Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
O’Reilly Media has released a new digital photography book: David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual. It promises to be a great book for beginners as an introduction to digital photography for point and shoot pocket cameras and DSLRs. It retails for $24.99, but can currently be found for $16.49 on Amazon.com.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
A couple interesting photography notes from the Inauguration today:
Mashable has a nice piece on the coming of age of Microsoft’s Photosynth, as it was featured on CNN.
Additionally, Stephen Shankland over at Cnet has shows off satellite images of the Capitol Building and the crowd of onlookers.
I know there is a ton of other photography-related snippets in and around the Inauguration (man, I hate typing that word – it’s hard), but I found these two particularly noteworthy. It’s always interesting for me to see how photography help makes the world go round.
Have you seen anything else related to photography that sticks out from the crowd?
Were you at the Inauguration? Care to share some links to your photos in the comments, or put’em up in the forum?
B&H Photo has published a review of the Canon 5D Mark II.
Priced under $2700, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II is an impressive camera that enables the user to capture monstrous, pro-quality still and video image files for far less than half the price of Canon’s flagship EOS 1Ds Mark II.
For the latest news and reviews on the 5D Mark II, be sure to stay tuned to Photography Bay’s Canon 5D Mark II Reviews and Resources.
Imaging Resource has published a review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28.
True to the line, the Panasonic Lumix FZ28 is a good quality digital camera with a long, 18x zoom.
Nikon has release firmware updates for the D3 and D700. Interestingly enough, it seems that the D3 and D700 firmware updates employed a fix for “black dots”. [Read more…]
Canon has posted a firmware update for the EOS 40D. The new version 1.1.1 incorporates the following fixes and improvements.
1. Fixes a malfunction that in rare occurrence causes a low battery indication to be displayed when using the EF 85mm F1.2L II USM lens. Depending on the battery check timing of the camera, the battery level displayed on the camera’s LCD data panel may shows Battery will be exhausted soon or Battery must be recharged, even though the battery capacity is sufficient.
2. Fixes a malfunction that in rare occurrence causes an Err 06 Self Cleaning Sensor malfunction to appear on the camera’s LCD monitor and LCD data panel, even when the Self Cleaning Sensor Unit is operating normally. This message may appear depending on the timing of when the camera is switch to the ON position.
3. Fixes a malfunction that prevents correct colors from being printed when direct printing. RAW images captured using the camera’s custom Picture Styles (Emerald, etc.), which have been downloaded from Canon’s Web site and registered under User Def. 2 or User Def. 3.
4. Modifies the level of subject brightness that causes the AF-assist beam to fire when using an external Speedlite.
5. Enables an external flash connected to the camera’s synchro terminal to fire even when the camera’s built-in flash is popped up.
Download the EOS 40D firmware update and get additional information on Canon’s website.
DPS has posted a review of the Nikon D90.
It’s a great combination building on Nikon’s excellent photo quality with the addition of High Definition video and some very well thought out photographic features.
For the latest news and reviews, visit Photography Bay’s Nikon D90 Reviews and Resources.
Digital Camera Review has published a review of the Pentax K2000.
I expected the camera to perform better than the *ist DL but fall short of the K10D. Sure enough, the K2000 performed almost exactly as expected. In short, this is one amazing little camera.
For the latest news and reviews on this camera, stay tuned to Photography Bay’s Pentax K2000 Reviews and Resources.
Wired has posted a quick review of the ColorRight white balance tool.
Results in the field are fantastic; we had no issue with balancing various hues up perfectly. And though it may sound a bit complicated to work through, it’s not – once you nail the process it takes mere seconds to dial the right color balance.
Also, check out Photography Bay’s in-depth ColorRight Review.
DC Resource has posted a review of the Nikon Coolpix P6000.
The Coolpix P6000 also gets mixed reviews in terms of photo quality. Overall, exposure was accurate, though the P6000 and it’s tiny CCD tended to clip highlights here and there.
For the lastest news and reviews on the P6000, be sure to visit Photography Bay’s Nikon P6000 Reviews and Resources.