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…
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…
You want to follow the herd, you need - with some excellent reasons - a mirrorless. Well, actually there are so many options, I felt it was important to over simplify the landscape just to explain it with simple words. I don't claim having right, I am just giving my basic opinion about main mirrorless cameras. So let's start the show:…
I know the stuff has not been released recently (released around 2009) but when I was interested in purchasing one, it has been quite challenging to make a decent opinion about it. So let's make a summarize: To make a long story short: it works pretty well for a x2 teleconverter but it is a x2 teleconverter which means: you can…
I have been surprised to see so few wifi-based cameras and, more important, no Android camera or, no real camera provided by Apple. I mean, basically, every smartphone is embedding a camera, but not good enough, and "real" cameras are still working in a so old fashion way when it comes to publishing. That's exactly the reason why smartphones are the…
I am comparing a DSLR and a compact, both modern and famous for their excellent quality images (Nikon D7000, Canon S100), in order to evaluate when we really need to get one or the other, or both together. Sometimes, I am also comparing the pictures with those taken by a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy SII). I am also doing this as I…
We, photographers, don't care about profits and shareholders objectives. We want better cameras. We do understand that is make sense for a company to improve its financial results. But too often, the self-proclaimed leaders can become somewhat arrogant and are forgetting the "golden rule": make good products for your clients, and they are no cash cows. The objective is not, at…