Yeah, sometimes their advice is dopey. I remember in an article on spot
metering, the photographer had used a mixture of strobe, available light,
and tungsten lights, then added filtration that added up to ND plus a
correction. I suspect he was guessing. (Maybe he knows more than I do?)
Sometimes their photos don't match the text very well. They've been
printing pictures backwards, then apologizing almost monthly since I started
reading it (on and off) in 1969.
They recently reviewed a very expensive printer that is intended for
pre-press checks ($2,000 I think) but they completely missed the affordable
6-color inkjets that MacWorld 'caught'. Where are the film scanner reviews?
They have cover stories on oddball stuff instead like fisheye attachments.
Pop Photo has huge "blind spots" but they did a nice job of covering the new
Canon EOS D60 and Nikon D100 digital $2,000 bodies. Bodies they understand.
Printers and scanners they don't which is really weird because, to me,
that's where the advanced amateur LIVES.
Lama
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 6:10 AM
Subject: [OM] ( OM ) ever so slightly
> Hi,
>
> My one regular link to the published world of photography is Popular
> Photography. OK, OK, it's not up to much I know. But they do at least
> carry out tests of cameras and lenses that are probably more informative
and
> independent than any other publication.
>
> One entry in the August 2002 issue just to hand made me laugh in a rueful
> sort of way. Tim Fitzharris writes (extract from a new book he has
written);
> for panoramas "Use a small aperture (f/22 or f/32) for sharpness
(depth-of-
> field) that spans the entire picture field" End of quote. The picture
> associated with this invaluable piece of advice had nothing to focus on
closer
> than 30 metres (100ft).
>
> Brian
>
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