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ExpoDisc Professional Digital White Balance

This review of the ExpoDisc white balance filter comes to you from one of our regular readers and pro fashion photographer, Nathan Pask. You can find out more about him at www.nathanpask.com.
A common problem for photographers is white balance. With so many different light sources such as daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, flash, strobe and countless more, [...]

Forum Tips Competition Winners!

As we mentioned a few weeks ago on the dPS blog and in the forum, we started another competition based around getting forum members to submit their favourite tips in 350 words or less. The first two places win a great camera from Olympus UK and a web gallery package from ImageVueX.
The Tips
We had around [...]

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (12 Apr – 18 Apr 09)

Weekly Assignment
The red line in the Milano subway walks… (or rolls, depending on how you look at it)  …away with this weeks first place in our regular dPS weekly assignment, the photo was taken and mildly photoshopped by member giastem. Second place goes to scubabbl with “not everything is above ground, right?” followed by rt80639 [...]

Nikon D5000 Swivel screen dSLR

Nikon Inc. today introduced the new Nikon D5000, a digital SLR camera with a host of features and capabilities that deliver superior performance and image quality along with amazing versatility for photo enthusiasts and those new to digital SLR photography. Leveraging Nikon’s expertise and innovative technologies found in its pro-level D-SLRs, the 12.3-megapixel Nikon D5000 [...]

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (5 Apr – 11 Apr 09)

Weekly Assignment
Wisdom is something that we would all like to have, and was also the topic of the dPS assigment this last week.  There were many takes on wisdom, and with as many entries as we had, as usual, the assignment is always a tough one to call!  The first place this week goes to [...]

Lowepro Classified 160 AW [REVIEW]

I recently went along to a “London calling Photographers” meet up and with me I had one of the  Lowepro Classified 160 AW camera bags that I thought  I’d take along and have some lucky punter “win” and review for me. We put the names into a hat and had one chosen by a select [...]

Canon Pixma Pro 9000 / 9500 MkII printers

Today Simon introduces two new printers from Canon – the Canon Pixma Pro9000 MkII and the Canon Pixma Pro9500 MkII.
My friend Matt and I have this long lasting debate “Print your own photos V’s Having images printed professionally” I bought a Canon’s stylish six ink dye based printer the PIXMA iP6700D a couple of years [...]

Canon EOS 500D | Rebel T1i

Canon open the stable doors and lead out another 15.1mp enthusiast level thoroughbred today, in the form of the Canon eos 500D. (EOS Rebel T1i for the US market) I have been right through the comparison guide between the 50D and the 500D and there are not that many significant changes, but there is video [...]

thinkTANK Pixel Sunscreen 2.0

Have you ever been on a location shoot, outdoors, sun shining, every thing’s perfect and then you try to check some of your photos on your laptop and can’t see a thing on the screen!
I have a glossy screened MacBook Pro 17″ and I have to say that sometimes I have actually suffered from this [...]

Olympus MjU Tough 8000 Review

We had the announcement for the Olympus Tough 8000 a few weeks back, since then we have seen released the same sort of compacts from Canon and from Panasonic. Being naturally curious for “unbreakable stuff” I wanted to check one of them out and Olympus, as they were first out of the gate, got the [...]

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