Sony gets creative with full frame sensors
Since Sony’s acquisition of Minolta, they’ve been throwing cameras at the market to see what sticks. This year in a lot of ways is no real exception. It’s safe to say that off all the camera companies, Sony is clearly the most willing to be adventurous with their products. A full frame fixed lens compact, […]
Compact, Mirrorless, Nikon, What?
So Nikon has announced their entry into the compact interchangeable lens camera market, I posted about it yesterday. Apparently the, “what the hell is this shit” reaction has been strong enough that DPReview felt they needed to come to Nikon’s defense on sensor size. Having slept on it, the more I have to wonder what […]
Thinking about Nikon’s new Compact Interchangeable Lens System
You can’t say it wasn’t unexpected. Nikon and Canon have taken a serious hit in market share, at least in Japan, to the compact interchangeable lens cameras that Sony and Olympus have been bringing to the market. I’ve written about these things to some length — call me old and curmudgeonly but I’ve yet to […]
Mirrorless Compacts Finally Starting to find their Place?
Let me just get this out of the way. I don’t like these new-fangled mirror-less compact camera. I find them to be a solution in search of a problem, and am quite willing to talk anybody’s ear off about how and why there is almost always a better, if sometimes not actually available, solution to […]
Olympus E-P1: Evolution, Revolution or Just Another Camera
It’s been the dream of serious digital photographers for a long time now, a small digital system with interchangeable lenses, near SLR image quality and a pocketable design. The first real attempt at a “pro P&S” could be the Sigma DP1. Its large SLR sized (1.7x crop) sensor produced amazing images behind the fixed 16.6mm […]
Photokina Wrapup, Late but not Lost
Photokina wrapped up last week, and I have been trying to following along on the news as best I can. The big news to me was that there wasn’t an awful lot of news, outside of the cameras and lenses I’ve posted about previously. There were a lot of rumors about a new 70-200 VR […]