Month: March 2010

  • EOS 5D MkII: Firmware corrected

    Canon was fast on this one. A few hours only after announcing the removal of version 2.0.3, here is the new version 2.0.4 of the Canon EOS 5D MkII firmware. It corrects a bug in sound handling in 1080p video mode. Firmware v2.0.4

  • Panoramas like a pro: EPIC Pro

    GigaPan announces a new motorized panorama head: Epic Pro. This robot-like tripod-based camera mount automatizes the shooting of pictures that will be assembled into one giant panorama image. This leaves GigaPan with a full range of panorama mounts: The EPIC costs $349, the EPIC 100 $449 and the EPIC Pro $895. All three should start…

  • Firmware v2.0.3 for 5D Mark II, no thanks

    Canon just informed us that the new firmware 2.0.3 for the Canon EOS 5D MkII has an undescribed issue (for some users). Canon is not much more precise than that yet (some users are speaking about sound issues, though). But if you did not already rush to get this specific (and important) firmware version, I’d…

  • Very expensive pixels

    The most recent announcements from Mamiya and Pentax are clearly targeting those of us who do not pay their photo cameras or get them out of the same budget that pays for their first-class plane trips: Mamiya MD40: For $21,900 (not far from 20 000€), you will get a 40 MP medium format camera on…

  • Antje Schley

    Sometimes, you discover a photographer because one work touched your eyes and you fall in love with the rest of her work. This is exactly what happened to me. I saw Antje Schley photo documentary about Kabul and loved her B&W rendering of this country at war. But it’s with her portraits series that I…

  • 158 lenses = 1 photo camera

    Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students at the Nagoya Institute of Technology obtained an official recognition of their achievement when the Guinness World Records certified them as holding the world record for a camera with largest number of lenses. Usually, a DSLR has 1 lens attached. Some 3D cameras have two. This piece of…

  • Canon EOS 7D: extensive field test

    I found a very good and very detailed field test of the Canon EOS 7D. Since it is not often that you will find such an in-depth analysis by a pro-photographer (Nature Photographer Ole Jørgen Liodden from Norway) ready to disclose so much information, I wanted to share it with you. Weather sealing In the…

  • A sharp picture: 12 tips

    The plague of many photographs and photographic hardware devices is of not being able to produce nicely sharp pictures, nearly crunchy images (Nota bene: I do understand that this is not the ultimate goal of a photographer and that many a picture is technically mediocre or fuzzy or foggy and still is a great photograph).…

  • The art of camera tossing

    Camera tossing is all about sending a photo camera up in the air while in long exposure settings to record the whirling moves of the camera into a somewhat different picture. This is an obviously dangerous photo technique (How many times can you strike such a move without letting the camera fall on the floor?)…