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<title>Thoreau Photography RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/index.php</link><description>News from Thoreau Photography</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><dc:rights>&#xa9; Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:rights><dc:date>2009-07-15T23:33:57+12:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:09:55 +1200</lastBuildDate><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/lenses/olympus25.html&#x22;&#x3e;Olympus 25 mm f2.8 pancake lens review: small really is beautiful&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2009-07-15T23:33:57+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/47024052eee82301abeedd4f86f2a200-14.php#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/47024052eee82301abeedd4f86f2a200-14.php#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With that in mind, I set out to get a taste of the Olympus 25mm f2.8 pancake lens made for the four-thirds mount, which, given the 2x crop factor due to the four-thirds sensor size, translates into the equivalent of a normal 50 mm lens on a 35 mm full-frame camera.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/cameras/canon5DII.html&#x22;&#x3e;Canon 5D Mark II: great mind&#x2c; shame about the body&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2009-06-20T11:36:38+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/2b08db115ebcd3868afa0564be675f9b-13.php#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/2b08db115ebcd3868afa0564be675f9b-13.php#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In fact, given the choice of a night with Claudia Schiffer or an F4, most photography nuts I knew at the time would have opted for the F4 on the basis that it was as close to Heaven as one could get while still surviving the night.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/cameras/p-and-s_vs_dslr.html&#x22;&#x3e;Point and Shoot Cameras (P&#x26;S) versus DSLRs&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Views</category><dc:date>2009-06-09T15:59:23+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/2b0ed10873df5516c550868c3d742ecf-12.php#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/2b0ed10873df5516c550868c3d742ecf-12.php#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What got me thinking this way was reviewing some of my images taken with a Canon G9 and being pleasantly surprized at how good some of them were: admittedly, they had all been taken at low ISOs (the equivalent of keeping well within the speed limit) and in good light &ndash; but for the resolutions one would typically use to display them on the web or for prints up to, say, 14 x 11 inches, I wondered whether we were not agonizing unnecessarily. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/cameras/olympuse3.html&#x22;&#x3e;Olympus E-3: Initial Impressions&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2008-10-12T15:04:20+13:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/9d3fb10d4b9d6fb21fdbc6c7568309f4-11.php#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/9d3fb10d4b9d6fb21fdbc6c7568309f4-11.php#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sporting a sensor only half the size of the 5D Mark II and a relatively paltry 10 megapixels, it has something that other four-thirds cameras do not: probably the best weather sealing on the market (of any camera), a brilliantly fast autofocus system, and a decidedly large viewfinder. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Is Canon Winning the Battle but Fighting the Wrong War?</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>News</category><dc:date>2008-08-31T22:17:43+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/230f24f46f2c15a568e5cffcec7ac8ee-10.php#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/230f24f46f2c15a568e5cffcec7ac8ee-10.php#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I want fast and accurate autofocus, an LCD monitor that shows me what I&rsquo;ve got rather than leaves me guessing, waterproofing and sealing that will allow me to use the camera in situations where I would hesitate now, and cleaner high ISO images for situations where I need to keep the shutter speed up or work in low light.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>There is a New King on the Court: Nikon at Wimbledon</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>News</category><dc:date>2008-07-12T12:12:57+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/32417836f2ff2bb26e70f1e34a8f74fb-9.php#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/32417836f2ff2bb26e70f1e34a8f74fb-9.php#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just as Rafael Nadal won a scintillating contest to uplift the Men's Championship Cup, a glance at the photographers' dugout showed that there was a new kid on the block there too: the black lenses of Nikon seemed to be the match of those of the white ones from Canon. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/lenses/superwides.html&#x22;&#x3e;Superwides: Canon 10-22 vs Tokina 12-24&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2008-07-03T20:27:39+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/056085e85e35c30782515e6f68b04547-8.php#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/056085e85e35c30782515e6f68b04547-8.php#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But, there is an issue when it comes to getting really wide perspectives using entry-level digital cameras and prosumer models such as the Canon 40D and Nikon D300: the crop factor &ndash; whereby only a portion of the imaging circle of the lens is used &ndash; means that the image is effectively magnified compared to that produced on a camera with a full-frame sensor using the same lens, thereby negating its putative perspective. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/lenses/canon70-300DO.html&#x22;&#x3e;Canon 70-300 DO Lens: Good Concept&#x2c; Shame about the Contradiction&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2008-05-11T23:25:32+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/0821983ab242c9fb263420b0783875fb-7.php#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/0821983ab242c9fb263420b0783875fb-7.php#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The DO stands for diffractive optics, and these are the first lenses from any manufacturer (and at this stage there are only two: the 400 f4 DO IS USM and the 70-300 f4.5-5.6 DO IS USM) to employ a grate in the lens elements that bends the incoming light to a greater extent than normal refractive lens elements, thereby allowing the lens to be smaller and largely free of the chromatic aberrations that plague digital photography (usually seen as purple fringing along high contrast edges). 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/cameras/sigmadp1.html&#x22;&#x3e;The Sigma DP1: Back to the Future&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2008-04-24T12:00:40+12:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/d46a6d4e56f490a575400ef19f87c962-6.php#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/d46a6d4e56f490a575400ef19f87c962-6.php#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The jury is no longer out when it comes to the quality of images produced by the DP1 &ndash; the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;pocketable&rdquo; digital camera to include a sensor the size of those found in DSLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras: you know, the ones that have interchangeable lenses and where you use a viewfinder that shows you the actual image as it is seen looking through the lens). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x3c;a href=&#x22;http://www.thoreauphotography.com/photography/reviews/lenses/Canon24-70v24-105.html&#x22;&#x3e;Canon 24-70 mm f2.8 L vs Canon 24-105 mm f4 L IS&#x3c;/a&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>Lloyd Spencer Davis</dc:creator><category>Reviews</category><dc:date>2008-03-08T10:21:45+13:00</dc:date><link>http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/612e4762efad10b7d65e39e126c5b264-5.php#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thoreauphotography.com/files/612e4762efad10b7d65e39e126c5b264-5.php#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Typically they end up confirming what we already know at the start: the Canon 24-70 f2.8 L is one stop faster and somewhat bigger; the Canon 24-105 f4 L has image stabilization (IS) built into the lens and has more reach on the long end. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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