A clever rethink of the camera backpack that makes access to your common gear much easier than the competition. Camera backpacks are an essential part of many of our kits, especially if we have a lot of gear and we often walk a fair bit in search of the perfect shot. The problem with most …
As part of our testing of a Lensbaby 3G, we could not resist putting a Lensbaby on our infrared converted Canon 350D digital SLR camera. The Lensbaby is an interesting tilt lens that many photographers are really enjoying and that solves some real photographic problems in a very inexpensive way. We have been testing a …
We test the K10D at night and for dark field image noise. To look at longer exposure image noise we setup te Pentax K10D on a solid tripod and sot our normal city view with 8 second exposures and aperture varying from f5.6 to f22 as we varied the ISO. PEF raw files for all …
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We test the Pentax K10D for image noise during daylight hours with short exposures. The Pentax K10D digital SLR camera is an impressive camera and takes great images.The Modern Henge – The MCG We were curious to see how it would handle from a noise perspective. Test 1 (base exposure 1/250 second at f7.1 and …
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We test the Pentax K100D digital camera for its suitability for infrared photography. 1/8 second at f3.5 and 200ISO 2 seconds at f16 and 200ISO What we found when we put a Hoya R72 filter on the camera was that the new Pentax K100D has a fairly weak infrared blocking filter. So exposure times are …
We examine the Seagate 750GB external drive. He (or she) who dies with the most storage wins! This seems to be the motto of the modern digital image-maker, and with good reason. Digital camera files are getting bigger as the resolution goes up, more people are shooting RAW rather than JPEG (I never capture in …
Snapfire is new software from Corel that helps you in organising your photos and getting more value out of them. It has good image enhancement options and ways to use your photos in fun ways. Snapfire is a piece of software aimed at the amateur photographer, home user and hobbyist. When you start it up …
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Since I had the 3800 here for testing when my Z3100 arrived, I could not resist doing a comparison between the two, though they are very different printers. This is not an even comparison, as the Epson 3800 and the HP Z3100 are very different printers. But I could not resist it, stupid me. I’ll …
The Epson 3800 printer has been a much-anticipated printer for many people, fitting a perfect size niche for many photographers, artists and designers. Occupying an ideal size for many people, the 3800 has been much awaited by many people. We put it through its paces and offer our first impressions. Setup is straight forward, as …
HP’s new Z3100 is a 12 ink large format printer with some great features. In this article I look at setup and initial use of the printer and my impressions of ease of use and print quality. My Z3100 is the 24 inch wide model. Even so, this is a large printer when it is …