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Cameras and Photography Explained
- News/Views
- Don't Forget My Black Friday Appearances
- Video is Now Resolved
- Should You Buy an Older Camera?
- What Rumors Would I Be Interested In?
- Thom’s Black Friday, Aka Thom Goes La-La
- Apple to Acquire Pixelmator
- Tap the Shut and Take a Pho
- First Cameras, Now Lenses?
- Supply and Demand
- Interesting Things Written on the Internet
- Behind the Scenes
- The Upcoming Format Change?
- More Questions Asked (and Answered)
- What's Left for the Camera Market?
- Good Advice Costs Nothing and It's Worth the Price*
- Software Almost As A Service
- More on the Dilemma of High-End Cameras
- The Future's So Dim You Have To Wear Night Goggles
- Initial and Long-Term Impressions
- Strange Things Written on the Internet XXXI
- Doldrum Time
- Even More Questions Answered
- The "I Don't Like the Answer" Problem
- My Answers to a Bunch of Questions
- My 2026 Workshop Schedule is Now Available
- More Statistics (Interpret Wisely)
- Amateur Statisticians, Again
- Crippling Your Own Product
- Cameras are a Virus
- Recent Curiosities
- Do You Know What's Automated and How?
- And So It Begins...
- My Start to Spring Cleaning
- Lust, Love, and In Love
- The Marketing Kefluffles of 2024
- Free Safari in Botswana Webinar
- Design by Default
- I Get It; But Then Again, I Don't
- Strange Things Written on the Internet XXX
- Subscriptions, Lotteries, What's Next?
- Yes, I'm Back From My Internet Fasting
- Product Envy
- It's That Time Again — Thom is Resting
- Interesting Things Said on the Internet II
- Clearing Up Aperture Confusion
- Things I Learned at WPPI
- Interesting Things Said on the Internet
- Another Nikon Miss
- More Questions Asked
- The Nikon / RED Combo
- Camera Makers Make Their Own Problems
- Nikon Acquires RED
- WPPI Discounts
- Don’t Poo-Poo Video
- Book Updates
- The Random Game
- Do You Need More Pixels?
- Fujifilm X100VI Orders Will Be Over 1/3 All Compacts Sold
- My Boring Update
- Has Photography on the Web Gotten Boring?
- Who Won? Everybody or Nobody?
- How Far Do We Look Ahead?
- The Year End Statistics Summary
- I Had a Dream...
- Touch Versus Dials
- When Is A Product Out of Production?
- The September Africa Blog is Back (Day 9)
- The Run Up to CP+
- Is the Dog Chasing its Tail?
- Be Careful What You Ask For
- Following Up On Your First Photography Task
- Your First New Year’s Photography Task
- New Year’s Resolutions
- Thom's 2024 "Out There" Predictions
- How Far Will Cameras Go?
- 2023 News/Views
- The Software Saga Continues
- The Year Ahead Will be Different
- The Numbers Don't Add Up
- A Hint About the Future
- Sorry We Didn't Listen to You...
- How Important is Gear?
- What's Really Happening with Sony?
- Does Zeno Ever Get Where He’s Going?
- Should You Imitate?
- Thank You EU and USB Standards Committee
- Spooky Gassed — Trick or Treat?
- Esthetic Obsolescence
- Time Versus Value
- Your "Good Enough" is Not My "Good Enough"
- Africa Beckons
- The Random Ask
- What Thom Does Offline
- When Do You Stop Caring?
- What Happened While I was Away
- Thom's On Sabbatical Again
- New Cameras are Odd
- Numbers Mean Everything/Nothing
- The "When" of Processing
- Lens Companies Need Photographers
- Experience and Premise can be Misleading
- B&H's 50th Anniversary Show
- Reader Questions Answered
- Oh My, He Actually Did It! It's Nikon D6 Day!
- Strange Things Written on the Internet XXIX
- The Future Is Ours To See...
- Autofocus is Improved...
- Today's Hall of Shame Entrant
- Strange Things Written on the Internet XXVIV
- The State of Noise Reduction
- What Can You Get Away With?
- Are People Really Using Their Cameras?
