Articles tagged with: Equipment
Unlike traveling with children on the airplane traveling with camera gear is much more easy than even I thought that it would be. Even with the size of my collection of equipment and it’s weight traveling to Oregon for the weekend has been a breeze and I would expect the same on any other travels, no matter the distance. I in fact think that my camera equipment travels better than I do as a six foot plus body really isn’t meant to be in the poorly designed plane seats.
Understanding the …
In the world of photography you need to be ready at a moments notice, this need for readiness usually comes with many different cameras hung from the shoulders with an arsenal of lenses also in the mix. While this provides a camera for every thing that may need to be photographed it may not provide the availability that is needed.
The RStrap from BlackRapid is an attempt at making the camera more available while still encouraging management of cameras on straps that are held over one shoulder. Check it out, if …
While doing some browsing around this evening I found something truely wonderful, a lens cap that very well may help people wanting to learn more about their camera and start shooting in the (M)anual mode. Taking well balanced photographs can sometimes be a chalange and if you want to balance correctly the first time… without looking at the photograph after it is taken and take an additional photograph or having your grey card along. Now all you have to do is learn to put your camera in Manual White Balance …
After much anticipation and much reading the long rumored Canon 5D replacement is on it’s way to the general public. I just got off the phone with my local camera shop, letting me know that the Canon 5D Mark II was released for order and shipment today and that they would soon have one in hand to allow customers to look at, play with, and test out before taking one home themselves.
Though the new model in the 5D series offers many improvements it didn’t live up to the hype that …
Canon announced today the Canon EOS 50D a new camera body to replace the almost un-aged 40D digital body released just one year ago. The new camera features improvements for those that include a more megapixels, larger dynamic range, and the ability to plug their camera directly in to their HDTV’s. The Canon 50D updates the Canon pro-sumer line which has been moving much more quickly than any other line as of late, this due to the high demand of people that have gotten their feet wet with a consumer …