Best Performance Compacts: Top 10 Compact Point-and-Shoot Cameras 2012
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Digital Cameras |
Not every occasion demands a professional-quality lens, and in those circumstances a compact point-and-shoot can make life a whole lot simpler – especially when they sport advanced features such as manual controls, electronic viewfinders, and Raw image recording. Small enough to slide into your pocket, loaded with fun firmware, and quite suitable for capturing memorable…
Ultra Wide-Angle Lenses – Best SLR Camera Lenses
| December 20, 2011 | Posted by admin under Camera Lenses |
Considering the variety of Digital SLR cameras available on the market, it’s obvious that almost every lens manufacturer comes with a huge selection of products. Those include lenses for SLRs with a standard small-sensor and multi-platform lenses well suited for any SLR: 35 mm or digital with any size sensor. The multi-platform lenses are especially…
Standard Zoom Lenses: Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sigma, Sony
| December 20, 2011 | Posted by admin under Camera Lenses |
While 30mm and 50mm camera lenses are all around for Digital SLRs – usually with a wide aperture like f/1.8-zooms tend to be common because of greater versatility and adaptability. A wide angle to short telephoto zoom lens is the type that is typically included in DSLR packages and it is light in weight and…
Travel Photography Accessories: What to Take in your Kit?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by admin under Photography |
Photography and “traveling light” are, to a certain extent, mutually exclusive ideas; by its very nature photography demands you have to have a certain amount of equipment, and when you’re traveling with a digital camera, this need increases. You not only need to be certain you have lenses to cover most shooting eventualities, but with…
Digital Camera Telephoto Lenses
| December 20, 2011 | Camera Lenses |
Let’s say you are looking for more “reach” than your camera can offer? Then it may be best time to see if there are telephoto lens adapters out there for your product. Even though the lens is built-in, you might be able to snap, clip, screw, or snap a telephoto adapter onto the front of…
Best DSLR Cameras 2011-2012 – Top 10 Digital SLR Cameras
| December 20, 2011 | Digital Cameras |
Overall performance, efficiency, functionality, versatility and adaptability are the SLR’s strong suits. Performance indicates better responsiveness to the photographer’s needs: flexibility in configurations and functions; sharp, clean, accurate and bright optical viewfinder; as well as the best image quality that the latest technology can offer. Versatility means the SLR camera is part of a much…
Best Monitors for Graphics and Photography Applications
| January 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Performance Monitors Monitors aimed at the high-end photography market offer wide-gamut displays. They are able to more accurately display images that have wide-gamut color spaces, such as AdobeRGB and usually have controls that allow a wider range of color and tonal adjustments than the automated controls on consumer monitors. The brands most often associated with…
HP DesignJet 130 Large Format Printer
| January 26, 2012 | Printers |
While HP doesn’t really compete at this price point for A2 printers, favoring commercial-grade and multi-function units above and below this threshold respectively, the DesignJet 130 does deserve mention. This unit actually handles paper sizes all the way up to 24 x 64 inches in cut sheet media as well as optionally supporting rolled media.
Epson Stylus Pro 4900 Inkjet Printer
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Printers |
For serious photographic print output – leaving aside expensive commercial-grade devices – one need look no further than the new Epson Stylus Pro 4900. As a wide carriage printer, capable of rendering cut-sheet photographs of up to 17 x 24 inches (A2), this 115-lb monster also handles 17-inch paper rolls… perfect for panoramas. With a…
Canon ImagePROGRAF iPF5100 17 Inch Wide Printer
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Printers |
Canon’s entry in the category is a little longer in the tooth than Epson’s, however one that certainly merits consideration. At 117-lbs and almost 40 inches wide, the imagePROGRAF JPF5100 is even larger than the 4900; however, in high volume scenarios its heft and durability will definitely be appreciated. Speaking of high volume, print speed…
Capture-One Pro 6 DSLR Raw Workflow Image Editing Software
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Software |
Capture One Pro is a digital workflow suite designed for Phase One’s medium-format backs, but it can be used with other cameras as well. As you’d expect, it has a full set of tonal and colour manipulation tools, and some unusual ones too, such as keystone and lens correction and a dust spot removal. It…
Aperture 3: Fantastic Photo Organizer, Editor, and Publisher
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Software |
Aperture is a powerful Raw workflow suite that’s available only for the Mac. it’s an alternative to Adobe Lightroom, and offers comparable tools. If you’ve been using iPhoto but are bumping into its limits, Aperture is worth considering because you can import iPhoto libraries into Aperture.
Kenko Vari-NDX Filter: Sharp and Neutral
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by admin under Accessories |
There’s been a lot of attention given to high ISO capabilities the ability to shoot with faster shutter speeds and smaller apertures in low light. But what about those occasions when you need a longer shutter speed or a bigger aperture in bright light? A variable ND filter is one of the most important tools to have…
Bibble 5 Digital Image Editing
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by admin under Software |
One of Bibble 5‘s powerful features is Regions & Layers, which allows you to apply adjustments selectively. The 5.2.2 upgrade gives Regions & Layers a few new tricks, such as the ability to copy and paste a layer to a new image with the regions and settings intact. The layer also gets an opacity slider so you…