Category: photography

  • Zenfolio iPhone photo app is great – finally!

    The kids and I have been watching an old Bill Cosby routine lately — chocolate cake for breakfast. Of course, my favorite part is after Bill has given his kids cake for breakfast and they start singing: “Dad is great, gave us chocolate cake.” I found myself humming the tune after I downloaded and installed…

  • Apple’s iPad may be the perfect computer for kids

    I’m excited about Apple’s new iPad for a couple of reasons. While a lot of the iPad’s features and services had been leaked in advance, I found myself gasping along with the audience in San Francisco when the price was announced. This is a product that is going to have vastly more impact for under…

  • Extra megapixels in Canon 50D hamper performance

    I’ve written before about the digital camera industry’s misguided megapixel race, leading to ever more pixels crammed onto the same size sensor in each next generation of camera. The problem is that increasing the density of pixels damages the camera’s ability to cleanly pick up detail. So I wanted to call attention to a recent…

  • Start saving my pennies: Canon updates 5D digital camera

    Well, after all that waiting for Canon to update its cheapest digital single lens reflex camera with a “full frame” sensor, the new model was finally announced today. The EOS 5D Mark II, announced today, retains the full frame sensor of the 2005 model and gets a host of amazing, 2008-y upgrades like the ability…

  • Latest Canon D-SLR simplifies taking great pictures

    I don’t know if the photo experts will be appalled or enthralled, but Canon has taken some creative liberties with its latest digital single-lens reflex camera and that’s a good thing. The new EOS 50D doesn’t have the full-frame sensor that I was hoping for in my post last month “All I ask is a…

  • New Header Image: the Joys of Wiffle Ball

    Time to switch out the picture at the top of the blog. Spring peepers are long gone. The dog days of August mean lots of Cape Cod wiffle ball. I couldn’t participate competitively this year thanks to my knee surgery so you’ll have to enjoy the rest of the boys at play.

  • Upgrade of Adobe’s Lightroom looks just fine

    Adobe has released a major upgrade to its already pretty great digital photo library program, Lightroom. The 2.0 upgrade, available for $99 at Adobe’s site, greatly bolsters Lightroom’s image manipulation capabilities so you’ll need Photoshop even less. In fact, it seems like Lightroom can do almost everything you’d want to do to a picture to…

  • All I ask is a full-frame and a single mirror to sail her by

    With apologies to 19th century English poet John Masefield, I have an issue with my digital camera and none of the major camera vendors are helping me out. As we all learned way back in the days of Kodak Tri-X and silver-halide, the field of view of your basic human being is about equivalent to…

  • That terrific, cheap Flip video camera’s getting updated

    I was checking out a post over on CNet’s techno trends blog and I came across an item about the cheap-o digital video camera called simply The Flip. It reminded me to rave about ours, which my wife ordered a few weeks ago from Amazon for $150. This tiny cam runs on a pair of…

  • A new header image for early spring

    The last very little bits of snow have finally melted around these parts and spring is in the air. So it was hight time to get that lovely but snowy picture off the top of the blog. The new header was taken a few weeks ago at the Grassy Pond in the Ashumet Wildlife Sanctuary…