nothing more than to have that available to me and I’d trade up in a heartbeat. I know normally the words macro and handheld make people cringe. But I find that with the newer technologies hitting macro lenses this is easier and more viable than ever before. [...]

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Add more pixels, please.

colorblinded — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:34:50 +0000

More pixels make the camera better, right? I’m getting dismayed by the fact that marketing has seem to overrun good common sense at the camera companies these days. Perfectly good cameras like the G9 are coming out with 12 megapixels now and that’s just stupid. That camera, in particular that sensor, shouldn’t need more than 6mp, in fact it would make the camera better. [...]

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