“The Nikon P500 exceeds all expectations in a long zoom digital camera with only a few optical compromises. This is the camera you grab when you don’t want to heft the SLR and a bag full of lenses.”...
Archive - 2011-05-25
Canon SX230 HS Review @ PhotographyBLOG
“The Canon PowerShot SX230 HS is an easy recommendation as a travel zoom camera.” We’ve added another Canon PowerShot SX230 HS [QuickPrice Check] review to our Reviews Matrix. PhotographyBLOG has...
Pentax Optio RS1500 Review @ Steve’s Digicams
“For your fashion savvy teenager, [the Optio RS1500] captures decent photos at an affordable price.” We’ve added a new Pentax Optio RS1500 [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews Matrix. Steve’s...
How To Pan Your Camera For Action Shots
From SLRlounge Panning is the technique of moving your camera in the same direction your subject is moving so as to keep the latter pretty much in sharp focus but letting the background go all blurred — hence...
Turns Out Adding A Person In Your Landscape Makes It Memorable
We’ve always been told that our pictures will look better if we added some human interest in them. Well, this is now scientifically proven. A new study by neuroscientists at MIT has differentiated between...
Kid Loses Camera In Snow, Is Worried Sick About It
From Gleefan86 “I found it!” Sometimes, these 3 words are the sweetest we can hear. Witness these 2 kids sledding in the snow, one with a camera that he uses to record his slide but then loses it in the snow...
Satellite Infrared Reveals Buried Pyramids in Egypt
It’s amazing but US Egyptologist Dr Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama in Birmingham is using infra-red satellite imaging to reveal pattern of streets, houses, tombs and even 17 pyramids buried under the...
X-Ray Video: Dogs Drink Like Cats, Just Sloppier
X-ray video of lapping in a dog from AW Crompton on Vimeo. Contrary to published accounts, dogs do not scoop liquids into their mouths with a spoon-shaped cavity that forms in the ventral surface of a backwardly...
Flashmob Catches Someone Doing The Right Thing
From audhyn We teach our kids to pick up after themselves at home and outside. Schools hand out gloves and teach the environmental message by getting kids to pick up thrash on school grounds (why are the thrash there in...
Henri Cartier Bresson on The Decisive Moment
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON – Decisive Moment, The from bt465 on Vimeo. The decisive moment is what street photographers are mostly after: to be able to capture the moment when everything (composition, expression...
Nikon Sues Sigma for Vibration Reduction Patent Infringement
May 25, 2011 Nikon Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Japan Nikon Corporation (KIMURA Makoto, President, Tokyo, hereafter referred to as “Nikon”) filed a patent infringement suit against...
The Lightning Thief: Lucky Snap or Lucky Escape?
Photographing lightning can be a hair-raising experience, especially when it strikes less than 200m away from you. Any grade five student could tell you that you don’t want to be standing upright in a field during...