Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

A cold early spring day in Coney Island with the D700 and the 16-85 3.5-4.5 DX Lens.

The purchase by Sigma of Foveon, opens many new posibilities. The advantages of this sensor that like film reads the three primary colors at each site, but at different depths - film has layers - makes the Bayer pattern and macro lenses not needed and also does away with the low pass filter and the interpolation needed to put it all together. The minimizing of reflections caused by the shiny micro lenses is onother great advantage. But the greatest benefit of the Foveon has been its incredible image quality with a smooth film like look free of many artifacts that plague other sensors. There are two drawbacks, the sensor is still not very large -it has a multiplier factor of 1.7 and it is restricted to Sigma DRLR's that use only Sigma lenses. I have used many great Sigma lenses and still have a few at hand and some have been excellent. However, many shy away from them. As there are two main camps Nikon and Canon. it would be advantageous to Sigma and to many photographers if Sigma ...

It's the NY Botanic Garden in the fall of 2007. A Canon 20D with the Canon 100 2.8 Macro lens.

Something different. A stll life resulting from a test of the D200 with the 60mm 2.8 Micro Nikkor.

To paraphrase the BARD: " to upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the question".... This is the most frustrating thing about digital. It's not necessarily the need to get a better camera but the perceived need and the fear that what we have at hand will be obsolete. We get on this escalator and cannot get off at a floor that we deem satisfactory so we keep on going up and up. Take the 5D for example, it a superb camera that takes superb photos, It has it's problems like all cameras but it is, in my opinion, a classic. I have two of them and will not give them up. Do I want a 5DII? Of course I do but what real advantages based on what I use the camera for are there? Of course it does video superbly etc. I use the "old" 5D outdoors in day time mostly so noise is not an issue. As for resolution, I believe that 13.9 mega pixels is quite enough especially when shooting raw. The files are really huge. As I have posted before, professionally, I use the D700, but thi...

Another photo of Venice. The pigeons in Piazza San Marco. Taken in 2007 with a D200 and the 18-85 3.4-4.5 lens. It's impossible to leave Venice. The polenta con bccala' is to die for. Viva L'Italia.

The Throngs Neck Bridge late in a June day. Taken with a Canon 30D and the 24 to 85 35-4.5 lens.

What I thought to be an unimportant new fornat, micro 4/3 is apparently picking up speed. The offering by Olympus has apparently stimulated the makers. These adapters will open many possibilities to Nikon F mount lens and Pentax K mount lens users. There are literally millions of them. Wow!

A photo taken yesterday, Sunday in the Park with My LX 3. Again, its NYC - Washinghton Square Park - and the camera is again the LX 3. I was trying the external viewfinder and I kept the ISO at 400.