Canon EOS 40D
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Following close enough on the heals of the EOS 30D to be annoying to anyone who bought that camera, the new Canon EOS 40D takes a strong place in the middle of Canon’s digital SLR line-up. As with most of the upgrades that have happened over the last few months, the 40D now offers Live View, which lets you use the camera’s LCD screen as a viewfinder, but this is just one of several significant changes to the camera. |
Imagenomic Real Grain and Alien Skin Exposure
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Experienced film photographers have a broad knowledge of the exposure and grain characteristics of many different types of film. This knowledge effectively becomes yet another creative variable that they can alter when approaching a subject. By choosing one film over another, they can opt for particular imaging characteristics. If you come from a strong film background, or simply want some new "looks" for your digital photos, then you’ll want to consider two products that provide push-button solutions for simulating the look of various typs of color and black and white film. |
New Photo Gadgets
One thing that even beginning photographers quickly learn is that there’s always a good rationalization for buying more photo gadgets. As you grow in photographic sophistication, so will your gadget rationalizations improve. Fortunately, Complete Digital Photography is here to enable your gadget buying yearnings. Take a look at this round-up of some cool photo hardware and software.
The UPstrap
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I have the good fortune to get to play with a lot of camera gear and accessories, and a lot of those things are very cool. There are new lenses, and nifty digital storage devices, and all sorts of other electronic gizmos. But I have to say, of all the things that I’ve looked at over the last six months, the one camera accessory that I use every day, and that I would unequivocally recommend to any shooter, is the UPstrap. That’s right, depsite the cool high-tech gadgets that are sitting around me as I write this, what I’d like to recomend to you right now is a camera strap. |
Notes from PMA ‚2008
PMA is not a typical photography trade show. Because it’s geared for photo dealers and studio photographers, there are lots of vendors hawking goods that the typical photographer doesn’t need. Laser etching machines, photo printing kiosks, industrial-grade large format printers, and other exotica, abound at PMA. However, many of the usual suspects attend PMA—Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji and all the other major camera vendors—as well as many accessory and software vendors. This year’s PMA included a couple of important announcements, and a stroll through the maze of camera booths revealed some great new technologies.
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