Category Archives: Digital Cameras
This Season, Plant a Snapseed
I’m a big fan of Nik Software’s plug-ins for Adobe Lightroom. In fact, I use Silver Efex Pro 2.0 for most of my black-and-white conversions. When the company announced it was releasing a $4.99 photo-editing app for the iPad, my … Continue reading
Refined Color
Digital photos give us a great deal of control with our image processing. The problem for most of us? We don’t know how to make the color, contrast, detail, or shadow adjustments that can transform a lackluster snapshot into a … Continue reading
More Oh, Wow Photography
I’m a big fan of the Leica M8.2 digital camera. So for me, the big news for today isn’t the announcement of the new Apple iPods or the remastered Beatles CDs — though both of those developments are important. For … Continue reading
Oh, Wow Photography
It’s all too easy to become caught up in the numbers. With digital cameras, we fixate on the highest ISO numbers, largest megapixel numbers, and widest zoom numbers. The problem is these specifications don’t exist in a vacuum. As you … Continue reading
Next Billion Cameras
One of the most interesting sessions at the recent SIGGRAPH 2009 conference was titled “Next Billion Cameras.” More than a billion image sensors are manufactured each year with the majority going to digital cameras and mobile phone cameras. What are … Continue reading
Relight Your Photos
Talk about frustration. You snap a photo with your digital camera, and when you look at it later, you notice the subject is darker than it should be. Everything else is perfectly lit, except for the face or object that’s … Continue reading
Quantum Leap
Get ready for massively larger SD cards. Today, the SD Association announced a new SD card specification: the SDXC. The XC stands for eXtended Capacity. SDXC cards promise capacities as large as 2 terabytes, as well as a faster bus … Continue reading
Fit for a Cartier-Bresson?
Of all the cameras I saw at the recent PMA tradeshow, the most impressive was Leica’s M8. It’s the first digital camera from Leica that’s built from the ground up to resemble the famous M-series 35mm rangefinder cameras. The M-series … Continue reading
Hold the Jitters
More digital cameras are including image stabilizer technology, even when the lens is just a 3x or 4x optical zoom. As the zoom becomes longer, camera shake becomes more noticeable. So why add this technology to relatively short zoom lenses … Continue reading