Picking up this lens, you know that it is a professional lens. The construction is solid, with all of the rings tight and rotating smoothly and predictably. Important for outdoor photographers is that this lens is fully weather sealed (when used with a 1D camera body). The lens is based around a metal lens barrel and all [...]
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Time magazine featured legendary photographer Bruce Davidson work. Davidson was drafted into the US Army, where he served in the Signal Corps at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, attached to the post’s photo pool. Initially, he was given routine photo assignments. Undaunted, Davidson created out of seemingly mundane material unique photo studies. An editor of the post’s newspaper, recognizing [...]
Just as photographic film was mostly replaced by silicon image chips, now quantum film threats to replace the conventional CMOS image sensors in digital cameras. Made from materials similar to conventional film—a polymer with embedded particles—instead of silver grains like photographic film the embedded particles are quantum dots. Quantum films can image scenes with [...]
In the Version 2.0.4 firmware, the following phenomena that occurred with the Version 2.0.3 firmware (which was to enhance the movie functions) have been corrected.There was a phenomenon in which the manual recording settings made in C1/C2/C3 were changed and sound could not be recorded if manual sound recording was used in the C1/C2/C3 settings [...]
STUDIO SOLUTION SOFTWARE FROM CANON U.S.A. SIMPLIFIES WORKFLOW FOR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESSES Canon Software Helps Manage Administrative Processes in Photo Studios from Appointments to Image Processing in One Simple Software SolutionLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 8, 2010 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging technology, is today launching the highly anticipated Studio Solution software for workflow [...]
Canon Releases EOS E1 Video Plug-In for Apple’s Final Cut Pro
Posted: 02/07/2010 in Articles, Gear, PhotographyCanon’s EOS E1 video plug-in for Apple’s Final Cut Pro was released today. This new plug-in allows simple and easy transfer of video content from Canon’s EOS DSLR cameras directly into Final Cut Pro.The EOS E1 video plug-in takes advantage of Final Cut Pro’s powerful Log and Transfer feature, which allows users to select and mark the [...]
Canon is rumored to come out with a new camera which will be an upgraded 50d. Some of the new features will include 18 mega pixel cmos sensor 6 or 7 fps and a high iso range to find out more on this cmaera and its relase date and the rumors about it click here.
Magnum Photos has sold its archive of more than 185,000 press prints to Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computer, and two other investors for an undisclosed amount, the agency announced today. Under the terms of the sale, the prints were moved in December 2009 from Magnum’s New York office to the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities [...]
As a result of further enhancement, Canon is working to release a firmware update for the EOS-1D Mark IV. This firmware update further enhances the AF tracking performance and should be available for download from the Web starting from late January.Firmware Version 1.0.6 enhances the AF tracking performance of the EOS-1D Mark IV for receding subjects and [...]
On January 12 a devastating earthquake destroyed parts of Haiti leaving many without home food or water. There are many relief groups who are trying to help the victims of this earthquake but how do you go about choosing one. CNN.com has a list of Haiti relief information. Yahoo.com has a list of organizations that are helping the victims [...]
