New Nikon Instant Rebates Are Out
The new Nikon rebates are here, from Adorama and B&H Photo (lenses and bundles). Here from B&H Photo: Here the Adorama deals:
Sony Special Savings
Special Sony savings — save hundreds in instant rebates: Details here.
Ten Commandments of Photojournalism: Debating Excessive — and Sometimes Blatant — Post-Processing
Before I dive into today’s topic, in the course of the past weeks I’ve received several alerts from readers that THEME was down in their area. Once it was in Germany, then in the U.K… The question was always: have you given up on the site Dan? Maybe was a server hiccup. Boy I’m not […]
Canon’s New 5DS Beasts — If the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
Right after announcement with a flood of emails arriving I was quite excited. Amazing stuff. Full-frame Canon 5D siblings with an astonishing 50.6MP sensor. On second thought though the enthusiasm vanished. Not because the new Canon 5DS and 5DS R are no astonishing cameras — the latter has a “self-canceling” AA filter. Sounds Nikon D800Eish? […]
Camera Lens Vs. Human Eye
This is a great looking infographic which has been completed by Mediaworks in conjunction with Clifton Cameras, U.K. Using sources from the BBC and National Geographic, it compares and contrasts the camera lens vs. the eye. It’s a fairly technical piece which takes into account aperture, single-element convex lens tech, angle of incidence and then […]
DxO Takes On Adobe
By BENGT NYMAN A case of megalomania or a proper challenge? I am definitely a fan of DxO as a source for scientific, photographic test and performance data for camera image sensors and lenses — as published on DxOMark. I much prefer to have this data under my belt when deciding on a new purchase. […]
State of the Mirrorless Camera Market
This is to follow up on our previous post on the most popular camera brands used, a.k.a. Apple followed by Canon and Nikon, with both the previous market leaders offering a huge range of individual cameras, so the overall popularity of individual models is likely lost in the diversity. Reference site Flickr has just released […]
World’s Most Popular Camera Brand — Did Apple Just “Pull a Nokia”?
If Flickr be trusted, the Yahoo-owned social photography site, then Canon is no longer world’s most popular camera brand. It is, I’m afraid, Apple. Have a look at the Flickr Camera Finder page, with graphs showing the number of Flickr members who have uploaded at least one photo or video with a particular camera on […]
CCC — Camera Chaos Coming
By BENGT NYMAN If you stay within your choice of camera brand there is little reason to pay much attention to a small detail called a lens mount. It is a handy little feature that lets you easily and quickly change the lens, should you want to. Most manufacturers have their own designs, maybe several, […]
A Few Words About Charlie Hebdo, the Prophet and Photoshop
How weak is your faith, how misunderstood your prophet and how lame a Muslim must you be to allow yourself to be reduced to a tool of butcherly ideology that kills for colorized ink on paper. The world’s — and Muslims’! — response to the coward execution of French editors of the satirical magazine Charlie […]
Olympus E-M1 and E-M5 Instant Rebates!
A variety of Olympus E-M1 and E-M5 specials with $200 to $400 instant rebates:
Huge Price Drops on Panasonic GH4 Bundles
Here’s a variety of 4K video recording Panasonic GH4 bundle specials with nice instant rebates. Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Mirrorless Digital Camera Body, Black — Bundle With LUMIX Vario 14-140mm F4.0-5.8 ASPH Lens, Panasonic LUMIX DMW-YAGH Interface Unit, 32GB Class 10 SDHC Card, Camera Shoulder Case: $2,699 after $1,500 instant rebate (reg. $4,199, includes free expedited […]
On the World’s Oldest Trees and the Noble Process of Platinum Printing
Meet Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has traveled the world since the beginning of this millennium in search of the world’s oldest trees. Since 14 years she is traveling the globe to capture the most magnificent, ancient trees that grow in remote locations and tell stories that look as old as the […]
What North Korea Might Have to Do With Your Camera
This rather strong On Sony statement by respected camera reviewer Lloyd Chambers caught my attention: I’ll continue to objectively review Sony cameras and lenses because they are in the market and a major player. As for myself, I have firmed up my previous reluctance to invest my money in Sony products. Along with a revolting […]
Another Year in Retrospect
As a loyal reader of THEME it wasn’t hard to miss that my priorities since some time were less focused on maintaining the site than, well, doing other stuff. Been traveling a lot, exploring new ventures. I’ve been thinking a lot about what has been and what’s there to come. Instead of publishing daily about […]
Sigma DP2 Quattro $599 Only
This is $400 off list price for an amazing Foveon-sensored 30mm F2.8 (45mm full-frame equivalent) Sigma DP Quattro. Details here. Act quickly, offer expires December 2, 2014.
