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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 1 Concept and Contestants
End of Day. Panasonic Lumix G6 with Lumix 14-140mm f3.5-5.6 (MkII) lensFamily Cameras Many people these days rely on their smart phone for making a photographic record of family gatherings, events,...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 2, The Weigh In
Nikon 1 V2 with 10-100mm f4-5.6 VR lens at 100mm. This lens is at it's worst at full zoom but still puts in a decent performance with a bit of softness on the right side and overall low contrast in the...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 3, Lenses
Nikon 1 V2 with 10-100mm lens Introduction Lens quality is a key determinant of overall picture quality. No camera can perform better than the lens mounted onto it.Superzoom Lenses These have the...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 4, User Experience
Nikon 1 V2, 10-100mm lens at 100mm Camera Reviews Many camera reviews provide a long list of specifications and features. Several also provide a detailed description of all the various User Interface...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 5, Picture Quality
G6 with 14-140mm lensD5200 with 18-200mm lens Technical Image Quality vs Picture Quality There are several internet sites which publish data about camera image quality using technical terminology. A...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 6, Performance and Speed
D5200, 18-200mm lens. You cansee the orange in this photo is bolder than in the photo below. The one below is probably more accurate.G6, 14-140mm lens. Different aspect ratio from the M43 camera. Apart...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 7, Ergonomics
Lumix G6 with 14-140mm lens Summary of ergonomic concepts applicable to cameras Ergonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, it's movements and it's cognitive...
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3 Way Holiday Camera Shootout Part 8, Video User Experience
D5200 with 18-200mm lens at 200mm Brief Report My interest is in still photos. I rarely make a video. However each of the three cameras in this 3 Way shootout is capable of motion picture capture....
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3 Way Shootout Part 9, Final Comments and Predictions for the Future
On the left, Nikon 1, V2, Center, Nikon D5200, Right Panasonic Lumix G6 The questions At the beginning of this 9 part 3 Way shootout, I put several questions. Let us come back to these, with the...
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M43 Practice, Diffraction, Unsharpness caused by reducing lens aperture
Why post about this ? I am moved to write this by a post which is running currently on the DP Review M43 Forum, titled "Diffraction Limit". It has generated 142 responses thus far. Some contain such...
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Spring Has Sprung
On the northern outskirts of Sydney lies Muogamarra Nature Reserve. This is open to the public only 6 weekends per year. Today being a fine warm first day of spring there were masses of wildflowers and...
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Panasonic Lumix G6 Camera Review
Lumix G6 with Lumix 14-45mm lens. A versatile walk around combination. This scene with quite high subject brightness range required only a small amount of highlight and shadow adjustment in Adobe...
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Setting Up the Lumix G6 Camera, Part 1, Menus
Part 1, Main Menus: Setup, Custom, Recording Introduction Current model Panasonic Lumix G Micro Four Thirds cameras, including the G6, have a very sophisticated user interface. With all menu and Fn...
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Setting Up the Lumix G6 Camera, Part 2, Q Menu and Fn Buttons
Lumix G6 with 14-140mm lens Basic ergonomic concepts For someone who has never encountered a recent model Lumix G camera, the task of allocating user selected functions to the Q Menu and Function...
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Advanced Compacts Sony RX100-vs-Canon G12
Sony RX100 on the left, Canon G12 on the right Two very different approaches to the Advanced Compact conceptWhy am I testing two superseded cameras ? Over the last few weeks my daughter has been...
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Do Compact Cameras Have a Future ?
Ergonomics of Very Small CamerasMockup of a very small camera as proof of concept. A camera can be very small yet still have decent ergonomics and a well developed user interface. Challenge of the...
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Lumix GM1, Ergonomic Problems
New Camera, Old MistakesPhoto Courtesy of Digital Photography Review, dpreview.comThis shows very clearly that you don't actually hold the GM1 and cameras of similar configuration. You get some...
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Sony RX10, Ergonomic Issues
Interesting New Camera, Old Ergonomic ProblemsPhoto courtesy of Digital Photograpy Review dpreview.comThis photo is worth a thousand words. It shows how the user's right index finger has to be pulled...
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Sony Alpha 7/7R, New Cameras, New Ergonomic Problems
Photo courtesy of Digital Photography Review dpreview.com You can see in this photo the camera user's index and middle fingers are spread apart. In this particular photo the middle and fourth fingers...
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Ergonomic Roundup November 2013, Canon
Art Deco Building. Still standing but for how much longer ? Market Leader Canon is the current market leader. Given this I think it is reasonable to expect Canon to have more funds for research and...
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