I want this

As so many of the other threads have disappeared into the mists of time and this is a good record of our various product lustings, I thought newsy stuff could go here.

So...two new Nikon bodies - D3000 and D300S.

The former is a 10.1MP entry-level model, basically the D60 with a bigger (but no higher-res) LCD and improved AF. The latter is the D300 with added 720p video recording and a faster continuous frame-rate (better than the prosumer Canons, dammit).

Which means: now is the time to go out and buy a D60.

pretty yawnsome micro-updates from nikon there, along with the 70-200 and 18-200 lens updates. although i'm kind of relieved they're not working too hard to take my cash away at the moment.

rumoured new 24mm 1.4 and 35mm 1.4 would be much more interesting to me. and i definitely want an ep-1 sized camera at some point, although i'm not sure they've got it quite right. looking forward to seeing dyao's first shots.

Yeah, as much as anything it seems to be an effort from Nikon to tidy up their product numbering. Dxxxx = consumer, Dxxx = prosumer, Dx = pro. Oh, hang on, what about the D90?

Meanwhile, £16,000 gets you a Leica S2 medium-format DSLR. I wonder why they've gone with focal-plane AND lens-based shutter options? To allow the use of third-party MF lenses?

Yes, I was wondering about that. It must be an all-bases-covered type of thing.

Hah joe I dunno if my shots would be all that interesting!

NYC camera store hours are pretty awesome - not to be sacreligious/demeaning, but jeez, aren't any big ones not opened by orthodox Jews? I'm looking to arrive in the afternoon and both B&H and Adorama will be closed by 2, and closed on Saturday too.

ok guys i am in no way good at photography nor do i really know anything about it, but having used an M8 for the last month (borrowed from my dad, who can afford these things) i can say that i never want to use anything else ever again

(braggin 2009)

Pictures please!

gonna try and upload some, but i think my ugandan connection blows. i'll be back in the states in a couple days, so they'll be up then

i was actually gonna ask you guys about things like color correction, etc, etc, because i know nothing. or you could just do it for me :D

We could all have a bash. I for one would be delighted to have some Leica M8 images in my Lightroom...

great. will upload soon. --ish

so i have hte originals in iphoto, and there are a couple up on my africa thread

many of my favorites need to be cropped/color-corrected---should i just used iphoto for this, or should i try and get learn how to use something like aperture/lightroom (which i can get student prices on)

(full disclosure: i'm not even sure what color-correction MEANS, just that Michael Jones' pics always look so lush while a lot of mine are a little blown-out looking. due, likely, to wide-open apertures (i like narrow depth of field for portraits) and equatorial sun

They look pretty good to me. What lens is on there, btw? Lens info isn't showing up in the EXIF data. (Just curious).

If I get 5min this afternoon I'll do what I reflexively do to most things I import into Lightroom (this is only the 640x427 images from the ILE thread, mind) and stick 'em up here. See what you think.

I'm no expert, I just generally fill in the blacks on the histogram, brighten a little, add clarity* and vibrance*, knock out colour noise in the shadows, maybe a gentle film-like S-shape on the tone curve if appropriate. But I do often shoot quite saturated JPEGs to begin with, so this is all kinda moot. (* LR terms that don't necessarily translate to other retouching software).

Lens: Leitz 28mm (wanted to bring a 50mm, but the mere fact that my dad was letting me borrow his bazillion dollar camera in a thirdworld country seemed like enough to me).

should i post up bigger/original size versions? i just sent them from iPhoto to Flickr in the interests of getting them on the web for other's perusal. i'm hoping to make prints of the ones i like, and to include them in a piece i'm writing, so that'll probably require the real-deal 4000xwhatever versions

and thank you!

Here you go - S-curve, bit of (attempted) recovery on some blown-out highlights (clothing, mostly), vibrance/clarity/(very slight) saturation boost, bit of bottom end on the histogram, brightened things (identical treatments to both):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/3819993663_5c3ee10f44_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3819993617_505dd4efa2_o.jpg

(Are you a Flickr contact of mine?)

oh yeah, they're definitely warmer looking, i like

and no, i don't think so---i've just seen the pics you've posted here on ilx

Would love to have a bash at the originals - Leica does .dng rather its own proprietary raw format, is that right? Or did you shoot .jpg? YSI, perhaps?