Hasselblad Stellar for $999, That’s $2,300 Off!
If you ever wanted to own a Hasselblad Stellar, now you get the pimped up Sony RX100 for roughly the price of the RX100! B&H Photo has the Stellar Special Edition with different color combos for, that’s right, $999. Kind of a no-brainer. Offers here.
Black Friday, Cyber Monday & More Deals!
Better buy now before these steals are gone, check each deal’s validity: One Link to all B&H Photo Black Friday Specials Sony Black Friday Savings Canon Speedlites Savings Canon DSLR Savings Canon Lenses Savings Canon P&S Savings Nikon Mirrorless Savings Nikon DSLR Savings Nikon P&S Savings More Sony Rebates Amazon Black Friday Deals Amazon Cyber […]
Preorder Sony A7 II
Brand new Sony A7 II with 5-axis image stabilization now on preorder in the U.S.: Body only Kit with Sony FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
A Camera Industry Dragging Their Feet?
By BENGT NYMAN The camera industry supports a number of rumor sites to influence as well as to opinion-fish among their customers. Ford Motor company did something similar years ago when they came up with the Edsel, the biggest new car flop in automotive history. The problem with the camera industry today is not that […]
What to Make of the Über-Sony A7 II?
We’re not yet at the second Sony Alpha A7 generation, and look what Sony comes up with: the Alpha A7 II, a full-frame mirrorless with 5-axis image stabilization, the first of it’s kind in the full-frame market which is where the hopes of the world’s three leading camera makers lie. The A7 II embodies the […]
“Living Images” — A Future of Photography?
“Living pictures” is something I first came across with the Nikon 1. A living picture basically is not just a snapshot frozen in time depending on shutter speed. A photo captured with a 1/125th of a second freezes a 1/125th of a second. Living pictures extend the exposure by recording a bit of video prior […]
Wanna Feel Ancient? See Kids React to a Film Camera
It’s actually a nice idea, letting kids interact with old stuff some of us feel nostalgic about, such as a rotary phone, the Beatles, etc. That’s what the YouTube channel Kids React is about. A latest episode: kids reacting to a film camera. Take a fancy Canon Sure Shot 85 Zoom that uses 35mm film. […]
Sony A7 Trade-In Promotion
The new Sony A7 trade-in program is in: Participating cameras: Sony Alpha A7 Sony Alpha A7 kit with 28-70mm lens Sony Alpha A7R All three have an Instant rebate of $200 each, 4% Adorama rewards and free Expedited shipping. You need to trade-in your working used DSLR camera or interchangeable lens within 30 days after […]
Bye-Bye Lunar, Solar and HV? Hasselblad’s Italian Design Center Is No More
Two years after Hasselblad opened with all the fanfare its Italian Design Center to create such widely mocked cameras as the Lunar and Stellar, two years after a futile attempt to fool photographers into buying a former generation of pimped up Sony cameras, two years on it looks like Hasselblad has quietly closed down its […]
Understanding Composition
Doesn’t matter one iota that the following video is curated by a computer graphics artist. On the contrary. Computer graphics and photography have much in common, for instance the same roots. Computer graphics tend to become even more realistic while the prevailing post-processing in digital photography implicates visual proximity to, well, computer-generated visuals. Yet, in […]
Mobile Photography — Going Windows Phone With the Nokia Lumia 830
Microsoft makes many right moves currently. The announcement of the smart Band for instance is right down my alley. It will smoothly interact with the first (and probably last) Nokia phone I got in a long time, the Nokia Lumia 830. I didn’t only leave the iOS ship for the Lumia’s stellar 10MP Zeiss camera […]
Feeling Invisible in Cuba With the Ricoh GR
By LORENZO MOSCIA It has been seven years since I last visited Cuba. Again it was an intense journey. I managed to “escape” and rediscover street photography which I left behind in the past years. My equipment was the trusted Ricoh GR and a Canon 6D with the 50mm F1.2. The Canon was difficult to […]
And You Thought Today’s Cameras Look Great
God bless the French. This is probably the most extensive, most beautiful and most bizarre collection of cameras you’ll ever lay eyes upon. It’s impossible to find your own favorites from the Collection Appareils, an online vault of the most amazing cameras assembled by a French guy named Sylvain Halgand. It’s an astonishing encyclopedic collection […]
Proof of Abundance — Digital Photography Explosion, What For?!
We’re living in a world of abundance. Choices, choices everywhere — at least if your house is not repossessed, if the growth of the unregulated informal sector doesn’t jeopardize your job or if quantative easing and the silent destruction of capital don’t annihilate your hard earned savings. Increasingly powerful and affordable technology, this world’s great […]