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Nikon’s D600 – FX goes Prosumer

Richard Kilpatrick — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:00:42 +0000

Nikon announced the D600 at 5am today, confirming rumours which were beaten only by Apple’s iPhone 5 leaks for accuracy. The 24Mp entrant seems to be part of ‘full-frame fever’ undoubtedly driven by Sony’s CMOS sensor development, pricing and more crucially, packaging the definitive 35mm format to appeal to mainstream consumers. Despite a D3X matching [...]

Cameracraft magazine

David Kilpatrick — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:18:33 +0000

One year ago we took the difficult decision to end the publication of Photoworld, though Photoclubalpha continues as an active and well supported site. dPhotoexpert, though a quiet site by comparison, was originally intended to be the companion website for a magazine called dPhotoexpert for which we did designs and content plans. But then along came [...]

Nikon D4 and Canon 5D MkIII video test clip

David Kilpatrick — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:58:09 +0000

These short clips are not intended to test all aspects of the cameras, of course. They are taken from a number of tests made with the cameras, and show some reasonable comparisons of quality.

41Mp compact – from Nokia!

Richard Kilpatrick — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:35:10 +0000

Once, Nokia were the largest camera manufacturer in the world. Pioneering the combined camera and smartphone market with for the time, sophisticated Symbian-based phones with Zeiss lenses. Such a short time ago, relatively, is an epoch in the technology industry and Android, combined with the sales success of Apple’s iPhone, has eroded the early gains [...]

Channel Islands VAT dodge to end in 2012

David Kilpatrick — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:57:11 +0000

The story below may not seem very important to photographers, but actually, it affects suppliers including 7DayShop, MyMemory, and indeed all the digital and photo processing companies who have used the Channel Islands VAT loopholes. —————————————————- The group of retailers campaigning against an industrial-scale offshore VAT avoidance scheme that has destroyed scores of viable, job-creating [...]

Master Photography Awards – merits video

David Kilpatrick — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:36:58 +0000

You can now watch a low resolution, 33-minute video of the original HD1080p movie slide show produced from all the 550-plus merits awarded for the 2011 Master Photography Awards. From these merits, the Awards of Excellence and the category winners, the International Master Photographer of the Year, the UK/European/World Portfolio winners, and the UK and [...]

EISA Awards 2011-2012

Richard Kilpatrick — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:18:47 +0000

So far three photographic products have been announced for EISA Awards – as announcements continue to come in, we’ll update this post. European Advanced SLR Camera of the Year 2011-2012 Nikon’s D7000 has fought off some extremely stiff competition, including the Pentax K-5 and Sony 16.2Mp models for this prestigious award. The judges’ statement hints [...]

Mapping the planes

David Kilpatrick — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:18:01 +0000

Samsung has a patent and a plan for using two lenses with triangulation (image offset) depth detection between two images in what is roughly a stereo pair. Here’s a link: http://www.photographybay.com/2011/07/19/samsung-working-on-dslr-like-bokeh-for-compact-cameras/ Pentax also have a system on the new Q range which takes more than one exposure, changes the focus point between them, and uses [...]

Pentax 645D Japan announced

Richard Kilpatrick — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:00:54 +0000

Hasselblad has their Ferrari edition, Leica has the Ti and other special editions – and now Pentax, already making a veritable rainbow of K-r colours, are adorning their flagship 645D Medium Format system with a classical Japanese finish. The 645D is pretty much what happens when you approach medium format without any preconceptions and with [...]

Pentax Q’s up mirrorless system…

Richard Kilpatrick — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:20 +0000

With their 645D offering a revolutionary balance of cost, features and usability for the medium format world, and the K-5 16Mp DSLR offering a flexible blend of enthusiast and professional features, Pentax is already blurring the distinctions between the genres traditional camera manufacturers exploit. The new Q system announced today further moves the boundaries, by [...]