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The Megapixel Race - just how many do you need?
"The number of pixels - (in Megapixels which are millions of pixels) - is the easiest thing for the marketing guys to headline about a digital camera, and we've witnessed an increasing battle between manufacturers to produce cameras with higher numbers.
If you are a typical amateur, never making a print larger than a postcard or 7"x5", 4 Mp ......
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12/08/06 |
Winter Photography Advice
"Snow covered landscapes will fool the exposure meter in your camera, as the scene has a high overall brightness. In almost all cameras you will find that you need to increase the exposure, but the amount will differ, depending on the lighting conditions and the metering system of your camera."......
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02/02/06 |
Camera of the Year?
It's that time of year again and I feel like making some recommendations for my very informal 'Best of 2005' awards. These are made on an entirely personal basis and carry absolutely no prizes or privileges!
I've had the Nikon D200 and been working with it for around a week. I'll post a fuller user report later, but this is certainly my came......
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12/28/05 |
DSLRs and the Focal Length Problem
I don't often write about hardware, largely because I think there are more important things to write about. Cameras, after all, are only tools we use to make pictures.
It is also difficult and time-consuming to write detailed hardware reviews - which is why good ones are as common as hen's teeth. Those in print or on the web seldom go much be......
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12/23/05 |
Using the Nikon D70 and SB-800 Autofucus Speelight
Photographers use flash in at least three different ways. One is as an adjunct to normal lighting, often referred to as fill in flash. More advanced camera and flash systems, and particularly the advent of digital with its instant feedback of results have created a revolution in this aspect of flash use. When I first learnt the technique, it needed......
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11/25/05 |
Top 5 Digital Cameras for Teens
Teenagers can be the hardest people to buy for. Nothing is ever cool enough. But teens love digital cameras. They are looking for cameras that are compact, very hip and simply look cool. Oh, and they should take pictures or something. Consult this list to be sure you get a smile instead of a sneer when you give that teen his or her next gift.
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11/19/05 |
Aperture at 50 - old magazines
This feature looks briefly at some of the longer running and most influential photographic magazines, including 'Amateur Photographer', 'The British Journal of Photography', 'The Journal' of the Royal Photographic Society, 'Popular Photography', 'Modern Photography', before going on to examine some more aimed at fine art or creative photography: 'C......
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11/09/05 |
D70 Focus Test Chart
Anyone is having problems with out of focus images on their digital SLR will find Tim Jackson's Nikon D70 Focus Chart useful, whether they are using a D70 or any other dSLR. The autofocus systems on other cameras work in a broadly similar way, whether they are Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Minolta, Fuji ...
The D70 (and now the D70s) has sold well, b......
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10/13/05 |
Raw Power: Using Raw Digital Files
This feature looks at some of the issues involved in shooting raw digital files and takes a close look at two of the best software packages for converting these to tiff and jpeg files, Bibble and Capture One DSLR Lite.......
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09/12/05 |
360 degree photography
The 360-degree photography site presents another approach to making 360 degree images, using Panorama tools, PTLens, Autostitch and Panocube, all free software (although you can buy the enhanced Panocube Plus for $13!)
I've previously mentioned most of these programs on About Photography (see links above.) Autostitch (Windows only) is partic......
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08/13/05 |
Using Your New Camera
Although specifically aimed at newcomers to photography, especially those just starting out with a new camera, some of the advice here will also be useful to those who've been taking pictures for a while and want to improve their photography.
Even experienced photographers - myself included - would benefit at times from some of this advice. I......
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07/17/05 |
DSLRClean Sensor Cleaner Review
Dust on the sensor of interchangeable lens digital cameras is a problem that all users face. A few manufacturers, notably Olympus, have built-in dust removal systems, but those of us using Nikon, Canon and most other marques have to find a solution for the problem ourselves.......
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07/17/05 |
Kodak to End B&W Paper
Kodak's decision to discontinue sales of its black and white photographic paper from the end of 2005 has disappointed many photographers around the world, although few are surprised. Sales of B&W paper have been falling dramatically, by around 25% a year as photographers switch to digital imaging. Kodak will continue to produce black and white film......
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06/19/05 |
Understanding Color
This feature helps you to understand how colours are represented and how images are stored on computer systems. If you use Photoshop or a similar imaging program, or a digital camera, it will help you understand and use the settings in the software and camera menus. You will find some of the ideas here essential to getting your prints right - the s......
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05/25/05 |
Using Your New Camera: Technical Skills
Technical skills are an essential basis for photography, and until recently made it a relatively difficult medium to master. Both film and digital cameras now offer so much in the way of automation that most things are easier. Technical decisions produce differences in your pictures and cannot be separated entirely from composition and aesthetics.......
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05/22/05 |
Sharpening and Workflow
With film images, sharpness is generally determined by the quality of our equipment and the film in use - so long as we hold the camera steady. Almost always the post-processing in lab or darkroom is aimed at retaining the sharpness we managed to get on film, though occasionally we may use some diffusion for effect.
With digital images - and......
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04/28/05 |
New Flash: Nikon D70 and SB-800 Autofocus Speedlight
For several months I've been trying to get to grips with my new flash unit, a Nikon SB-800, used together with a Nikon D70 camera. I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert with it, but I usually manage to get it to do what I want in the end. Much of what I've concluded will be relevant to those using the SB-800 (or SB-600) with other Nikon cameras, a......
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04/27/05 |
April 24th is World Pinhole Day
You still have time to take part in this year's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, which falls this Sunday, April 24, 2005. Anyone can take a pinhole picture, and you are invited to send the best single image that you take with a pinhole on that day for display on the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day site gallery as a small jpeg file (read the ins......
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04/20/05 |
Monitors: LCD or CRT?
Notebook computers now often have adequate processing power, memory and storage for working with images, and many photographers are adopting them as their only computer. In most of them, although these displays have improved greatly in recent years, they are still generally less suitable for working with images than conventional CRT displays. So al......
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03/17/05 |
Starting Architectural Photography
The attractions of architecture
Architecture has many attractions for the new photographer. Buildings don't usually move much, are generally fairly easy to find and will seldom complain when you try to take a picture - or at the results. However it's main attraction has to be an interest in the built environment. We all live in buldings, most......
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02/13/05 |
