And other funny stuff: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nocturne
Here is a pretty cool new video shot by Vincent Laforet with the new Canon 1D Mk IV:
It's a short 3-minute movie (not including the titles) of something like 'David Lynch meets John Carpenter' style shot in 'available darkness'.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Canon G10 vs Medium Format Film
Michael Reichmann of luminous-landscape.com compared picture quality of the Canon Powershot G10 with that of Digital Hasselblad and found them very similar on print. Since I don't have a Digital Hasselblad yet, let me show you a little non-scientific comparison between pictures of my G10 and Mamiya 645 film camera with 80mm f/1.9 lens. The film was Fuji Reala scanned with the Epson V700, resized and cropped to match the G10's images.
Canon 1:
Mamiya 1:
Canon 2:
Mamiya 2:
Click to see full resolution images on Flickr.com
As you can see both cameras can resolve similar amount of detail. Mamiya's images look overall better, but don't forget: we are comparing an average consumer grade zoom with one of the best manual prime lenses made by Mamiya.
However, the most obvious difference is in dynamic range. The film got more shadow details on the first photo and beautifully captured all subtle gradations of the overcast sky on the second one, while the G10 blew out the sky completely (I added the blue fill later in Photoshop).
Even though top models of compact cameras are getting close to medium format in resolution, they still have a long way to go before they can match the dynamic range of film.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The new Nikon sees in the dark
Nikon announced the new D3S with 12 megapixels and base ISO 12,800 that can be pushed up to astounding 102,400!
http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/slr/d3s/sample.htm
Check out the pictures of yak and bear shot at ISO 12,800. They don't look very beautiful but are usable, unlike anything I've seen before shot at this ISO.
The megapixel race is over and the ISO race began? Canon, your move!
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