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Thom Hogan is a great reviewer of Nikon stuff. I love his six word summaries which basically say the best price/performance right now is the Nikon D700. He BTW really dislikes the Coolpix P6000 which has a crippled RAW capability because it require you use Windows Vista (ugh!), but it is 13MP and has GPS [...]

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I’ve loved DxO for a while because it handles distortion correctly. Sadly the move to 5.0 has gone poorly with lots of crashes and even with 5.2, people are still complaining about poor conversion and so forth. It’s not the only example of software taking giant steps backwards. Kind of sad. I have noticed that [...]

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I’ve been using DxO v4.5 with good results but the problem is that DxO 5.0 remains quite unstable. In a side-by-side comparison, Lightroom came off as the most decent, but it doesn’t have distortion correction. Almost means I have to stick with Canon’s own DPP which has distortion correction.
Apparently DxO 5.1 is now out and [...]

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Well, I’ve got a Canon i9900 and pro9000, but the new Epsons look pretty amazing. Luminous Landscape. The main this is it has wider gamut with vivid magenta and are incredibly wide. The 11880 for instance costs $15K and is 64” wide! Most folks think it is between Canon and Epson with Epson pulling ahead [...]

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For years I’ve used the Fuji Finepix F10 which took really great pictures with 5Mpixels but most importantly was fast enough to take ISO 400 photos. That camera still works really well but is not pretty big. Ideally you want a shirt pocket camera that:

8MP sensor and lense quality so you can get A3+
ISO 400 [...]

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