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Tamron announced a new telephoto zoom lens with the incredible range of 18-270mm, with Vibration Compensation, model B003, this past July. Their press release boasts the “world’s longest range” at 15x.
Great Range
The new Tamron lens truly does have an impressive range, from wide angle to telephoto. For comparison, the most comparable Sony lens, […]
The contents of this press release were taken from the Tamron Press Site.
TAMRON ANNOUNCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AF18-270MM Di II VC
ULTRA HIGH POWER ZOOM LENS
A Technological Breakthrough—World’s Longest Range 15X Zoom Lens Has Exclusive Built-In Vibration Compensation Mechanism Optimized for Consumer Digital SLR Cameras
July 30, 2008, Saitama City, Japan — Tamron Co., Ltd., under […]
Sony announced two new digital photo frames at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York, this past week. Generally, they are the same, except for their sizes, one has a 10 inch screen, the other has an 8 inch screen.
They each have 200mb of internal memory and accept the same flash media. The flash […]
The contents of this press release were taken from the Sony Press Site, including the Editor’s Notes at the bottom.
SONY EXPANDS DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME LINE-UP
NEW YORK (PDN PhotoPlus Expo #1018), Oct. 22, 2008 –Sony Electronics today added two new models to its family of S-Frame digital photo frames—including the company’s first 10-inch model here at […]
The contents of this press release were taken from the Sony Press Site, including the Editor’s Notes at the bottom.
NEW PREMIUM LENSES SUPPORT FULL-FRAME ALPHA DSLR CAMERA
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9, 2008 – Sony is expanding its number of high performance Carl Zeiss® and G Series lenses with the addition of the new SAL1635ZA and SAL70400G […]
To complement Sony’s debut into the full frame sensor DSLR market with the new Alpha 900, Sony has also announced two new premium lenses earlier last month.
The two new lenses are the SAL1635ZA and the SAL79499G models. Both of which support the DSLR-A900’s new full frame sensor.
SAL-1635ZA
The SAL-1635ZA lens is a 16-35mm wide angle lens […]
Sony recently released their flagship DSLR camera, the Sony Alpha 900 or DSLR-A900. It looks like a great camera, but I haven’t had a chance yet to use one. Looking at the camera’s details online, I did notice several things.
Flagship Price
One of the first things that I noticed about the camera was the […]
Vancouver Island is a great travel destination full of opportunities to take photographs of nature and wildlife. Among the things to see are Orcas, Bald Eagles, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears, as well as beautiful coastline and forest.
Last weekend I went on a short, one night, trip to Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles, although it is still a part of Los Angeles. Avalon is the largest town on the Island of Catalina. The cab driver told me that the population was about 3,000 permanent residents. Avalon […]
I was just in Antelope Valley SP Poppy Reserve in Lancaster, California where the poppies are in full bloom. If you are in the Los Angeles area you are less than two hours away from a great photo subject, but it will only last for another month or so.
Because of the rains this past […]
For a long time I struggled with pale blue skies in my images, even if the sky was actually a deep rich blue that day. Although I have found that adjusting the exposure to make the scene darker helped a little, I still wasn’t getting the results I wanted.
Enter The Polarizer
Finally, I got my […]
Manually adjusting your white balance by adjusting the color temperature gives you the greatest amount of control over the colors in your image. Some digital camera will allow you to adjust the the white balance by allowing you to calibrate the color temperature based on a Kelvin scale. Of all the ways to […]
Custom White Balance is a setting on many digital cameras that allows you to adjust the white balance based on the scene you are trying to capture. It is not based on preset White Balance settings and is therefore customized to your particular shooting conditions. It is not Auto White Balance where the […]
For a greater understanding of White Balance generally, check out my previous post on the subject. In this post I will guide you through how to use your digital camera’s preset White Balance Settings to take more control over your photographs. White Balance is all about controlling the colors in your image.
The Usual […]
This post is intended to explain White Balance for those who don’t know what the term refers to. This post is not intended as a step by step instruction on how to set your White Balance. Later this week I will post two entries on how to actually use the White Balance settings. […]
No matter what mode you are shooting in it is helpful to have an understanding of what the Exposure Value is and what Metering Modes your camera has, and what they do. When you understand how these two work together, you will be able to select more appropriate exposure settings, faster. With the […]
Part 4: ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture Size
This part of the series on How To Shoot Manual will focus on bringing on all the previously discussed elements together. So far, I have discussed ISO, Shutter Speed, and Aperture Size individually, trying to keep each as discrete as possible. However, ultimately any complete tutorial on shooting manually must discuss how the […]
Part 3: Understanding Aperture Size
The third and final contributing factor to getting the exposure you want is the Aperture Size. The other two being the ISO and the Shutter Speed, covered in the last two parts of this tutorial.
Like The Others
I’ve said before that Aperture Size may be the most difficult to grasp of the three, but that […]
Part 2: Understanding Shutter Speed
The last section covered ISO, this part covers Shutter Speed, the next part will cover Aperture Size; the three factors to getting the exposure that you want, whether it is for night photography, daytime photography, indoors, outdoors, whatever.
It Is What It Is
Shutter Speed is perhaps the simplest to understand of the three. ISO is […]
Part 1: Understanding ISO
ISO is one of three settings to getting a correct exposure. The other two are the aperture size and shutter speed. When shooting in manual mode you will be selecting all three of these settings for your photos. I am starting with ISO, since ISO is the simplest to understand, in terms […]