http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com Photography, photographs, photo gear, pointless ramblings. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:20:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Red has announced a bevy of new gear, a core part of much of it being a new modular camera system much like I have talked about before.  I don't know if this will shake up the industry like they and so many of their fans expect.  They have some ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/11/13/red-attempts-to-shake-up-the-industry-with-modular-scarlet-and-epic-systems/ This is the kind of news about the photo industry that intersets me! Sigma now owns Foveon and its three-layer X3 sensor technologies.  This is something I saw some rumors about only a few days ago (too busy to keep up) and is a really interesting revelation.  I don't know what ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/11/11/sigma-buys-foveon/ 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 ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/11/01/the-new-full-frame-cameras-canon-nikon-and-sony/ After visiting the PhotoPlus expo the three of us headed back in the direction of Penn Station with the intention of finding food along the way before taking the subway in the general direction of Ground Zero. We wound up at the Tick Tock diner for lunch which turned out to ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/28/a-rainy-day-in-nyc/ The trip this past weekend was over in a flash, but it was a fun time.  I'll go over our visit to the PDN PhotoPlus expo in this post and the rest of the trip in another. After signing in and getting our passes the first place we went was to ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/28/2008-pdn-photoplus-expo/ Tomorrow my friend and I are heading down to Long Island to visit a friend of mine and we'll all be going in to NYC on Saturday to check out the PhotoPlus expo.  I don't plan to be lugging a lot of gear around with me but I haven't entirely ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/23/trip-to-long-island-nyc-photo-plus-expo-and-more/ Photokina came and went... a while ago at this point.  I wanted to comment on what was interesting but have been too busy to get around to it... until now. There were a few interesting things that happened, most importantly (to me at least) was the long awaited announcement of the ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/23/better-late-than-never-photokina-reaction/ Finally updated to version 2.6.2. http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/18/wordpress-updated-2/ X-rite has a really neat online Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test that you can use to test your color vision.  I want to be completely clear that I make no guarantees about the accuracy of this test though.  I performed it on a new LED backlit LCD which has particularly vivid ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/10/03/test-your-color-vision-with-x-rites-online-100-hue-test/ Nikon has had a long relationship with the gold finish, from their boxes to bands on their lenses.  Perhaps it was only a matter of time before they spilled a can of their favorite tacky color all over one of their digital SLRs.  This is not the first time someone ... http://www.thecolorblindphotographer.com/2008/09/26/nikon-suggests-bad-taste-is-worth-at-least-650-d60-black-gold-edition/