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In this section we publish articles about gears, techniques, methods in photography and video dslr. Articles are written in English and in Italian so be sure to check also our italian version.

Processing X100S RAW with IRIDIENT DEVELOPER – Part 1

May 14, 2013

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IRIDIENT DIGITAL vs ACR

Iridient Developer 2.1 is a neat RAW processor. It’s not written by a big company but from quite a small one which makes it even more interesting to me (I love craftsmanship in a world of big industries). It is partly based on DCRAW (altought the developer claims to have an “original” demosaicing algorithm) and supports 400+ models of camera. The latest announced version, 2.1, published some days ago, promises a good support for the XTRANS sensors onboard the latest Fujifilm cameras, making use of Apple algorithm for the XTRANS [...]

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Fujifilm X100 vs X100s

April 9, 2013

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X100 vs X100s

UPDATES Mat 15th: Testing X100S RAW with IRIDIENT DEVELOPER and ACR Some more thoughts on the conclusions based on readers feedbacks Great time for photographers. Lot of possibilities, new (really capable cameras), 35mm chasing Medium Format, small cameras chasing 35 mm. As many of you may remember, I had always a particular interest in small cameras. Maybe because I first learnt how to use a camera with an old (and small) FED 4, maybe because, even if I’m not a street photographer, I like a camera always with me. And, [...]

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2012 Digital Cameras: The Visual Experience selection

December 10, 2012

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2012 Digital Cameras: The Visual Experience selection

2012 brought a number of important products on the market, offering a bunch of news revitalizing the whole sector. Of course, all this activity (170 new models until 2012, so far) often increases the difficulty of choice in the world of digital cameras. This article is a reasoned summary of the various options that are offered today to the professional and the advanced enthusiast, novelty that in some cases are able to put in doubt what has already been purchased in the light of new capabilities, versatility and image quality. [...]

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Fuji X-Pro1: one day of positive impressions

June 18, 2012

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Fuji X-Pro1 Review: Intro and disclaimer During my staying in Sanary-Sur-Mer, a nice town of the Provence cost in France, as one of the authors exhibiting at the second edition Photomed festival, I had the possibility to enjoy one full day the Fujifilm X-pro1 and the xf18mm f2 lens. I am now quite used to the Fuji X cameras, being one of first time buyers od the X100. So the first contact with the camera gave me a sense of familiarity. Same commands, look&feel, peculiarities (the latter being sometime positive, sometimes not). Moreover [...]

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Cromatic Feeling

April 14, 2011

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Colors are an event, they’re spectacular or soft or exciting or calming They change the nature of things, including images. We’ve all learned about color temperature and cromatic shifts (at least any of us old enough to have made a career with film), so feeling more like playing than working I set about to “colore” my very first video-clip. I didn’t have a video camera, nor would I have known how to use one at the time, but I had decided to make a video-clip called Segreto, with my friend [...]

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Pentax 645D Hands on

December 9, 2010

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I had the possibility to play with the new Pentax 645D, the so-long-awaited-accessible medium format DSLR. I have to admit that I was surprised to find with it in Italy: looks like I had the venture to deal with the only model currently available in my country.  Still a “preview” model, so with a lot of potential improvements will hopefully come especially for firmware. First touch Never used a Pentax before. A long track with Canon (D)SLRs and with Medium Format film cameras. The camera is bulky but well designed. [...]

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