Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM is a mid-range general purpose zoom lens designed for Canon’s full frame cameras, but is equally at home on Canon’s crop bodies. The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM trades speed, some image quality, and a fixed aperture for a greater zoom range than it’s L or lower end kit …

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

Points in Focus looks at Canon’s most inexpensive 50mm prime lens.

Thoughts on Lightroom 3

I’ve written to some end about Lightroom 3 as I followed it’s progress though the public beta program. It’s now about a month after it’s release, and I’ve had enough time to come to some thoughts on the first release of Lightroom 3.

ThinkTank Photo’s StreetWalker Pro Backpack

ThinkTank Photo’s StreetWalker Pro backpack is, for me, one of the better small to medium sized backpacks currently available. It’s well built, big enough to carry a good amount of equipment and integrates well with the rest of ThinkTank’s product line.

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is the companion book to the Sibley Guide to Birds. Only it’s a behavior reference not a spotting guide. Is that important for bird photographers? You betcha.

Pocket Wizard AC5 Soft Shield

It didn’t take long after the release of PocketWizards ControlTL remotes for the world for photographers and LPA design to realize one of the major issue was the amount of electromagnetic noise produced by many of Canon’s Flashes. Their first solution was the PocketWizard AC5 soft shield. Currently the AC5 soft shields ship with Mini …

Light, Science and Magic

Light Science and Magic is the photographers text on the fundamentals of light, lighting and the behavior of light. While it doesn’t give setup by setup details, it gives you the tools you need to create them yourself on a case by case basis.

Lightroom 3 Beta 2, One Week Later

What is the biggest difference between Lightroom 3 Beta 1 and Lightroom 3 Beta 2? It’s stable enough that I’m still using it 1-week later. Not only is Beta 2 stable enough that I’m still using it, I’m actually using it more than Lightroom 2.6 at this point. Noise Reduction This is proving to be …

Lightroom 3 Beta 2, Preview

Last October Adobe released the first public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3. At that time the beta was very rough around the edges, rough enough that I wouldn’t even use it. Adobe has since released a new beta, find out what’s changed and more inside.

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 …