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Weekly Links, 12/12/2008 – Chuck Westfall Tech Tips, AF Microadjustments

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:07:41 +0000

- Last week, Chuck Westfall came up with his tech tips again, and provided some information about AF microadjustments.

To summarise this topic here are couple more interesting links:

- Nikon D70 focus test chart and how to use guide, by Tim Jackson
- Camera AF Microadjustment, by Keith Cooper

Weekly Links, 05/12/2008 – Lens Scratches, CF performance, Jean Baptiste Guiton

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:04:44 +0000

- If you worry about scratches and dust on your lens, you have to look at this: http://www.lensrentals.com/news/2008.10.30/front-element-scratches

- Rob Galbraith has recently tested multiple Compact Flash cards and published nice compartison table. If you’re on the market for a new flash card – do not miss this article.

- Jean Baptiste Guiton shoots cosmetic ad:

Weekly Links, 21/11/2008 – DXOMark, 5DMkII jelly video

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:54:31 +0000

- A free resource dedicated to RAW-based camera image quality – DXOMark. ” … DxO Labs’ image quality database allows users to analyze and compare digital camera image quality performance based on thousands of scientific, bias-free RAW-based measurements… “.

According to DXO Labs my Canon 20D is not that bad at all, it will be interesting to compare it with Canon 5D Mark II.

- Alan Doyle played a little bit with Canon 5D Mark II video, demonstrating rolling shutter and jelly effect.

marmite and canon eos from alan doyle on Vimeo

Weekly Links, 14/11/2008 – Camera Profiling, Drew Gardner

Yegor Korzh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:55:45 +0000

Not much interesting this week, with couple exceptions:

- The Photographic world of Drew Gardner, his website is here- Camera profiling for ACR
ACR DNG profiles from a ColorChecker card - I haven’t tried this method yet
Using AcrCalibrator Photoshop script

Weekly Links, 07/11/2008 – Photo Guides, Ethan Meleg, X-Ray

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:10:15 +0000

Another week passed, and here is a next dose of some interesting links:

- Nature photography from Ethan Meleg - enjoy his portfolio here and blog over here.

- A very useful and promising initiative to describe best photo spots - Open Source Photography Guides. It is broken by country and then by region and published in the blog style. Main international site. NSW, Australia portion. It is quite new, so do not expect to see a lot.

- Nick Veasey, X-RAY Photograper. It is not something very new, I knew about this excellent porfolio for a while now, but though that it would be good thing to mention.

Weekly Links, 31/10/2008

Yegor Korzh — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:26:31 +0000

- Deep Sky Astrophotography for Beginners. If you don’t have those expensive telescopes and tracking devices, you can try using image stacking techique to get some good results.

- For long trips, I usually do some homework and prepare a spreadsheet with sunrise/sunset times for each location for each day. It is good to be prepared, but I was always hoping to have a more dynamic way of determining sunset and sunrise times. UTMDATA for S60 Symbian-based mobile phones - this small freeware application runs on the mobile phone, can read current GPS position from the built-in or external receiver and calculate current sunrise and sunset times.

- I have also spent some time this week, exploring different ways to fit graduated filters on super wide-angle lenses like Canon 14mm F2.8 II. Here are some useful forum topics and guides:

- Using a Cokin X-Pro filter on the Sigma 12-24 lens
- DPReview forum: 14-24 with graduated ND filters
- DPReview forum: Help! Polarizing Filter On The 14mm II Lens
- FredMiranda forum: Nikon 14-24 on 1Ds3 + filters question
- FredMiranda forum: dusk ambience

I think I’ll try to make my own holder for Cokin X-Pro filters that would work on 14mm. I’ll post my results.

Weekly Links, 24/08/2008

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:54:23 +0000

In this weekly links post:

- Keith Luitit PhotoBlog. It is in the MUST SEE category. It looks like he is the first who has combined tilt-shifting and time-lapse photography together, producing some great videos of Sydney. Currently he has 4 videos availble in his blog.

- We have some disturbing developmens around the Internet Filter here in Australia. Currently, government plans to make such filter mandatory for all users without opt-out option. Please visit http://nocleanfeed.com/ to see what you can do to stop it.

- In the Canon 5DMarkII category we have a couple of RAW images posted on akihabaranews.com, taken by pre-production Canon 5D Mark II.

Weekly Links, 17/10/2008

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:45:39 +0000

- Tech Tips by Chuck Westfall, Canon USA’s main media spokesman
- Photomicrography, everything about “the taking of photographs through a microscope”
- Rapid R-Strap Review, seems to be very convenient, I will be getting one of these very soon. Official website and australian distributor
- How to hold a camera, by Joe McNally

Weekly Links, 10/10/2008

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:22:16 +0000

Today’s links list is short and simple:

- Powerful work from James Nachtwey
- Robert Benson Pocket Wizard madness
- Stock photography blog by Yuri Arcurs

Enjoy!

Weekly Links, 03/10/2008

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:33:50 +0000

This link will be for waterfall maniacs – locations of all waterfalls in Australia. As it is based on locality names, it does not guarantee that there is a waterfal, but at least gives you and idea where to look for.
Blog about Singh-Ray filters, shows real examples and explains techniques used to take some nice landscape shots. Even if you don’t have these expensive filters, it is a really good place to look for inspiration and learn something new.
PhotoPreneur Blog. Here is what they say: “Photopreneur exists to identify the new opportunities that these changes are churning up for professionals, hobbyists and for camera-owners who want to earn from their photography.”

As usual for long weekends, we are going to explore some new interesting places, so there will be no updates for some time – sorry for this.

Weekly Links, 26/09/2008

Yegor Korzh — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:30:31 +0000

I’ve just decided to declare Fridays in this blog as a Links Day. From now on, I’ll post links to interesting articles, blogs and sites weekly. At least I’ll try to stick to this schedule.

FM 100 Hue Test. What is your colour IQ? I’ve got score 0 on the first and the only try.
Digital Photography Workflow: Fashion Photography, by Patrick Lavoie. Patrick, professional photo retoucher, describes his digital workflow in details.

According to google, there are 1.3 millions pages that mention Canon 5d Mark II. Just to keep most useful in the one place, Canon 5D Mark II info:

Official specs from Canon
Summary of press info and specs on Northlight Images.
DPReview
Review from Luminous Landscape.
Review from wedding photography prospective.
Rob Galbraith, review.
“Reverie“, sample Video by Vincent Laforet using Canon 5dMkII, behind the scenes and a bit of blogging. He also plans to release raw video, watch his blog.