Much has been written about cleaning digital cameras and dealing with dust (for example at CleaningDigitalCameras.com). But still many people think of it as a hard problem, and panic when they get some dust in their pictures. This really isn’t necessary! Cameras such as the Olympus 4/3 DSLRs, the Konica-Minolta/Sony …
The Canon PowerShot Pro1 is an 8-megapixel “compact” camera with a feature set I’ve found to be particularly well-suited to an infrared camera. It has a high-quality lens (rated by Canon as an ‘L’ lens) with a zoom rangeequivalent to a 28-200mm lens (in the 135-format terms which everyone understands). …
I use all my cameras in RAW mode, and the files they produce range from 8 to 16 MB each. When photographing static subjects such as landscapes the number of images I take are a lot less than the number I take when photographing wildlife, where the compositions constantly change, …
In 2000 I purchased a Benbo Trekker tripod for use with my Nikon Coolpix 950. Today I often use the tripod with 35mm camera gear, although I have upgraded the ballhead that came with it. What attracted me to the Trekker was the combination of size, weight, and flexibility. It …
Sick of waiting for your flash to recharge after firing? Fed up with your batteries dying too quickly? Maybe a discussion of batteries would be useful before we talk about changing your flash… Internal or external? Most on-camera flashes use 4x AA batteries which together supply 5-6V, which the flash …
Some EF lenses have 7 electrical contacts (“7-pin” lenses) and some are “10-pin” lenses (typically the later Canon telephotos). Teleconverters such as Kenko’s Pro 300 (and presumably Canon’s own TCs although I haven’t checked one lately to be sure) have 7 pins on the camera side and 10 on the …
The SS-1 uses a standard Arca-Swiss quick-release clamp to attach to the foot of a telephoto lens. In this way a lens that’s detached from a camera can simply be slung over your shoulder or around your neck until you need it. Or you might decide to use it to …
