Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 200-400, D3, full-frame, monopod, new york, Nikon, photo, photography, slr, super telephoto, VR on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Lens Tech Specs
Length: 14.2in w/ Hood: add another 6in.
Weight: close to 7lbs – a monopod or tripod is recommended
Build Construction: Superb. Full metal barrel, stainless steel lens mount, and carbon fiber lens hood.
Has:
built-in tripod/monopod mount,
52mm drop-in filter,
Vibration Reduction
Particular Uses
Bird photography
General wildlife photography
Landscape / Nature Photography
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 12gb ram, asus, computers, corsair, evga, intel i7 core, nehalem, velociraptor, vista 64-bit, western digital on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
About a month ago, I finally decided that it was time to upgrade the Kaz Arts computer station . It had been a long time since I had kept up with computer technology (since about the last time I built a machine 6 years ago) and didn’t quite know where to begin. So, what better [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 4x5, 5d, cameras, canon, D3, digital, eric kazmirek, film, full-frame, image quality, large format, medium format, new jersey, Nikon, photo, photography, photos, RAW, sharpness, slr on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have finished taking all of the images for our huge digital vs. film show-down. The film is currently in queue for processing and I will post a list of all the film types shot and also all digital formats shot as soon as we group everything into a single place. The write up & [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 35mm, 5d, camera, cameras, canon, D3, eric kazmirek, film, full-frame, large format, medium format, new jersey, Nikon, photo, photography, photos, Photoshop, RAW on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today John-Paul and I will be taking a number of film sizes and types and making test shots to make the big comparison between film and digital. The film types up for scrutiny and review?
35mm Kodak Ektar & Ilford FP4 & Kodak Tech-Pan
Medium-format 2 1/4 and 6×4.5
Large Format 4×5
After the rolls are processed and digitized [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged auto-switching, camera, cameras, epson, epson 4880, fine art, hahnemuhle, inkjet, matte black, photo, photography, photos, printers, Printing, wide format, Workshop on February 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today’s post is not a structured formal review – there will be plenty of those coming in the weeks ahead as new products will begin to ship from the manufacturers. Instead, today’s article is just a casual discussion about the wide format printer I have been using for the past year: the Epson 4880 with [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 4-thirds, 4/3, camera, flash, four-thirds, G1, low light, micro 4-thirds, micro four-thirds, Panasonic, photography, photos, RAW, review, slr, Travel on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In short – yes. But, there are of course details to follow…
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged camera, canon, compact, flash, full-frame, G10, low light, photo, photography, photos, RAW, Travel on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Powershot “G-series” is a highly regarded family of cameras and for good reason too. The Canon ‘G’ is consistently one of the best made, highest performing, and most comfortable of all the point and shoot-sized digital cameras. The Canon G10 is no exception. In fact, it makes significant improvements of the lens disappointment of [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged compact, coolpix, digital, images, low light, Nikon, nikon p6000 review, p6000, photorgaphy, photos, review, samples, Travel on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Perhaps…it is another Nikon Coolpix underachiever, in certain respects. But I can leave you rest assured it is not a total loss.
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged camera, cameras, firmware, flash, LX-3, Panasonic, RAW, review, white balance on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning Panasonic released firmware v1.2 for the LX-3.
Issues addressed are:
1. Improved white balance flash mode setting when DMW-FL220 is connected.
2. Proper setting of shutter speed on iA mode and Scene mode when OIS is turned ON.
3. Proper Exif [...]
Posted in Product Reviews, tagged 5d, auto iso, camera, canon, firmware, hd video, low light, mark II, photo, photography, slr, studio on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Canon posts firmware update to correct 5D Mark II issues. You can download it directly from Canon here.
The point of this article is not to discuss the image quality of the 5D Mark II in depth, but I will make clear right up front that the image quality is quite amazing. What this [...]
