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Cameras and Photography Explained
- News/Views
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Photographic Travel
- Africa
- How to Think About Equipment for Safari
- The “Portable” Safari Kit
- 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
- 2010 Botswana Photo Workshop Blog
- South America
- Lost in Translation
- Up Into the Cordillera Blanca
- Into Santiago
- Photography in the Galapagos
- 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
- 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
- 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
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