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I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…
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I’ll be at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC this Saturday. I’ll be at the RoadRUNNER Magazine booth speaking with subscribers. This is a yearly tradition for many motorcyclists in the New York area. Even if the weather outside is frightful, we gather, bump into friends, and ogle the…
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No it’s not, actually. I just made that up. But I thought that I’d post some Google Trends of Pentax’s camera line: For those wondering what this is, it’s a graph of how frequently someone has gone to Google and searched for each of the Pentax cameras. It’s interesting that the tiny Q is the…
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I’m in the midst of doing some market research on a project, and while I was compiling site traffic data on Compete.com, curiosity got the better of me and I started looking at site traffic for some of the photography websites that I visit regularly. One thing led to another and I plotted the 2012…
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So one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to take fewer pictures. That’s right, to shoot less. I took over 40,000 photos last year, and while I’ve got a ton of hard drive space I don’t have a ton of time to really go through them. There are probably some nice photos in there that…
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Pentax has announced a new advanced point-and-shoot that carries the vaunted MX name forward. It’s called the MX-1 and it’s got what looks like real imitation leather sandwiched between brass top and bottom plates to like, you know, mimic the past. By the specs it looks like a nice advanced point-and-shoot in the Panasonic LX7 and Olympus…
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Thoughts and samples to appear in future posts. In the meantime, click here for all posts related to the Nikon V1.
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[This is the second post in a series. The first, “The Case Against Full-Frame” can be found here. The third, “The Case Against Micro Four-Thirds“, can be found here. The last, “The Case Against 1″ Sensors“, can be found here.] Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the Grungeolithic Era (aka, the 1990s), Kodak, Fuji,…
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I’ve been ultra-conservative with my exposures lately underexposing by as much as a stop to prevent blowing out highlight. Of course there are situations where you have to in order to get a properly exposed subject, but as good as the dynamic range and the latitude is of the K-5, recovering important highlights that have…