- Are Your Focus Problems Real?
- Visualizing How a Lens Performs
- What Makes for a Great Lens?
- What’s Your Joy Point?
- How Many Points Are Best?
- Why Not YouTube?
- Be Careful of Cheaping Out
- How Much Effort Does it Take?
- Solve User Problems
- Where Do I Stand on AI Images?
- When is Good Enough Not Good Enough?
- More Reader Questions Answered
- Strange Things Written on the Internet XXVI
- New and Better Isn’t Just About Gear
- Taking a Short Break
- Scaling Kit Costs
- Transitioning from Smartphone to Dedicated Camera
- Changes in the Mac World
- How Do You Take Images That Look 3D?
- Do You Have to Read the Manual?
- The Ethics of Post Processing
- The Vortices of the Internet Trolling
- Reader Questions Answered
- “Budget” Macs
- May You Live in Confusing Times
- Imaging-Resource Followup
- Camera Life Cycles
- Busy Season
- Stubborn Versus Adaptive
- Daily Gratification
- Another Photography Site Down
- Dpreview On Life Support (Updated)
- Questions I Answered On My Month Off
- The Fanning is Still Afoot
- The Proper Way to Grow
- Mostly Caught Up
- The Big Trip Gotcha
- Strange Things Said XXV
- I’m Back
- Taking a Break
- Followup on dpreview Closure
- dpreview to Close After 25 Years
- Real Camera Economics
- New Workshops for 2024
- The Goldilocks Problem
- Strange Things Said XXIV
- Professional Services Again a Topic
- Strange Things Said XXIII
- Five Questions You Need to Answer “Yes” To
- What Software Do You Really Need?
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Peep?
- Today, Tomorrow, Someday
- Does it Focus?
- Is It Still Worth...
- Compact Creator Cameras
- The Difference Between New Options and Changing Things
- Announcement Week, but Why?
- Why Do We Speculate About Future Products?
- Will I Miss the Extra 100mm?
- Onwards and Upwards
- Some Updates
- Strange Things Said XXII
- The Circular Path of “Information"
- The Annual BCN Award Article Avalanche
- Cataracts and Photographers
- Be SMART This Year
- Do Lenses Have Character?
- Intelligence Versus Artificial Intelligence
- Strange Things Said XXI
- Outlandish Predictions
- The New York Times Prints Junk Articles, Too
- Cameras are Like Grocery Store Checkout Lines
- Which Aspect Ratio is Correct?
- Still No Global Shutter?
- Two Approaches to Photography
- How Far Have Cameras Come?
- Future byThom Photo Workshops
- 2022 News/Views
- byThom 2022 Wrap Up
- Is There Any Usefulness in “Camera of the Year?"
- Welcome to More Price Increases
- You Are Not the Product (on this site)
- Has Anything Really Changed in Software?
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Even Stranger Things on the Internet
- Strange Things Said XX
- A Tale of Two Cameras
- What I Don’t Want for Christmas
- Getting Caught in Details
- You Don't Really Need to Leak or Switch
- How Long Will You Be Happy?
- More Questions Answered
- Busting the Burnout
- Pixel Density Redux
- Pricing is Unsettled
- Strange Things Said XIX
- The Lens Addiction
- Is That All There Is?
- The Coming Issue for Camera Makers
- Installed Base Versus Current Sales Rate
- More Strange Things Said on the Internet XVIII
- One, Two, Three, and Four Front Battles
- Do Order Suspensions Accomplish Anything?
- Book Updates
- Upcoming Workshops/Events
- More Strange Things Said on the Internet XVII
- The Camera Chess Match
- Start Saying Goodbye to 20/24mp
- Post Labor Day Labor
- Now We Know
- Summer Site Updates
- Format Wars are Faux Battles
- Thank You
- Define Quality
- More Annoying of Users
- Always a Tradeoff...
- Looking Back at Three Decades of Digital
- How to Respect Users
- How to Annoy Users
- One Size Fits All
- What Causes "Soft"?
- What Would Thom Buy?
- ITES*
- Interneting Round #93
- Stop Fearing Noise
- More Responses to Internetting...
