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Andrew Reid

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  1. Just a pun. Maybe it was too Ebrasive.
  2. I think the rumors blogs are going to die off anyway. I'd much rather collaborate with YouTube channels, and much rather watch them, than wade through a sea of shitty deals and ad banners just to get to a made up headline they plucked out of their ass.
  3. Lots is left for the A7S III 10bit codec Dual Pixel AF 4K 60p New ergonomics, better screen, etc. I doubt the A7 and A7R will have any of that, aside from the better AF!
  4. You did a great job with the S-LOG 3 shot as well. Prefer the hair tone on Pro LOG S / WideDR though!
  5. Camera A for me. Camera C has better highlights though. While Camera E highlights are totally whacked... Is it the M8?!
  6. I would expect A7R III with Nikon D850 sensor first, probably going to be next year now. A7S III a few months after that. I hope it arrives in 2018, not any later than that.
  7. Anyone can see discrimination, you don't need to be the one being discriminated against to notice it. Nikon ignored a bunch of good female photographers pure and simple. The guys they picked were probably not even all that good.... Just more eager to be Nikon whores. Maybe the girls didn't want to be used for marketing as much... as the art matters more to them than status.
  8. Nice, which city? I reckon you can recover some highlights in the sky with the Highlight/Shadow LUT that comes with it by the way! Beautiful skintones on the Pro LOG / WideDR1 shot there. Really shows the cold zombie Sony standard up for what it is... clinical! I like that all of these are subtle enough to just look at and enjoy without being distracted by the styles themselves. The LUTs benefit from tweaking in Lumetri after applying to a shot rather than slapped on, and it seems you did a great job there?
  9. I agree! And I wish there were more women on this forum. Why aren't there?!
  10. The original content creator gets visibility but not as much as you think In my experience, 7 years running EOSHD, during that time it has been featured prominently on DPReview, Gizmodo, Engadget, 43Rumors, SonyAlphaRumors, etc. Yet over 90% of the traffic originates from Google and Facebook. Referrals from others are almost not worth bothering with. The main problem is the business model of the internet, it rewards lazy reposting of other people's hard work surrounded by your own ads on some shitty Wordpress template - And the really sad thing is the audience by and large - are still clicking it! It seems people can't help themselves! Clickbait works!
  11. On most forums and mainstream sites, you aren't even allowed to discuss issues of sex, race and politics so you're lucky I'm chilled out about it. If things get divisive and out of hand, only then will I stop it.
  12. They have a relentless posting rate now on the front page news feed... 20 articles PER DAY and sometimes more?! That's crowding out the last few good remaining writers and reviewers there like Richard Butler... crowding them out of their own damn site. They have hired click-bait writers from FStoppers like DL Cade. Indeed the In The News column that runs all the way down the right of the site is populated by articles from other sites like FStoppers and Petapixel. Is there anybody I respect left in the photographic blog community? I don't know! They have almost all gone down the drain. It's so sad. I want competition, I want to like and respect the work of others. The internet is going to implode under the weight of it's own shittyness at this rate, with this much quantity of clicks over quality, it isn't sustainable.
  13. What about the focus fall off as well as perspective. F2.8 on medium format doesn't quite look like F1.4 on full frame. The transitions are more gentle. On perspective... Say you shoot the moon behind 3 trees. You want to get all 3 trees in the shot, make the moon loom as big as possible behind them. You need a telephoto to get the big moon... and to step back far enough from the trees that they are all in the shot and the perspective bunches them up against the backdrop. Shooting close to the trees with a wide lens will push the background perspective back so that the moon looks like a pinprick of light and the effect is lost. The advantage of a large sensor here is that you can get closer to the subject with a long lens, is it not? Because if you had a smaller sensor on there, you'd need to be so far away to get the framing the same as the larger sensor, and sometimes that isn't possible. In terms of going wider on the crop sensor and further way, yes it does seem to compensate for perspective changes of the focal length... distance does matter... Maybe I should do some more shooting with my Hasselblad to show what I mean in a clearer way... I had to leave it in the UK when I went back to Berlin recently so haven't had much time with it.
