The Olympus Pen F series of cameras is unique. And “unique” has many connotations in English, some not so complimentary. The Pen F, FT, and FV are variants of a half-frame SLR body that takes a variety of lenses. They deviate from conventional SLRs in ways that are apparent – and maybe not immediately so.…
In reading Ed Worthington’s essay on Emulsive, “Rant: Analysing analogue grandpas. Or, sucking the joy out of photography online since Jan 1st 1983,” I was confused. Who was online in 1983? Curiosity got the better of me. It took me two-thirds of the article to understand that the author was complaining about gatekeepers, not admitting…
Computational photography The term “computational photography” sounds fancy, but it is a fairly tame concept: using a computer to substitute something that is missing from a conventional optical treatment. Little bits and pieces of computational photography exist in the panoramic feature of your digital camera, any type of in-camera HDR, in-camera tilt-shift (“toy” or “perspective…
The Machine Planet 