Petteri Sulonen's Sigma DP1 review

Petteri Sulonen titeled his Sigma DP1 review"A Diamond In The Rough: Sigma DP1". If you're interested in reading more about the Sigma DP1, start here.

Here's what you will read about:

Sigma DP1
Physical design and build
This Is What I Call A Lens!
Let's Pixel-Peep
Available Light
Color Control
The "Foveon-Versus-Bayer" Thing
Performance In The Field
What Is It Good For?
Postscript: Things I Would Change

The article is not a comprehensive review of the Sigma DP1. The camera has a quite a few features that Petteri Sulonen doesn't even mention. Instead, these are "field notes" about the camera's suitability for a particular type of photographer, and particular kind of photography -- Petteri Sulonen, and the kind of pictures he takes. Therefore, please take these thoughts for what they are, and, as always, draw your own conclusions.

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Sigma EX 12-24 f4.5-5.6
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Canon 90-300 f4.5-5.6
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Wildlife Photography

Rabbit sitting still to be captured

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Review - Canon Digital Ixus 960 IS

This article appeared in the May, 2008 issue of PC Authority.

A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price. Same titanium shell as before, with a lowlight ability.It doesn’t look much different to its illustrious predecessor, but the gorgeous 960 IS, which replaces our former A-List favourite the Ixus 900 is an improvement. It’s just as gorgeous, is clad in the same, super-tough titanium shell and has image stabilisation among its armoury of features, allowing you to take handheld shots in far lower light than you’d normally be able to manage.The playback controls for both stills and video are intuitive and easy to use. Video is superb, giving 30fps at 640 x 480 (with audio). The 960 IS has an enormous 12.1 megapixels, which is pointless but reassuring. You can choose 8-megapixel capture instead, which will still let you enlarge up to A3 prints before you start seeing any pixellation.

“It doesn’t look much different to its illustrious predecessor, but the gorgeous 960 IS, which replaces our former A-List favourite the Ixus 900 is an improvement. It’s just as gorgeous, is clad in the same, super-tough titanium shell and has image stabilisation among its armoury of features, allowing you to take handheld shots in far lower light than you’d normally be able to manage.” - David Fearon

Source and Read More: pcauthority.com.au and at the Canon website.

RRP: $378 (time of review)
Check the latest prices.

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Seasons: Winter

Frozen Dogrose

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Nighttime Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop CS3

John Carucci’s Nighttime Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop CS3 covers those aspects of Photoshop CS3 that would be particularly valuable to photographers desiring to make nighttime photos. Examples of the types of nighttime photography addressed include subjects such as city lights, automobile traffic, architecture, concerts, theatrical productions, sporting events, people, and urban street scenes.
Carucci covers all aspects of taking nighttime photos including equipment, selection, technique, composition, timing, and strategy. Almost as much of Nighttime Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop CS3 concerns itself with TAKING good nighttime photos as with MAKING them (with CS3). Kudos to Carucci for demonstrating that nighttime photography isn’t just a “fixit” exercise using Photoshop: for best results, a photographer needs to do the right things with his camera before opening his files in Photoshop.

Read full review at mymac.com
Thanks to David Graham for the review.

Nighttime Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop CS3 by John Carucci
Peachpit Press peachpit.com
ISBN-13: 978032150354-1
ISBN-10: 032150354-6
230 pages, paper,
full color
US: $49.99,
CAN: $56.99,
UK: £35.99

Photo of the day: Calf-Roping at the Rodeo

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Go digital this year

Before shopping, understand what you want and need in a high-tech camera
Digital cameras are one of the season's hottest stocking stuffers

The good news: Prices are down, and shoppers have an array of colors, sizes and styles to choose from.
The bad news: Like most gadgets, digital cameras are laden with all sorts of hairy-scary techno-terms, such as megapixels and optical image stabilization.
Many are so complicated, it's hard for wannabe shutterbugs to imagine venturing away from the land of automatic settings.

"I don't think camera shopping has ever been nearly as challenging as it is today," said Tom Dorian, co-owner of Don's Camera in Olympia.
"The changes that have taken place in the last five years are bigger than any change I've seen in the 20-plus years that I've been in this business."
Digital photography 101

Freelance photographer Barbra Kates of Yelm teaches a series of classes through Timberland Regional Library that covers everything from buying a digital camera to using photography software for enhancements, prints and online publishing.
The classes are extremely popular and usually fill up within a few hours of registration.
Kates' main audience: older people who aren't technologically adventurous.
"It's that gang of people that are afraid of the VCR remote control," she said.
Kates - who specializes in documentary, travel and underwater photography - began teaching digital photography a few years ago aboard Princess Cruise ships.
"People would show up on the ship with brand new cameras in boxes and not know how to use them," she said.

