Hamburg, Germany. December 6, 2011. All rights reserved.
Winter decided to visit Hamburg today with the first heavy snowfall tonight after some smaller showers already occurred earlier this week. I had my GF1 with me, happily taking a couple of snapshots after we finished a dinner snack at the Christmas market downtown.
Mönckebergstraße, Hamburg. Germany. November 2011.
I genuinely enjoy living in Hamburg. The city has posh, swanky areas that appeal to my sophisticated side and on the other hand, it’s laid back enough so I can feel good enough about myself leaving the apartment with a shabby, laid back look. Some areas of Hamburg certainly have that urban grittiness associated with the world’s top cities such as Paris, London, New York and Tokyo, but looking closely, I guess “Hamburg is not New York” – at least not when considering the Christmas Parade taking place during the weekends on Hamburg’s premier shopping mile, Mönckebergstraße.
Since the launch of Nikon’s new Nikon 1 camera system, public reactions have been very strong with a lot of negative feedback on blogs about the apparent shortcomings of Nikon’s new camera system.
imaging resource has conducted an exclusive interview with Masahiro Suzuki, General Manager R&D of Nikon. Asked about the image quality of Nikon’s new cameras, his answer surprises:
MS: We are quite confident that we achieved almost exactly the same quality as our DSLR.
DE: (surprised) The same quality as DSLRs.
MS: Yes…Please evaluate! (laughs)
DE: Yes, obviously, we’ll test and we’ll hold you to that! That’s very interesting, because this is a much smaller sensor, but you say the same quality.
MS: Mm-hmm.
I really doubt Nikon’s cameras will be able to live up to this claim.
The BadJupiter Project is now offering large print editions of some of my work from the In Motion series. Available now, you can order prints of “checking“, “A tribute to Harley Davidson” and “Balanced“.
Prints are limited to 80 prints of each released images. More images will be released soon.
It’s no secret that I’m an Olympus fanboy. We have about six digital Olympus cameras at home, four of those are Four Thirds DSLRs, one is a PEN and one a tough compact. Along with that, we have a complete Olympus Four Thirds lens lineup with beauties such as the 12-60mm, the 50mm and the 50-200mm and more lenses from Sigma and Panasonic. Most of the images I shoot are now from my E-5. I have been enjoying my E-PL1 as well though. Initially, I got the PEN to make use of my large collection of legacy Minolta MC and MD lenses. Using a Novoflex adapter, it’s really easy to use these old lens beauties with the PEN. I got the VF-2 EVF so I could manual-focus easier and get a steadier hold on the camera with the heavy lenses attached. I am happy about the in-body image stabilization of the PEN. I valued the image stabilization for legacy lenses more than I did value the need for a fast auto-focus. That’s why I got a PEN and not a Micro Four Thirds camera from Panasonic.