$130 with return shipping
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 12 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Good deal! I'm sold.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 12 November 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Technically I have sold enough of my worldly belongings to afford a M9.
I will not be doing this.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
If this Fuji X1 Pro is as good as the x100 I'm going to struggle to have reasons not to buy it.
― stet, Friday, 6 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
link?
― dayo, Friday, 6 January 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
Link. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/fujifilms-new-x-pro1-leaked-along-with-some-lovely-lenses/
― stet, Friday, 6 January 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
If I can afford it, want. Love my X100, but I do find myself wishing I could go wider (28 is okay, would be happy if there's a 24 or 21 down the road).
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
Being announced f'real now:http://www.photographybay.com/2012/01/09/fuji-ces-2012-press-conference-liveblog/
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
the new canon thingy looks kind of stupid
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
new canon 5d mk iii thingey
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
It looks like the mk II with all the stupid cheap bits removed - now w/decent autofocus is the biggest thing for me.
― stet, Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
5D3 is pretty much exactly the camera people wanted the 5D2 to be (pro AF, etc.), but now it's too expensive and doesn't have enough megapixels. People are weird.
If I had anyone paying me to shoot their buildings and houses right now, I don't know which I'd buy between the D800 and the 5D2.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 3 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
semi-appropriate thread: Lightroom 4 is out and retail is half of what Lightroom 3 was. Maybe Adobe is finally figuring out that their audience is wider than pros with business budgets now.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
I briefly had a demo version of Lightroom on my computer but its workflow was a bit foreign to me. Does it offer advantages over Photoshop for working specifically with photographs?
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Image cataloguing and organization and some of the streamlining of websites/Flickr/books, I'd say. More important if you're shooting digital and have thousands of files to work on/keep track of.I have CS5.1 and the Camera Raw/photo interface is very confusing to me, but I've been using LR alone for several years now.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think I should just give it a shot again. I'm not doing digital at the moment, but I still have a large archive of scanned negatives (whose physical counterparts have FINALLY been properly sorted and filed). My basic tasks are color correction, dust and scratch removal, cropping, etc. Usually means a couple of curves/levels/color balance layers.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hjm_s/
Fuji XPro-1 + the Fuji negative film simulation - I think the look might be right up a few ILPers alleys.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
looks like the 5D3 is only half a stop better than 5D2 in low-light, and most of the image improvements came in video. disappointing! otoh if I ever felt the need to jump into digital full-frame, 5D2s will be cheaper and just as good
― dayo, Friday, 20 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
As someone who still rocks the 5D-I... I want this
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
I want a D800 w/ the new 28/1.8 that Nikon is releasing
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
but not really. so big, so heavy, so little desire to carry one around
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://us.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m_monochrom/
depending on what the files look like... might sell everything I have + my kidney and get this
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't kept up with the 'state' of digital photography so I dunno what current top gear setups are capable of but the detail in some of these shots is pretty staggering
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/photos/1950531/l1000272-dng?inalbum=leica-m-monochrom-preview-samples
#11 - level of detail in the corners is pretty out of this world
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hy22n.jpg
make sure to enlarge!
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow
http://i.imgur.com/Yh59Q.jpg
the cars in the bottom right corner - that's what I would expect from a medium format camera. wow
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
just had a look at some of the samples from the d800 over at dpreview and to my eyes the monochrom shots blow the d800 out of the water w/r/t detail and resolution
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
I guess they should, seeing as every pixel in the M-Monochrom is a luminance-capturing element whereas colour sensors are split up into Bayer RGB mosaics. I've gone from thinking this was a daft idea to...er, yeah, wanting one.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
by the way it looks like imgur adds compression to the photos - the original ones downloaded from dpreview gallery are much cleaner (and bigger - the one with the cars weighs in at 8.8 megs.)
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
at one eighth the price I would be interested, but still couldn't afford one.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
The M9M is kind of interesting, but some of the examples I saw (girl holding a Nikon) had some bad highlight blowouts, no better than your average 35mm DSLR - I'm less interested in a mono camera for resolution than for dynamic range that comes closer to Tri-X/HP5.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I've heard the sensor being used is not current-gen tech. otoh it seems even canon can't really squeeze any more DR out of sensors - the new 5D Mk III, for example, doesn't really seem to have improved DR. or maybe you need some kind of fuji EXR tech.
looking at the shot of the girl with the nikon from dpreview, I don't mind the blown sky that much. the resolution w/ which you can see the strands of hair, and the lint on the jeans, is pretty spectacular, imo.
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, the shot of the space needle is so much better than this MF scan using very good equipment! http://www.dantestella.com/technical/gsw690iii-res.html
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
The girl with the Nikon bothers me more on her hands and jacket - blown skies are part of the game, but losing skin and clothing detail is pretty frustrating. Just read the photographer comment that he blew the exposures the first day, because he was relying on the rear LCD too much to judge exposure. So that one probably isn't the camera's fault anyway.
Apparently I'm getting a OM-D E-M5 for work (documenting construction projects) whenever the kit comes in to my local store.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
blown away that Leica has had these in the hands of a number of photographers already without any legit information leaking or anyone being spotted
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha because its waterproof?
― dayo, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Partially. I wasn't keen on carrying my XPro-1 in my truck all the time and needed something that could make nice 12x18 prints. If the E-M5 gets jacked, I'm not out any money, at least.I picked it because I want to try the Olympus 12 and Panasonic 25 for myself.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
was there an ILP thread in which we argued basic digital versus film stuff? i don't have the vocabulary but still feel there are real broad differences in how each handles light (that feels like the biggest?), renders depth, &c.
the detail thing here is really interesting. sort of in the spectrum of those google videos in which you can infinitely zoom into any angle of a museum panorama.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um1FjRFzJWQ
― dylannn, Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
X100: y/n?
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
The X100 is fantastic. The XPro-1 makes some improvements (sensor, quick menu, etc.), but the X100 is just the right size for what it is and the image quality is A+ since the whole camera is built around the lens's interaction with the sensor.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
I downloaded one of the M Monochrom JPGs from Steve Huff's site and made some adjustments in LR4. Even the JPG is very malleable without losing detail, I imagine RAW is A+.Would definitely sell everything to get one if they were 1/3 the price.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
so uh... got any X100 pro tips? : )
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― stet, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
never having owned a DSLR idg the AF complaints; camera is snappy as all hell and super silent. MF + AFL is god mode. OVF is def going to be a learning curve; EVF is better than that on the wife's pana G3
need to learn how to lightroom now
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
turn on the corrected AF frame, turn off any power saves and turn on quick-start mode. Invest in a 95mb/s UHS-1 card, invaluable to the camera's responsiveness.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Gorgeous first few images on Flickr with the X100, Cozen.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 21 May 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
thanks!
milo: done, done, and done. superfast SD card is on next month's shopping list
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Monday, 21 May 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
do you shoot RAW or jpg, milo? read the jpgs are stellar from the X100 so tempted to ditch RAW
(would that increase speed/write-time?)
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
I always shoot RAW, I want the full set of data for playing with in LR/PS - and as a personal thing, JPGs don't feel finished. Shooting JPGs will make write-times much faster, the files are ~1/4 the size.
JPGs from the mirrorless cameras (Fuji, micro-4/3, etc.) usually seem better than DSLR JPGs, I guess the assumption is that more people will be shooting them so they put more effort in.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 21 May 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Meant to say the JPGs are very nice even though I stick to RAW. If you want to shoot B&W JPGs, monkey with the settings - everything at standard makes for very flat files with almost no whites or blacks.