Greg W - Admin

You may know me better as 'Admin', as I work more behind the scenes to keep PhotoComment running smoothly, so here is a short history of how I got here. I started working in a camera store right out of high school having never picked up a camera before. I spent a few years working there and then moved to wholesale and then made a big change and went into the cycling industry for a few years, however I could not stay away and made the move back into the photography industry and have been working with PhotoComment since March 2008. It has become a passion and a labor of love to bring the best photographic content to you.



Sony has introduced a new range of SLT cameras, the A33 & A55. SLT stands for Sinlge Lens Transluscnet. These cameras feature a transluscent mirror. This means that the mirror doesn’t move when you take a picture, the picture is transmitted through the mirror to the sensor. What does this mean in real life? Well the point I am focusing on in this post is the speed priority mode. In this mode you are able to shoot 10, yes thats right ten frames per second.

Here is a video you may already have watched in our post on the Sony Press Conference here at Photokina, if not take look at the difference between 3fps and 10fps, if you have already watched watch it again it’s pretty cool!

Here is a series of still I shot today on Sony’s stand at Photokina 2010. There are 26 shot in this sequence shot at 10 frames per second. The only reason I had to stop was that I was using a slower memory as my fast card was already full of other stuff. But the important thing to note here is that you are only limited by the speed of your card when shooting in high speed, the faster your card the more shots you get. In an ideal world where we could fast enough cards you could probably shoots 10fps all day.

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Sony SLT-A77 Advert

As some of you may have picked up by now I enjoy shooting video even more than shooting stills, provided I have the right equipment. We also know that all the DSLR manufacturers are trying to get in on the action of the 5D MkII. We also now that Sony has been hanging back.

We recently reviewed the NEX-5 which is a crossover camera offering the simplicity of use of a compact camera. This camera was the first interchangeable lens camera available from Sony to shoot full HD video. The NEX-VG10 I am talking about here is the video form, big brother of the NEX-5.

I have always maintained that although a DSLR can shoot HD video and the quality is unquestionable, there is a reason a video camera has always had a very similar shape or form. This is because you hold a camera differently when shooting video as opposed to shooting stills. The reason people ‘struggle along’ with a DSLR is the size of the sensor. The bigger sensor of the DSLR allows better low light performance and the ability to use faster aperture lenses gives you more control over depth of field.

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It is finally here! Due to some technical problems this issue was unable to go live in August as it should

have. We have taken the extra time to get some more great content to bring you a great issue of PhotoComment Magazine. Our apologies for the delay.

In this issue:

The Feature this month is Mental Resolution. We have been following the adventures of fancyblithe as she has embarked on a Photography course as a complete novice, in this article she wraps up with her overall impressions of the course and photography and we get to she some of the work she has produced.

We feature Cas Pretorious from Camera Club as our Reader’s Portfolio.

We report back on the Worldwide Photo Walk.

We review the Nikon S8000, Nikons Ultra zoom Compact Digital Camera.

Lisa Solonynko teaches us how to take great photographs of Smoke.

We also have our regular features including Scoop, Editors Comment and Final Comment.

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We love to here from you, please leave your comments below or mail us on magazine@photocomment.net




Were you at the FNB Stadium this past weekend for the big match? Even if you were not check out http://player23.co.za/fancam.php?track=fancam

The Vodacom Fan Cam Image is a 360 degree HD image of the entire stadium and all the people in it. The image takes roughly 4 minutes to capture the stadium in its entirety with 800,000 individual images being taken, the 800,000 images will then be “stitched together” to create a seamless image of the entire stadium and all the people inside it. The images were captured by Virtual Africa the company which also did the 360 degree views of all the World Cup stadiums. For more information on how they capture these great images and for more images head over to http://virtualafrica.co.za/




The final ballots have been counted and we have a winner. Congratulations to Hennie Homan for winning the 2010 Kick Off Competition with this image

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Our thanks for all the images, it presented a tough time for the judging.

A big thank you to KAMERAZ as well for the prize.

Be sure to look out for the year end photographic competition coming soon. Wow, time is flying.







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clockwise: © Mack Magagane, Andrew Royal; Mzwakhe Tshabalala; Sydelle Smith .  Market Photo Workshop 2010
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In this issue:

We feature Simon Davidson and Elsa Gousard in our Reader’s Portfolios.

