Whether photographing people or objects, how you approach your lighting is far more important than what camera and lighting gear you use.
To illustrate, today we are going to photograph a complex, mirrored surface—an alto saxophone—using just an iPhone for our camera and the sun as our light source. Read more »
Strobist
Twelve years ago today Fujifilm announced six new compacts all at the same time, which is something that camera manufacturers used to do a lot. Here’s a fun game: ask anyone who writes about cameras to tell you about CES in the mid-to-late 2000’s, but don’t be surprised if they start babbling incoherently about megapixels and run screaming from the room.
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| The Fujifilm E550 Zoom. Similar to its more elegant sibling, the F810, it offered a high ISO 800 setting at a reduced 3MP. |
Back in August 2004, Fujifilm launched its FinePix E Zoom compact series, describing it as ‘no-nonsense’ and ‘sure to bring even the most hardened sceptic round to digital photography.’ The E500 and E510 boasted conventional 4.1MP and 5.2MP sensors respectively, while the FinePix E550 offered a 6MP SuperCCD HR sensor, Raw shooting and sold for a ‘competitive’ $ 350/£300. Also introduced was the FinePix F810 Zoom, with many of the same specifications at the E550, but with a few premium touches like a metal body and a 2.1″ widescreen LCD.
But there was more! Also announced were the FinePix S3500 and S5500/S5100 Zoom SLR-style bridge cameras (the latter being our own Richard Butler’s first digital camera). The S5100 used a conventional 4MP sensor rather than the Super CCD sensor used by its predecessor, and offered such luxuries as Raw shooting, VGA 30 fps video recording (with sound!), a 115,000-dot LCD and PictBridge compatibility.
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| The Fujifilm FinePix S5500, or S5100, depending on where you live. |
Priced at $ 399/£250, we liked the S5100’s ‘fuss-free operation’ but wished it included optical image stabilization for its 10x zoom lens. It falls just a bit short of the 50x zoom lenses we routinely see in superzooms these days, but all in all it was a great value proposition in its time.
Did you own any of these cameras? Let us know in the comments.
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Oooh shiny! Look at these images of shiny things and your eyes may glaze over.
By jenny downing
What can you see near you that’s shiny? Look around, what do you see:
Your job this week is to photograph something shiny, and make it stand out. Make sure it glistens and sparkles in your image. Lighting is key.
By Jennifer Donley
By Marvin Chandra
By William Warby
By Jessica Merz
By Allie_Caulfield
Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.
By Darlene Hildebrandt
By Darlene Hildebrandt
By Darlene Hildebrandt
By Ville Miettinen
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I think as human beings we are all attracted to shiny things – oh look squirrel! Just kidding.
But they go grab our eye. However, photographing them can be a bit trickier. You have to watch out for reflections, or maybe use them in your composition to your advantage. But you have to be intentional about it as a photographer.
In these images I found of shiny things let’s see how some other photographers handled this tough subject:
By Darlene Hildebrandt (a selfie of mine from 2009!)
By Brian Burger
By Bill Gracey
By Sean Molin
By Lawrence OP
By Dave Wilson
By Kurt Bauschardt
By Alan Newman – an1.uk
By Neil Kremer
By Kolby
By Siggi Churchill
By Cathy McCray
By Jon Matthies
By *Vintage Fairytale*
By killerturnip
By Kolby
By Tiago
By Darlene Hildebrandt
By > Mr.D Photography
By Thomas Hawk
By Mark
By Ron Doke
By Nana B Agyei
By Genna G
By Philippa Willitts
By carlos
By Aleksey Gnilenkov
By Fatima
By Tobias S.
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It’s not a surprise that Leica’s first autofocus mirrorless system camera is a thing of beauty – nor that it’s wildly expensive. The Leica T (Typ 701) uses a 16MP APS-C CMOS sensor, and its operation is almost entirely dependent on a couple of dials and a large touchscreen. It may be beautiful, but a camera can’t get by on its looks alone. See how it fared in our field testing. Read more
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
A little ways back, LumoPro approached me about doing photos of their product line. That's a lot of gear, and the whole project was more than I would have time to take on.
But I do enjoy shooting this kinda stuff. So we compromised in that I would shoot some of their more popular items now and the photos could be used as a template for anyone who might be shooting the other items later.
Here's the thing. Shooting shiny black objects is one of those cases where your incident meter may be very accurate, but in practice it's no help at all. Because properly exposed, a black object is, well, black… Read more »
Strobist
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