New DSLR, new mirrorless, new high end compact, new point and shoot, new smartphone. Every week will start with some good news with photographer. Sensors' capabilities are now outstanding in low light, in high contrasts for landscapes, and for depth of colours for portraits. Other cameras' performances are also always improving in terms of Autofocus, how fast the camera will shoot,…
Light field camera has moved from a technical concept to a mass consumer product recently. Basically, the concept is allowing you to focus after shooting, and theoretically to manage your depth of field (DOF) as you wish, so pretty much one can consider as a real innovation. DOF's management has always been a real challenge for many photographer. I don't have…
Every month, a new camera is released and their is a real inflation of bigger and bigger sensors: mirrorless sensors at APS-C's size are now more or less the norm whereas it used to be the micro 4/3 a few years ago. The rumour says a new Nikon D600 low cost full frame will be released in 2012. Sony released a…
Yes I know, it is no more "Picasa", nowadays man must write "Google+ photos".Yes, but it is still "Picasa" as you need to download it first. Thank you Google, I love you, but your engineering inconsistency is typical of the geeks I know so well! So I will try to clarify the mess due to a somewhat clumsy if not incomplete…
Two critical shifts The two main shifts of this industry look to me so clear I have no doubt the DSLR market will evolve significantly soon, and actually may have already started to: smartphones & mobile device are making many point & shoot cameras obsolete, if not many entry level DSLR. Not because they can challenge them in terms of image…