OnePlus 2 may have not matched the reception the OnePlus One enjoyed when it launched in India a couple of years back, but it was an important device nonetheless, as it allowed the company to get back to the drawing board and offer us the OnePlus 3, which we’re taking a look at it this month. Design and Build Quality The unique sandstone finish that made it to both the … [Read more...]
Raising the Bar – Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
The 1D X Mark II is the new Canon flagship model incorporating a full-frame 20.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, with a machine-gun frame rate of 16 frames per second in Live View shooting, 14 frames per second when using the viewfinder. You can also select the AF point using the Touchscreen. Nikon and Canon both released their top-gun cameras (Nikon’s D5 and Canon’s 1D X Mark II) in … [Read more...]
The Ones that Did Not Make it…Part III
H. S. Billimoria The photography industry has been through a highly exciting but tumultuous century. During this period, many corporates have entered and exited the camera business. The industry has been severely competitive in the nineteen sixties, seventies and eighties and this inevitably took its toll. SP tracks those companies that did indeed play a part in the fortunes … [Read more...]
Late Evening
Our Imaging Expert No one can take a picture that everyone likes. But, almost every picture can have scope of improvement. Often, we are not our best critics, while others can immediately point out the faults. In If I were you, our expert comments on how your pictures could be taken to another level. E-mail your images at sp@nextgenpublishing.net Rohinton … [Read more...]
My Life with Cameras…
I am known as ‘Kakubhai’ to my friends, family, associates and customers. My first trite with a camera was in 1955, when I was 14 years old. My father, who was a dealer in photo goods, had come to our native place with a Agfa Clack camera, which is a German camera and not to be confused with Agfa Click camera which was made in India for the local market. So, in 1955, I took my … [Read more...]
