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With the 2011 Maryland Renaissance Festival behind us, here is a gallery of images from the four days we were able to attend this year. We usually go a lot more, but various other commitments kept us away this year. … Continue reading
This afternoon, I pulled the trigger on the new Sony. I opted for the Alpha SLT-A35, as it offers a newly-designed 16.2MP sensor; all of the features from the SLT-A55 except the GPS and articulated screen; plus a few new tricks of its own. As I’ve mentioned before, GPS and articulated screens are things I’ve never had before, so I’m pretty certain I won’t miss them. Continue reading
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In my postings about the Sony cameras, I have been referring back to our old Minolta DiMage A1 and A2 cameras. I thought it might be nice to include a “best of” gallery of images I made with these two … Continue reading
While at the Mall in Columbia this evening dealing with my new glasses — again — I had some time to kill. So after a dinner of Thai-ish chicken, I stopped in to Ritz to see if they had gotten an A35 back in stock. As luck would have it, they did, and I got to spend five or ten minutes with it. Continue reading
In my continuing research on the Sony cameras, I’m finding more and more that the base-model SLT-A35 is going to be an excellent way to start my transition. As these things go, it’s inexpensive, while still managing to make beautiful still images and video. Today, I came across this rather nicely done demonstration video highlighting the HD video capability and also showing some of the still image capability. Have a look…
Could tripods and image stabilized lenses become a thing of the past? Many photographers have already ditched their tripods in favor of image stabilization, and now Adobe have given sneak preview of a new automatic “un-blur” technology that is nothing short of amazing.
I personally believe that it’s always best to get it right in camera, but for those times when things just didn’t work out as well as one would hope, this could be the tool that saves the day!
As manufacturers improve the control and quality of video recording in digital cameras — including D-SLRs, advanced or transitional digicams and even the smallest of point-and-shoots — will consumer camcorders become a thing of the past? Many cameras are now capable of producing video at resolutions and frame rates, and with compression quality, that rivals that of broadcast television. Continue reading