Today you don’t have to pay a great deal of money to get a smart camera like Canon A470. With 7.1 mega pixels, a 2.5 inch LCD and a 3.4x optical zoom. It costs less than 150$ and is available at Amazon.com. Any other camera in this price range can hardly be compared to this [...]
Photo This & That, the blog of a photographer in London, England, says that the iPod Touch is the perfect companion when on the road. Doubling up as a firewire hard drive, the iPod Touch also offers some standard features that might be of use out in the field. The blog also says that it’s [...]
With the recent release of the Casio F1, a $1,000 digital camera that can capture images at 60 fps, some photographers are already predicting a future where still and video equipment converges. The prediction is further backed up by the release next year of the Red Scarlet. Certainly, with high-end professional digital SLRs becoming faster [...]
The Luminous Landscape carries its long-awaited review of the Sigma DP1, seemingly just another digital compact camera, but one that had many of us hoping for something closer to D-SLR quality. As it turns out, the review says those expectations have largely been met in terms of image quality. However, design and operation of the [...]
Sports, action and wildlife photographers need fast cameras. Indeed, it’s why models such as the 9 fps Nikon D3 and 10 fps Canon EOS-1D Mark III are in such demand even at a premium in terms of price — $5,000 and $8,000 body only, respectively. Until now, such high frame rates have been one of [...]
Most professional or serious photographers shoot in RAW format rather than in JPEG or some other file type that does not allow later lossless correction to what their camera’s digital sensor originally recorded when the shutter fired. However, the software for manipulating RAW files which comes with cameras — including top of the line models [...]
At just 104mm long and 56mm wide while also weighing in at just 214g, the Canon PowerShot A470 is ideal as a camera you can keep in your pocket. Moreover, its small size and low price does not mean that it is lacking in terms of features. Sporting a 3.4 x zoom equivalent to 38-132mm [...]
It used to be that digital SLRs cost thousands of dollars, but in recent years prices have plummeted. For the price of a serious digital compact camera five years ago, you can now pick up an advanced D-SLR from brand leaders Canon and Nikon. Two such models are the Canon 450D (Rebel XSi) and the [...]
One issue that many bloggers and website owners are unaware of is image copyright. Many professional image and news sites as well as photographers do not allow use of their work by others without permission or payment. However, devoid of photographs, blogs can lose their appeal, but there are thankfully a number of sites that [...]