We got to handle the new Sony A900 and shoot some images to see what the image quality is like. The New A900 is an impressive camera. Rather than give you an exhausting listing of all the features, we will focus on taking pictures with this camera. So these are my first impressions from handling …
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The Nikon D300 is a very impressive camera. Well built, well featured and with excellent image quality, this is a camera worth owning. Nikon has been very impressive of late, with a renewed confidence and camera qualities and features that lead rather than follow, as was the case some years ago. The Nikon D300 is …
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We’ve had the Sigma 150mm macro for awhile and here are some test results I’ve been very impressed with the Sigma lenses I have seen recently. So I was curious to see how their longish macro lens, the 150mm would perform. The lens is available in Canon, Nikon, Sigma and Olympus/Panasonic mounts. The rationale for …
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A new mount will allow smaller interchangeable lens cameras from Olympus and Panasonic The four thirds system of Olympus and Panasonic has allowed for some quite small cameras but always seemed like too big a mount for such a small sensor. My view seems to have been confirmed by this latest announcement of a smaller …
Once images are in the digital domain there is an infinite field of possibility open to you that can move your photography to new levels. It is time to stop thinking of your camera gear and computer gear as separate things. Digital photography is as massive a paradigm shift in photography as the invention of …
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The Sigma 10mm Fisheye lens for APS-C sized digital SLR cameras offers strong capability at a decent price. Fisheye lenses for digital cameras are not that common. Sigma has lately released a number. The 10mm offers full coverage of APS-C sensor digital cameras. The lens comes in mounts for Sigma, Nikon and Canon dSLRs and …
The Sigma 4.5mm circular fisheye lens for APS-C sized digital SLRs is a fascinating lens. 180 degree circular fisheye lenses are very unusual. For the photographer they can be a challenge to use well, though they reward the effort with a very different view of the world. For the lens designer they are also a …
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Since we had a few Canon’s here for testing, we decided to photograph the same scene with the same lens in infrared to see how the different models handled it. On a day when I was out in the country testing cameras, I decided to try something that made sense to me: photography the same …
Four Canon Digital Cameras, Same Lens, Same Scene, Infrared Read More »
BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES IMAGE QUALITY, ENABLES DESIGN SHRINKS DOWN TO 0.9 MICRON PIXELS The following press release shows we are nowhere near the end of possible developments of the basic digital sensor. Press Release OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), the world’s largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today launched its OmniBSITM architecture, a novel …
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DIMi takes the D300 digital camera out to shoot infrared landscape images and we see how it goes. As you know by now, I love infrared photography. So we make sure we put every camera that comes through here for testing through an infrared test. This time we had three cameras with us, the Nikon …