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  • Fujifilm X100S Digital Split Image focus – how it works

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    The Fujifilm X100S is the latest in a recent rush of cameras to include phase-detection elements on its imaging sensor, giving an AF system that is a hybrid of contrast and phase-detection methods. However, Fujifilm also uses this system to provide a unique and incredibly clever manual focus aid – which could finally allow digital cameras to offer the speed and convenience enjoyed by manual-focus SLR and rangefinder users. Fujifilm UK has posted a video showing ‘Digital Split Image’ focusing and Japanese camera site DCWatch has published details that allow us to show how it works.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon announces 14mm T3.1 and 135mm T2.2 Cinema EOS prime lenses

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    Canon has announced two additions to its range of Cinema EOS prime lenses, a 14mm T3.1 and 135mm T2.2. The CN-E14mm T3.1 L F and CN-E135mm T2.2 L F are both designed to be used on movie cameras with image sensors up to 35mm full frame in size, and include a range of features optimized for movie shooting. These include geared focus and aperture rings with markings designed to be read from the side of the camera, 11-bladed circular aperture diaphragms, and all-metal weather-resistant construction. The 14mm T3.1 will be available from April 2013 at an estimated retail price of $ 5,500, while the 135mm T2.2 will appear in May for $ 5,200.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • A confession from a phtographer

    I fell in love with photography in a world where the amazing photographers could only be seen in bookstores, museums and magazines.  I fell in love with the work of Mario Testino, Richard Avedon and when Netscape brought the world wide web to the masses I was able to follow many of my favorites online.

    And then the digital explosion started to mature and the entire world changed.  Now amazing photography is EVERYWHERE!

    Pinterest – tumblr – facebook – instagram… the tools to capture and share work is absolutely mind boggling.

    With amazing work saturating my world I felt mediocre as a photographer.  I reinvented myself a couple times over but seasons and people change and you start wanted to REALLY reinvent yourself.

    That’s where I’m at now.  At a precipice as an artist.  What do you do after sailing on your merits for just a bit too long?  Well, you reinvent.  That’s what.

    I’ve been shooting still, here and there.  I kind of got side-tracked a bit… trying to find my way.  In a world of personal journeys I’ve been on a bit of one.  I’ve found good things.  Understood things about what I’ve been trying to say to myself, to the world.

    I’ve been shooting to understand.   Understand models, light, studios, capturing an audience, personalities, expressions, editing, directing, going with the flow, controlling the flow, letting people onto the set during shoots, kicking them off at times too, teaching photo classes, working with amazing teams to bring them online to the masses, traveling to new places, meeting new people, losing touch with my audience, losing touch with myself….

    And finding it all again.  In a journey inward you reach the end and find what you were looking for was there all along, it was just the quietest voice in a world of devilish chaos and heavenly distractions.

    Do the work.  Even when it’s mediocre, keep going, you’ll find it.  I’ve been here before.  At the end of a rope, wondering where the next step is.

    If you’ve been a fan of my work ever before then keep an eye on this blog.  I think I’ll be spending a bit less time posting things elsewhere and a bit more time posting my work here, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

    -me

    PS – Becoming a dad throws your life for a bit of a loop, bear with me as I restart my creative engine.  :)


    Jake Garn Photography

  • Panasonic demos 20″, 4k tablet with high color accuracy

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    CES 2013: Panasonic has been demonstrating a prototype of a 20″ tablet at the CES show in Las Vegas. The large 3:2 tablet is built around a 4k, 3840×2560 pixel IPS display, giving a resolution of 230ppi. The tablet runs Windows 8, meaning it can run full PC software such as Adobe Photoshop. The prototype included a 128Gb SSD to allow fast access to images stored on the device. It also includes a standard USB port for connecting a card reader but only has a port for microSD cards built in.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • CES 2013: Hands-on with the Samsung NX300

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    CES 2013: As promised we’ve used the CES show as an opportunity to get our hands on the Samsung NX300. The latest model shares its looks with the NX210 but has been substantially re-worked under the skin. We had a chance to play with the NX300 and Samsung’s innovative 3D variant of its 45mm F1.8 lens that has been developed alongside it. Click here to see what we found.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Britain’s biggest high-street camera store enters administration

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    Britain’s biggest high-street camera retailer, Jessops, has gone into administration, putting 192 stores and 2,000 jobs at risk. The company’s website is not accepting orders and administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers has said vouchers and returns would not be honoured at present. The company, that has been slow to respond to competition from internet retailers, was rescued in 2009 by HSBC, which bought into the company in return for writing off some of its debts. However, increasingly stringent credit terms imposed by suppliers (a common move when there is doubt surrounding the future of a company), and predictions of further falls in camera sales led to the administrators being called.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sakar launches Android-based, modular, Polaroid-branded camera system

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    Sakar International has formally announced the distinctly Nikon-esque iM1836 – a modular camera system wearing Polaroid branding. Details are scarce – with the company able to give little information (and some of that being improbable), but the first model is said to be an Android-based, Wi-Fi-connected camera with Ricoh GXR-style interchangeable modules with the sensor built into the lens. Further bodies and adapter modules are promised to allow use of Pentax K, Nikon F and Micro Four Thirds lenses.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sigma sets out its stall at CES – including lens pricing and SPP mono mode

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    Sigma has published details of what it will be showing at the CES show, including pricing details for two of the lenses it announced at Photokina 2012. The 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM, part of the company’s ‘Contemporary’ line of lenses, will retail for around $ 499. Meanwhile the 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM, which falls into the company’s ‘Sports’ category, will sell for around $ 3,599. Meanwhile, the company has given details of a monochrome processing mode that it’s added to its Sigma Photo Pro processing software for its Foveon-sensored cameras.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sigma launches DP3 Merrill with Foveon sensor and 75mm (equiv.) lens

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    Sigma has announced the DP3 Merrill, the latest iteration of the company’s enthusiast large sensor compact camera. Nearly identical to the earlier DP Merrill models, this camera features the familiar 15x3MP APS-C Foveon X3 sensor, but it is now mated with a 50mm (75mm equiv.) F2.8 lens. The lens lends itself to portraiture and, with a minimum focus distance of 22.6cm, offers respectable 1:3 magnification. Video recording is still limited to VGA resolution but the DP3M can shoot at up to 4 frames per second for 7 frames in Raw.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Olympus releases Stylus SZ-16 and SZ-15 compact superzooms

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    Olympus has announced the Stylus SZ-16 iHS and the Stylus SZ-15 iHS – a pair of 24x compact superzoom cameras. Both cameras offer an 25-600mm equivalent zoom range. The SZ-16 iHS is based around a 16MP CMOS sensor, allowing it to offer 1080p video and the other high-speed features needed to wear the company’s iHS branding. The SZ-15 makes do with a 16MP CCD sensor, restricting it to 720p video capture. The SZ-16 iHS uses Olympus’ previous-generation TruePic V processor, while the SZ-15 uses an older TruePic III+ chip.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)