  14. The point is that when you crop into a medium format image you get the compression of the 80mm, whereas when you crop into a 2x crop sensor from a 25mm lens, you never get the depth compression of an 80mm or telephoto... it's 25mm. A 25mm is a 25mm. An 80 is an 80! Cropping a full frame image out of medium format = 80mm on full frame Cropping a 2x crop image out of medium format = 80mm on micro four thirds Now, you can't say an 80mm portrait lens on micro four thirds looks like a 25mm portrait on micro four thirds.
  15. I don't have much of a counter argument to compete against it seems Nikkor.
  16. Look at all those heavy lenses, poor ladies. Someone get them a Nikon J1 All these men buying D850s with 42MPs better watch out they don't grow bigger breasts On a related topic... Isn't it time Canon and Nikon put their 80 year old male management in a retirement home? Or would that be agist?
  17. Looking forward to seeing the footage. If anyone else would like to post theirs as well, would be great. I'll select the best, and put it on the blog. Comparisons / tests always useful as well.
  18. I use Polarr and it opens raw stills, has 12 crops, none of them 2:35:1 The closest it gets is 16:10! Great app though. If anyone finds something to do the anamorphic crop style I'll give it a go.
  19. No harm done, the thread was quite an interesting one in the end, enjoyed the footage!
  20. The studios, filmmakers, Netflix, etc. need to work with Samsung and LG to get their defaults right. Same way Sony might use a filmmaker to fine tune their camera profiles! None of these scientists have a clue about art.
  21. Say you frame the shot for the armchair below, and you want to get the background to fall away and not be in the frame (white door to the right). A 35mm is a 35mm. And it isn't going to give you the right result for this job... When you need to get close it has the perspective distortion of a wide angle lens. A 90mm is a 90mm. No matter how close you get it won't give the same look as a 35mm. The perspective is different. 35mm: That's why portraiture is done on medium format, for a more natural rendering of the face. As for cropping the sensor into either of these lenses... Crop the two frames above in Photoshop and tell me if her nose looks any different
  22. It's not about being politically correct or about gender politics. There was just absolutely no reason for Nikon to end up with this shitstorm in the media, from being stupid at marketing. Anybody can find female photographers. They're everywhere. Nikon should get to know some!
  23. Just a Nikon NPS rep advertising the brand... (Censored the account name as he would lose his job... hope he deletes it) More stupidity... http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41266234 Yes it made the BBC! The sexism row also made the blog and RSS feed of one of the most influential tech & Apple bloggers in the world https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/15/nikon-women Well done Nikon! Translation of the Instagram death plunge post: Nikon rep says: Friends, The Falling Man is the title of a photograph (Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential photographs in history) taken by Richard Drew, Nikon photographer for the AP, during the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the twin towers of the World Trade Center, at 9:41:15 in the morning. In the image you can see a man fall from the North Tower of the World Trade Center, who surely chose to jump into the void to avoid dying scorched by the flames. Richard Drew says: "When I went up the steps of the subway station, I looked up and saw that the two towers were on fire, I immediately started photographing people, I had a perfect view of both buildings and I thought it was where I could cover my task.I had a Nikon DCS-620 (Nikon F5 body) and was using a zoom of 70-200mm. And I fulfilled my mission.I was like, 'Whoa' It's my moment! "The policeman pointed up and said: Oh my God, look! "And that's when we realized that people were jumping out of the building.We do not know if they were triggered by flames or smoke.I was photographing several people falling from the building and I have a sequence of The camera captured the picture in a sequence, as it had a motor in it. Can you imagine how fast people are falling? They are falling very fast, and while you are photographing this you have to go with them as well I chose this guy in my visor, put his finger on the button and kept taking pictures while he fell..." Good week start Nikonista. #nikonphotography #nikonperu #nikon#nikonworld #nikonusa #nikkor #nikontop#nikonphoto #photooftheday #photo#photography #camera #blessed #lima#happy #nikonteam #reflex #nikonclub#like4like #iamnikon #foto #fotografia#dslr #blessed #nikonlover #follow4follow#madeinjapan #tb
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