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Written by Stephen Epstein
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 Focus stacking with the Leaf AFi and Helicon Focus
These new tools at our disposal allow us to spend more time taking pictures and leaving the wizardry for the software. There are mathematicians with many more degrees than I have, computing the perfect algorithms to replace tasks that would have taken forever before the digital revolution hit photography.
One of the biggest challenges facing photographers shooting with digital cameras is to learn to the change the way we think. For 30 years we would look at our subject and instinctively know what could be photographed, what would be sharp, what would be beyond the depth of field and what highlights or shadows would likely be lost. Today’s equipment, combined with new software, allows photographers to accomplish what was seen as virtually impossible just a few years ago. |
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Written by Alfred DeBat
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 Olympus 550UZ Cameras with this option usually indicate a need for the anti-shake feature by displaying the icon of a vibrating or shaking upheld hand in the viewfinder. Often there is an illuminated button or switch with the same icon, which turns it on and off. Several different technologies can be used to accomplish anti-shake; however, the results are not the same among them. |
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Written by Media Release
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 Zeiss Classic Limited Edition Lenses |
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Written by Alfred DeBat
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Newly introduced digital cameras are offering built-in programs that help solve photography problems. One of the latest is face recognition capability. In past camera models, photographers had to be very careful when taking a multi-subject portrait because it was extremely important to set the autofocus distance to subjects correctly. You had to depress the shutter release button halfway during the auto-distance measurement, holding it there. Then you moved the camera so that the viewfinder included multiple individuals and snapped the picture. If you merely placed two people on each side of the viewfinder, the auto-focusing target in the middle would most likely adjust for the distant wall behind the subjects. Therefore, the faces would be out of focus. |
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Written by Camera-College Staff
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 Sony's Cyber-Shot DSC-T300
The new model incorporates Sony’s new intelligent scene recognition (iSCN), a technology that allows the camera to analyze shooting conditions and automatically select the optimal settings for the best photo results. In iSCN mode, the camera can automatically detect up to five scenes, and choose the best setting for the situation.
In advanced iSCN mode, the camera will shoot using the user’s settings and then will automatically step in and take a second shot with optimized settings. If the camera determines that the user’s settings are best, then a second photo is not taken.
“We’re aiming to make cameras smarter,” said Phil Lubell, director of marketing for digital cameras at Sony Electronics. “The T300 camera shows goes beyond face detection to other functions that help customers capture their best photos automatically.” |
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Written by Steve Miles
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 Images made by famous photographers sell for thousands of dollars and are outside the reach of most people. Having seen these images in books and on the internet, people have grown to know the work of the pioneers of photography. As time passes many of these images gain in value and become even less accessible to the guy on the street. Now, it is possible to acquire some very important and historical images for barely the cost of making a print.
Copyright prevents people from copying images and selling them to the public but when the copyright owner is the US government the story is slightly different. From 1935 - 1944 a group of photographers were hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to document the plight of poor farmers affected by the dust bowl. |
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Written by Media Release
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Free Online Software Brings Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital Photos  Adobe Photoshop Express |
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Written by Steve Miles
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 Using a Monopod They all offer great stability and have different heads installed for different types of shooting but the support that I enjoy using the most is my trusty monopod. |
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Written by Media Release
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 The theme for Tamron’s big 2008 Photo Contest is “Wet & Wild,” a very broad and exciting picture category that includes any images prominently including water—a lake, ocean, river, stream, pool, water slide, waterfall, even a sprinkler or bathtub! Pictures submitted must be original, the property of the photographer, and photographed using a Tamron lens. The contest is open to Tamron users residing in the United States and all entries must be received no later than October 31, 2008. Complete details and an entry form can be found at www.tamron.com. The Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 contest will receive a Tamron AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical IF Macro zoom lens featuring Tamron’s new Vibration Compensation mechanism (a $599 value). |
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Written by Media Release
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 New 32 Gb CompactFlash card Transcend’s 133x CF cards target users who demand superior performance and reliability from their memory cards, including professional photographers, reporters and photography enthusiasts. To ensure ultimate compatibility and speed, these cards operate in both dual-channel and Ultra DMA mode 4 modes*. Transcend’s 133x CF cards achieve extraordinarily fast read/write speeds of up to 45MB/16MB per second on average**, making consecutive shooting and non-stop video recording with today’s high-performance digital single lens reflex cameras (DSLR) easier than ever. With impressive transfer speeds and enormous capacities up to 32GB, users are guaranteed to get the very best performance results from their high-tech digital equipment. |
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Written by Camera-College Staff
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 Kodak Easyshare Wireless Digital Frame
Features to look for when shopping for a digital frame... |
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