- Is the 300mm f/2.8 Lens Now Dead?
- About Recommendations
- The "Tough" Question
- Thinkers Versus Non-Thinkers
- Nikkei Needs New Staff Writers
- Latest Things Said on the Internet...
- Mirrorless Week
- Are We Approaching Connectivity Wrong?
- Fewer Cameras, More Options
- Random Rant #87
- 4K Is The Current Sweet Spot
- Where Do You Start?
- Technology Versus the Customer
- Weird NikonUSA Things (Now Corrected)
- You're Going to be Buying New Lenses
- The Dealer Shelves Are Bare. So Should Yours Be.
- Low Margin Versus High Margin
- Smartphones Crush Cameras, Again
- The Coming Platform Discontinuations
- Process Specifically, Not Generally
- DSLR versus Mirrorless Focus Differences
- DSLR versus Mirrorless Overall
- Settings Versus Seeing
- 34 Days in The Middle of Nowhere
- The Camera Market Shift
- Entering Quiet Time
- Don't Bet on Firmware Additions
- We Don't Need Lots of Consumer Cameras
- byThom Price Increases Coming
- The New Mac Studio
- One Size Fits No One
- The Camera Market, Generally
- Are Crop Sensors Done?
- (One Time) Political Message
- Photography Products on Life Support
- Is the "Fun" All Gone?
- More Strange Things Said
- We Need Clarity
- The Usual Suspects
- Why I Don’t Recommend...
- What Will Happen in 2022
- Your New Year's Resolution: Stop Switching
- 2022 Is Going to See Changes
- 2021 News/Views
- Nikon's Fiscal Year Results
- DSLR Lens Discontinuation Continues
- Site Work Ahead
- What To Expect
- The Best All-Around Cameras
- The Messaging is All Wrong
- Catching Up
- Camera X Isn’t Better Than Camera Y
- Back of the Envelope Math
- Nikon’s Last Annual Report
- Quiet Time
- Lexar CFExpress Card
- The Lens Parade
- The Spring Z Sale
- The Consumers Are Restless
- Over on Sansmirror
- Simple Questions, Simple Answers
- Latest Strange Things Written
- Look Behind to Look Ahead
- You Want Great JPEGs? Here’s the 411
- Using an ILC as a Webcam
- All Z News Fit to Print
- Staying in a Lane Versus Changing Lanes
- What No April Fool’s?
- The US$1000 Crop Sensor Mirrorless Camera
- Sigma Adds L to fp
- It's a Tough Market
- Some New Lens Muffins for You
- Are We Going Backwards, Forwards, or Nowhere?
- You Asked for It
- How is This Better for Customers?
- The NPS Conundrum
- Announcing The Complete Guide to the Nikon Z6 II and Z7 II
- Sony Announces the 50mm f/1.2GM
- Market Share Versus Profit
- Presentation Reminder
- Elsewhere on byThom Sites
- Photoshop Gets Significant Updates
- Crazy Rumor Specifications
- Chasing Galen
- Another byThom Week (thru March 7th)
- Depth of Field Conference
- Nikon Launches New Software
- Last Week on Other byThom Sites (thru Feb 28)
- Latest Strange Sayings
- Hello World
- Solving the Firmware Problem
- Weekly Site Update Summary (thru Feb 19)
- Older Bodies
- New Nikon Sensor
- Tokina 11-20mm f/2.8 Lens on Sale
- Upcoming byThom Events
- Elsewhere on byThom Sites (Feb 6-14)
- One From the Vault
- Deleting Images
- What Will CP+ Bring?
- This Week on Other byThom Sites (Thru Feb 5)
- Get Ready to Wait
- The Image Sensor Industry
- The Sweet Spot is Still Sweet
- On the Other byThom Sites This Week (Jan 28)
- Thom's Product Plans for the Camera Companies
- What 12K Does to Us
- Meaningful Improvement
- CIPA Photo Study
- Type of Buyer Comments
- A No-Brainer Deal
- What Type of Buyer Are You?
- A Pleasant Nikon Surprise
- Other byThom Sites (Jan 20)
- Artificial, or Just Intelligence?
