Outdated: Technology

Warning – more than slightly wonkish!  In this section, I want to focus on the technology behind the two cameras I currently use the most, the Fuji Z900EXR, and the Fuji F600EXR.  The EXR technology (who knows what it stands for), in principle gives them an advantage compared to other cameras.  Whether it does or…

In the prior post I looked at the differences in portability in the 5 cameras I work with at the moment.  In this one, I want to look at each camera briefly, to describe why I bought it, how it performed, and what I currently use it for.  In the next post, I will look…

I’ve always been on a quest for the ideal digital camera. As technology keeps advancing, that’s a moving target of course, and it’s what keeps camera manufacturers in business.  But over the last few years, I’ve been putting my ideas about what makes the perfect digicam in some kind of order.  For me it turns…

The saintly Paul Krugman (of whom more later) often helpfully tags his columns in the NYT with the descriptor “wonkish”, or “slightly wonkish”, signifying some more or less baffling piece of economics theory.  I like ‘wonkish’ more than say,  ‘nerdy’, probably because if Krugman likes it, then it’s good enough for me. I mention this…