Digital photography

Looks dystopian / futuristic / nice / 28 days later. I like them.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/lamar-odom-lashes-paparazzi-article-1.1395769

Well articulated post on one of my daily reads, kottke.org, about future of digital photography processes: http://kottke.org/13/07/the-era-of-constant-photography

I've recently bought and been using a Nikon D600. 'Upgraded' from a D200, and the difference is huge. The D600 is amazing in low light, and the image quality is stunning. The D200 is a great cam, but limited especially in low light. The effective ISO and dynamic range of the D600 is much higher, and it exploits far more of lenses' potential. I've been longing for a decent FF sensor cam for ages, but the D3/4s and D800s are well out of my reach. The D600 allows me to use all my old Nikon lenses as they were intended (not being limited by the DX crop), and is getting me back involved in photography a lot more than the D200 did (bought that back in November as a 'starter' digital cam). I fear I may now have to sell bikes to fund my rediscovered passion for photography!

Had a go with a Mark III last weekend at ISO 12500,
now everything else looks like poop in low light.
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a question about ISO.
How do you say it?
I read an article the other day and the dude that wrote it put "ISO (pronounced Eye Es Oh)"
I always said 'EyeSo', well thought/ read it as, I rarely talk photography.
Wondered if I am the only one.

On the Ricoh GR topic, bought mine a few days ago, wanted a digital GR since they first came out.
As this one looked fast enough I went for it. Didn't have time to use it properly yet, and have to get used to 28 (was using a mjuII before, but analog never made it out of the drawer.)

But it is amazing.
And I had it side to side to a GR1s and the owner of the analogue predecessor thought mine was faster!

From their website (ISO):

Our name

Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.

Which would suggest "EyeSo" is correct - rather than the separate pronunciation of I S O

Everyone I've ever spoken too and every video I've ever watched it's always been eye-ess-oh. I didn't consider that anyone would say it differently.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/lamar-odom-lashes-paparazzi-article-1.1395769

paparazzi ≠ photographers

They're just people who use cameras to make money.

Mkay.

I think/say "Eye-so", as I would when thinking/talking about CD-ROM ISO images.

Can anyone recommend a padded insert to allow a rucksack to safely carry my DSLR? I remember it being discussed but can only find one link in the thread after searching for "insert". Looking for something budget to fit my new BigTop backpack which arrived today, so about 11-12" long x 6" deep by whatever high.

Domke make excellent inserts (and bags)

a question about ISO.
How do you say it?
I read an article the other day and the dude that wrote it put "ISO (pronounced Eye Es Oh)"
I always said 'EyeSo', well thought/ read it as, I rarely talk photography.
Wondered if I am the only one.

When on the receiving end of an education I heard it as three separate letters. Some years later, I continued to say it this way, resulting in my own students doing the same - hundreds of them by the end - but this doesn't necessarily make it right.

When individual standards are referred to, ISO9000 (Quality Management) for example, I've only ever heard it said out loud as three letters (Eye Es Oh nine thousand). I could believe ISO as the preferred short form refers to written versions in preference to I.S.O. but then I'm from Oop North so what would I know about language conventions?

Part of the 'problem' may be a lack of consistency - I've only ever heard ASA as three letters, but heard DIN as both initials and an acronym. I can't imagine anyone into photography will fail to understand 'Eye Es Oh' or 'EyeSo' followed by a number - or be right if they tell you you're wrong whichever you use.

Someone post some pictures please or I'm going to start digging out my crap...

Isowydt

Just taken this - straight out of the camera...

^ lol. Friday smiles for the win.

Oberhausen, Germany, last weekend.

Well articulated post on one of my daily reads, kottke.org, about future of digital photography processes: http://kottke.org/13/07/the-era-of-constant-photography

Whilst there is truth in this, they are forgetting that the old pros used to take hundreds of photos for that 'one' shot (e.g. Bresson). So that aspect hasn't changed, just it's been become more accessible to the public. So it's just the next level from when digital came in ten years ago.

^^ Ooo, texture.
That's a great perspective, what is the big building for, some kind of grain storage or?

Whilst there is truth in this, they are forgetting that the old pros used to take hundreds of photos for that 'one' shot (e.g. Bresson). So that aspect hasn't changed, just it's been become more accessible to the public. So it's just the next level from when digital came in ten years ago.

I completely agree. It's no new trend. It's just progressed technologically. Motors have been around for decades; combined with what was then cheap film to develop and process, they were doing exactly the same as we do.
Sure, some forms of Photography are becoming more curatorial than practical (Google images exhibition), but suggesting that in the future we will dismiss creative control in place of ease of use sounds like the theories people put forward a while ago that film is truly dead. It's not. It's a different approach to a familiar concept. Photography, but with patience.
Sometimes people want complete control as opposed to ease of use.
I'd say it's an natural evolution rather than "The future".

Just because we can fly to the top of a mountain, doesn't mean people will stop doing it by foot.

^^ Ooo, texture.
That's a great perspective, what is the big building for, some kind of grain storage or?

I'm really not sure. I've been trying to find some information on it since I returned but no luck. I took the photo from the car on the way past. Not only did the main building have no windows on any sides but the other buildings had all their windows bricked up. It was very strange.

Yeah, most references to industrial buildings in Oberhausen seem to be about the former gasworks.

New 'review' of the Ricoh GR from Wouter Brandsma

http://wouter28mm.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/my-ricoh-gr-impressions/

the curse of spotty spots on my D600 has finally become a reality... only a handful of spots but I think it's about time to call the professional...