Canon chose to announce the availability of a new wide-angle lens along with the EOS-1Ds Mark III. It’s the new EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM prime, which upgrades the existing EF 14mm f/2.8L USM.
The lens will feature the same correction for rectilinear distortion, but with improved dust and water resistance, a round aperture for nice [...]
» Go to this postHaving just watched Robots (2005) for the first time, I’m amazed I didn’t go see when it came out. I don’t know what I was thinking, but now I know I’d have enjoyed it thoroughly.
The plotline sounds familiar: a small-town boy goes to the big city and makes good, in spite of all odds. But [...]
With the release of the new EOS 40D and EOS-1Ds Mark III, it’s easy to forget the camera that changed the entire market: the EOS 5D. It was the first affordable full-frame sensor DSLR ever. I bought it in April of this year, and I still don’t regret the purchase. As a matter of fact, [...]
» Go to this postHave you ever wondered if I go to church, and where I go? Well, I put together a set of 89 photos that looks at my church, inside and out. You can go directly to the slideshow view if you’d like.
If the word “church” scares you, don’t worry, I’m not proselytizing. The photos are portraits, [...]
On the same day that it released information about the upcoming EOS 40D DSLR, Canon dropped a bombshell. The much-expected 1Ds Mark III is ready, and will begin shipping in November. We all knew it was coming, but what we didn’t expect was the medium format-like resolution: a whopping 21.1 megapixels!
Here are the specs where [...]
» Go to this postOn August 20, just three days ago, Canon announced the new EOS 40D DSLR, the successor to the very good EOS 30D camera. The camera will begin selling in September, and Amazon has already started taking pre-orders. After reviewing the specs and photos, I am impressed. Canon has made the 40D better than the 30D [...]
» Go to this postWe watched it tonight and liked it. It’s a funny romantic comedy full of light laughs. The script’s somewhat thin at times — some of the plot twists are sewn with white thread, as they say — but the acting’s great, in particular that of Olivia de Havilland, who plays the title role. What’s also [...]
» Go to this postBlogthings is running a quiz on this, and I went through it. The questions were a bit loaded, and I wasn’t sure about a couple of the answers, but even after I went back and changed them, I still got the same result. That short fuse of mine shows through again… For the record, I [...]
» Go to this postIf you think you’ve got it pretty good with Photoshop and Genuine Fractals when it comes to image resizing, think again. Here comes a new technology, developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir, called Content-Aware Image Sizing, that will literally blow away our current concepts of image sizing and cropping. Yeah, it’s that good! I don’t often [...]
» Go to this postKnight News Challenge: Round 2 Launches. The Knight News Challenge, in which winners get grants ranging from tiny to huge, is in its second year. It awards big money for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. The contest is run by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last year’s [...]
» Go to this postI’m going to talk about the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Zoom Lens in this review. It’s a wonderfully versatile L series zoom with surprising image quality and great image stabilization built right in. I’m also going to show you lots of photos I took with this lens, to illustrate the various points I’m [...]
» Go to this postThis movie features two of my favorite actors: Cary Grant and Ronald Coleman. I thought I saw every one of the Cary Grant movies till I discovered this one at Netflix. When I added it to my queue, I had no idea Ronald Coleman was in it. Imagine my surprise when I started watching it!
Jean [...]
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