Dan Benjamin and I have returned to the microphones and have brought TackSharp out of hiatus. It's a leaner, meaner TackSharp now and, for the time being anyway, we're just focusing in on getting content out to you. Subscribe or update in iTunes or hit up the website and download the episode.
The other day, while I was flying from San Francisco to New York and enjoying free WiFi, Mike Clark and I got to chatting on iChat about photography. During the conversation, we got onto the topic of practicing. More importantly,...
It's impossible to give generalized advice about what kind of camera to buy. However, I've recently been asked for what I'd recommend buying with a $2K budget. Here's the answer.
I've talked about what it was like to photograph at TEDGlobal 2009, but there's a lot more to getting the job done than my own contribution. It takes a full team of talented and dedicated people to get the job done.
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[Sorry for the offtopic post]
Since you have posted (twice) about "Focus And Recompose" earlier, you might be interested in this development:
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The APL processor accurately logs camera movement during any re-composing, then uses these exact measurements to calculate the necessary focus adjustment, and issues the proper commands to the lens’s focus motor so it can compensate. The APL processor computes the advanced positional algorithms and carries out the required focus corrections at such rapid speed that no shutter lag occurs.
(I found it here: http://www.prophotohome.com/news/2009/09/26/hasselblad-launches-new-h4d-high-end-dslr-featuring-revolutionary-true-focus-functionality/)
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What do you think? Does this change the game?
(Seems such an obvious patent in hindsight, I wish I had thought of that.)
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It was a pleasant surprise to find the latest TackSharp episode in my iTunes library. Glad you guys are back!
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