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i completely agree!!!Wow.....ABsolutely Superb
other worldliness......Divine :clap: helen
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i completely agree!!!Wow.....ABsolutely Superb
other worldliness......Divine :clap: helen
That is five kinds of cool! :clap::clap::clap:Whoops, meant to post this version of the sculpture :
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Brian
i always have to smile when i hear that opinion and, trust me, i hear it often! after working in sales and for an electronics manufacturer for several years (decades?), i see things the other way around. whilst the first generation product may have flaws, it is almost always (if not always) built the best. sure, second generation products smooth out the kinks and whatnot and add a little cosmetic glitz. but manufacturers also learn how many corners they can cut and get cost down in production so they reach their ultimate goal -- make money!I've learned this lesson the hard way, that when it comes to automobiles or consumer electronics, it is usually best to avoid the first generations products. There are always problems in the hardware or UI, that the designers never foresaw.
i'm doing the same. my dealer actually has it in stock, but i'm waiting til next week to go.... i actually was still kind of up in the air with my original GRD purchase until i handled it against the GX100. had no idea what i was doing in either case, but the GRD just felt right... if the DP1 feels wrong initially, then maybe that is that as it seems to be with others. there's something about the pics that tempt me, though. and so many of my pics are taken when people (even those i know) aren't aware, that near silence is a necessity.I go back and forth on this.
I far prefer smaller and/or lighter cameras.
The DP-1 does make it on the size front.
But we keep seeing both negative and positive feedback on it.
I very much hope the local Sigma Dealer, Competitive Camera gets one in stock.
Because I feel the only way to judge it will be to handle one.
The sketching, as Ben Lifson has often written about, is enormously useful. In the early 1990s, I spent a lot of time sketching from life and from Old Master drawings.While looking at photography monographs is useful and can give you ideas, ultimately, to improve your composition I think the best thing to do is to look at paintings because painters have to create the whole composition; their composition is completely intentinonal. The trouble is that it's difficult to look at paintings: you can look at a painting for a few minutes and think about the composition, but the only real way to understand the composition is by making a sketch of the painting that emphasizes the compositional elements. That's a huge effort that, understandably, most people do not want to undertake. I do feel, however, that the time I spent drawing and painting did more than anything else to teach me how to see, which is what you need for good photography.
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
Here's the link: http://www.rawworkflow.com/making_pictures/index.htmlYou don't have to be able to draw to do this. Just get a reproduction of a painting, drawing, or a photograph and use tracing paper to block out the compositional elements. you can use the same technique to study the way artists handle the bottom edge of their works, the framing, etc. It is a great way to better understand why some photographs work and others don't.
Ben Lifson uses this approach in some of his essays.
Mike
Thanks for the link Simon. Very interesting! There's a good section with the DP1 compared to the GRD II. I put links to English translations here: http://www.seriouscompacts.com/2008/03/euyoungs-six-part-sigma-sigma-dp1.html
M-hm, all the way from the ceremonial box opening. Popcorn, big time.
Saids work is really quite nice, all RAW of course and pp'd.
He had me until this comment:
Taken in the context that he wants a tiny camera that 'draws' like the bigger ones, that comment makes sense.He had me until this comment:
"For pros looking for something to back up their SLR however, im dead certain that the DP1 will be a huge success, and hopefully the other manufacturers will follow in Sigmas footsteps. That would finally make digital compacts a useful category of cameras."