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A few weeks ago I wrote about fisheye lenses (Fisheye Lenses – Can’t We Just Use Photoshop?) and now Sigma has introduced a couple of really wide fisheye lenses. The new 10mm F2.8 EX DC HSM fisheye lens and the new 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC HSM circular fisheye are truly unique.
Both lenses are designed for [...]

This past weekend you walked around your house and reset all your clocks, your watch, and your TV. The VCR is still blinking 12:00 so you passed that by. Did you check your Digital Cameras?
A lot of cameras actually have an option in the menu for DST. Hopefully, it took into account that this year [...]

You can visit the Nikon USA site and grab the new ViewNX and Transfer programs for Coolpix and DSLR cameras. These were posted to the UK site a week or so ago and are now available to the US users. Both are available in windows and MAC versions, are free downloads and don’t require any [...]

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos allow you to capture good detail in the highlights and shadows when photographing scenes that exceed your cameras capabilities. Many Digital SLRs can only effectively handle 4-5 Fstops of scene brightness.
After Capture magazine has 2 articles in it’s latest issue (and online) detailing the shooting methods and software to do [...]

There’s been a lot of squawk recently about the Sony A700 DSLR. This is a nice upgrade for existing Sony DSLR users. They gain a lot of nice features. The 12 MP sensor, 11 point AF system, 5 FPS shooting, Dynamic Range Optimization, and their unique Eye Start AF (which started in the Minolta cameras) [...]

Over the weekend I went to the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival here in the Denver area. This was actually the first time I attended one and I will certainly be back again. It was a wonderful event and I met balloon owners from Florida, Nebraska and other parts of the country.
The Saturday night “Lite In [...]