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Men At Work, Chisinau, Moldova, February 2012 ( X100 )

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FUJIFILM FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2, 1/500 sec, ISO400)
FUJIFILM FinePix X100 (23mm, f/2, 1/500 sec, ISO500)

Sometimes you need to be fast because the opportunity to catch a special moment just lasts a second. Above images are a good example. I was on a business trip in Eastern Romania and Moldova. It was the first time I visited Moldova and I had no clear picture of the country before I went there. The only thing I knew was that it is the poorest country in Europe. Continue reading →

The 150MP full frame camera, The Sony RX100 review part IIa

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SONY DSC-RX100 (10.4mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO125)

4. Image quality: ( click on each image to see it’s 1500 pixel version )

Today there is no 150MP full frame camera. Even the 36MP sensor of the Nikon D800 is considered too much for most of the lenses. You need the best lenses and technique to make the camera shine. The RX100 sensor scaled up would result in a 150 MegaPixel full frame camera so it needs a very good lens and good technique to get most out of it. Continue reading →

Size Matters, The Sony RX100 Review part I

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SONY NEX-5 (45mm, f/5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO200)

Camera reviews today:

At the beginning camera reviews on the internet were a great source of information. The biggest advantage of these reviews was that they were totally unbiased. Just take a look at magazines. A substantial part of their profit comes from advertising. Someone needs to be a real naive person if he expects a critical review of a product of a company that places big ads in the magazine. You just don’t bite the hand that feeds you. On the internet it was different. But it seems that’s not the case any more. Today most reviews are at least very positive and some just read like they were written by the marketing department of the camera maker. But why is that? Why are simple users or reviewers not unbiased anymore? I think there are two reasons: Continue reading →