- The Wayback Machine
- NikonUSA Changes NPS
- Capture One Pricing
- The Baseline
- The Camera Maker Dilemma
- The Thing About Brand Loyalty
- Looking for Mr. Goodgear
- The Wayback Machine is Up
- On the Other byThom Sites (Jan 8)
- Nikon Ends International Warranties
- Lumenzia 9
- Capture One Pricing
- National Bird Day
- GIMP Updated to version 2.10.22
- Sirui Anamorphic Lens Info Added
- What 8K Does to Us
- On the Other byThom Sites
- Rebates Ending
- Keep the Suggestions Coming
- Site Redesign
- Nikon's Production Move
- Where We Ended up in 2021
- What’s Thom Been Up To?
- Time for a Rest (not really)
- Will a Camera Maker Clear the Cupboard?
- Gap, Adjoin, or Overlap?
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Acquisition
- The Holiday Sales List (Updated)
- No One Can Review the Future
- Data: The Short Story
- Yes, The Camera World Changed
- Okay, Props Where Props are Deserved
- Where's My Z9 Coverage?
- Well, That's One Way to Solve the Problem
- What About Apple's New MacBook Pros?
- The Reviews Are All In. Yippee!
- Naughty or Nice, Merry or Lump of Coal?
- Is The Evidence in Plain Sight?
- Conflating User Issues
- Who Do You Believe?
- You’re Going to Complain About Something
- Unexpected Demand versus Unable to Supply
- Strange Things Said or Written, Part XIV
- Did Lens Makers Miss a Turn?
- The Ecosystem is Too Small
- Making the Right Decisions
- Image Sensors Don’t Determine Color
- GoPro Hits 10 (Will it Go to 11?)
- Why Choose Brand A over Brand B?
- In Case You Missed the Email
- Where Should You Focus Your Attention?
- Modern Minimal Versus Traditional Travel Lens Kits
- Configuring the Sony A1 Book Now in Print Form
- Thom's Been Busy as a Zee
- What Would [Fill_in_Name_Here] Do?
- Production Roulette
- I See No Difference
- Canon Promotes Olympic Results
- Responses to Lens Tyranny
- Check Your Credit Card Limit
- Chasing the Unknown
- Taking a Short Break
- Nikon is Still Not Dead
- What's Easy and What's Difficult for Camera Makers
- Video is Still (Mostly) Video
- Engineers, Dreamers, Artists, and Practitioners
- Emotional Bonding
- It's Mostly a Mirrorless Day
- Better, or Worse?
- Some Z News/Views
- NikonUSA Camera/Lens Maintenance Choices
- The Tyranny of Lenses
- Peak Interest, not Peak Camera
- Thom’s Buzz Wave Theory
- Canon Release or Nikon Release?
- What is a Corner?
- The Perils of Certainty
- A Bit of Buying Advice
- The Big News This Week
- Lies That Live On
- Are You Losing Interest?
- A Couple of Quickies
- Thom's Bag Sale
- Is CIPA Half Full or Half Empty?
- Safe Choices
- Site Updates in Progress
- Creative Cloud Updates
- Is Sony Now Better Than Nikon?
- Best Landscape Camera?
- While I Was Away
- I'm Taking a Short Break
- Strange Days
- Does it Sell?
- Photographic Travel
- Africa
- How to Think About Equipment for Safari
- The “Portable” Safari Kit
- How Much Will an Africa Trip Cost?
- African Blogs
- 2010 Botswana Photo Workshop Blog
- Day 1: Meet and Greet
- Day 2: Around Tree Lodge
- Day 3: Wild!
- Day 4: First Full Safari Day
- Day 5: Mufasa
- Day 6: At the Speed of Africa
- Day 7: Ele in the Channel
- Day 8: All Quiet on All Fronts
- Day 9: Big Cats
- Day 10: Kill, kill, kill
- Day 11: The Ele That Walked to the Leopard
- Day 12: Cats All Day
- Day 13: The Long Haul
- Day 14: Herd Behavior
- Day 15: Human Herd Behavior
- Some of the Rest
- 2010 South Africa Photo Workshop Blog
- Day 0: Lecture and Shoot
- Day 1: Wet and Dry
- Day 2: South Africa History Day
- Day 3: Out of the Cape
- Day 4: The Long Drive
- Day 5: The Tsitsikamma
- Day 6: The Tsitsikamma
- Day 7: Goodbye Landscapes, Hello Animals
- Day 8: To the Preserves
- Timeout: Some Useful Information
- Day 9: Rhinos? What Rhinos?
