Category: Use your D-SLR

  • Dodie Legaspi photos

    Dodie Legaspi is a photographer I foudn on the Internet (he exposes on Multiply.com) Image courtesy of Dodie Legaspi – all rights reserved I invite you to check specially the following series: Roovin & Maela (marriage shots) Street photo Studio portraits

  • Vista: Time for 64 bits

    While Vista will soon be available in a 64-bit version (and that GNU/Linux went down this path several months ago), it is time to ponder the following question: “Do we need to go 64 bits?” And the answer is surprisingly simple if you look at it. Currently, PC are more and more often equiped with…

  • CyberShot: Sony is shot again

    You’d suppose that bad news could end for Sony, but no. They just announced that they found a defect in eight photo cameras of the CyberShot series sold between September 2003 and January 2005. It would be an LCD display problem with camera refusing to shoot pictures (a software problem?) Sony offers a free repair…

  • Why I don’t use the high ISO setting of my camera?

    We all noticed that our digital cameras offer a button (or a menu) to choose different sensitivity ISO settings. The casual user would note that the higher this value (let’s say 800 or 1600 ISO), the easier it is to snap a photo in a dimly-lit room or to stop the motion of a fast…

  • Canon EOS 30D new firmware

    Version 1.0.5 fixes a bug around wrongly displaying the number of continuous shots which can be taken and adds a semi-gloss paper option for direct printing (on PIXMA Pro9000 and other PictBridge-compatible printers). Download the new firmware, copy it on a memory card and the Canon EOS 30D will update itself on startup.

  • Top-class 300mm lens at Sony

    Today, November 3rd, Sony officially accepts the first pre-orders for its best telephoto lens: The SAL-300F28G – 300mm f/2.8 G-Series with high-speed SSM motorization. It is supposed to be as exceptional as the original Konica-Minolta issue. Unfortunately, the retail price is expected to be around 6000 USD. This lens is evaluated on: Karlsen photography La…