2012-05-18
post/23275466916
Cameras from This Is Japan 1957, available at Press: Works On Paper.
2012-01-24
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2011-12-22
On Parliamentary Camera Antics
“As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away. Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).”Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story - I’m not sure I fully understand the american system of politics, but this is basically a member of the opposition party turning BBC Parliament off?
No. The Speaker of the House is the leader of the biggest party in the lower house of Congress, so perhaps the best equivalent would be the Tory Chief Whip leading the entire parliamentary party out and getting the cameras switched off. (It’s that or the Prime Minister, but the US doesn’t have anything like the conflation of powers that the British do, so I decided to avoid that. It’s also a reminder of how different the systems are.)
UK Parliamentary coverage would presumably come under the Speaker’s remit, and he’s non-political, so it’s pretty unlikely in the UK (although I dare say he can and could get cameras switched off).
2011-06-23
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The just-announced Pentax Q system is an interesting addition to the crop of compact system cameras (or whatever you want to call them), but this image from DPReview makes it clear that the sensor is relatively tiny. Looking at the figures, it’s smaller than the S90/S95 sensor.
Mind you, given two of the five announced lenses have “toy” in their names, perhaps that won’t be a big deal.
2011-02-01
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Then, oh god, then you ask our opinion. ”
2010-04-04
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It took a while, but the cameraphone has slowly, quietly, and almost completely replaced the point and shoot for many people. Cameraphones are simpler, more convenient (smaller) and, for 99% of situations, they are good enough.
When you need a really great photograph you use an SLR. The rest of the time, you use a phone. The point and shoot is dying, relegated to a niche middle ground.
Rui Carmo quibbles:
I disagree that the point-and-shoot is being superseded by phones – most CCDs on cameraphones are on the far side of crappy, and a cheap low-end point-and-shoot blows them right out of the water any day.
I don’t think anyone’s arguing that cameras in phones take better pictures. On the other hand, the cliché that even has a site named after it is true: the best camera is the one you have with you (or in my case, in your trouser pocket rather than your laptop bag). And if it’s good enough, enough of the time, when do you realise you’ve stopped using your P&S and leave it at home?
Anyway, how about we look at some data? Here are Flickr’s Most Popular Cameras charts.
Note that four of the five most popular cameras are SLRs, with a camera phone the other entrant (and more popular than any of them). Look also at the second chart: all of the most popular point and shoots are in decline.
Obviously, Flickr users probably have a different profile to, say, Facebook users, but I still think Amit’s on to something, and I think the charts indicate there’s truth to it.
2009-06-24
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The iPhone is now second in Flickr’s Camera Finder list, nestling amongst the SLRs. Partly this is because there’s some cheating going on: the EXIF reported for all three models of iPhone is the same. Even so, it’s impressive, and if I were a gambling man, I’d probably put down a small amount of money on it being top by the end of the year.
It’s also interesting to note that Nikon’s highest-ranked camera is the D80, which is a bit up from the entry level, and that Canon’s XTi (400D) is still rated above the XSi (450D). Mind you, the earlier camera has been on sale for much longer, and as one of the first DSLRs under £500, I’m not surprised it has a huge base of users.
