Studio Lighting Tips, Techniques, Tutorials and Equipment Information
Shown above is the ProKit standard reflector with diffuser from the SpeedLight Pro Kit company. It is one among a pack of light modifiers designed to be attached to a flash to provide more desirable lighting than a bare flash allows. This product originated from Malaysia (AdStudioSolutions.com) and has now found its way into the …
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Commercial photographer Kareem Black speaks with Bill and Ed about his career and his work.
One of the new products to come out of CES 2009 was this 240GB G3 (third generation) solid state drive from SanDisk. Designed as drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives (HDDs) in notebook PCs, the initial SanDisk G3 offering include SSD C25-G3 and SSD C18-G3 in the standard 2.5†and 1.8†form factors. Each is available …
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At about this time last year, Casio impressed us with its EX-F1 high-speed camera which shoots 1920×1080 full high-definition movies at 60fps. Dropping image size to 336×96 pixels, the Exilim Pro EX-F1 can shoot 1,200 frames per second. Today, Casio impresses once again by bringing that high-speed shooting capability to its point-and-shoot cameras as the …
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Smartparts Inc has announced two new ultra slim touch-sensitive digital picture viewers — the 2.4 inch SP24PC and 3.5 inch SP35PC. The company said both the SP24PC and SP35PC feature touch-sensitive LCD displays and pack a host of features in a compact and stylish package that will give consumers the ability to enjoy their favorite …
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Epson has added the new Perfection V30 scanner to its line of affordable yet high-quality flatbed scanners. The V30 retails for just $80 but Epson says it offers a resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi with 48-bit color scanning and 3.2 dynamic range, and the same CCD sensor technology used in higher-end Epson scanners. The …
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Polaroid (the name’s still alive) has launched the PoGo Instant Digital Camera, an all-in-one digital camera and photo printer. Take a picture, and in under a minute it comes out as a full-color minuscule business card size 2×3-inch print. While the print is not the same size as the Polaroid you and I knew (picture …
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Pretec introduces what it calls the CFast Storage Card, a CompactFlash card that incorporates high-speed capabilities of the SATA interface. The transfer speed of first-generation Pretec CFast Storage Card is up to 160MB/s, about 300% faster than the fastest CF card today. This will enable photographers to take advantage of high-speed shooting offered by high-end …
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One of the ways to wirelessly upload photos from your camera to the computer or the Internet is by using the Eye-Fi wireless card in your camera. Now, Sony has this capability built into the camera. Sony touts the Cyber-shot DSC-G3 as the first Wi-Fi-equipped digital camera with its own web browser; there was the …
Remember Canon’s promise to fix the “black dot†issue with the EOS 5D Mark II? Canon has delivered on that promise via firmware and it’s available now. Canon said the firmware update (Version 1.0.7) improves and mitigates the following two image quality issues that occur under certain shooting conditions: 1. “Black dot” phenomenon (the right …
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