This post was originally published on January 26, 2021 and has been lightly edited and resurrected here.
Todays announcement from Sony of their new flagship, the Alpha 1, on paper, raises the bar by some measure for mirrorless full frame camera (price being no bar of course). 50MP sensor, 15-stops of (claimed) dynamic range, 30fps lossy compressed RAW, 20fps RAW(!), 120 AF calculations per second(!), 1/200s sensor readout(!), 240fps EVF(!). As a bird photographer, these are specs to die for (again I have to insert the caveat that this is on paper, but given the A9 and A9ii, Sony certainly has credibility).
This post was originally published January 2, 2023 on and has been lightly edited before reposting.
On a vacation to Charleston I took with me a Leica Q2 Monochrom (which has a fixed 28mm f/1.7 lens) and a Nikon Z9 with a Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.2 S. Together they allowed me take the kind of photographs I had planned - wide angle landscape photos and medium street shots with the Q2M and more street shots and full length portraits with the Nikon combination.
This post was originally published on Jul 31, 2019 and has been lightly edited and resurrected here
We've had the Rocky Mountain National Park on our bucket list for a few summers. This year, we decided to plan our annual vacation around the park... with our 6 month old in tow. Having him with us affected almost all aspects of planning that went into this vacation - where to go?, where to stay?
This post was originally published May 27, 2020 on and has been lightly edited before reposting
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Ever since the introduction of the iPad, it has supported external keyboards. Aimed towards the power user, it served its purpose...to an extent. iOS for the iPad, and then iPadOS, was never designed for a keyboard only interface - it was touch-first all along. This meant frequent taps on the screen (which on a top heavy iPad is a delicate maneuver).
This post was originally published July 9, 2015 on and has been lightly edited before reposting.
Bahubali released to theatres a week ago, on 10th July. The films marketers claimed this to be the biggest Indian movie to date - in terms of cost, in terms of distribution and in terms of scale. Movie critics waxed eloquent about its epicness, its visual effects, how it is the perfect blockbuster and more.
This post was originally published September 26, 2014 on and has been lightly edited before reposting. (Editors note: At the time of reposting, I revisited the book to read a few chapters and came back to this review; I stand by every word)
Amish Tripathi's 'The Immortals of Meluha' was released in 2010 to instant bestseller status with all bookstores stacking the novel front and center in the 'Recommended' section. During a visit to one such store I had picked a copy, read through the gist on the back-cover and decided to give it a pass.
This post was originally published January 19, 2015 on and has been lightly edited before reposting
My first mobile phone was the humble Nokia 3530, running the company's proprietary OS. It served me well through a couple years of under-grad school…endlessly texting and playing Nibbles. After its buttons became unresponsive, I switched over to a Sony-Ericsson K508i. It ran Sonys' Symbian UIQ OS and it was beautiful! It featured a lot of slick animations, never felt sluggish, supported theming and it ran apps courtesy Java ME (albeit rudimentary apps).
This post was originally published on Dec 22, 2017 and has been lightly edited and resurrected here
It seems only a short while ago when I was undecided on a RAW image processing software that would replace Lightroom. I shortlisted several potential alternatives - Capture One Pro, RawTherapee, DxO Optics and Darktable among others - but was able to try out only Capture One Pro in depth. A demo copy of Capture One Pro, Version 10, gave me 30 days to test it after which I was able to continue evaluation by signing up for a beta copy of Version 11.