Lowepro Flipside 200
Lowepro has been in the camera bag business for over 40 years at this point. In that time, they’ve attempted to push the boundaries and produce innovative products. In this case, we’re going to look at their smallest Flipside series backpack.
The idea behind the Flipside bags is, in my opinion, pretty novel. In an attempt …
Canon’s Ec-S Focusing Screen Reviewed
The Ec-S Super Precision Matte focus screen is one of 12 user interchangeable focus screen for the Canon EOS-1 series SLRs. The Ec-S screen is designed to provide a higher level of precision for visualizing the shallow depth of field associated with fast lenses.
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Lightroom 3 Beta: Slideshow, Print and Web Modules and Watermarking
The last part in my series taking a first look at Lightroom 3 beta. This time we look at the Print, Slideshow and Web modules and the new watermarking features.
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Lightroom 3 Beta: Develop Module
The third part in Points in Focus’s look at Adobe’s first public beta release of Lightroom 3. This time we look at the develop module and the improvements in the software’s rendering engine.
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Lightroom 3 Beta: Library Module and Publishing
Part to of our in depth look at the public beta of Lightroom 3. This time we look at the tweaks and changes made to the Library module and the all new Publishing tools.
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Lightroom 3 Beta: First Impressions, Problems and the Import Dialog
Points in Focus takes a look at the public beta of Lightroom 3. New features include an vastly improved rendering engine, a new import dialog box, real watermarking and much more.
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A Look at the Thermaltake BlacX SATA Docking Station
Not necessarily photographic hardware but potentially useful for photographers, the Thermaltake Blacx SATA harddrive dock makes backups easier, smaller and slightly cheaper.
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The National Geographic Complete Birds of North America
While the Sibley Guide to Birds (reviewed here) may be the ultimate field guide, the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America is the desk reference to go with it. First, this is not a field guide by any stretch of the imagination. It’s larger and heavier than the Sibley’s guide as well as being …
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A Week With the G10: Our Time is Through
The week is over and the G10 has gone home, so this concludes my week of playing with the Canon PowerShot G10. Overall I feel it’s been a very successful experience. I’m not sure I’d buy one personally, it certainly could go places my SLR can’t, but the low light performance really isn’t there for …
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A Week with the Canon G10: Day 3
Yesterday I shot another sunset with the G10, this time shooting some video as well as 14.7 MP RAW stills. In doing so I found one of my first major complaints with the G10’s video mode, specifically video is processed in full auto exposure, with no exposure lock. Much to my chagrin, in the fleeting …
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