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We shared some difficult news this week: Rishi Sanyal, DPReview's former Science Editor, passed away in June at the age of 46. Regular readers will know Rishi for his in-depth technical analysis, but his influence extended well beyond our pages and into the industry itself. |
Conversations here this week, and in our forums, have kept circling back to the same thing: how one person can change the way an industry thinks. We spend much of our time writing about sensors, autofocus systems and product roadmaps, and after enough years of it, it's easy to feel like the camera industry is on some predetermined track. It isn't. Products get built because someone argues for them, and every so often, one person argues well enough to move the whole thing. |
For many years, my desk sat right next to Rishi's. Often, I would ask him a seemingly simple question about a technology, and two hours later I'd still be standing at a whiteboard while he explained not just how something worked, but why it mattered. I'm a better photographer today because of those lessons. |
That was the standard: never data for its own sake. He wanted to know what was happening inside a camera, why, and how that would change the photo you took next. Plenty of people thought of Rishi as a geek, and they weren't wrong. But what they often missed was that he was also an accomplished artist. When he pushed a manufacturer to build something, it wasn't because the engineering was interesting (OK, sometimes it was), but because he could already envision what a photographer would do with it. Engineers at the major manufacturers took his calls for exactly that reason. |
It's the standard DPReview still runs on, and one I intend to keep.
Over the years, Rishi frequently corresponded with readers through email, chats and social media. If you have a memory you'd like to share, hit reply. We'd love to read it. |
With that, let's get back to the news, gear, and community that Rishi cared so much about. |
— Dale Baskin, Managing Editor |
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Posts That Stopped the Scroll |
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Most people know Tom Cruise as a movie star, but it turns out he’s a bit of a geek when it comes to cinema production, including cinema cameras, lenses and lighting. In this video from @kevinmccarthytv on Instagram, Cruise geeks out with film industry journalist Kevin McCarthy over things like different kinds of lighting, applying old technology to today’s films, and why he always insists on wearing a dark blue tuxedo. |
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We've seen a lot of great photos from the recent solar eclipse that passed over parts of Europe, but some readers have asked about the safety of pointing a camera directly at the sun. There are special solar filters designed for this, but one Instagram user caught our attention with a clear example of the damage the sun can do to your camera sensor if you're not careful. |
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Film has been gaining momentum among photographers, but most film photographers will want to digitize their photos at some point, whether those photos come from their archives or are brand-new creations. German company Filmomat takes us behind the scenes to show how quickly a modern film scanner can perform this task. |
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Photo by Richard Butler |
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It’s been nine years since we last saw a new version of Sony’s long-zoom RX10 camera series, so we were pleasantly surprised when the company announced the RX10 V earlier this year. With a sharp 24-600mm lens and almost a decade of new technology built in, the RX10 V is a huge step forward from its predecessor. But has the image quality improved? |
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Important Dates In Photo History |
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August 23 – Nikon D3 announced: Nikon announced its newest flagship camera on this day in 2007. It was aimed at speed and sensitivity, with a base ISO range up to 6400, a 9-fps burst speed, and what our preview classified as “blistering AF and shutter lag.” August 22 – Man Ray’s birthday (b. 1890). A photography innovator, he's best remembered for two techniques: the "rayograph," a cameraless image made by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper, and solarization, a darkroom effect that partially reverses tones to create a glowing, halo-like outline (developed with his collaborator Lee Miller).
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Photo by David Lal |
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Wildlife photography is one of the most popular genres. But sometimes, encounters with wildlife can be unexpected, and if you’re sharp enough to have your camera at the ready, it’s an opportunity to capture something truly special. In our question of the week, we asked photographers to share photos from some of those unexpected encounters. Have you captured an image of an unexpected run-in with wildlife? Share it with us! |
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We have some incredibly talented photographers in the DPReview community. This week, we published a profile of Lester Lefkowitz, a former college educator and Director of Education at the International Center of Photography. Lester isn't just an accomplished macro photographer – he literally wrote the book on it: The Manual of Close-Up and Macro Photography, Volumes I & II, considered a definitive work in the field. He shows us the gear he uses and tells us what draws him to this specialty. |
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"Light is everything. If you can't control it, you have to be able to anticipate it and know what you want from it." |
JIMMY CHIN – adventure photographer and Oscar-winning filmmaker |
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