Is this just a Photo?
Toronto Winter City Festival - Angel of the Apocalypse Exhibit by the Flaming Lotus Girls
I have been blithely producing this series of Olympic Plugin articles without asking a very relevant question - when is a picture more than just a picture? By that I mean in the process of doing photo-taking [...]
This is the Canon Powershot SD880 but whats missing here is also missing on my Panasonic Lumix Tz3 - a view finder. Now I can live with a compact camera that has a paltry manual mode settings range of f4.5 to f12 for for f-stop settings and shutter speed range of 1/60th to 1/500th - [...]
Update: the price per gigabyte for a HDD has sunk to $0.07/GB in approximately a year and a half. Also see this comparison of HDD vs SSD trade-offs. But the most important trend is a slowdown in SSD drive cost/GB reductions forecast out to 2014. The improvements in cost/GB have already started to slow and [...]
The NYTimes technology section is getting to be one of my favorites for finding out about the last electronic bling. With the exception of Apple topics, the coverage is not breathless fanboy scrapings of every detail of the Palm Pre or HP Mini Netbook seen on many other gadget sites; but rather fairly well measured [...]
Video comes to SLR
Yes indeed, that is a Canon digital SLR with replaceable lenses - and it is a pretty good video camera. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is probably the epitome of what has become a gold rush of digital SLR cameras that are currently supporting video capabilities. Nikon has the [...]
Video cameras are adding huge zoom capabilities. Optical zooms with image stabilization. The Pansonic SDR-H90 above is 70x true optical (think of it as a 37.9-2650mm (4:3) still camera telephoto range). The camera has a builtin 80GB drive and takes SD card with up to 32GB of memory for combined long play record of over [...]
Yahoo/Flickr had a great idea for the the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. They would have two gals, Yahoo employees, ride bicycles with specially mounted cameras on the front steering wheel of the bikes. Then automatically, once a minute a picture would be snapped of the parade as “observed” by the bike riders/picture takers and automatically [...]
One can tell that Photokina, the CES of camera shows, is upcoming in Cologne Germany in mid-September. There is a proliferation of new camera announcements - particularly in the ultra competitive digital SLR business. Early this Spring, this site featured a story on the new digital SLRs. Yet already there are new cameras coming [...]
For the past few years I have been arguing that still and videos cameras are converging. Casio’s EX-F1 is currently the best example of that convergence. The Casio EX-F1 delivers 5 modes of still picture taking including auto-bracketing in four modes, multiple exposures from 2 to 60 frames per second, motion sensor triggered [...]
I have been telling readers that Casio EX-F1 is something special and now the appreciation for what the camera can do is really starting to to pour forth. It started probably with David Pogues article in the NewYork Times but notably Wired & DPReview except for blurbs from CES 2008 show, missed this beauty:
Chris Hardwick [...]
Now Magazine is the free weekly entertainment rag along with Eye Weekly in Toronto. Now’s cover story featuring a bashed up Olympus OM3 body with wax blood is the type of smash contact photography that is designed to get readers inside. So of course there was a loss leader headline screaming IS DIGITAL KILLING the [...]
I have been ranting about the Casio EX-F1 as a cross between a fixed lens SLR and a video camera. The fixed SLR format may have some attractions - fit one lens on with a broad zoom range like the Casio with 36 to 432mm at f2.7 to f4.6 and then take away the [...]
I have been arguing that this year is the year of the SLR - as companies like Nikon and Canon contend for top spot as the conversion from film to digital reaches and goes pass its peak. Also Sony, Samsung, Olympus, and even Pentax strive for survival. All the vendors are worried about the [...]
Its that time of year again, when image lovers get to see the latest works coming from the Art Schools.
April 3, Ryerson Institute has added its shows. They are posted in alphabetical order:
The Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary Alberta
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Canadore College Graphic Design
March 13 to 27th at WKP Kennedy Gallery
in North Bay Ontario
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Dundas Valley [...]
This a quick look at 3 video cameras that glide up the price scale from just over $100 to $500 and then $1000. I have chosen these video cameras because they go beyond what you would expect in each case of a video camera. So without further to do:
The Flip
The Flip seems small and [...]
I have been arguing that the digital SLR cameras and video camcorders are converging. Casio EX-F1 shooting at 60fps-frames per second embodies that trend. Okay the Casio EX-F1 does not have interchangeable lenses - rather users are “stuck with” a 12x zoom lens that performs like 36 to 432mm 35mm equivalent. Not quite as [...]
If anyone had any doubts about the continued success of digital SLRs just take a look at what happened at the recent PMA-Photography Marketing Associations annual show in Las Vegas this year. Yes it was a flood of new digital cameras - marked by the new Sony line-up which we have covered already here. But [...]
You would think that PMA-Photo Marketing Association would be the best source of information for what went on at their annual show, PMA 2008 this year, which shows off in Las Vegas all that is happening in the world of photography. Well, not exactly. For some reason, the PMA puts on a humdinger of a [...]
CES 2008 - the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has long replaced Demo, COMDEX (sigh ….RIP)and other IT shows. CES is the place to be just after Christmas to see what will be the popular electronic gadgets for Christmas 2008. The market does need the lead time even in the frenetic electronics gadget market [...]
RIP: Kodachrome Film
I can’t quite believe that Kodachrome film has come to its end. See the story here. This is the film of my grandfather, father and myself. I really expected, despite the dominance of digital cameras and media, that Kodachome, especially Kodachrome 25, would withstand the digital deluge. Superior grain, true colors and nearly archival slide [...]