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Panasonic has followed this design path for five years now… so I guess you could say things seem to be working for the approach. The essence is an attractive, slim camera with touches of steel, easy to find external buttons and a delightfully simple viewfinder menu to adjust the taps and tools in your picture making … and available in black, silver, red and blue. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1 ventures [...]

This video shows you in simple steps how to do close-up using Micro-Nikkor and third-party close-up lenses and how to do 1:1 magnification. Remember, this tutorial is for controlled situations (which means we won’t show you how to do bugs, portraits, or pets at 1:1 magnification). Enjoy! Music: My Favorite Things by John Coltrane http://www.youtube.com/v/GjEFVxMi6HY?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata [...]

The Pentax Optio WS80 is a new water- and dust- proof compact camera. The WS80 also features a 10 megapixel sensor, 5x zoom lens and HD movie recording, and currently costs less than £200 / $225. Aimed at all the members of the family, can the Pentax WS80 survive More:  Pentax Optio WS80 Review Technorati Tags: camera, digital-camera, diwa, dslr, image-quality, memory-card, nikon, pentax, pentax-optio, [...]

I sometimes hear from people who’ve newly acquired a digital SLR, saying they find it a hassle to continually change lenses when shooting a wide variety of subjects. Frankly, it goes with ‘SLR-territory’ (digital and film) and is the price you pay to enjoy the improved image of an interchangeable lens, reflex camera. In reality, unless you’re very demanding and continually shoot magazine quality [...]

I sometimes hear from people who’ve newly acquired a digital SLR, saying they find it a hassle to continually change lenses when shooting a wide variety of subjects. Frankly, it goes with ‘SLR-territory’ (digital and film) and is the price you pay to enjoy the improved image of an interchangeable lens, reflex camera. In reality, unless you’re very demanding and continually shoot magazine quality [...]

Adobe’s favourite son is often considered to be a powerful but daunting program yet many consider it to be an essential tool for photographers who take their efforts seriously. Photoshop in a Weekend, based on CS3, attempts to open the application and to be seen as a companion to the original Adobe manual. It begins with the lowdown on the companion programs — Photoshop Elements and Lightroom — [...]

Adobe’s favourite son is often considered to be a powerful but daunting program yet many consider it to be an essential tool for photographers who take their efforts seriously. Photoshop in a Weekend, based on CS3, attempts to open the application and to be seen as a companion to the original Adobe manual. It begins with the lowdown on the companion programs — Photoshop Elements and Lightroom — [...]

A function-enhancing firmware update for the Ricoh GR Digital III camera will be released on December 1st. Read more and comment » View original post here:  Ricoh GR Digital III Firmware Update Technorati Tags: Adobe Photoshop, camera, canon, compactflash, digital, digital-camera, digital-cameras, digital-news, dslr, film, firmware-update, mark-goldstein, memory-stick, olympus, photo, [...]

According to DC Watch, the launch day of the Ricoh GXR system will be 18 December in Japan. Read more and comment » Read the original here: Ricoh GXR to Debut on 18 December Technorati Tags: image-editing, mark-goldstein, memory-stick, photo, photos, printers, professional, ricoh, smart-media, wedding-photography

This video explains into depth how to create a photograph that offers an increase in the dynamic range (or higher dynamic range) that is done by using your camera’s Multiple Exposure alone rather than using Photomatix HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographic image software, which usually result in unusable garbage due to lack of knowledge in tone mapping. Since doing this in-camera offers realistic [...]