The Luminous Landscape carries its long-awaited review of the Sigma DP1, seemingly just another digital compact camera, but one that had many of us hoping for something closer to D-SLR quality. As it turns out, the review says those expectations have largely been met in terms of image quality. However, design and operation of the [...]
Sports, action and wildlife photographers need fast cameras. Indeed, it’s why models such as the 9 fps Nikon D3 and 10 fps Canon EOS-1D Mark III are in such demand even at a premium in terms of price — $5,000 and $8,000 body only, respectively. Until now, such high frame rates have been one of [...]
Most professional or serious photographers shoot in RAW format rather than in JPEG or some other file type that does not allow later lossless correction to what their camera’s digital sensor originally recorded when the shutter fired. However, the software for manipulating RAW files which comes with cameras — including top of the line models [...]