A word About Accessories

This is actually several words about just a few accessories. The number of accessories you could consider for your DSLR seems to increase exponentially by the month. Today I'm writing about flash memory and data transfer. Even if you're not a photographer a flash memory can really be handy. For the photographer it's a very handy way of making sure some images get where you need them to be quickly. I use this 4gig flash drive from Ativa.

Messing With The Oldies, Again

I was reading a very interesting interview of Ken Burns done by Outdoor Photographer magazine about the influence of photographers in promoting our National Parks. Burns recently completed another of his many excellent productions which you may have watched on PBS: America's Best Idea. I got the idea to take the old photographs provided by Ken Burns for the article and apply my recently honed improvement skills. Here's one now.

iPhone Awesomeness

I'm a little befuddled by the thought I just had that, as of now, I own several cameras that take good photographs, 2 of which will record video, and my third source of video is my cell phone. It hardly works to call it a cell phone anymore. It's a wireless phone with all those other things on it.

I did some reading on the Apple web site about taking photographs with the iPhone. As you may know, it's pretty straight forward but a few quick tips couldn't hurt.

Waterproof or Underwater?

I'm a diver. I really only dive once every couple of years but my wife and I remain certified and enjoy a dive or two on trips during which diving is an option. With that in mind I was interested in a new "waterproof" offering from Pentax.

 

Then I read the specs and learned that it is waterproof to 20 feet. Not nearly enough to be a good camera for SCUBA diving. The typical 2 tank SCUBA excursion includes 2 dives, one around 60' and a second around 40'. 

In The Works At Sony

Here's a very boring yet interesting presentation of Sony's concept for a small body/large sensor camera with interchangeable lenses. If I understand the guy they expect to put it on the market in 2010.


Here's the same thing only I think it's already on the market from Samsung.


In both cases you're getting, or will get, a sensor the size of the one in, for instance, the Canon Xs but in a much smaller camera and you'll have a selection of lenses. I did not see any explanations of the lens selection that will be available.

No Sweating With The Oldies

Here's another look at my family's past as I show you what I do to fix up and clean up some of the wonderful old photographs I saved from my mom's house as we prepared it for sale last week.

This is my uncle Sam, actually my dad's cousin, on a sunny day on Belle Isle, in the middle of the Detroit River. This was taken in 1938, probably during the Summer.

Revisiting Color Cast

In yesterday's post I showed you how I just turned a photograph of my daughter, nephew and mom to a black and white picture rather than try to correct a dramatic red color cast.

I'm still quite satisfied with the B/W version but I've discovered that Photoshop does offer an alternative.