It’s
Thursday, so it’s news day for My Togging Life.
First a quick
heads up from Olympus; apparently Olympus users may find that their autofocus
system may not work if they are using the new Panasonic Leica DG Elmarit 200mm
f/2.8 Power O.I.S. Luckily Olympus have announced the release of a firmware
update that shook fix this problem. The update will be available starting
February next year and will be released as follows:
• E-M1
Mark II / E-M5 Mark II / PEN-F - February 2018
• E-M1 /
E-M10 Mark III / E-M10 Mark II / E-PL8 / E-PL7 - Spring 2018 (For the rest of the world we can assume this means
from the start of March to the end of May)
• E-M5 / E-M10 / E-P5 / E-P3 /
E-P2 / E-P1 / E-PL6 / E-PL5 / E-PL3 / E-PL2 / E-PL1s / E-PL1 / E-PM2 / E-PM1 /
A01 - 2018 (so sometime in the
next 390 or so days…)
This isn’t
really unusual. I mean, new tech needs new solutions to new problems. I do find
myself wondering about the time frame, though. Do firmware fixes usually take
this long? Anyone out there who can give me an answer to that one gets a gold
star! I mean, why wouldn't you be ready to roll when you announce the fix?
Anyway...
Next, There
Legged Thing are excited about a great, sensational, fantastic new thing
they are doing with the Punks range of tripods. Yep, 3LT have unleashed Punks
Anarchy! Yeah! Woo! Anarchy!
Slice your
way through the ‘ad-speak’ and the hype and… they now come in black.
So...
Finally, I am
going to editorialise a bit here, express my views on the latest (read
never-ending) debate in the photography community. Basically I'm gonna have a rant.
The JPEG vs
RAW debate has gotten more air time with Tony Northrup releasing a video
explaining his views on who should use each file format and why. Jared Polin,
vocal advocate of the RAW file format, then released a video expressing his
opinion that Northrup’s views were confusing. Northrup retorted in another
video, etc, etc.
Then Wasim
Ahmad from Fstoppers chimed in with his view that, and I am paraphrasing here,
everything Polin thinks is wrong and that Northrup is the way and the light.
If that wasn’t your intention, Wasim, then I apologyise for my
misinterpretation. But read over your article with an objective eye and you’ll
see why people might think the way I do.
Now, seeing
as Wasim felt free to chime in with his ten cents worth, i’m going to chuck in
a buck fifty and see where it leads. Here goes:
WHO CARES!!!!
Seriously,
people. Is it really all that important what format you shoot in? “Beginners
should do this. Beginners should do that. If you are a pro, do this. If you are
a pro, do that.” Yes, Jared, you are 100% correct. Yes, Tony, you are
100% correct. And no, you are both 100% wrong. Why? Because what you are
expressing are opinions. They are right or wrong depending on who is
reading them, when, where and in what context. But, and this is the thing that everyone
needs to take away from this, it doesn’t matter (Okay, sure, if you are a
photojournalist you will probably be required to shoot in jpeg. Then it
matters. Granted).
Take this
idea on, people; it is called photography. It is not called RAWgraphy,
neither is it called JAPEGraphy. So it doesn’t matter if you get a
RAW file or a JPEG file, it only matters if you get a f—-ing photo!
This has got
to be one of the stupidest wastes of time in the photography world today. Right
up there with Canon vs Nikon and mirrorless vs DSLR.
Let me see if
I can’t annoy everyone. At the moment I shoot Nikon, and for most of my images
I shoot RAW. But in the New Year I am hoping to start vlogging, at which time I
will be getting into a mirrorless system. I am seriously considering the
Canon EOS M6 or the Panasonic G7. whichever kit I get, I plan on
using my mirrorless kit as my holiday photo kit, and on holidays I shoot JPEG.
BECAUSE I
DON’T CARE!
I hope you
got a little something out of this. If you did, and you don’t want to lynch me,
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Thanks!
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