Black and White: From snapshot to great shot – Book Review

January 10, 2012

The book By John Batdorff discusses how to create a successful and appealing Black and white photos. In this digital era, we have color image sensor. As a result, mastering B&W post processing / after capture images are essential.
About half of the book discusses about gears, basic photography such as exposures, white balance, composition, portrait, [...]

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Canon G1X, advanced compact camera with large image sensor

January 10, 2012

Up to today, Canon is the only prominent camera manufacturer that does not has any mirrorless camera system line up (compact system camera). Sony has NEX, Nikon has Nikon 1, Fuji has X-PRO, Samsung has NX, Olympus and Panasonic has M43, and even Pentax has Pentax Q.
Canon thinks that consumers generally does not want the [...]

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Nikon D4 advantages

January 6, 2012

Nikon announces Nikon D4 yesterday which is the new Nikon flagship full frame DSLR camera aiming for sports and wildlife photographers. D4 will replaces Nikon D3 & D3S. Nikon D4 are improved in many ways compared to Nikon D3S. Let checks on its advantages:
1. New 16 MP full frame sensor
It has 4 MP more than [...]

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Book Review: The Passionate Photographer

January 2, 2012

Steve Simons offers a solid TEN steps for becoming a better photographers. These steps are :
1 : Finding your passion
2 : Practice and persistent
3 : Work it
4 : Concentration
5 : Evocative Portrait
6 : Follow the Light
7 : The art of edit
8 : Assessing strength and weaknesses
9 : Action plan and strategies
10: Follow through, sharing your [...]

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Camera of the year 2011 – Sony NEX 7

December 16, 2011

We have plenty of cameras this year, but many of those cameras offer small improvements over previous model. Sony NEX7 is different. It is a complete new camera with new technology and high quality built and image sensor.
NEX 7 is designed for enthusiast photographers who demand smaller high quality camera. It has newest 24 MP [...]

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Lens of the year 2011 : Panasonic X 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 POWER OIS

December 16, 2011

Around 25 lenses are announced this year. About six lenses are for SLR and SLT system. The rest are for mirrorless interchangeable lens system / compact system camera.
One lens that catch my attention because its innovative & revolutionary is Panasonic Lumix G X Vario PZ 14-42mm/F3.5-5.6 Power OIS lens. This lens is designated for micro [...]

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Tamron 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 Diii for Sony NEX cameras

December 16, 2011

Tamron is first company to make the lens for Sony E-mount (dedicated to Sony NEX cameras). It is not surprising because Sony owns a significant shares in Tamron and Sony has rebranded some Tamron lens in the past such as Sony 18-200mm DT.
The lens is quite redundant because Sony already has 18-200mm lens for E-mount. [...]

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Olympus launches new walk-around lens 12-50mm Macro

December 14, 2011

Olympus launches new walk-around lens for micro four thirds system. This lens is olympus 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 macro. This lens will be optically better and more versatile than kit lens 14-42mm. It doesn’t has image stabilization because Olympus cameras already have built in stabilizer. It has power zoom design so zooming when recording video will be [...]

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Camera and lenses for travel photography

December 14, 2011

In this post, I would like to share about my regular travel gears. I use these gears on my trip to Cambodia on September 2011 and get a good result on it. Check out my photo gallery here.
For the camera, I use Nikon D700. This full frame camera has full frame sensor that deliver great [...]

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Nikon D4 Rumors

December 12, 2011

Nikon D4 specs rumor is out! According to Nikon Rumors, the D4 will has the same philosophy as the previous D3 and D3s. It is designed for sports and wildlife photography.
The specs are as follows:

New 16 MP full frame sensor
11 fps continuous shooting
100-12800 native ISO range, expandable to 50 and 204,800
Compact Flash (CF) and XQD [...]

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