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Thom Hogan
Personal blog · bythom.com/newsviewshardwaredesign
Thom Hogan's personal blog at bythom.com covers hardware and design. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “State of Camera Design, 2010”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to Thom Hogan's bythom.com for analysis of Nikon product strategy, camera industry economics and reviews. Commenters often call it the best source on Nikon and a thorough analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
mirrorless, DSLR, and compact camera and photography articles, by Thom Hogan
Most-linked posts?
- State of Camera Design, 20102 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-23
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-30
- /design2010.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-29
What Hacker News says?
An interesting question for the DSLR makers is what they could learn from the tablet. The pictures are great, but especially at the entry level there's opportunity for improved interfaces and easier publishing. ( http://www.bythom.com/design2010.htm ) has some interesting ideas.
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on “Tablets”Submitted State of Camera Design, 2010 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNikon have just published a complete free and quite sophisticated photo software suite, most useful summary of which here : https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.htm... Ed; "Everything is there: stills, video, image browsing, NEF processing, Lightroom-like capabilities, cloud integration, image ingest,and much more."
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on “Adobe Photoshop ships on Macs with Apple Silicon”Submitted 4K is the current sweet spot for photography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom one of the best camera industry observers: Yeah, no. https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikkei-needs-new-staff.html It is self-evident that DSLRs are basically done—I would be surprised if any totally new cameras with actual flipping mirrors are introduced. But there’s no actual evidence that Nikon is stopping production of its remaining higher-end DSLRs.
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on “Nikon to stop making SLR cameras and focus on mirrorless models?”Submitted Thank You EU and USB Standards Committee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThom Hogan for a few decades reports on Nikon product strategy & financials. From most recent article with comment on Nikons financial situation: > That said, if I were one of those financial rating companies, I'd be downgrading Nikon's rating at the moment. You know, from something like A to BBB (using Standard & Poor's rating board). (Nikon publishes their Japan Credit Rating Agency value, which is currently A+/Ne…
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on “Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector”Submitted In the age of the iPhone, what should your DSLR be doing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe answer goes back even further than my time in photography, which was over ten years ago at the transition from film to digital and DSLR video. Before digital, part of the answer was sports photographers all switching to Canon for autofocus. Before that, it was more of an even playing field with cameras (read: marketing). Back then however, Nikon had a semiconductor manufacturing machine business that supplemente…
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on “The changing fortunes of Japanese camera manufacturers”And in case of photography it is the expensive stuff that is worth keeping. Actually it would save some money to skip the cheap stuff. Case in point—tripods. There is a good piece about it: http://www.bythom.com/support.htm
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on “How I Simplified My Life”I've been channelling Thom Hogan who I've been reading for over 25 years. Thom is the most rational (and frequently only sensible) publicly available voice in the technical aspects of photography. Thom also worked for Osborne Computer.. Edit: https://bythom.com . by the looks of things about everyone here ought to go catch up with Thom's writings ;)
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on “Nikon Z9 Disassembly and Teardown”Please change link to Thom Hogan [0], not only does he give a thorough analysis, he also points out the japanese article nikorumor is based on. For anything related to Nikon bythom.com is handsdown the best source. [0] https://www.bythom.com/newsviews/dslr-lens-discontinuation.h...
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on “Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses”No, he just has chosen his audience — those who like to take a pictures, a bit above point-and-shoot level, but not much. His writing is targeted at people like that. For anyone with higher ambitions I'd recommend http://bythom.com/
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on “Video on DSLRs: why I don't care”Thom Hogan: https://bythom.com
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on “Nikon F-Mount”I'm seeing a lot of people discussing sales numbers; here is one article showing the decline in terms of both lens and interchangeable lens cameras shipped: https://bythom.com/newsviews/real-camera-economics.html . Lenses appear to have declined by about 66% from 2012 to 2022. Cameras, by a little under 50%. This decline makes sense to me. I have a Fuji XT4 which I like a lot, but, also, starting around the iPhone 1…
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on “Dpreview.com is coming to an end”While I agree that there is some valuable content on the site, there are certainly others to fill in the spots... You want detailed look into equipment? Checkout Ken Rockwell's site[0], or byThom[1] [0]: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/reviews.htm [1]: https://bythom.com/reviews--books/index.html
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on “Dpreview.com is coming to an end”Finally, apps for cameras. Thom Hogan has been advocating this for some time now[1] and the success of the CHDK[2] somehow shows us that a lot of photographers may be interested in this. I hope Nikon starts a trend with this camera and go all the way to Android enabled DSLRs. [1] http://bythom.com/design2010.htm [2] http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK Some ideas: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august31/levoy-opensou…
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on “Android based camera from Nikon: Coolpix S800”Please, don't take Ken's stuff too seriously. If you want serious Nikon reviews, go to Thom Hogan's [0] or Moose Peterson's [1], or just dpreview for the technical nitty-gritty stuff. Ken Rockwell is fun to read, but he also 'reviews' stuff he hasn't seen, and has some moronic stances on some issues (like RAW vs. JPEG) [0] http://www.bythom.com/ [1] http://www.moosepeterson.com/blog/
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on “Nikon D600 (affordable full-frame camera) leaked”Interestingly, Thom Hogan (a well-known Nikon commentator) recently published a fairly similar list as suggestions for Nikon to put into their DSLRs: http://bythom.com/design2010.htm
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on “Dear Canon: Time to add communications to your low-end cameras”