We report back on the Snap II Exhibition featured in last months issue.

The Worldwide Photowalk is happening this month.

Ian Cooper reviews the Nikon D3s from a users perspective.

We also have our regular features including Scoop, Editors Comment and Final Comment.

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We love to here from you, please leave your comments below or mail us on magazine@photocomment

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The Market Photo Workshop, in association with AngloGold Ashanti, is proud to announce that applications for the 2010 Edward Ruiz Mentorship are now open.
The Edward Ruiz Mentorship was established to help launch the career of a promising photographer. The mentorship is aimed at recognising and developing potential in photographers who have achieved sufficient competence to put together a body of work that is coherent and well conceived. The mentorship awards the recipient with the financial and infrastructural support needed to develop a substantial body of photography work over the course of a year. The body of work will be exhibited as a solo exhibition at The Photo Workshop Gallery*. (*Conditions apply)

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News imageThe SD Association has announced two new high-speed performance symbols for the fastest SDXC and SDHC devices and memory cards. The first symbol (UHS-I) identifies products with businterface speeds up to 104 Megabytes per second for greater device performance. The second symbol (UHS Speed Class 1) identifies SD memory cards and products with a performance option allowing real-time video recording.

SD Association Press Release

SD ASSOCIATION DEFINES NEW HIGH-SPEED PERFORMANCE OPTIONS FOR SDXC AND SDHC MEMORY CARDS AND DEVICES

Symbols make it easier for consumers to choose the best SD memory card to maximize their devices’ performance

SAN RAMON, Calif. – June 23, 2010 – The SD Association announced today two new high-speed performance symbols for the fastest SDXC and SDHC devices and memory cards. The first symbol identifies products with businterface speeds up to 104 Megabytes per second for greater device performance. The second symbol identifies SD memory cards and products with a performance option allowing real-time video recording. Continue reading »




In this issue:

We feature the work of Colette Baillie as our Professsional Portfolio

Our featured reader’s portfolio is by Willem van der Post

See the latest products releases and industry news in Scoop.

We learn about ISO.

Panasonic GF1 vs Sony Alpha A390

And we peek into the Jobi Bieber’s new book ‘Soweto’.

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Please leave your thoughts and comments below or send them to magazine@photocomment.net.




In this issue:

Our featured reader’s portfolio is by Gavin Falck

5 Ways to fall in love with photography again

See the latest products releases and industry news in Scoop.

We learn about the White Balance.

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Please leave your thoughts and comments below or send them to magazine@photocomment.net.




A quick note from Seema Shariat from Teneues Books:

Just wanted to update you that the new Michael Poliza South Africa book has launched!

And with World Cup around the corner, this couldn’t be more timely!

Check out the book here:
www.teneues.com/Poliza

And don’t forget to enter the Twitter contest and win a FREE Michael
Poliza book: www.teneues.com/poliza/contest

Enjoy!
Seema Shariat
www.teneues.com
www.twitter.com/teneues
www.facebook.com/teneues
www.teneues.wordpress.com




Come and meet the missing Gaul – Prentifix! and learn how to make stunning Photobooks!

Saturday 15 May 2010
09h00 to 13h00 and later…….
The Missing Gaul- Prentifix!

If you have ever read the Asterix books, you might have wondered where the artists disappeared? Well someone had to capture the story………….. Prentifix! He was never in the stories, because he was too busy capturing them… Read all about the Legend of Prentifix Come along to the Museum of Military History in Saxonwold and be treated to the real deal…. 

Prentifix himself will demonstrate how to make the most of your images, by capturing them into a Customised Photobook. So bring along your laptop, your images and your imagination – we will be able to make history together!

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Olympus Europe has released a new online publication, entitled “PEN – The Magazine”. The first issue features six Olympus Micro Four Thirds camera users from all over Europe, including Tarjei Krogh from Norway, Britt Schepers and Eline Spanjaart from the Netherlands, Eduard Gimenez Cerda from Spain, Chris Mettraux from Switzerland and Björn Scheele from Bavaria. Aimed at popularising the new Olympus PEN E-PL1, the first issue of “PEN – The Magazine” offers interviews, photographs and videos plus links to the Flickr galleries and Facebook accounts of the six featured PEN users.




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