Shooting with various cameras certainly gives a photographer different perspectives on gear. After having shot with a number of compacts, dslrs, and m4/3 digital cameras. I’ve come to appreciate one thing the most for my own photographic journey and that is — portability.
The title fits my mood exactly. As a matter of fact, it also matches my mood towards my photography in the new upcoming year. I have so many projects in my mind and in the end I think we just have to start.
The Road Ahead, GF1 + Olympus 50mm f/1.8 (click to enlarge)
Generally speaking, Moriyama’s style and mine are quite different. What I like most about his work is the flow. You can feel his steps, and see what he sees. You can smell what he smells and hear what he hears. I like that.
Josh couldn’t be more right about Moriyama’s style and I concur 100%. When you see Daido in rhythm and motion(Stray Dog of Tokyo) what Josh says will resonate and then you’ll feel what I like calling the “Daido effect”.
Panasonic Lumix GF1 + Olympus 17mm f/2.8
The options on this beautiful iteration of the Fuji X100, aptly named the X10, are truly lovely.
The X10 uses a much smaller 2/3-inch sensor rather than APS-C. Instead of a fixed 35mm equivalent lens, the X10 packs a versatile 28-112mm equivalent f/2-2.8 manual lens. Other features include RAW capture, an optical viewfinder, a 2.8-inch LCD screen, a pop-up flash, ISO that goes up to 12800, 1080p HD video, a blazing 10fps burst mode (7fps on max res), and a hot shoe.
Fujifilm FinePix X10
The $600 12MP camera is shown to have a fixed f/2 28-112mm (35mm equivalent) manual lens and a “wide and bright optical viewfinder”.
X50
This camera might have a market after all. It seems extra pocketable with a decent speed lens, bright viewfinder, I don’t know but it should be pretty darn neat at that price.
via petapixel
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"Going Candid" by Thomas Leuthard
A silver ashtray sits next to his pack of Ark Royal Sweets on the coffee shop table.
Photographer Daido Moriyama retrieves one of the thin brown cigars and grabs his lighter. After he takes a few puffs, the air in front of his well-worn face is soon filled with gray smoke.
He then pulls his trusty point-and-shoot Ricoh GR1s from his back pocket. The ease of his motion and its heavily nicked body implies that his camera is always at the ready.
Moriyama is in his element. The coffee shop is in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward, the place where he has made his name as a photographer.
“I am very interested in its stripped-down form,” he explains. “Shinjuku gives a very mixed feeling with all its various kinds of people. It is very realistic and intriguing.”
The images he captures often show everyday people and everyday things in a manner not to be found in the average Tokyo tourist guidebook. Whether by using blur or cropping, Moriyama’s bleak and lonely black-and-white pictures have garnered him the reputation as one of Japan’s great modern photographers.
Wouter continues his splendid use of small compact cameras and here’s yet another beautiful set.
This week my photographs come from the north of the Netherlands. Land of moors, peat, and hunebeds. The cities of Assen and Emmen. But also the tragic reminder of former Nazi deportation camp Westerbork. 107,000 people, most of them Jews, came here. Most died in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibór. Only 5,000 survived.
Continue reading at week 28 | 2011 | Wouter Brandsma 荷蘭 →
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