Month: August 2017

Sony, Canon and Nikon seem to be leading the megapixel race at the moment.  The D800 series while not always as high resolution as the Canon 5D, leads in dynamic range when considering the high resolution options.  The Sony mirrorless gives you a slightly small body option.

Its hard to think about Medium Format when you have bodies as capable as those.

My digital work is now all Nikon D800 and Leica M10, 35mm full frame 36 MP and 24 MP.  I generally shoot the Medium Format and Large Format just for fun.  When looking at cost and resolution 35mm seems to be winning the war, unless you need a 100 or 200 MP Medium Format monster.

 

This last week travelling around Suffolk, I took photographs with my Leica M10, M4 and Hasselblad V.

It made me think about equipment size.

The whole reason 35mm camera became so popular starting with the Leica, then the Nikon F SLR and on to the Canon F1, T90 and EOS 1, was there small light size.

With digital we got a huge jump in size; the current Nikon D5 and Canon EOS 1D are very heavy and much more difficult to handle then my old Hasselblad V.  Even my large format camera the Ebony is lighter and easier to carry then my Nikon D800’s.

Its easy to see why MicroFourThirds is so popular, small and light has a lot going for it.

We visited Southwold several times during our stay in the area and I decided to shoot a couple of comparison shots from the pier.

This first one is a quick snap while just on the pier. The second one below is a three bracket Adobe Lightroom HDR Merge from the end of the pier so a slightly different view point. The HDR is Lightroom is very gentle and avoids the in the face painted and grunge look that many HDR programs can cause if not used carefully.

We have arrived at our holiday cottage where we will be spending the next week.  Caroline’s sister came down to our bungalow yesterday and will be looking after the place and feeding our chickens and looking after Oz the Cornsnake while we are away. 

It’s a pleasant little village with a shop, cafe, Chinese takeaway and a chip shop.  So we have all we need.  There is also a little sewing shop so Caroline is more then happy. 

Have you ever sat down and looked at the photographs you take and thought ‘what camera equipment do I actually need?’.

Looking thought my old photographs, then you get the categories Studio, Wildlife, Landscape and Street.

If I listed the cameras and the cameras needed to achieve these goals it would be a pretty small list.

But if you listed the cameras I wanted to achieve these goals it would be a far greater list.

Sometimes standing back and really looking at the sort of photography you do can really but a dent in you wants list.

Our first week of the holiday is now nearly over. Tomorrow we start the second part, and we head off to Suffolk. 

As Timmy the Greyhound is coming with us I’ll need to pack light. I want to shoot some of the ruined abbeys that are in the area so I have decided to pack the Hasselblad and my two Leica’s. 

If the light is good I’ll be using the Hasselblad and the Leica M10, but if things turn dull and overcast I’ll be shooting Kodak Tri-X with he Leica M4.