Posted in Photo Gear, iPhone on Jun 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
New iPhone 3Gs Camera
The tap to focus feature alone is incredible and the macro mode looks wonderful. This in-phone camera may take the place of point and shoots and it will be interesting to see how phone-based cameras affect lower end point and shoots over time.
Watch the demo video, it’s quite good as are all [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Video on May 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is an excellent instructional video.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, iPhone on Apr 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Chase Jarvis’s iPhone Photography
A collection of unaltered images taken with the camera built into the iPhone and uploaded with native iPhone applications. Wonderful collection. Note to self: Start using my iPhone camera more.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in People, Photo Gear, Photojournalism on Apr 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
President Barack Obama takes aim with a photographer’s camera backstage prior to remarks about providing mortgage payment relief for responsible homeowners. Dobson High School. Mesa, Arizona 2/18/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.
Looks like a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L. Great choices. No doubt Pete Souza’s backup camera.
[via [...]
Posted in Movies, Photo Gear on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Shooting a Feature FIlm With the Canon 5D Mark II: Challenges and Ingenious Workarounds
Disney and his crew had to figure out how to workaround a few of the 5D Mark II’s most annoying limitations for filmmakers: no manual control over exposure settings during capture, and a lack of an efficient focusing system while shooting.
Still, the [...]
Posted in Photo Gear on Mar 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Newswear
This is great stuff. Watch the video. If I were going out on a shoot where I needed constant quick access to my stuff I’d invest in some of this stuff.
[via Mike Peters]
Posted in Photo Gear on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
GigaPan Epic imager released, your party photos will never be the same
Wow, this is a relatively inexpensive ($379) way to take large scale panoramic images with almost any camera.
Posted in People, Photo Gear, Photographers, Places on Jan 21st, 2009 16 Comments »
Chuck Kennedy uses a Canon EOS 5D Mark II for Remote Capture at the Inauguration.
Fantastic. I’d say it was well worth the effort. Note Sasha standing on the block.
[via The-Digital-Picture.com - Canon Digital SLR, Lens and Accessory Reviews]
Posted in Photo Gear on Jan 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Canon and Nikon Hike Prices as Pound Plummets
Japanese photography giants Canon and Nikon have confirmed that they have been forced to raise product prices as a result of the rising yen and plunging pound.
Great, if things weren’t bad enough. Guess I’m not buying anything for a while. Maybe a good thing.
Posted in Photo Gear on Jan 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera debuts at CES
Today at CES, the $199 PoGo Instant Digital Camera is making its grand entrance, utilizing the tried-and-true ZINK printing technology.
If nothing else, another inexpensive platform to do image transfers from.
[via Engadget]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Braille Polaroid Camera
With a built-in Braille printer, the Braille Polaroid Camera is designed for the blind to record and print Braille images of the world around them.
Wow, what a fantastic concept and design.
[via Caitlin Vatikiotis-Bateson]
Posted in Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jan 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Canon’s Err99: the Man, the Myth
Roger Cicala, owner of LensRentals.com has written a great article on the error99 code that Canon DSLRs will exhibit when they hang for any number of reasons.
Roger went through much of the endless comments in our post: Canon DSLR Error 99 fix and has done a great job of not [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Video on Dec 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Gad. Do I really want to shop at J&R? Better B&H.
[via The-Digital-Picture.com - Canon Digital SLR, Lens and Accessory Reviews]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The Online Photographer reviews Sony vs. Nikon vs. Canon (the A900 vs. the D3/D700 vs. the 5D Mark II).
This is a well written review and while I’m a Canon guy it sure looks like Sony and Nikon are doing something right.
Posted in Photo Gear on Dec 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
DP Review has a post of Canon’s statement on Canon 5D MK II problems.
Looks like for once I made the right choice in not being an early adopter of the newest version of my camera. I’m sure these problems will get worked out and I plan to buy this camera when they do.
Posted in Photo Gear on Dec 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
LensRentals.com, a great place to rent camera equipment recently posted their lens repair data for the past year:
Lens Repair Data 2.0.
In short, what it says is that better built lenses get repaired less. The high end Canon “L” lenses have a lower repair rate than the lower end Canon EF-S and Sigma (third party) [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear on Dec 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Nikon’s geotagging GP-1 dongle now available
There are no doubt enough unused fields in the EXIF array to put geotagging information or, maybe there are already fields used specifically for this.
No doubt these will be built into future cameras. How far in the future I’m not sure. Until then this looks interesting.
I wonder if I can [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Nov 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
James Duncan Davidson’s D700 Field Report from Web 2.0 Summit.
Davidson is a long time Canon user and in a word he loved the Nikon D700’s high ISO capabilities, better auto focus and the selection of Nikor lenses he used.
This is a meaningful review. Very meaningful.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Pixels Are Like Cupcakes. Let Me Explain
In fact, recent tests conducted at dpreview.com concluded that the new 15-megapixel Canon EOS 50D ($1,400) “shows visibly more chroma and luminance noise,” and slightly less dynamic range, than the older 10-megapixel Canon EOS 40D ($920).
This is important. Anyone looking at getting a DSLR should attempt to understand this [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Tools, Travel on Nov 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Hyperdrive ColorSPACE is a small, battery powered backup unit backing up camera memory cards in the field when you are away from your computer.
Take your memory card out of your camera (it will read any kind of card), place it in the built in card reader in the HyperDrive, copy your images from card [...]
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