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Although the real-time optical finder in DSLR’s is hugely useful, there are times where using Live View is a wiser choice. While walkaround photography is perfectly suited to quick OVF (and EVF’s), slow-paced photography on a tripod is better done with an LCD in Live view mode. Why?
With the release of the X100, the company’s first flagship compact, about three years ago, Fujifilm established its turnover from a dying film company to a reputation of making high-quality photography equipment with photographers in mind. After the release of the X100S that corrected many of the initial X100S quirks nearly two years ago, Fuji is back in the market with a new model, the X100T, better than ever before.
First of all, sorry for all you regular Photograph IO readers for blogging so scarcely these days. School just started and everyone is busy, but I’ll still try to do my best and keep up with at least 3/4 articles per week. Stay tuned! That being said, this article has a more personal, intimate style that would perhaps be better suited to be on some personal blog, but for the sake of it, I’ve decided to post it in Photograph IO for those who are interested…
Like most amateurs photographers today, digital photography has been with me from the start. Although I did know people who owns and shoots film, I had never manipulated that medium myself. And so I shot digital for over 5 years, ever since the beginning of my path down photography. However, film photography always intrigued me. Maybe it’s because of that so-called tonal rendition, or dynamic range, or that ubiquitous film grain, or maybe out of pure curiosity? No matter what the reason was, the film look had a profound appeal on me. I bought some VSCO. Is it good? Hell yeah. But I still had to try the experience of shooting real film. I still had to explore the vast world of film photography…
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Long exposures are one of the most popular, and stunning forms of photography, because they often embody a sense of motion in a single photograph. What if you combine long exposures (as in, very, very long) with astrophotography? Star trails are one of the most mesmerizing things you can photograph using just about standard equipment. Although the theory is very simple (you simply need to shoot a 30 minute exposure, right?), it is much harder to master in practice.