Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
The Lensbaby Sweet Spot lens is a small lens for smartphones with a magnetic mount. The lens mounts to a metal ring that is secured around the smartphone’s camera lens with adhesive. The metal ring, in turn, allows the magnets in the lens to easily snap onto the phone’s camera. [Read more…]
It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.
Check out the rest of the photos below. [Read more…]
Check out this video from Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens for a quick little tutorial on how to photograph Christmas lights. To highlight the key tips: [Read more…]
The Portrait, 2nd Edition: Understanding Portrait Photography is a new book from photographers Glenn Rand and Tim Meyer.
The book discusses “lessons from the masters and the history of photographic portraiture. They build on this foundation and cover all of the technical and aesthetic components of understanding and producing outstanding portraits. Extensive illustrations illuminate the concepts discussed, and works of outstanding photographers serve as examples of how to apply the lessons in this book. This second edition offers even more illustrations and photographic examples as well as an expanded discussion on posing.”
The Portrait, 2nd Edition: Understanding Portrait Photography retails for $39.95; however, it is currently available for $28.59 from Amazon.com.
It is also available as a Kindle Edition for $17.59 here at Amazon.com.
Casio has announced the EX-MR1 camera, which is marketed toward teen girls and young women as the ultimate selfie camera. instead of a traditional lens on the front of the camera, Casio used a mirror to cover the face of the camera and put a 21mm-equivalent lens dead in the center. [Read more…]
Those weird FCC labels on your electronic gadgets should be gone for good soon thanks to the bi-partisan E-Label Act, which was signed into law by President Obama last week. [Read more…]
Kai from DigitalRev is back with a look at the new 7D Mark II. In this short review, he highlights some key improvements on the 7D Mark II like AF performance, frame rate and ISO performance. In summary, it’s another positive vote for the 7D Mark II as a serious DSLR.
DxO OpticsPro 10.1 is now available and adds support for the following cameras: [Read more…]
You can easily make a custom splash screen for Lightroom 5, which you will see every time the program opens. Watch the video above, courtesy of Craig McCormik, for the simple 5 minute tutorial.
Here are the specifics he mentions in the video:
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Talk about being late to the party… We have been talking about Canon mirrorless cameras for years. Canon took a shot with the EOS M and really blew it thanks to an AF system that was not ready for prime time when the camera launched. [Read more…]