Category: Technology

  • 7D Mark II is Canon’s best DSLR cameras without full-frame sensor.

    7D Mark II is Canon’s best DSLR cameras without full-frame sensor.

    The expected long-awaited Canon EOS 7D Mark II are shipping in November for $ 1,799 without a lens. With a higher price tag, you would think it would be safe to assume that the flagship of consumers of sport sensor full-frame, it does not, it does not represent a big step up from the original…

  • Low key photography and How to isolate your subject.

    Low key photography and How to isolate your subject.

    Low key photography doesn’t depend on underexposure to make its point; the key to low key is that the majority of tones, even correctly exposed tones, fall below middle gray. This can be verified by looking at aluminum floor register box resting in a parabolic reflector. The strobe was powered 2/3 stop less than the…

  • High Key Lighting Techniques for Professional Photographers

    High Key Lighting Techniques for Professional Photographers

    I’ve written many times about high key lighting techniques and how to achieve them. The term “high key” is a bit misleading. As I’ve often said, high key has nothing to do with overexposure of the subject (though a photographer can opt to take that approach if it suits the subject); it merely means the…

  • The Search for Super-Soft Light for Best Photo

    The Search for Super-Soft Light for Best Photo

    TURN YOUR STUDIO INTO A SOFTBOX Softboxes are nice, as are umbrellas. Either will efficiently create large amounts of relatively soft light. But what if the source isn’t large enough? What if the shadows, soft as they are, are not as soft as you’d like them? Umbrellas and softboxes are limited in size. The largest…

  • Sony RX100 aftereffect leaks in Japanese chiral images, adds angry screen, hot shoe and WiFi

    Sony RX100 aftereffect leaks in Japanese chiral images, adds angry screen, hot shoe and WiFi

    We were added than a little ardent with Sony’s aboriginal RX100, a high-end Cybershot point-and-shoot apartment a notable 1-inch 20.2-megapxiel CMOS sensor alongside a f/1.8 Carl Zeiss lens. It looks like there were abundant barter that anticipation the same, because SonyAlphaRumors has gleaned several images from the chiral for a aftereffect device. The website has…

  • Canon 50D assets video recording through Magic Lantern RAW hack

    Canon 50D assets video recording through Magic Lantern RAW hack

    It may be time to dust off that Canon 50D you purchased aback in 2008. The association abaft the Magic Lantern firmware add-on accept pulled yet addition aerial out the accepted hat (or is it lantern?) by enabling RAW video recording on the APS-C-based DSLR. What’s even added absorbing is that the 50D lacks video…

  • Canon EOS 70D Rumored For July Launch

    Canon EOS 70D Rumored For July Launch

    Canon’s EOS 50D and 60D while being pretty decent cameras, are set at mid-ranged level, leaving devices like the EOS 5D and its generations for the higher-end market. If you think that you only need a mid-ranged camera for now and you want something a little newer, rumor has it that Canon is getting the…

  • Alleged Panasonic Lumix GX2 Specs Leaked

    If you’re in the market for a new camera, Panasonic might have something for you in the form of the Lumix GX2, the successor to the company’s Lumix GX1. While we’re not sure when Panasonic plans to launch the Lumix GX2, the folks at Digicame-info have managed to get their hands on what appears to…

  • Leica X2 Yokohama Edition Announced, Only 30 Units Available

    As if Leica cameras weren’t expensive enough, it seems that the camera manufacturer has a new limited edition camera planned that will set you back ¥283,500 ($2,795). In conjunction with Leica opening their store in the SOGO departmental store in Yokohama, Japan, the company has decided to release a limited edition Leica X2 Yokohama Edition…

  • Leica Mini M Gets Pictured And Priced

    Last week Leica teased a photo on its Facebook page in which the company hinted that a new Mini M camera would be revealed. Well according to the folks at Mirrorlessrumors, it seems that a photo of the new Leica Mini M has been revealed (pictured above) along with some of it specs. Considering that…