Category: Tech Talk

Well, LeicaRumors.com believes that an upcoming Leica announcement will be for a black-and-white chipped rangefinder camera. Now, be aware, that all digital sensors are monochromatic – the Bayer pattern array of colored filters, combined with post-processing, gets you actual color. And while there have been some black-and-white, modern digital cameras out there, there haven’t been that many. So … I...

FYI, for those who are using Audacity for your audio editing needs, version 2.0 has finally been released. Biggest hope in the feature list? Automatic Crash Recovery. Will be downloading and trying momentarily … okay, I won’t be trying to crash it, but just … you know what I mean. Tip: Don’t forget to download and install the latest LAME...

Did this morning come earlier than expected? Or are you late right now because you forgot to reset your clocks last night? Either way, grab your cameras and reset the clocks in them, too. All digital cameras embed date and time stamps into the metadata and you want to keep them accurate. This would also be a great time to...

Over at The Online Photographer, Kirk Tuck has a short piece up about whether the physical size of your camera matters. As a guy who has shot with everything from a Canon F1-N with the 12 AA battery motor drive through Leica M series rangefinders down to my current obsession, an Olympus E-P2, I can give you a definitive answer....