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Continue reading â: Samsung NX Lenses
Scott has really figure this out, the important figure of merit for a lens+body combo are the number of lines it can resolved for every physical millimeter of the sensor at an MTF-50 (where you have 50% contrast). The Sony RX100 actualy does the best at 270 li/mm mainly because…
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Continue reading â: Golf Bags
Well, if you are off on a long trip, how do you make sure your clubs make it in one piece. Here are some tips: Golflink. First is that you pay a premium if the bag is big and heavy. They cost about $100 and you want to find one…
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Continue reading â: Imatest interpreting and lense testing
The various specs are so confusing. Imatest which pcmag.com and imaging-resources.com uses and dxomark which dxo and dpreview now uses are different metrics for the same thing. How good is a particular body and lense combination. Truth is that a great body (NEX-7) can turn in a low resolution camera…
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Continue reading â: Imatest interpreting
The various specs are so confusing. Imatest which pcmag.com and imaging-resources.com uses and dxomark which dxo and dpreview now uses are different metrics for the same thing. How good is a particular body and lense combination. Truth is that a great body (NEX-7) can turn in a low resolution camera…
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Continue reading â: Projectors vs Flat Screens…the Epson 5020
Well shopping for a monitor for work and the big question is shouldn’t we just get a flat screen instead. If the environment is light controlled, it seems like the latest generation of projectors is probably the way to go. And if you can stand waiting, this new generation 4K…
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Continue reading â: 4K 31.5 inch monitor
Let the drooling being, this is a massive monitor. 4 times the size of a 1080 display! ASUS launching a 4k 31.5-inch monitor – but don’t expect to hook it up to your Mac just yet … | 9to5Mac ASUS today revealed that it will launch a 31.5-inch 4k monitor…
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Continue reading â: Sony DSC-RX100 underwater case
Well real cases go for thousands, but if you want something that gets you down to snorkel depth, try it and the main thing it needs is a filter kit to take care of the loss of red at that depth and of course, how do you make the touchscreen…
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Continue reading â: Blender tutorial and usage
Well, since spending $1000 for some editing software just because iMovie doesn’t grok AVCHD seems a little dumb. Instead, I’ll waste way more than that in time moving to an open source video editing tool. Actually, this all makes sense with Adobe jacking the prices up so significantly and the…
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Continue reading â: Samsung NX2000 vs NX300
Well as Scott says, it is all about the lenses, but it is interesting to see the moves Samsung is making with their cameras. They are first more open in that they are open source now, but are they good cameras. the first previews are coming from Ubergizmo.com and Cnet.com…
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Continue reading â: MTF and Canon lenses
I had not realized that Canon does their own spec publishing. Good discussions. I know know what Sagittal and Meridional lines are the difference between contrast and resolution. But the quick summary is that: Canon publishes lense specifications and MTF for its lenses on its website It measures both the…