B&W Fine Art Photography
B&W Fine Art Photography
There are two extreme factions out there: one obsessed with megapixels and dynamic range and super duper sharp gimongous lenses, one that answers to all that with a loud “meh” and does’t give a damn. Broadly speaking, exponents of the first faction will be shooting, depending on their level of income, gigapixel panoramas and the …
Oh my! After I published the Nikon F review I noticed that I had never written a review about my favorite camera – film or digital – ever: the mighty Nikon F4s. So here we are!
This started out as the satisfaction of an old, almost ancient!, whim of mine. The Nikon F, the camera that jumpstarted the SLR revolution in the professional field, has been on my radar since I was a kid (and, at the time, a Nikon shooter).
A.k.a. “The lens which came in from the cold” Russians have a way with glass. Assuming your sample has not been assembled by a still drunk worker on a Monday morning (or so the legend goes), the quality is often way better than it should, especially when you factor in the price.
Things don’t always go according to plans. Mount Cocuzzo is a famous location, because from the summit the view spans over a fair bit of the Tyrrhenian coastline.
Different This is an old picture, shot with the 6 (yes: six) megapixels Nikon D70. At the time the D70 was simply a resolution-monster, the next best thing after sliced bread, and its CCD sensor performed beautifully.