The camera is Kate’s new Samsung NV15. She wanted something pocketable with good manual controls. Out of all the shiny digicams at the big box store, the Samsungs seem to be the only ones with an interface that makes sense. Instead of the normal profusion of dials, four-way pads, and select buttons, the NV15 uses [...]
Nature’s histogram? A couple of weeks a ago I bought a copy of ColorNeg. Colin has written extensively about using ColorNeg with VueScan’s raw scans, so I thought I’d give it a shot. The trial version of the plugin is pretty much worthless as it obscures the results with a heavy grid of noise, but [...]
For the source of this quote, see this auspiciousdragon post about the new Zeiss Sonnar in S mount. This rumor about a new Nikon S mount digital RF is probably just that, a rumor, but it’s just outrageous enough to be believable. Have Nikon and Zeiss built a relationship around the ZF lenses (or is [...]
Picture number 03580035? Marek asks “have you already made more than three and a half million pictures in your life Matt?” Er, well no, not exactly. Here’s how the serial numbers work. The first four digits are the roll number. The last four digits are the frame number. Any letters indicate that there are multiple [...]
If the sign says it, it must be true. This is a “lost” frame discovered while I was doing some backups; I could have sworn that I posted it before, but I couldn’t find the post. Not through any design, other than sheer laziness, I tend to do my backups in cycles. When I start [...]