Interesting interview by Rob Galbraith of Nikon D4′s engineer Toshiaki Akagi.
The gist of the interview: D4 has much faster focus acquisition (“first frame” of a burst); sharper, more fine detail and reduced color noise at high ISOs; only Sony to make XQD cards; no comment of a mirrorless F-mount DSLR.
Read the interview at: Rob Galbraith.
Interesting series of interviews by Imaging Resource from the camera manufacturers at CES 2012. The first three are from Olympus, Pentax and Fujifilm, with more to follow.
Olympus: Interview with Toshiyuki Terada, Manager and Group Leader of the Product and Marketing Planning Group, Product and Marketing Planning Department at Olympus Imaging Corp., and Sally Smith Clemens, Product Manager at Olympus Imaging America Inc.
Concerning Olympus’ financial problems, “Actually, for our usual business, not so big an impact, we are working usually. Nothing special.”
Pentax: Interview with John Carlson, Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing at Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp.
Pentax is trying very hard to get the “message out there that a small camera [Pentax Q] with a combination of a high quality sensor and a high quality lens is going to give you better results than a compact camera where it’s all combined together.”
Fujifilm: Interview with Kayce M. Baker, Director of Marketing in the Electronic Imaging Division of Fujifilm North America Corp.
Fujifilm is making big claims that their new sensor in the X-Pro 1 is “equal in resolution to a full-frame sensor, and signal to noise is equal to a full-frame sensor.”
Canon EOS-1D X
The Canon EOS-1D X is the replacement for both the EOS-1D Mark IV and EOS-1Ds Mark III, and is slated for late March 2012, just in time for the 2012 London Olympics. The “X” apparently stands for “Crossover” or “Xtreme” or even the 10th generation EOS (or something like that).
DC Watch has an interview of the execs responsible for the design and development of the camera. It is in Japanese and we provide a [rather crude] English translation via Google translate.
PDN has published an interesting interview of Giorgio Baravalle on the subject of “Design That Supports Photography.”
Giorgio Baravalle co-founded the graphic design firm de.MO with his wife Elizabeth and the firm has worked on numerous photography-related web sites and books. PDN talks to Baravalle about his work with photographers and his thoughts on using design to bring attention to photographers’ work.
Read the interview at: PDN.
How do you get a Nikon D2Xs ready for space flight? Stan Horaczek from PopPhoto finds out by talking directly to NASA. It’s a short interview but you learn interesting tidbits about the use of flash in the vacuum of space, protecting the equipment from extreme temperatures during a spacewalk and what happens to the cameras after use?
Do you reuse the cameras after they come back from space? Do they even come back at all or are they jettisoned to reduce weight?
The cameras that come back are evaluated for damage. Depending on the condition the camera may fly again. The space environment (both inside the vehicle and on spacewalks) is tough on the electronic cameras. The radiation damages pixels on the sensor. Sometimes the damage is so great that the camera does not fly again.
Read the article at: PopPhoto.
From silberstudios.tv
Marc Silber interviews Neal Menschel, a famous photojournalist whose work has taken him around the world, from presidential elections to the fall of the Berlin Wall. His photos have been published in Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications throughout his career in photojournalism.
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Dr. Winfried Scherle is Vice President and General Manager of Carl Zeiss AG Camera Lens Division and, Wow, does he sure know how to make Carl Zeiss sounds like a fantastic company to work for! He shares Zeiss’ direction for new high quality compact prime lenses and being “open to new mounts.”
View the interview at: planet5Dblog.
Instagram started as an iPhone app that allows you to share your pictures on the Web and apply a series of creative filters for special effects. These filters are similar to those that are now ubiquitous on digital cameras, from the point-and-shoot to the DSLRs. It gained an instant success simply because of the innovation: your pictures looked different from all others on the Web.
But what differentiated Instagram from other apps that also offered creative filters is the sharing abilities to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare that simply worked very well. So, Instagram established itself as the place to share mobile photos on the Web. On launch day, they had about 15,000 downloads; that number grew to about 100,000 at the end of the first week, and 400,000 at the end of the first month. Today, they are at 3.2M users and growing. Besides the US, Japan is the next biggest users of Instagram. In fact, the international audience is a large part of Instagram’s success.
On lessons learned: “Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far” in the world of app development.
Download the free Instagram app.
source nextMEDIA
