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Archive for March 2012

Lumix GX1: 14mm Street Shooter

In Photography on 30 March 2012 tagged gx1, lumix, micro43, panasonic, Photography, street with 4 comments

Earlier this month I waxed enthusiastic about my latest toy, the adorably-named Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read Peter Thomsons’ review of the 14mm F2.5 pancake lens in his London Street Photography blog. I highly recommend it and the linked reviews from that article, they’re all excellent. I’ve been a [...]

Your Content

In Technology on 10 March 2012 tagged codec, content, ipad, Music, rights, Technology, Video with 3 comments

listening to Hitting the Surface by Monolake from the album Ghosts. It’s the future. You have a device in your pocket that is exponentially more powerful and has hundreds, maybe thousands of times more storage than the largest computers of 30 years ago. Maybe you have a bag with a tablet computer in it which [...]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1

In Photography, Technology on 4 March 2012 tagged cameras, gear, gx1, lumix, micro43, panasonic, Photography, Technology with 1 comment

Awhile back I posted about the Lumix GF2 and promised I’d write a post about some hacks I was hoping to find. Well, short of the little popup-flash bounce trick, those hacks never really materialized for me. The GF2 served me well. It’s a great little travel camera, but the lack of dedicated hardware controls [...]