Back in 2009 I wrote a blog post about tilted horizons. It’s one of those issues which is probably never going to go away. This year it’s come up at least once a month during photo critique sessions. Sometimes we want our images to be tilted. But often we don’t. …
With the recent end of Daylight Savings time here, I took the opportunity to check the time in all my devices and get them set as accurately as possible. As I noted in my Daylight Savings again! post, for a long time I’ve used Canon’s EOS Utility to set the …
Recent firmware updates from Canon (check out the appropriate model at Canon’s websites and look in the Downloads or Drivers & Software sections) for several cameras promise to “Improve the writing/reading speeds when using UDMA 7-compatible CF cards”. Having earlier published some speed results for the EOS 7D and 5DmkII …
Despite manufacturers often claiming amazing speeds for their flash memory cards, these are never achieved by cameras writing to them. Sometimes this is because the quoted number is the maximum read speed in an ExpressCard reader, but in any case each camera model has different card interfaces, different CPUs, and different firmware, …
