The Vancouver Winter Olympic Games have been a delight despite the warm weather. And the coverage in the Press around the world has been a lot more than I expected given that it is Winter events that just do not have traction in much of the warmer climes. What really surprised was the mixed coverage [...]
The Apple iPad has been called a big iPod iTouch - and with good reason. iPad supports a big, full touch screen operations with a high resolution color screen which is readable in ambient light - think outdoors
on a sunny day. The iPad will certainly be a good game machine and a better book [...]
The Winter Olympic games have been quite exciting and picturesque - inspiring this series of Olympic Plugins reviews that highlight some of the best free and for fee plugins available. The improvement in plugins capabilities over the past 3-4 years have been quite dramatic. Here are two from the AutoFX that are both free and quite compelling. [...]
Redfield is one of those small plugin companies like Flaming Pear and Mehdi that have offered a lot of value to photo finishers in 3 ways. First, they have a number of free plugins [more on that just below] which provide good value to users. Second, all of their plugins are available in a fully [...]
The last step in PhotoFinishing is to add a frame to your image - and this can be an extraordinarily dangerous business. I have seen too many very good shots diminished by overstated metal/wooden frames and mattes. And in the digital world , the ability to do great harm to a good image seems to [...]
Steve Jobs has been dissing Adobe’s Flash for the past 2-3 years for reasons public but still fundamentally unknown. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2008 Flash has been programma non grata on Apple iPods and iPhones. Various reasons have been supplied including not fast enough, buggy, and drains power. The legitimacy of these [...]
When I did my recent review of 3 NextGen Compact Cameras I could not help wondering where were Canon and Nikon. Well Canon has answered in no uncertain terms with its new Powershot line up. The top of the line Powershot SX210 IS is particularly impressive staking NextGen highs for MPixels and optical zoom:
Canon Powershot [...]
NYTimes David Pogue has a great sense for value - and this year’s choices for the best compact camera for under $300 are as usual quite good. As seen in this very helpful chart, 10MPixel or better storage and some prices well under $300 rule the roost. Many of David’s recommended cameras have 10x zoom, [...]