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Photography for your Left Brain
Remember that photo – the once in a lifetime shot that you thought you nailed. But when you scanned the LCD screen, you noticed that the image was just a little out of focus. Before you knew it, the moment was lost forever. A new company is promising to solve that problem by doing the [...]
At some point in the last year, it was brought to my attention that vintage issues of Popular Science magazine have been scanned and are now freely available through Google Books. Included are all past issues from 1926 through 1999 – in their entirety. Let the geekery begin! This week, I decided to take a [...]
One of the greatest temptations in reviewing cameras is to put too much emphasis on the pixel count. As we are learning (sometimes the hard way), it is the quality of the pixels that matters most. In the last ten years, the minimum pixel size has decreased by a factor of ten due to advances [...]
One of the great advantages of an SLR camera is the ability to attach long focal length lenses and capture high magnification images of faraway objects. One of greatest challenges, then, is holding said lenses steady during image capture. You may think you have a steady hand, but as you have read here, you are [...]
You stand on a pristine beach watching the sunset and carefully composing what you think will be your shot of the year. You lock your camera on its tripod and make sure that everything is in focus. At the last minute, you remember a rule of thumb you read somewhere. It stated that for best [...]
Today Apple unveiled their strategy for next generation desktop software, mobile computing, and cloud based storage for your whole life. But the most exciting news for photographers may be something more simple – the iPhone finally has a shutter button. Yes, after years of fumbling to activate tiny touch screen buttons, the world’s most popular [...]
Quick. Hold up your thumb and use it to cover up a far away object. Then close one eye at a time and watch your thumb jump from one spot to another. Whichever eye shows your thumb correctly positioned over the object is your dominant eye. If you are like two-thirds of the world’s population [...]
