I sometimes hear from people who’ve newly acquired a digital SLR, saying they find it a hassle to continually change lenses when shooting a wide variety of subjects. Frankly, it goes with ‘SLR-territory’ (digital and film) and is the price you pay to enjoy the improved image of an interchangeable lens, reflex camera.
In reality, unless [...]
Looking around for something to shoot with your camera? Feeling a bit shot-out? This book could be your salvation.
For many, the problem with photography is that we rarely step out of our comfort zone, rarely take risks and all too often shoot the same subjects over and over again.
Lee Frost’s book should fix those glums [...]
Occasionally Ricoh has delivered cameras to the market that are innovative, ingenious and unique. Like the Ricoh GR Digital III.
But who ever heard of a camera with a fixed lens and no zoom?
To answer, you have only to look at the major companies with their DSLRs. Fine cameras you say. But what makes [...]
All too often photographers engage with Photoshop and come away over-awed, frustrated and disappointed. The blame, if there is any, can be laid at the feet of the application’s complexity.
One way of dealing with the software is to work initially with the multitude of plug-ins available and deal with specific tasks to gain confidence.
Zuckerman and [...]
It was a touch too cold to dunk this camera — and its operator! — in the surf, so I resorted to a dip in the pool. And, to my surprise, I found that not only did the camera perform successfully but I fell upon a magic way to create stunning new pictures.
But back [...]
We knew it was coming but it still surprised many when Olympus threw away the last vestiges of a single lens reflex camera in a digital snapper that otherwise could have been called a DSLR.
Into the new PEN went the 4/3rds inch Micro Four Thirds Live MOS sensor. Out went the mirror box. Onto it [...]
I come from an era where, to shoot in low light, you had three options: use a faster lens; a faster film; dose up your chemical brew or stretch the dev time. Times were tough but at least you learnt the hard way.
These days to ‘do it in the dark’ you still have to juggle [...]
Sony has had a bad year in its LCD TV and games business but seems to have a winner in its DSLR cameras. Supporting this success, the company has fed the market with a stream of models to satisfy a variety of budgets and requirements.
Now three models: Sony Alpha 230, 330 and 380. The 230 [...]
In its layout, author Davies’ book is less a primer on digital photography and more a publication that addresses the many puzzles the technology of the pixellated picture has thrown up in its short history.
Lavishly illustrated, Paul Davies’ book Digital Photography Q&A faces the task by saying “There’s no doubt about it, a digital [...]
Claims. Claims. Claims. This time Olympus promotes the E-620 as the “world’s smallest and lightest digital SLR to incorporate an image stabilizing mechanism.”
The camera’s Four Thirds system offers not only a small and light camera but means that extras like additional system lenses, battery holder and underwater housings are also smaller and lighter. The camera [...]
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