Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Last week’s poll asked whether you wanted to see a movie mode in your DSLR. The results from the 211 votes (not quite as passionate as the nearly 2000 votes we saw on the New DSLR poll) were pretty even, with the anti-movie mode crowd edging the proponents out by a hair.
Additional commentary is certainly welcomed if you didn’t get a chance to vote. Just drop a line in the comment field below.
Are you interested in Photowalking, but don’t know anyone like Thomas Hawk or Rich Legg to walk with? Consider TimeShooting.
The advantage of this idea is you don’t necessarily have to *be* in a particular place at a particular time – all you have to do is have your camera with you at that time. If you happen to be at your office, click away. At home? Take shots of your kids. On the bus? Take pics of the city streets.
The first TimeShoot was great – the Flickr page received pictures of moose, housecats, indoors, outdoors, lighthouses, beaches, beer, ice, at least one person in a bathtub and shots from four different continents! (via Shawn King)
The next TimeShoot is planned for March 9th at 6pm ET. Head on over to Shawn King’s page on The Digital Camera Conference for more.
UPDATE: Bryan from the PhotowalkingUtah crowd dropped me a line in response to this post. Here’s what he has to say:
Ann, Rich and myself have organized a number of photowalks in the SLC area since the first one you linked to and we’ve got lots of new photowalks planned for SLCPhotowalking. But I should let you know that we’ve changed the name of our group to PhotowalkingUtah to reflect the amazing success our group that has been drawing people from all over the Utah area. We’ve also grabbed http://www.photowalkingutah.com/ that currently links back to the Flickr group.
All of you Ute’s have no excuse not to be Photowalking. Head on over to PhotowalkingUtah to get the details on the next event.
Xerox (NYSE: XRX) seems to have a problem with a healthy respect for photographers copyrights. Namely, if you are a student, they want yours.
Here’s the new ad for the Pentax K20D and K200D, which features their weather resistant qualities. Ned Bunnell, President of Pentax Imaging (USA), announced this new ad yesterday on his blog. You can get the full size .PDF from this post.
Read more about these Pentax DSLRs on Photography Bay’s Pentax K20D and K200D page.
Earlier this week, Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, issued a public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train. The deception has brought on a big debate.
Photo Review Australia has posted a full review of the Sony A350.
Low-light performance was very good, with accurate colours in long exposures (up to 30 seconds) and no apparent noise in exposures up to ISO 800. Colour noise became evident at ISO 3200 but at a relatively low level, although some shadow detail was lost with this setting. Neither of the noise reduction processing settings produced visible image softening but they did provide an obvious reduction in both colour and pattern noise.
For the latest news and reviews of the A350, check out Photography Bay’s Sony A350 page.
Creative Pro has posted a review of the Canon 40D.
Fortunately, a breakthrough allowed Canon to use a larger area on the sensor for each photosite, and the 40D employs the company’s excellent DIGIC III image processor, which does a much better job of handling noise. The practical upshot is that the 40D does achieve higher resolution without a noise penalty.
Get the latest news and reviews on Photography Bay’s Canon 40D page.
Canon retained its #1 spot in Europe for 2007. The increasing competition from Sony, Nikon and Pentax, which is good for all of us photographers, really tightened the group at the top of the food chain though. Will it be enough to dethrone Canon?
We’ll see, but Canon remains the king for now. [Read more…]
Digital Camera Review has posted a review of the Nikon D3.
Unparalleled ISO performance, a 9 fps full resolution shooting rate, exceptional color and image quality, a superb monitor, robust construction, outstanding build quality and a full frame sensor offering wide angle and depth of field lens performance like a 35mm film camera are some of the attributes that makes Nikon’s latest pro model a must-have for serious Nikon shooters.
Get the latest news and reviews on Photography Bay’s Nikon D3 page.
Trusted Reviews has posted a full review of the Nikon D60.
Pictures from the D60 impress, with a lovely smooth tonality and crisp punchy colours. Contrast is generally good, while the Active D-Lighting quickly takes care of those that need a little help to achieve their best. Exposures are generally good, though occasionally the camera underexposes by a quarter to half a stop, especially if there’s a lot of brightness in the image such as a bright sky.
Get the latest news and reviews on Photography Bay’s Nikon D60 page.