Recent content by Frenchman

The main thing I lust after in the X100T is the new Classic Chrome. There were rumors that Fuji would put it in the X100S through a firmware update but I have not seen any. Does anybody know if this will come, or if I missed an announcement? I checked Fuji's firmware pages. I am not interested...

I think this is a better rendition of what I had in mind: Man Asleep on Stairs by yarrouye, on Flickr

I really like the one with the ferns. In the second shot is all that purple foliage in tree some chromatic aberration? It goes well with the rest of the picture.

No, I have not tried a gradient in LR. I do have LR but am trying to pick between Aperture and LR and right now I am learning Aperture first (even though basic unforgivable bugs like not being able to reorder projects drive me crazy, I like its full screen UI on my small 13" screen better, and...

This was not directed at you lightmancer but an observation that this small car somehow polarizes people between those who think it is a great roadster in sheep clothes and those who think only "chicks" and middle aged people drive them. As someone wrote all you need is a twisty road to...

The Miata always bring [reactions] out of people. I miss mine. It was crashed by a "real man" Ford Explorer driven by a woman who spun right in front of it... In my "neck of the woods" the chicks drive Mustangs and Corvettes. So much for the stereotypes. I still have some nice pictures of a...

16 seconds at f/8, ISO 200 (Aperture priority). This is part of my very first set of night/long exposure pictures. I would love to get feedback and tips to take better pictures or to process them better. For example, would the city lights have been a bit crisper at a higher ISO and therefore...

Regardless of the good pricing, I wouldn't call the E-PM2 a point and shoot and it definitely does not have the form factor, even with the collapsible zoom. (I got an E-PL2 with that same lens from my son for $200; it was refurbished but I count that as new as it came with a one year warranty...

Did the pictures move somewhere else? I am looking for inspirations to learn to process B&W.

The more I see timelapse photography the more I want built in remote triggering. I updated my wish list :)

Yes, everything needs to add up to something within what the processor can do. It's tough when you see that for $100 less Olympus can make a camera (the OM-D) with an apparent huge reserve of processing power, doing all of those expensive things like blown colors highlighting, face detection...

What's frustrating is that the camera will tell you a face was detected during review but not during exposure making. I am guessing you want it to focus on said face? It's funny that they do that in cameras that are hundred of $ less (and those also will have GPS or Wi-Fi; I'd pick GPS from...

I am sure we all have a list of things that could be improved in the firmware. Here is mine... I only list things that I (as a software engineer, albeit in a different field) think can be pretty easily done in firmware. The "importance" categories are for me, of course. What is yours? Here's...