This is me (and my wife) on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pernfors88/

You could probably get similar results to the above with iPhoto though. I've never used it but I didn't do anything particularly fancy.

I made sure to shoot with the high-rez JPG, not DNG

i'm going to upload the full-rez versions when i get home from the cafe, can also zip and YSI, if you like, too

I'll just grab the originals from Flickr, no worries. May not have a chance to do anything this weekend but it'll make a nice change from photos of the kids and grimy old London.

that would be dope, imo

like, see, this one definitely needs cropping. get out of the frame, nathan!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/3820979518_ca016e6360_o.jpg

Ah, cropping. OK - that's a bit more subjective. Happy to have a bash anyhow. What's yr Flickr details?

ok so apparently iphoto won't send the fullsize versions to flickr, what the heck

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/09100603leicax1preview.asp

http://a.img-dpreview.com/previews/LeicaX1/images/frontpage.jpg

high ISO performance looks great, makes the EP-1 and EP-2 look cheap though.

yeah the high ISO shots had that 'film-grain' look to them, at least at web-viewing resolutions.

I'm extremely puzzled by the Ricoh system that was just announced - who would ever pick it over M4/3 or an entry level Canikon DSLR, especially when in its large sensor configuration it's actually bigger than a E-P1 or GF1?

according to Michael R.'s take at LL, the X1 has a nearly silent shutter - but about a quarter of a second shutter lag. why can't you get it right Leica????

so i think i'm getting a cam for xmas

but which one????

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/09/9-19-10-finepixx1002-1284941430.jpg

*swoon*

Was completely psyched til I found out it's not a real rangefinder (ie Leica killer at $1000-1500).

Still kind of psyched if the autofocus is fast. A camera like that needs to have excellent reaction times. The fiddliness and slowness of the E-PL1/etc. turned me off of them.

yeah that thing looks RAD

does it shoot RAW?

It does.

lately I've found that I've become pretty good at guesstimating focus. so if it just has a real focus scale on the lens I'd be happy.

or, even if there was some way to set hyperfocal distance through the menus. and then just frame using the (optical) viewfinder. swoon

What camera is that pic of?

fuji x100

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1009/10091910fujifilmx100.asp

http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/1009/fujifilm/X100_top.jpg

external EV dial = swoon

That is p. nice. Would like changeable lenses, tho

It's exactly the FL I'd choose to shoot with 90% of the time, so I'm okay with fixed. The old Konica Hexar fixed lens film cameras were A+, as were really old-school Canonets and such.

Hmmm... I should find a nicely refurbed Canonet (I've got one on my desk but it doesn't work) and load it with Tri-X.

the new TOP post about the Pentax K-5 has put some gear lust in me. apparently the best performing APS-C sensor with the widest dynamic range, put into a body with a relatively quiet shutter sound. best of all, great selection of pancake primes:

http://photo.net/equipment/pentax/pentax-limited-lenses

Probably a bit over my budget but I wouldn't mind shiny new pentax dslr action of some description.

new nikon mirrorless out today. 2.7x crop factor?! I know Nikon has the best noise-reduction algorithms in the industry, but...

only one prime out at launch - 10mm 2.8 (27mm equiv.). not bad, not bad...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Sensor_sizes_overlaid_inside.svg/550px-Sensor_sizes_overlaid_inside.svg.png

so the nikon sensor somewhere in between the 4/3 sensor and the 1/1.6" sensor. it'll be nice, and a change, for m43 users to lord over nikon mirrorless users for having smaller sensors.

I don't get the Nikon mirrorless strategy at all. Pentax tried to go smaller than 4/3 and got laughed at - people have come to expect at least the quality of 4/3 files, if not better (ie new NEX model that has the same sensor as the D7000)

2.7 is like some comedy joke. I half expected them to say "and in stunning 1mp vga quality".

I mean look at this http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/nikon-1-system-vs-nex-c3-sensor.jpg

yeah that's p dumb

priced similarly to its competitors, no discernable advantages besides the nikon name. ok, there's a nikon f adapter, but then you've got a 2.7 crop factor, m43 is already pushing it as far as those things go. idgi.

I don't even want to know how much film has gone up since the last time I bought any (2011ish)