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Small Camera – Big Pictures
Expectations from the diminutive Sony A7R (and A7) are high, possibly too high. Would it be a ‘Leica killer’, could it establish Sony as a contender to join the ‘top table’ of manufacturers and sit alongside Canon and Nikon? more
D4 Tripod Head
The Arca is a well-made bit of kit, make no mistake, with a finish and a precision 'feel' to match. more
Phase One IQ260 and IQ260 Achromatic Backs
It is highly proprietary to Digital Transitions and unique in that it shows the Sensor Spectral Response 'normalised' to the spectral transmission of some oft-used filters. more
Camera Survey
Just over a month ago we asked our readers to tell us what cameras they used for their landscape photography and we had a great response. We've spent a bit of time analysing the results (my programming skills come in useful still occasionally) and here they are! more
Plustek Opticfilm 120
Plustek announced a new competitor in this arena over a year ago, but it was only at the start of the year that units were getting into people’s hands. more
Chamonix 045F1
The camera is still ultralightweight and compact when packed. I suspect a user of an N model would be able to replace it in their camera bag with an F1 and not notice any appreciable change in weight or bulk. more
Schneider PC-TS Makro-Symmar 4.5/90 HM
Schneider are currently the only company to offer a ‘universal’ set of tilt shift lenses - at this point they have a 50mm and 90mm plus there will be a 28mm released soon. more
H3D39 vs D800 Quality
The world of medium format digital cameras systems is one that is typically associated with either very hard working professionals or well heeled amateurs (or well heeled lazy professionals I suppose). more
H3D39 System Possibilities
OK so we’ve looked at the Hasselblad from just an image viewpoint but what else should we be thinking? Well in my opinion there are a few extra aspects of the Hasselblad system that are worth bearing in mind. The first is that, like any system, when you make a choice you are also buying into a range of lenses and with Hasselblad that range is particularly more
H3D39 vs D800 Usability
New MFD systems as we will call them are more expensive than a good car and depreciate at an even greater rate! more
Fuji GSW690III Medium Format Camera
Over the 25 years or so that I've been interested in landscape photography, I've used and experimented with many different types and formats of cameras. In the 'film only days' I used 35mm,120 medium format in 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7 and 6x9, and I've used large format. Of course each has it advantages and disadvantages; all of them do some things well, and some things either not more
CamRanger Preview
Ever since the retina iPhone and especially the iPad came out people have wondered about (lusted after!) the ability to tie them directly to the preview, or preferably the live view, of their cameras. This is particularly true for landscape photographers where the taking and composing of the image is usually a more sedate affair allowing for meticulous attention to detail. Well we might just have seen the democratisation of more
Camera Colour – First Tests
I’ve written about sensor colour in a previous issue of On Landscape under the title “The Myth of Universal Colour”. In that article I looked at the quite common preconception that if different cameras create pictures with different colours then these can be easily corrected in Photoshop. To recap the reasoning you need to know that ‘colour’ is a perceptual construct (i.e. it gets made up in our heads) which means that the colour red is not a property of more
The Sony RX100
I bought two digital cameras in 2012, a Nikon D800 and a Sony RX100. Both cameras are class-leading and ground-breaking in upping the pixel count for their respective formats. With the D800, Nikon leapfrogged a logically preceding 24mp model and caught everyone by surprise - the competition most definitely included! In all aspects other than resolution the D800 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary, building on the popular D700. Sony more