The spiral stairs by Giuseppe Momo at the Vatican Museums.
Spontaneous portrait of Nicole at a tram stop from a few days ago.
This is one of my first photos with the Fuji X100s. This is ISO 3200! And it’s a JPG in normal quality, straight from the camera. The light comes from a shop window (no flash).
Overall quality is amazing. The dynamic range is simply stunning.
There’s great detail in both the shadows and highlights. I haven’t seen anything like it from any camera I’ve owned so far (without post-processing).
This is exactly – or at least very very close to – how I saw it. I’m very impressed!
Goodbye, Cameras
Fascinating article by Craig Mod for the New Yorker:
In the same way that the transition from film to digital is now taken for granted, the shift from cameras to networked devices with lenses should be obvious. While we’ve long obsessed over the size of the film and image sensors, today we mainly view photos on networked screens—often tiny ones, regardless of how the image was captured—and networked photography provides access to forms of data that go beyond pixels. This information, like location, weather, or even radiation levels, can transform an otherwise innocuous photo of an empty field near Fukushima into an entirely different object. If you begin considering emerging self-metrics that measure, for example, your routes through cities, fitness level, social status, and state of mind (think Foursquare, Nike+, Facebook, and Twitter), you realize that there is a compelling universe of information waiting to be pinned to the back of each image. Once you start thinking of a photograph in those holistic terms, the data quality of stand-alone cameras, no matter how vast their bounty of pixels, seems strangely impoverished. They no longer capture the whole picture.
Busses are smaller in Rome.
Parking at the Vatican museum
Why we should give free money to everyone
We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research proves the contrary: free money helps. It is time for a radical reform of the welfare state.
It’s really beyond me, why we don’t do this and why it’s not even publicly discussed. Great read!
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore and a lucky light-leak.
Parking in Rome must be tough.
Lots of Romans have tiny cars, and most of them still have quite a few dents and scratches. There’s hardly enough parking lots.
And I bet there are people who don’t use their car any more, in fear of not ever finding another place to park again when they get back. ;)
Tevere
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest church in the world. The inside is absolutely vast. Very impressive.
You get to the dome via an increasingly narrow series of passageways and a spiral staircase you’ll get dizzy from. And the view from the top is pretty rewarding.
We are against war and tourist menu
Cinquecento
The Alps, seen from our flight to Rome.
(That’s a digital from the GF1.)
Angel Sculpture
It’s here!