Thoughts for this week
Well, I recently taught a workshop on HDR at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One of the things that i was asked about was what camera was best suited for this work?
So, here are a few thoughts on that aspect:
- My DSLR preference has always been a Nikon. My P&S preference has always been a Canon. Here is why – A long time ago when i first chose an SLR in the film days, it was a Yashica, then a Canon. Most likely because of its availability and my budget. When the Digital SLRs rolled out – I chose the Nikon because it felt nice holding it. Its ergonomics were great and the camera felt “right” when i held it up to my eyes. The ergonomics was important to me, because I knew that I will be hand holding the camera a lot and needed to shoot a lot of pictures! If I were to select a camera now, I would still not change the brand for this one reason. For P&S cameras, Nikon has never made a small camera that fit the needs of an advanced photographer. Until recently, all their P&S models had pretty much catered to a casual consumer photog. Canon has offered an advanced P&S for several years now (Since G1) – and i have owned most of their G series models for this very reason.
- Shopping for a camera these days is no different to shopping for anything else – say a car for example. Most new cars are pretty much “state of the art”, they have all the things one would need for comfortable driving. The same applies to cameras. Pretty much, most modern cameras (both P&S and DSLRS) can meet the needs of most advanced photographers. Even the entry DSLR cameras these days have more than sufficient functionality to meet the needs of most challenging situations. If someone is not limited by a set of legacy lenses, I would just suggest to go ahead and choose a camera that feels right to your hands and pocket.
- The folks at Hefger Media has come out with a new set of third- party “Original” inks for the HP series printers. I am test driving these inks (Thanks to a courtesy sampler from Simon) and will report back shortly on how it goes.
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