Monthly Archives: April 2005

Genuine Fractals 3.5 Review

Is Genuine Fractals worth it? A Photoshop CS vs Genuine Fractals 3.5 showdown at 6 megapixels At $140 the program is not cheap. The question is, is it worth it? Especially when Adobe Photoshop CS has such a good tool for upresing files with Bicubic Interpolation. So I bought a copy and decided to do… Read More »

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D Review

I got a Maxxum 7D yesterday. I’ve been with Minolta since I got my first camera, an X-700, in 1993. I went through several manual bodies before switching over to AF in 1999 with an HTsi+, eventually settling on two 600si’s. I sold all my MF gear and got a range of AF lenses, using… Read More »

What is a sticky aperture?

The term refers to a condition in older cameral lenses, when oil on the aperture blades congeals over time, causing the blades to close slowly or not at all. This is a problem because on a camera the aperture is always wide open until the moment the shutter is pressed, and then the aperture is… Read More »