» Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
21Aug Android devices as your next field monitor and camera controller?
A few months back I wrote a post about the possible use of android devices as a Camera monitor slash controller for your Canon DSLR. It only took about 3 months for the guys over at dslrcontroller to almost make it a reality. I say almost because the video record mode isn’t working quit yet in the […]
28Jul Native support for previewing Canon RAW files in Windows 7 and Vista.
This originated from Canon Rumers. Microsoft has quietly released a native codec for Vista and Windows 7 that supports preview of most Canon RAW files. In the past I’ve relied on Canon’s Digital Photo Professional application if I needed to quickly rummage through photos and Adobe Lightroom if I really want to dig in and mess around […]
26Jul Pinch in the middle lens caps.
The Canon 50mm f1.2 is a beautiful lens, but you know what isn’t beautiful? Trying to get the dang lens cap off with the hood on. I’ve always had problems with canon’s side pinch lens caps. Either I can’t get them of the lens or I can’t get them to stay on the lens. Center […]
06Jul Fader ND filters
Picture taken by Eric 5D Mark II I received a small amount of friendly harassment the other day from another photographer about using cheap lens filters. I’ve been using lower price Polaroid Fader ND filters for awhile now and haven’t had many problems. The Polaroid filters general run about $30 to $45 on amazon and cause a small amount of vignetting, but […]
22Jun The Future of Digital photography?
Many people have said that HDR (High Dynamic Range) is the next big thing in photography. Even though HDR is fun to mess around with and gives you very interesting results. The HDR look is very stylized and i’m not 100% convinced that it will move from a niche market to a main stream feature, at […]
