"The restless photographer, never seems to have enough equipment." - 365 Project, Day 332

One big thing people want with their cameras is great low-light shooting.  I find this funny, because A) people want the smallest camera possible with the most zoom, and B) people generally don't want to spend, say $450 (the price of the Canon S100) for their camera.  This is another issue I've touched on before, and not the subject of this post.

What is pretty impressive is how companies are really pushing the boundaries of what camera sensors can do.  The Fuji X-Pro 1 and the Canon G1X really promise incredible results, and with the samples that have come out, those promises seem to be realised.  Fuji promises their APS-C sensor will outperform full-fram sensors, and Canon is positioning their G1X to go toe-to-toe with compact system cameras.

We'll see where this all leads, but all I can say I'm glad I never really shot film, because there's no way film cameras can perform as well digital.  When a small compact camera can shoot usable shots at ISO6400, that says something about how far technology has come along.

Here's what we did today.

Frank

His note: "One little, two little, three little elephants."

My shot

To get the effect I wanted, I'd need a D3s.  Someone was having fun with spot lights (and I can't venture to guess who), and I tried to capture them in an interesting pattern.  That didn't work, so here's what I ended up with.

... I don't know how to finish this post.

"I'm concerned with pushing images to the edge of sanity. " - 365 Project, Day 329

I've mentioned this before but I'm still looking for a good photography podcast.  It's a little annoying.  The only steady podcast I listen to is from TWIT.tv, but I'm not the biggest fan of theirs.  Prophotoshow.net has a nice one, and Mr. Seim has a good vision from time to time, but he's made it very difficult to download the MP3, and so I haven't listened to him in quite a while.  His shows are also very inconsistent in their release schedule.  Photography.ca also has a very nice show, released semi-regularly, but they are very, very short, which is somewhat annoying, given how knowledgeable the host is, and how much he seems to include the photography.ca community for inspiration.

I've also listened to one or two others that are not worth mentioning.  I'v thought about starting my own, but I have no community and nothing to talk about.  These kind of roadblocks haven't generally stopped me from doing anything before, but it seems like it would take too much of a time investment to do everything that has to be done for it.  Every photography podcast I listen to, though, pushes me one bit closer to re-evaluate my time.

There's really not much to show from today.  I took a few other shots that more or less look like this.  This is my shot for the day, though.

My shot

Every three days since Winter started, we've had incredibly different weather.  From warm to sleet and snowstorm to cold and windy to now freezing rain and we'll see what tomorrow brings.  Given how dark it was, this is the best way to show exactly what the roads were like.  It's not the most picturesque photo I've ever taken, but it gets the point across.

I'm actually pretty curious about tomorrow.