Canon 7D, EOS Flashes, Lenses, Canon, Canon 60D, Nikon

Nikon: You Must Not Be A Good Photographer

Last night, I was doing my exercise on the couch in front of the TV, aka channel surfing and exercising my thumb on the remote. Suddenly I found a camera ad. Cameras? Lets watch, It was an ad for Nikon with Ashton Kutcher. Nikon even has a full website, just for him: http://ashton.nikonusa.com/. Ashton Kutcher knows nothing about camera or photos but he has a Nikon camera.

Cleaning Your Lenses

Anybody that knows what she is talking about in the business of photography will tell you that the lenses are more important than the cameras.

  • Cameras become obsolete after 5 years. Do you remember the Canon 20D or the Nikon D40? They were great cameras, then…
  • Lenses last for decades and function day-in day-out. Some camera companies have what everybody in their “right mind” would call a barely OK cameras (there are other words too) but have such fantastic lenses that they get away with it and charge much more than full price until some competition shows up.

Nikon D800: Thanks but No Thanks

Canon 7D

Now that Nikon has finally announced the D800 and the D800E at around $3,000 and $3,400. The biggest, the meanest camera at 36 megapixels, but great looks. This is a full-frame FX camera. The megapixels are the numbers of a medium format camera: Mamiya starts at 22 megapixels for $11,000, Hasselblad and Phase One both starts at 31 megapixels and at $14,000 each.

We don't know if the trinity, that's the 12-24 f/2.8, the 24-70 f/2.8 and the 70-200 f/2.8, will be able to resolve the full 36 megapixels. Let's hope so and that will be great news.

Bad Lens Reviews

I was reading the February 2012 issue of a magazine for professional photographers. They had some lens write-ups. I'd like to quote some portions:

  • Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM: “since it's an L lens, you know that it offers top-of-the-line optics with eight elements…”
  • Canon 500mm f/4L IS II USM: “Though formally announced last February, … no estimated delivery date but this monster of a lens will certainly be an impressive upgrade…”

The Secrets of Huge and Sharp Prints

I just printed this photo 20" by 30" or 50 centimeters by 76 centimeters.

Pouch, the cat Wile E under his favorite tripod/platformpouch-20080810-0104.jpg syv ritch ©2008 foto-biz.com: http://http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

You can't see it as a print, you can only view from the web. But... It looks great on the wall. Viewed even close, there's no pixilation, no visible noise with a naked eye even at 5 inch from the print. All the hairs and whiskers are sharp.

The Secrets of Straight On Flash

One of the most popular photography website is the http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ from David Hobby. I'm not in the same league and I don't even pretend. But I use flashes regularly. I specialize in simple setups. The problem with most of the photos sites where they give you the lighting diagram, they tell you how they did it but not why they chose this or that solution.

Jasper is not a happy camper. Jasper clearly doesn't want to be here. If he could escape and go back home he would. Treats and weird/special noises didn't help to get his interest.

Jasper clearly doesn't want to be here. If he could escape to go back home he would. Treats and weird, special noises didn't help to get his interest.charlie-20120126-2457.jpg ” ©2012 Syv Ritch -- foto-biz.com: http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

Jasper is not a happy camper   click on image for gallery

First look at eyes, "evil" glowing eyes, good definition and not hard shadows. Here's the technical data:

Lens Acronyms

I was talking to Marg who, proudly, showed me that she just discovered that her lens was also a macro. It's one of these, wide angle to extra tele, all in one lens (no name mentioned). The “macro” is not a macro mode, I would call it a close-up mode and that's not even that close. Then I looked at her lens… so many acronyms

Canon

Packing List

Did you ever forgot to take… for a very important photo session or for a trip? I did, I realized that I forgot to take my flash cables (at the time, we only used cables, there were no Pocket Wizards) and forgot the extra batteries to make it worth.

That's why I created my photographic equipment list.

  1. All of my photo gear is in a chest
  2. All the boxes or unused equipment or monopods, tripods are in a separate closet
  3. Almost all of my “everyday” is already in the backpack

Do I use my list everyday? No, because many items are in small pouches.

Superwoman Photographer

This woman photographer is amazing! She must be from the planet Krypton.

Amazing Woman PhotographerThis woman photographer is amazing! She must be from the planet Krypton. She's an older person and carries a 1DMk4 with a 500mm f/4. She makes her photos *HAND-HELD*. That's 17Lbs/8Kg at the end of the extended arm. That day, the light was not the greatest, low contrast and very cloudy. Either she's super-woman or she uses ISO 12800 or more. Just holding such a big and heavy rig at the end of the arm is hard enough for me. That's why I use a tripod or at least my monopod, usually set at 2½ feet tall. I wear a knee pad and I kneel down, like Tim Tebow but I was doing it long before he started to play football, so I'm closer to the ground.The way she holds the lens from the tripod collar, she can't even tuck her arm underneath.snowy-owls-20111231-0867.jpg — ©2011 Syv Ritch -- foto-biz.com: http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

This lady photographer is amazing! She must be from the planet Krypton   click on image for gallery

And the Winner of the Biggest Telephoto is

You are not seeing much of the guy, but I'm talking about the guy in the middle and the small tube. He's sandwiched between a Sony with a Minolta 600 behind him and a Canon 500 in front. It's not a Canon, Nikon or a ...

The winner of the tele photo wars The guy in the middle, between the Canon 500 and the Minolta 600, with the small narrow white tube, has a 1200mm!It's a digiscope. A 1200mm on a micro-4/3rd format. This gives him a whopping 2400mm lens, and it's very light, under 4lbs. snowy-owls-20111225-0388.jpg — ©2011 Syv Ritch -- foto-biz.com: http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

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