I’ve been watching the progress of this with some interest since I first saw it announced on DP review. US based Noktor, an new player in the lens market, is releasing their first product a 50mm f/0.95 manual-focus manual-aperature lens in micro 4/3rds mount. With an effective focal length of 100mm on u4/3rds the lens …
I’ve posted some of my images from the 4th Annual Dania Beach Vintage motorcycle show in my gallery. The show was put on by the Sunshine chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America, and there was a solid turnout; including over 80 antique motorcycles dating all the way back to the …
A few frames of a Crested Caracaras seen at Viera Wetlands, in Melbourne Florida, in early December 2009. The Crested Caracara, a member of the falcon family, exists in central Florida isolated from the rest of the Caracara range. These birds of prey are currently a threatened species, primarily due to loss of habitat.
Seasons Greetings and Merry Christmas from Points in Focus.
The little excursion that took me to Sanibel a few weeks ago also took me to Disney for my mom’s birthday. In a marathon event we went to 3 parks in 1 day to see as much of the Christmas decorations as possible. While seeing decorations may do it for some people I took this as an opportunity to do what I usually do at Disney, take in the wonderfully rich details they go to great pains to include in their parks.
Another early December trip to Sanibel Florida is though and here are a few choice shots. I was fortunate to have found a small flock of Ruddy Turnstones feeding on a dead crab washed up in the surf. However, the big show was a Snowy Egret that was absolutely fearless and ready to approach well within my 6-foot minimum focus distance.
Time Inc. the owners of Sport’s Illustrated have demoed a digital interactive magazine based on a touch screen tablet PC for Tech Crunch. While I think it may be a bit premature to be fully successful the fact that more companies are looking at tablet devices and throwing ideas into the fray can only be a good thing.
Photos from NASA’s November 16, 2009 Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129.
Art Wolfe, the widely recognized fine art photographer, speaks on light and how to use it to make stronger images.
Adobe has released the first public beta of it’s RAW editing and digital asset management software, Photoshop Lightroom.
A series of images of the B-17 bomber Liberty Belle in flight.
Canon has introduced their latest professional body targeted at photojournalists and sports photographers. The EOS 1D Mark 4, brings image quality improvements, video and new higher ISO support (upto ISO102400) to Canon’s line of digital SLRs.
Nikon has announced their newest professional SLR body targeted at photojournalists and sports photographers. With improoved image quality, even higher ISO support (up to ISO102400) and the addition of video recording the Nikon D3s looks to redefine Nikon’s line of digital SLRs.
If you use a Spyder 3 Pro or Elite and don’t have the Spyder Utility set to auto update, there is a new version (3.1.2) of the Spyder Utility to introduces several improvements to the UI as well as fixing some annoying bugs I was experiencing in the previous version. The new version also introduces …
