Focus Ring 16 - New Toys, the Evil Video Commeth?, and More
This episode of the Focus Ring features Boris Nienke (nSonic), Rolf Steinort (Meet the Gimp), Chris Marquardt (Tips from the Top Floor), and Paul Giguere (Thoughts on Photography). In this episode, we discuss lots of new developments and announcements from Photokina 2008, some philisophical questions concerning the new video capabilities being introduced into DSLR cameras, and more. We also mention various products and web sites during the show which are listed below:
- Schnellkupplung MiniConnect
- Subjektiv Creative Lens System
- Carl Zeiss Lens for Canon EOS
- Lensbaby’s New Line of Lenses
- Leica DLux-4 and G1 Cameras
- Sigma DP2 Camera
- Photokina 2008 Report
- Here are 3 links to the compact micro-four-thirds camera design by Olympus: 1 - 2 - 3
October 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hi there, good discussion. I thought, however, that I would like to disagree with the consensus opinion on tossing images. I do not toss images and will offer two examples as to how having kept all of my images has been beneficial.
1.) You never know when technology will allow for something you had not previously considered. For years I have taken panoramic images of Minor League Baseball Parks and placed them on my website (GLSmyth.com). Stitching the images together has always taken a fair amount of time, and although I got quite good at it, I still stumbled on numerous occasions with the more difficult things like blending the differnt colors of the sky or grass. For the first few years I tossed the individual images after making the panoramic, but when I realized how cheap it was to move them onto CDs, I kept them. When Photoshop CS3 came available, their Photomerge facility not only made this process easy, but did a better job blending than I had been able to do. The images that I had kept were used to recreate the panoramics and I was able to offer higher quality images on my website.
2.) You never know when you want to go change your style. I have always kept all of my film negatives. About a year and a half ago I decided to teach myself the Bromoil process and have found it to work very nicely with my style of photography. Because I have always kept my negatives, I was able to go back through them and pick out images I had not previously printed. Some of these were never printed because they would have lacked interest as a straight print, but as Bromoils they work exceptionally well. (BTW, I am always able to find my negatives because I have always written the negative page number, row, and column on the back of the print.) So an image you may not find of interest now could become quite valuable in the future if your interest/style/anything else changes.
Returning from Scotland, I copied my RAW images to three DVDs and put them in the basement. Now I will be able to access them if I decide to process the HDR or panoramic groups differently, although the single files may no longer live on my hard drive. This seems to me to be a very cheap alternative to ensuring that I will never be able to access images that I have no use for at the present, because you just never know…
Cheers -
george
October 10th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I thought your discussions were very interesting and raised some valuable points. However, I disagree with some of your thoughts on Live View.
I don’t think Live View is just for amateurs or for taking a photo with the camera held out in front of you at arms length like a point and shoot. I have a Canon 40D and I often find the feature very useful in certain situations. Sure, I won’t use it when hand-holding the camera, but when I use a tripod for landscape or macro photography, for instance, I use Live View combined with its x5 or x10 zoom function to zoom right in and focus exactly on the part of a scene that I want to. This provides less room for a focusing error from the photographer and helps to make sure that your image is sharp in the areas you want it to be sharp. Of course I use this in combination with the viewfinder which is still better for overall combosition.
Live View is a useful addition to the viewfinder that I recommend trying out in certain situations.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hi guys,
I would add the Ricoh GR Digital II to the list of small cameras that can be a good substitute to a dslr
November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Ohhh Guys you’re killing me here! The idea of doing this is wrong in so many ways! Never, never trash your images! You never know how they will be used in the future.
Just because someone made a silly face and moved halfway out of the photo doesn’t mean that some day you might want to combine that image with another because when they moved, they revealed something in the background that would fill in one of the other images in the sequence. Maybe you will need it for a background, maybe you will blur the person so it looks like they are deliberately leaving the frame. Maybe an ad agency wants that photo specifically because they can place a product in the other side that goes with the person leaving the frame.
Do you see what I mean. Sure it costs disk space—get over it!
Now, that said, I can understand if you want to kill a really blown out or dark image but even with those, you never know.
I photographed a bunch of doctors today—what do you think the would think if I deleted all but the one shot that will be used for their media kit? “Gee, we paid how much and all you got was one shot?”
See my point?
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