Forum: Photography


Subject: NYTimes article about (gasp) digital cameras

MGD opened this issue on Jun 22, 2007 · 5 posts


MGD posted Fri, 22 June 2007 at 9:02 AM

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TwoPynts posted Fri, 22 June 2007 at 11:50 AM

My opinion about his opinions is that he exhibits a definite bias towards DSLRs and uses very broad and sometime not quite accurate generaliztions to back them up. Still, he liked the E510 so he can't be all bad... ;'P

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Radlafx posted Fri, 22 June 2007 at 5:26 PM

He made some mistakes like mentioning that the 400D uses a 1.5 crop sensor. And some other oopsees.

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TwoPynts posted Mon, 25 June 2007 at 12:27 PM

Yeah, he seemed like he had general knowledge rather than a good working knowledge of his subject...

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inshaala posted Mon, 25 June 2007 at 7:49 PM

"The A100 gets an A, 100 percent; its photos are glorious and vivid."

So he obviously didnt really tweak the saturation, contrast, sharpness etc settings of the onboard chip but went with the factory presets? Or am i missing a trick and should ditch my Canon for a Sony?

I think he is writing for a non-photographer (at least how we understand the term "photographer") audience, and comes across well in explaining things in laymans terms.  However, as always with doing that there is a tendency towards some bias in explaining things.  For instance he was all about the dust shaking thing but forgot to mention that there are other ways to clean dust / remove it in postwork. Plus i have heard that they dont work all that well anyway...

My opinion - read it if you are looking for info on entry level dslr's, then go read about the same cameras someplace else... repeat until you have enough info to make up your own mind.

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