Start with research
Before heading out to the store, Kates recommends coming up with a game plan: Figure out what the camera will be used for, learn the industry jargon and research online to compare different models.
Once at the store, try several different brands and styles. Don't just browse and compare prices - ask a salesperson to insert a battery and memory card and start clicking pictures, Kates said.
It's important to make sure a camera feels right - that the buttons aren't too small for your fingers or the menu screen isn't hard for you to navigate.

One of the biggest mistakes is buying "too much" of a camera.

Read Lisa Pemberton's full article at The Olympian

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Blue Flax (2735) from the Colorado wildflowers series

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Blogs Can Download and Use Copyrighted Images from Corbis Legally

Stock photography website Corbis is allowing bloggers to download their pictures on blogs for free without having to worry about “copyright infringement” - in return Corbis will embed a banner ad beneath the photograph or image.
There exists dozens of stock photography websites offering royalty free pictures at no cost but the Corbis advantage is that they have tie ups with big news agencies like Reuters so you could gain “legal access” to photographs that are otherwise extremely expensive.
According to Reuters, you can download Corbis pictures from PicApp website (currently in private beta) and they will be tracked automatically. The photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when you move the cursor over the picture.
PicApp follows a CPC based model and shares revenue based on the number of clicks made my visitors on the image but it is not clear if Corbis has any plans to share advertising revenue with publishing sites.
Corbis is privately owned by the same person who started Microsoft - Bill Gates.

more at labnol.org

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Frog

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Used Camera Buyer

It's never too late to sell your unused camera gear. If you thought that your gear was worthless, Used Camera Buyer. Com is waiting to make you an offer to change your mind. The prices do continually decline over time, so it will never be worth what it was worth yesterday. That is why you should call them today and not waste any more time waiting for the market to come back. The number of photographers using film equipment is dwindling everyday as the digital cameras improve in quality and come down in price. Don't wait any longer... Sell your gear to UsedCameraBuyer.com while you can still get decent money for it. They pay top dollar. Call them toll free at 866-735-5444 x9, email them at quotes@usedcamerabuyer.com or get a FREE on-line offer at www.usedcamerabuyer.com.

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Trout Fishing

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Photo books show many faces of history

Asbury Park Press
HENRY JACKSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It is easy to think about the American civil rights movement through the context of the few compelling personalities that history books tend to remember.

There are the heroes — Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks. The controversial icons — Malcolm X. And, of course, your clear-cut villains — former Alabama Gov. George Wallace springs to mind. But the modern civil rights movement was not a monolith. It was not limited to a handful of key players whose faces we can remember vividly. It was a multifaceted, multihued journey that swept across America.

It is this notion that provides the quiet beauty and power of "Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights." Through the compelling photography of Bob Adelman, a legendary civil rights photographer, we see a diverse struggle fought on many fronts — from the flexed bicep of boxer George Foreman and the cocked bat of home run king Hank Aaron to the stoic faces of civil rights marchers and images of King himself.

Augmented with essays from Charles Johnson, "Mine Eyes" strips the civil rights movement to its essence. We see the various people and personalities who fueled the movement removed from the summary of an encyclopedia or history book and put into context. Adelman's black and white photographs testify that, if anything, there were many faces to the civil rights movement. It is a powerful testament indeed.

It is a similar approach, though a decidedly more cynical and tawdry premise, that typifies "The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases From the Files.

"If there is a sweeping theme in "Notorious Crimes," it is that violence knows no unique face, nor one unique victim. There are iconic images of the criminals, murderous and deranged (Charles Manson at trial, for example) and comparably pedestrian (Kenneth Lay of Enron fame.)

And there are the victims, some obvious (the three civil rights workers beaten to death and shot by Klansmen in Mississippi in 1964) and some that, one suspects, went through history mostly unnoticed. (A picture of Lee Harvey Oswald's widow and daughter somberly doing laundry after his death.)

For those who believe that America's crime-obsessed tabloid culture is generational and a sign of decline, this book may offer a stiff rejoinder. The images of Lizzie Borden's ax or, for that matter, the snapshots of Chester Gillette (his slaying his lover in 1906 became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic "An American Tragedy") and Grace Brown (his lover) offer more than enough evidence that crime, and the sensationalism that most assuredly follows it, have no unique generation.

This is not to say that "Crimes" is without value. As history, imagery and a bit of guilty intrigue, there is plenty of material and it is presented neatly and informatively. And there is, after all, a reason culture fixates on crimes. They're interesting.

credits: app.com

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Food Photographer

Here's your ten minute break from the family and turkey-day guests. If they're hollering at you at your computer, just tell them you're getting some tips on how to make images of your soon-to-hit-the-table plate of food for your new portfolio, or picking up tips about taking better photos of them!
Food Photographer


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