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  • GH2.2

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    The slow, inexorable decay Just took delivery of a used Panasonic GH2 from fellow photog John Griggs, aka Entropic Remnants. He’s moving away from Micro Four Thirds to Fuji X, so I took the GH2 off of his hands for a fair price. I now have two GH2s and will use them primarily for video.…

  • Roadtrip with a 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid

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    I’m currently down in Hatteras NC (OBX) with a 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. Hyundai was kind enough to loan us the car for a one week review, and our first thought was, “let’s put some miles on this puppy.” So we filled the tank in NJ and 13 hours and 481 miles later we were…

  • Google Nexus 7: Close but no cigar

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    [Sorry for the long gap between posts.It’s been a busy summer with motorcycle stories among other things.] A couple of years ago I bought an Apple iPad 2 stuffed with the maximum 64GB of memory to backup my photographs when on the road. With the optional camera connection kit (two white dongles that let you…

  • Confessional (Hacking the Panasonic GH2)

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    You know that copy of Epyx’s Summer Games for the Apple II? I’m here to confess that the game that kept me up late way past my bedtime in 1982 was a pirated copy. That’s right, I somehow got a hold of the tools to unlock the awesomeness of the game (and the superlative graphics)…

  • Flowers + Rainy Day = Rainy Day Flower Photos

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    A Pentax K-5 with the DA* 50-135mm F2.8, a Panasonic GH1 with the 100-300mm F4.0-5.6, and the Pentax Q with the 02 Zoom were used to create these photos. Can you guess which is which?

  • I’ve Been Instagrammified! (The Sunday Pulpit)

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    I’m a bit of a contrarian, tacking left when the rest of the world is tacking right. Sometimes there’s a valid reason for my contrarian views and sometimes it’s because I don’t like crowds much I think. So if you’ve spent any time in online photography circles, you’ll see that most serious practitioners of the…

  • The Day in Which a Panasonic LX7 and Pentax Q Pretend That They are GoPros

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    I brought a Panasonic LX7 and a Pentax Q to a recent automotive press event where I got to test drive a number of electric and hybrid cars (along with some hooning in a Miata and wicked looking matte grey Hyundai Veloster Turbo). A Nissan GTR, Chevy Camaro Hot Wheels Edition, Cadillac CTS-V and a…

  • The Most Demanding Photographer (The Sunday Pulpit)

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    [I’m starting a new thing – The Sunday Pulpit – where I stretch my writing a bit. Please note that I can’t guarantee it will be every Sunday. Nor can I guarantee that I’ll stretch too far.] We all know how demanding pros can be of their gear. They require the ultimate in image quality…

  • The New Normals

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    Back in the 70s (when having a big bushy mustache wasn’t ironic), the standard kit of most budding photographers included a SLR without the “D” mated with a fast 50. It was F2.0 if you were on a budget, F1.7 if you ate cheese sandwiches for a week, and an F1.4 if you just got that big…

  • The Case Against 1″ Sensors

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    This is last (I think) in a series of ponderings: The Case Against Full Frame The Case Against APS-C The Case Against Micro Four-Thirds The recent introduction of 1″ sensors has been both a bang (Sony RX100) and a “meh” (Nikon 1 series) in the world camerascenti. Sony is clearly on a roll with their…