Category Archives: For Photographers

Canon 5D Mark II

For all of you photographers out there, this morning (12:00am here), Canon announced it’s much anticipated replacement for the Canon 5D (the main camera I shoot with). As expected, it is a nice step up from it’s predecessor. The most interesting features of this camera are: 21mp, Digic IV (newer processor), ISO up...

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Zeiss for Canon

For decades, Zeiss has manufactured some of the highest quality lenses available. The unfortunate part for Canon users is that they were not able to be used on Canons without some adapters and even then, much of the communication between the camera and lens was lost. So that is why the following press...

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Canon 50D

Not too long ago, I posted about purchasing a new camera body to replace one of my backup cameras. So wouldn’t you know it would be just the right time for Canon to replace that camera. Today, Canon announced the Canon EOS 50D. In short the key improvements are 15mp, Digic 4...

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Photosynth

Microsoft Live Labs has created some pretty cool new software called Photosynth. It is able to take a series of photographs and find the commonality to them and then reconstruct the photographs in a 3-D environment. As they put it “Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities...

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Adobe Releases Lightroom 2

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the release of Adobe Lightroom 2. For those not familiar with Lightroom, it is a “workflow” tool which allows image organization, global image refinement, and output modules for print, web, and slideshow. Lightroom has been in beta testing for the last number of months and Adobe has decided...

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