- Day 10: The Kill
- Bonus Day: All Safari, All the Time
- Final Full Day: Cubs
- Wrap-up 1: The Soap Opera Continues
- Wrap-up 2: Equipment
- 2013 Botswana Photo Workshop Blog
- Workshop Prep Time
- Pre Workshop Scout
- Day One and Two — Royal Tree Lodge
- Day Three — Into Moremi: the Lost Elephant
- Day Four — First Lion
- Day Five — Baby Ele and The Two-Minute Leopard
- Day Six — Ten Spots in a Tree; Onto the Boats
- Day Seven — Warthogs and Rest
- Bonus Day — Of Antelope and Birds on Sticks
- Day Eight — To Savute
- Day Nine — Wild Dogs at Sundown
- Day Ten — The Lion Buffalo Standoff
- Bonus Day — The Night
- Day 11 — Wake-Up Lion; Savute to Chobe
- Day 12 — Driving Chobe
- Bonus Afternoon — On the Chobe River
- Day 13 — Livingston Falls, I Presume?
- Bonus Photos
- Some Tony Shots
- The Measure of a Safari
- 2016 Botswana Photo Workshop Blog
- 1. And So We Start Again
- 2. In Transit
- 3. Still in Transit
- 4. First Day, First Night
- 5. First Full Drive
- 6. Happy Hippos
- 7. More Travel, Plus Meet and Greet
- 8. First Impressions of Moremi
- 9. Just Another Day in Moremi
- 10. Moremi Too
- 11. Boat to Camp O
- 12. Walking in the Delta
- 13. Goodbye Camp O, Hello Savute
- 14. Waiting for the Leopard
- 15. Hyena Only
- 16. Moving to Khwai
- 17. Khwai Provides
- 18. Khwai Goodbye
- 19. Back to Maun
- 20. Meno a Kwena
- 21. Bushmen
- 2016 Botswana Wrap
- And a Short Followup on Lists
- 2023 Botswana Blog
- Day 10 and 11 — Victoria Falls Redux
- Bonus Video
- On the Chobe River — Day 9
- Headed to Chobe — Day 8
- Lions and Birds — Day 7
- Savuti is Cat Country — Day Six
- Xugano Island — Day 5
- Into the Okavango Delta, Day 4
- Xakanaxa, Day 3
- Xakanaxa, Day 2 — "Day of the..."
- Xakanaxa, in Moremi National Park — Day 1
- 2010 Botswana Photo Workshop Blog
- South America
- Lost in Translation
- Up Into the Cordillera Blanca
- Into Santiago
- Photography in the Galapagos Islands
- Ecosystem
- What You'll See
- Cameras
- Lenses
- Support
- Money Where His Mouth Is
- COVID-19 and the Islands
- Galapagos Workshop 2014 Blog
- Day One (3/30) — San Cristobal
- Day Two (3/31) — Genovesa (Tower)
- Day Three (4/1) — North Santa Cruz
- Day Four (4/2) — Isabela
- Day Five (4/3) — Lizard City
- Day Six (4/4) — Rabida & Mangroves
- Day Seven (4/5) — Puerto Ayora
- Boats and Sites and Naturalists
- Day Eight (4/6) — Puerto Moreno
- Day Nine (4/7) — Punta Pitt & Cerro Brujo
- Day Ten (4/8) — The Espanola Horn of Plenty
- Day Eleven (4/9) — Floreana
- Day Twelve (4/10) — Karaoke
- Day Thirteen (4/11) — Sombrero Chino y Bartolome
- Day 14 (4/12) — Lizards and Birds
- Day 15 (4/13) — Hurry Up and Wait Day
- Equipment Used at the Workshop
- United States
- Weighty Advice
- The One-Bag Photographic World Traveler
- Africa
- Technique
- Teaching Points
- 1 — Composing with Reflections
- 2 — Sunrise/Sunset Exposures
- 3 — Moving the Focus Point
- 4 — Learning from Failure
- 5 — Impact versus Technique
- 6 — What are you Saying?
