{"id":149,"date":"2008-09-26T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/134-now-thats-big\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:21:10","slug":"134-now-thats-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/134-now-thats-big\/","title":{"rendered":"#134 Now that&#8217;s big!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/134-now-thats-big\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Below &#8211; an announcement about the RA Photo Club prize winner but first, a <strong><em>BIG <\/em>announcement from Leica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The big news:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leica.com','Leica')\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Leica\" rel=\"noopener\">Leica<\/a> has just announced a <strong>leap forward<\/strong> in DSLR camera technology. The most advanced DSLR&#8217;s are trumpeting their 24 megapixel sensors. Leica has come out with a 37.5 MP SLR format camera the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.s.leica-camera.com\/leica-s-system\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s.leica-camera.com%2Fleica-s-system%2F','Leica+S+system')\" title=\"Leica S system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leica S2<\/a>. While <em>size is only one element<\/em> of many when evaluating a camera I am certain Leica&#8217;s quality reputation will seep into all aspects of the S2. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdngearguide.com\/gearguide\/content_display\/news\/e3i0e4fd2428ec7978373147fcbb2f9d7d0\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pdngearguide.com%2Fgearguide%2Fcontent_display%2Fnews%2Fe3i0e4fd2428ec7978373147fcbb2f9d7d0','Photo+District+News')\" title=\"Photo District News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I am not one to pay a lot of attention to technology &#8211;<em> technology doesn&#8217;t take good pictures<\/em>, <strong>experienced people take good pictures<\/strong> &#8211; this is a significant leap. I shoot much assignment work digitally but I have really held off investing heavily in digital until digital started catching up with some of the finer points of film. Please <strong>don&#8217;t start screaming<\/strong> &#8211; digital has it&#8217;s shortcmings, as does film. This Leica may be a good step in a good direction.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raphotoclub.ca%2F','RA+Photo+Club')\" title=\"RA Photo Club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RA Photo Club<\/a> winners: Malcolm Taylor and Mante Molepo win a <strong>$100 gift certificate<\/strong> for any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/ottawa_photography_workshop_class_course.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fottawa_photography_workshop_class_course.html','Photo+classes')\" title=\"Photo classes\">photo course<\/a> run by HarryNowell.com up to the end of September 2009! Yippee!<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Below &#8211; an announcement about the RA Photo Club prize winner but first, a BIG announcement from Leica. The big news: Leica has just announced a leap forward in DSLR camera technology. The most advanced DSLR&#8217;s are trumpeting their <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/134-now-thats-big\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F26%2F134-now-thats-big%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}