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Lynda.com is opening up their library of online training materials for free, for a period of 7 days. Of course, you know lynda.com, they provide tutorials in their online library of more than 15,000 instructional videos covering almost anything you need to learn in life. They have 75 expert instructors covering 220 training courses, and …
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Your handy air blower is still the most effective and readily available dust removing tool for your DSLR image sensor. Don’t fall for built-in dust removal “technologies†touted by marketing hype; they’re just hot air. PixInfo.com recently ran a real-world test on four DSLRs that advertise dust removal or dust reduction techniques: Canon EOS-400D, Olympus …
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The big advantage of using wireless connection to download photos from the camera to the computer is, of course, the absence of that unwieldy cable. But Artimi Inc. offers more than that; it also offers faster download, up to 480Mbps as a matter of fact, 90 times faster than Wi-Fi enabled cameras. The Artimi Wireless …
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Encaustic painting is an art form that fuses a photograph with beeswax, paint pigment and liquid resin to transform normal photos into tactile works of art. The technique is very old, dating back to the ancient Greeks who used encaustic painting to create portraits. Waxworks, a franchise by Philadelphia photographer Susan Beard, brings this ancient …
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There’s a wealth of Photoshop tutorials over at Wikivid.com, plenty of videos to teach you all things Photoshop from the basic things to its more elaborate features. The all-video Wikivid features content that is laid out as a video course for every one to watch and learn. You don’t have to pay a course fee, …
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This piece of transparent plastic is a battery? Scientists at Japan’s Waseda University have designed a battery made of what they call a redox-active organic polymer film, essentially a transparent plastic film. It takes only a minute to charge and it could last a thousand cycles. The scientists (we should mention the name because we …
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Ian Burley writes in his Manual Focus column at DPNow.com that the days of the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show may be numbered. He says concerns are beginning to emerge that the much-loved PMA trade show’s future may be threatened by the relentless growth of CES, the giant Consumer Electronics Show. Ian cites a …
PopPhoto.com tested the Tokina 50-135mm f/2.8 Pro DX AF multi-purpose zoom lens in their lab and came out saying this Tokina lens “offers a standout performer in a very hot field.†Their SQF tests found sharpness and contrast in the Excellent range at all focal lengths – an above-average performance, according to PopPhoto, as many …
There used to be a time when “real photographers focus their own damn lenses,†then auto-focus came along. The convenience, accuracy, and speed of AF made these systems overwhelmingly popular and the uproar died down. Then came digital with nary a resistance from the film sector, but the debate goes on about which takes better …
Did you know that Adobe Lightroom will let you link your photos directly with Google Maps and locate exactly where that photograph had been taken? Of course, you have to have GPS metadata in there first and to do that, you use one of several GPs devices now available. Examples are Sony’s GPS-CS1 tracker and …
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