I am enjoying exploring the art of amateur photography again, not that I ever stopped either exploring or enjoying. I am one of the oldies that has spanned the age of film and into digital photography. Not that my senior age allows that, as my daughter who is 25 years my junior, has made the same transition in her professional photography career. No career path for me. I just enjoy the technical aspects of the...
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What You See Is What I Show You
I love taking good photographs. I don’t so much like poor photography. To me there is a world of difference between taking pictures and true photography. Today we have a lot of ordinary folks “taking pictures” using simple cameras such as the ubiquitous cell phone camera. There is some good photography done with cell phone cameras, so I hold no disrespect of the tool. Current cell phone cameras have very few controls and are extremely...
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I was just sitting on my rear porch playing with my 2yr old Sony NEX-5 camera. I had put a lens adapter on it and connected my Minolta 100-200mm telephoto lens.1:4.5 (22) lens. On the Nex-5 it is equivalent to a 150-300 lens on a 35mm camera. Nothing special as far as subject, just the usual Egret, Mallards, and Russian Geese. The lens is manual focus in this situation. Far side of lake is about...
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I may be paranoid, but I have a suspicion. Probably because I can see doing this myself, strictly as a matter of a business decision. The decision is to not make a software product as good as it could possibly be because I want to protect a more expensive and higher quality and higher profit product that I produce. I am thinking about the consumer market photographic camera business. All the major camera makers have...
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