Personal ramblings on photography
Allen Murabayashi wrote Rant: I love photography. Allen is CEO and Co-founder of PhotoShelter, originally wrote this on the PhotoShelter blog, and got republished on Wired “rawfile”.
His only reason to write this:
There is a percentage of photographers who hate photography.
And he give special mention to Boston Globe’s Big Picture and later the Atlantic’s In Focus, my favorite photo blogs.
Prophotos.ru has a review of the X-Pro1 with RAW samples (in Russian). It is unclear whether these are pre-production or final, but the camera is out in Japan now.
Bryan Jones comes back on what Kodak represented to the sad realisation of what it has become.
The sad part of this is that Kodak is another example of the a company that fell from dramatic heights and has gone from a name that everybody knew to one that does not have nearly the brand recognition it once had that was all things photography.
To me, Kodak rings now with good film (a very niche product today) and crappy digital camera. That last part is no longer since Kodak announced they abandon the camera business in light of their bankruptcy reorganisation. They contributed a lot to photography, with innovations like the roll film, Kodachrome that made colour photography easier, the first digital camera in 1975, etc. The also contributed to make photography accessible to anybody, for the best or the worse. We, photographers, have a huge debt towards Kodak.
Incidentally I came back to photography a bit because I bought a Kodak digital camera in 1999 – which was at the time decent. Then I bought a Canon EOS film camera and ended up mostly shooting Fuji slide film… Today my TLR film camera sees a lot of Kodak film.
Photo Yodobashi has a “review” of the X-Pro1 (in Japanese) with samples.
I heard the camera is available in Tokyo. I also heard there would be only 10 units shipping in Canada at first. Which is way too low.
The kind folks at The Camera Store have a 12 minutes video of a field test of the Fuji X-Pro1:
Heading over to Brandon Remler blog once more, where he tested the 60mm Macro for the X-Pro1 with some random shots. See his portrait shots wide open.
A Lumix LX-3 Review as an every day camera, by Jorge Ledesma.
When I hold the LX3, I just feel like making pictures and my creativity just naturally flows. I don’t have to think about it too much because I know that for the images I want to create the LX3 will be there ready and up to the task when she’s called upon.
Camera is a creativity tool. I have always heard good things about the Lumix LX series, and this confirms it. Panasonic is playing a significant part in today’s camera market.
I know that one of the questions is how faster is the Fujifilm X-Pro1 as the X-100 seemed to be sluggish, frustrating a lot of early adopters of the X-series.
Here is a video that shows the X-Pro1:
From “nycphotog2006” the same person that posted these sample images.
A Fujifilm employee posted personal sample shots with a Fujifilm X-Pro1. First night out and first day out
Also it seems that the M-mount adapter has been spotted.
Just a clarification: OM-D is the product line, a bit like Pen Digital. E-M5 is the model, like E-P1.
Also, concerning the weather sealing for the body, look at this demo:
The flash you see on the camera is also part of the standard package as it does not have a built-in flash.