Personal ramblings on photography
George Jardine (a Lightroom export) wrote A Few Thoughts on Time Stamps, how he manages time stamps and deal with timezones.
It is a personal thing, and my personal choice is using UTC in the camera and timezone in the library to have the local time (local to the location of the picture). This raise a problem in Ligthroom, but it works in Aperture. And it matches with geo tagging using GPS traces.
Famous photographers pose with their most iconic images. Often you recognize the image, but not the photographer.
Everything about FUJIFILM X-Pro1 : Miku’s collection of links about the Fujifilm X-Pro1. Everything to satisfy your gear lust.
Duncan Davidson wrote Mayanmar Brief (archived from the original), a short about traveling to Myanmar (aka Burma).
Also check out his fantastic pictures taken during his trip. The U Bein Bridge (archived from the original), the Hsinbyume Pagoda (archived from the original), temples as far as the eye can see (archived from the original).
Heinz Maier’s amazing photos of water drops (archived from the original): just view these awesome pictures. And look at the setup.
The Online Photographer has a guest post by Robert Plotkin: Shooting with a Fuji X100.
Plotkin has a lots of gripes against the focusing system:
The imprecise focusing takes an unusually long time. It is like waiting for a cashier to incorrectly manipulate an abacus and hand you the wrong change.
He also have issues with the usability. But in the end:
Shooting the Fuji X100 is like driving a vintage Ferrari: bugs in your teeth, pebbles ricocheting off your goggles, double-clutching straight cut gears, applying opposite lock to correct a slide — and coming out of the corner neck-and-neck with a soccer mom in a black Escalade of an SLR.
Read it thoroughly. I still want to get one.
Rob Galbraith is reviewing the Nikon 1: he found both the V1 and J1 very capable as an everyday camera. Read it on.
The kind people at Luminous Landscape have an article about a Leica factory visit in Solms, Germany (by Nick Rains).
These [Leica S2 and M9] are hand made products — quite literally. It’s why they are desirable in the first place and the process can only proceed so fast. I’m told it takes 8 hours to assemble an M9 body and having seen the care and precision with which they are assembled, I can certainly believe it.
This should explain why the quality is at the top along with the price.
FujiFilm announced the X10. It is not the replacement for the X100 but it shows that FujiFilm is trying to get serious.
LensRentals has a brief history of early photographic lenses.
Interesting read for historical purpose.