Now that the latest Shuttle mission is over, I can get back to work. I follow the missions pretty closely on NASA TV via their website. If you’re wondering about what kind of camera equipment they have on board the ISS, the picture below will give you a good idea. It’s been resized for quick viewing, if you want …
Rain, clouds and mucho hiking the past couple of weeks, and in-between I’ve managed to test my lens collection for auto-focus performance on the Sony A 700. Although I haven’t tested the A 200 or A 300 series bodies, I can tell you the A 700 is substantially better in both speed and accuracy as compared to the A …
Wow! I’m sure glad that hectic PMA week is over, with all the camera reviews I had to do. OK, so maybe I wasn’t all that busy. I did manage to post the new hike I had listed for a month now but kept the page locked. There’re 35 pictures on one page so 56k people please be patient. …
Sony introduces a couple of new DSLRs with live view, plus the A200 from earlier in the month. They also “announced” the 24-70mm F/2.8 and the 70-300 F/4.5-5.6 G SSM lens, which were announced several months ago, the latter appearing in the lens brochure put out by Sony for a while now. I don’t know why everybody’s all excited …
Fuji has introduced a very expensive fixed-lens camera. The 11.1mp, 28-400mm zoom will retail for a whopping $799. For that price you can get a DSLR in a two lens kit. This camera is using the 2/3″ super CCD HR for a “new dimension of beauty” or so they say. Go here to see a “new dimension of beauty.”…
Just when you thought is was safe to buy an SP-560, Olympus comes out with yet another super-zoom. This time it’s a 20x 26mm-520mm F/2.8-4.5 with a (what’s claimed) manual focus and zoom ring. It has an AF/MF switch on the side of the lens, so I’m thinking you turn off AF to manually focus with the ring, or …
I’ve posted the camera name that belongs to each picture below, but I threw you a curve. On the soft 75-300mm lens-bottom row, I used the Konica Minolta 5D 6.1mp camera to compare to the A700. It doesn’t seem to make any resolution difference with the addition of twice the megapixels, but that’s no surprise. On the top row, …
Today I’ve posted a couple dozen photos from my Thursday visit to the 2008 Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale, AZ. Included are many ISO 800 and 3200 samples, though small in size for quick viewing. All images taken with the Sony A 700. Check out the colorful shots here.…