Canon 5D Mark II seems like all us Canon folks don’t have to keep crying. Nikon has the incredible D700 and the D300 and now Canon has the 5DII and the 50D. Great preview
Sigma DP2 hopefully will be [...]
Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds
September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Wow, Photokina has been a sea of cool announcements for prosumers including all these new products
Tags: Canon Powershot·Compact Body·Compact Size·Compacts·Competitor·D300·D700·Dp1·Dp2·Dpreview·Eod·Interchangeable Lenses·Micro 4·Panasonic Lumix·Prosumers·Raw Image·Sigma·Tiny Sensor
DxO v5 sadness and alternatives
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom
I’ve loved DxO for a while because it handles distortion correctly. Sadly the move to 5.0 has gone poorly with lots of crashes and even with 5.2, people are still complaining about poor conversion and so forth. It’s not the only example of software taking giant steps backwards. Kind of sad. I have noticed that [...]
Tags: Conversion·Convertor·Crashes·Distortion Correction·Dpp·Dxo·Forum Index·Forum Topic·Geometry·Giant Steps·Image Correction·Imager·Luminous Landscape·Optical Distortion·Own Software·Raw Image·Sadness·Saturation·Sharpening Tool·Stability Problems·Vignette·Vignetting
No Compact Camera for a prosumer? GX200, DP1, G9, SD950 compared
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Well, been looking for a high end compact camera. When I was on film, used a Yashica which was compact, but had a great fixed focus lense and excellent quality. There really isn’t a good answer yet for digital. What do you need for a prosumer that is different from a point-and-shoot. Well, the ideal [...]
Tags: Canon Sd950·Canon Sureshot·Canong9·Choices·Compact Camera·Decent Quality·Drawback·Face Detection·Fuji F10·G9·Good Answer·Gx200·Image Sensor·Image Stabilization·Imaging Resource·Iso 200·Iso 400·Light Performance·Low Noise·Mainstream·Manual Modes·Noise Reduction·Photographyblog·Php·Prosumer·Raw Image·Raw Output·Ricoh·Sad Thing·Short Answer·Shutter Priority·Sigma Dp1·Small Cameras·Steves Digicams·Taking Photos·Technological Achievements·Tiny Sensor·View Finder·Wide Angle·Yashica
Using Raw, DxO and Photomatix together
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom
Well, as I’ve been using various programs, it is pretty clear that you have to be pretty careful about using the different programs. Some things you want to do earlier and some later. For instance, you probably want to sharpen last as this really changes the bits. Larry Gerbrandt has some recommendations on workflow that [...]
Tags: Cr2·Dnr·Dxo·Gerbrandt·Hello World·High Dynamic Range·Histogram·Images·Independent·Match·Nikon·Noise Ninja·Photomatix·Photos·Raw Files·Raw Image·Reason·Tif Files·Tiff Files·Workflow