the last word

Two years ago, I took a boat trip from Montreal down the St. Lawrence and through the Canadian Maritime Provinces. I took a Sony RX1 and a Leica M240. The Sony didn’t survive the first leg of the journey, and I used the Leica exclusively. This occurrence was the source of some merriment on one… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a report on a trip with the Sony a7RII. The series starts here. If you go on a trip like this, the cruise company will make clothing recommendations, and you’d be well-advised to heed them. But they don’t usually focus on the needs of photographers. So, at the risk of… [Read More]

I’m back from a two-week cruise on a smallish – 60 passenger – boat. We started in Sitka, Alaska, and spent the first weeks exploring the fjords, glaciers, and forests of south-eastern Alaska. We continued south to British Columbia, and looked at the northern BC coast, Haida Gwaii, the east coast of Vancouver Island and… [Read More]

There’s a new version of AutoPano Giga out. It’s even better at using all the CPU cores than the old one: The above is with a dual hexcore system, so there are a lot of physical cores to use. It’s not the memory hog that it once was, although this was with a 12 42… [Read More]