Category: Tech Talk

We’ll have to wait until spring to see one, but Canon announced their next pro-level camera this week – the EOS-1D X. It’s … not what many expected. At the top end of the spectrum, Canon had been selling two cameras – the 1D was (is) a 1.3x cropped sensor camera designed for news and sports. Along side it was...

At Adobe’s 2011 Sneak Peek conference, they showed a possible future feature for Photoshop – a deblurring algorithm. It’s … well … stunning. In concept, it analyzes an image that is not sharp due to motion (not focus) (yet) and then corrects for the motion pattern it has sensed. They run through three different images in the demo posted above....

Over on the Lensrentals.com site, Roger Cicala has posted a pair of super-geeky pieces on the history of lens designs. The first one looks at three of the six primary lens designs out there – the Petzval Portrait, the Rapid Rectilinear and the Double Gauss. Part two looks at the other three lens types – the Cooke Triplet, the Telephoto...

This week I’m taking a look at the Black Rapid camera strap system. Very different from what I’ve traditionally used, worth a look.

David Hobby over at the Strobist put up a short primer on … extension cords. Yep, those bright orange cords you see at the hardware store? With some weird numbers on them? You need to pay attention.