{"id":397,"date":"2014-01-27T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2024-03-02T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T19:45:03","slug":"to-play-or-not-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/to-play-or-not-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"To play or not to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who play and people who watch (people who live life and people who wait). I am clearly a watcher but I am working on my playful side.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140127_Y1S8101-Play-city-of-stones.jpg\" alt=\"Play - city of stones\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Play &#8211; city of stones &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today I went to a Phase One dealer, the representative demonstrated a couple of backs and the camera, thank you. Some findings (there is nothing better than handling the equipment yourself, not even following the brand for years and downloading sample photographs):<br \/>\n1) The photographs are even sharpen than I thought.<br \/>\n2) Sharpness fades away sooner than I thought.<br \/>\n3) There is _no_ noise at ISO 50 (native) and ISO 100.<br \/>\n4) The Phase One is very stable, releasing the shutter is relatively silent and does not cause vibration in the machine that I noticed.<br \/>\n5) The center of gravity of the Phase One is a bit far back (with 80 mm and 55 mm lenses), together with the angular shape of the body handholding will need a bit of getting used to.<br \/>\n6) The thumbwheel is in the wrong spot (for my small hand), to operate it I have to let go of the grip almost entirely.<br \/>\nThe prices are pretty high, so the verdict is still out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I going to buy a PhaseOne camera? Turns out I did not. But I loved playing with these stone building blocks that belonged to my grandma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}