Focusing is something most photographers take for granted, however it’s not always been that easy. Inside we take a look at the early years of focusing cameras, the pressures that called for focusing aids, and the science behind some of those solutions.

 August, 2009 A Brief History of Focusing: Focusing at the Beginnings of Photography

Focusing is something most photographers take for granted, however it’s not always been that easy. See how it’s possible to find out how far something is without a ruler and how range finder cameras took advantage of that to make focusing possible without looking at the projected image.

 August, 2009 A Brief History of Focusing: Measuring Distance without a Ruler

Not necessarily photographic hardware but potentially useful for photographers, the Thermaltake BlacX SATA hard drive dock makes backups easier, smaller and slightly cheaper.

 October, 2009 A Look at the Thermaltake BlacX SATA Docking Station Reviewed

I loath to admit it, for a product I’ve championed for quite sometime, I’ve been doing so largely without any field experience. In fact, the truth is, I just got my ThinkTank Camera strap and camera support straps. And I’ve only just begun to get them squared away. So far, I’m pretty confident that I [...]

 November, 2011 A Quick look, ThinkTank’s Camera Support Straps & Camera Strap

At this point, I’ve taken the EF 1.4x II into the field twice now, so this is my thoughts regarding the converter after a having used it in the field with a EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM on a EOS 40D as well as some very brief testing on an EOS 50D at least using [...]

 January, 2009 A Second First Look at Canon’s EF 1.4x II

Astrophotography is a specialized area of photography that looks more like astronomy than photography. On a lark, with out any serious astronomy gear, I decided to turn my camera and a fast lens towards the heavens to see what I could photograph.

 October, 2009 A Shot in the Dark: Pointing My Camera Skyward at Night

Adobe has posted a video to YouTube showing off the full suite of lens corrections that will be in the final release of Lightroom 3 and CS5′s Camera RAW 6.Thought the demonstration is done in CameraRAW 6 the full set of functionality is supposed to available in Lightroom 3 as well. To me, profile based [...]

 April, 2010 Adobe Lightroom 3/Camera RAW 6 to have full suite of Lens Corrections

In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom there are many places where you might want to expand or collapse multiple items all at once; the Folders list, Collections list, or keywords list for example. If you hold the alt key (option on mac) and click the triangle next to the entry to expand or collapse it, it will [...]

 June, 2009 Adobe Lightroom Tip: Expanding and Collapsing all Subitems

Adobe has released Camera RAW 5.7, DNG Converter 5.7, and Lightroom 2.7.

 April, 2010 Adobe Release’s CameraRAW 5.7 and Lightroom 2.7

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop Lightroom, bringing us to Version 2.5. The new update introduces support for the Nikon D3000 and D300s, the Olympus E-P1 and the Panasonic DMC-FZ35 and DMC-GF1. In addition it fixes bugs with the import dialog box and improved demosaicing algorithms for certain cameras. The download can be snagged [...]

 September, 2009 Adobe Releases Lightroom 2.5
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