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Canon must have spoiled me with the SD4000. Their first back-illuminated CMOS (I’ll call this BICMOS for short) camera was a surprise and I had hoped we’d be seeing that sensor technology creeping in to other cameras soon. While Canon is updating the SD4000 with the new SD4500, using the same sort of Canon-made sensor, it seems it may not be moving to anything else just yet. [...] Continue reading I was hoping for a G12 with BICMOS Another day, another bizarre camera concept from Yanko Design. Actually there have been a lot of good ideas out there for improving the ergonomics of cameras by tweaking grip angles, positions and control locations. This, clearly, is not one of them. [...] Continue reading Crazy Camera Concept Friday – your camera is now a bent pipe From the beginning of photography through the most recently botched BP public relations images, manipulation is as old a tool as the camera itself. The tools might be more accessible and more powerful now but that doesn’t necessarily mean all modern manipulations are well hidden, it still takes skill to successfully pull the wool over someone’s eyes. [...] Continue reading Uses and abuses of photographic manipulation 
This isn’t the first time a product like this has come to market. I remember seeing something similar from Horseman a couple years ago at PDN PhotoPlus. Accessories like this are pretty neat and I do like the way this opens up some flexibility when using DSLRs that even tilt-shift lenses can’t provide. Unfortunately I just can’t personally see justifying the cost and they’re too bulky which would make systems like this a poor replacement for my tilt-shifts. [...] Continue reading Sinar p-slr lets your DSLR act like a view camera 
But the bruises, scrapes and limps will continue on. Sunday, August 1st was the last day of the big yearly meet in Rochester, NY when people from all over converge to hang out, see the sights and take a picture or two. I didn’t see a lot and I didn’t shoot a lot but I’ve got the bruises, scrapes, bandage and hobble to make it look like I did a lot. [...] Continue reading Summer in the ROC 2010 is over… I had wondered when someone might take advantage of the proliferation of cheap and small inertial measurement sensors like this. These senors are already in everything from Wiimotes to cellphones and using them to improve the deconvolution techniques that help to reduce the appearance of blur in images makes sense. In the battle against camera shake every little bit helps and some cameras already ship with accelerometers (like Sony’s fancy panorama sweep stitching cameras) so it seems something like this might be closer to mass market reality than not. Hooray! Until then, lay off the coffee and maybe the jitters will subside. [...] Continue reading Microsoft merges motion sensors with cameras to help with your shaky hands It seems like every couple years some new standard has to come out to fix some shortcoming with SD cards and the result is more gobbledygook being added to the card names. As you can see in the image at the right (shamelessly borrowed from the SD Association site) in addition to the three size formats they’ve had (miniSD is effectively dead thankfully) there are three classes according to the capacity you desire. [...] Continue reading SD cards are becoming more discombobulated: UHS-I and WORM I have a terrible habit of not doing or saying anything regarding the affiliate programs that I am a member of. I’ve been running this site for fun, I don’t put a monetary value on the time I spend keeping it running and creating new content for it. Sadly I can’t get a discount on hosting just because of that, so the affiliate programs help offset recurring and future expenses. [...] Continue reading Update on affiliate merchants: now affiliated with Amazon As I sat back with my group of friends on the grass at Niagara Falls watching the fireworks last night, I was glad I had left the camera & tripod in the trunk. Before beginning the trip for the day I had thought how it would be a neat location to shoot fireworks and get the crowd in the foreground. When I was standing behind my car faced with the decision of whether to drag the equipment with me on the long walk to where we finally sat down, I decided against it. It was a hot day, it had been a long day and it got even more humid the closer we got to the mist from the falls. [...] Continue reading Enjoying the moment Since yesterday I’ve been doing a little tweaking on the site. There’s a new Facebook like button on each post which you can find at the bottom of the post. It’s also on the home page list of posts in the info bar below each post listing. [...] Continue reading Log in with Facebook, Flickr, Google, Twitter and more 
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