- 7 — Take the Shot
- 8 — Plan your Shooting
- 9 — Immediacy
- 10 — Exaggeration of Human Form
- 11 — Birds in Flight (BIF)
- 12 — Look the Other Way
- 13 — Stitching Tip
- 14 — Go Back, Then Repeat
- 15 — Landscape Two-fer
- 16 — What Photographers Really Do
- 17 — Moments
- 18 — Dumb Luck
- 19 — Seeing O’Hare Again
- 20 — Fireworks
- 21 — Selecting Sky
- 22 — Momentary Rays
- 23 — Improving Your Wildlife Photography
- 24 — Dealing with Varying Color Temperature
- 25 — How Cold Can You Go?
- 26 — More on Cropping
- 27 — Find the Rest of the Story
- 28 — Things You "Can't" Shoot From Behind
- 29 — Photograph Out of Season
- 30 — Being Ready to Be Ready
- byThom 101
- After the Shoot 101
- Big Trip Planning 101
- Card Practices QAD
- Carrying 101
- Color Management QAD
- HDR: Expose to the Left and Right QAD
- Macro QAD
- Outdoor Attire 101
- Post Processing QAD
- Shot Discipline QAD
- Shot Discipline 101
- Shutter Speeds QAD
- Sports QAD
- Traveling with Cameras 101
- Workflow 101
- Lens Choice 101: Gap, Adjoin, or Overlap?
- Essays
- Establish Your Own Standards, But...
- Photography: Craft or Art?
- Settings Versus Seeing
- Optimal Data — Avoiding Entropy
- Optimal Data — Crud
- Optimal Data — Understanding Exposure and Noise
- Optimal Data — The Short Story
- Tip of the Iceberg
- The Pain of Photography
- The Top Photography Myths
- Good Design, Good Images
- Looking Forward
- I'm Constantly Being Chased
- How Many Photos Did it Take?
- Is Landscape Photography Done?
- Chasing Galen
- Hope Versus Fear
- What is Dynamic Range?
- Taking Photos Techniques
- Two Approaches to Photography
- Stop Fearing Noise
- What Causes "Soft"?
- That Was Bad Advice, Bad Advice...
- Color Me Confused
- What's the Highest ISO I Should Set?
- Stitching a PC-E Lens for Panos
- JPEG or RAW?
- Really, JPEG or RAW?
- Raw or JPEG Redux
- The Raw File Problem
- The Raw Fallacy
- How do I set the correct exposure?
- What is ETTR?
- What ND filter do I use to slow down water movement?
- How do I frame a self-timer shot with me in it?
- A Snappier Bridge
- You Want Great JPEGs? Here’s the 411
- Improving the Photographer
- The Random Game
- The Proper Way to Grow
- What Level Are You?
- Who is Your Curator?
- Are You Neglecting Your GDP?
- Blame the Equipment
- The Push/Pull of “Style"
- What’s Your Biggest Problem?
- Learning from Others (Sports Photographers)
- Learning from Others (Landscape Photographers)
- Outrunning Those Just Behind You
- Are You a Collector or a Photographer?
- Things You Should Do But Don't
- Reducing the Risk of Equipment Loss
- Getting Better at Photography
- What's Your Goal?
- How Do You Keep Up?
- How Long Until You Shoot Like a Pro?
- Where’s the Story?
- Your Turn to Get Better
- Simplify Your Way to Better Photography
- Magic Camera Settings
- Magic Moment
- Deleting Images
- Dealing with Cataracts as a Photographer
- Post Processing
- Post Processing 2022
- Teaching Points
- byThom Workshops
- Reviews & Books
- About byThom
- Newsletter Confirmed
- Newsletter Subscription Wasn't Confirmed
- B&H
