Adobe has released version 5.3 of Camera Raw and version 2.3 of Lightroom at www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/.
Updates include support for the Nikon D3x and Olypus E-30 along with 8 additional languages for Lightroom. There is also a fix for a memory leak that affected the 2.2 release of Lightroom.
The more I stare at the images in the Far Side in Real Life image pool over at Flickr the more I want to do a few. I’ve always been in to the Far Side comics. It’s probably genetic. Pretty much everyone in my family has at least on of the books. And the “you can leave, but the dog stays” strip is screaming to be redone as a photo.
This one is probably my favorite from the set. Mostly because they spent the time to fill in the window with a cartoon sky.
Felt like playing around this morning. Put a candle against a couple pieces of black foam core board and took a few shots.
Next time I’ll spend the time and use a tripod though. On all of the shots, especially the smoke ones, you can tell that there are some shake issues.
Yes, I know there are thousands of ‘how many … does it take to change a lightbulb’ jokes out there. But after reading a posting of the famous ‘how many forum users does it take to change a lightbulb’ joke on a photography forum lines for the photographers version started running through my head.
DPReview has made a gallery of full resolution samples from a Canon 5d mkII. These are some really big files, 21.1 megapixel and all, so there is a lot of data there to look at.
I came across something I wanted to write about here and realized that I haven’t posted since April of 2007. That’s just sad. So I’m back with a new theme and a little more motivation to keep this site up and going. I’m still as much of a photo geek as ever, so I’m going to see what I can do about keeping this site near the top of my projects list.
Couldn’t pass this up without posting a link.
Adorama has a underwater with a digital camera on top. It’s a 5 megapixel and has crosshairs on the mask so you can line up the shot.
From the chronically cool site Photojojo comes instructions on how to turn an Etch A Sketch in to a picture frame.
Don’t worry if you’re like me and have a hard enough time managing a stairway on the Etch A Sketch, the site includes instructions on how to make any image look like it was created on an Etch A Sketch using a filter found in Photoshop.
Be sure to check out this Flickr gallery of Etch a Sketch art to see what can be done by somebody really good and drawing with two dials.
Jan 18 - Canon announced the release of two new digital cameras in their PowerShot series.The PowerShot A550 is a 7.1 megapixel and the A460 is 5.0 megapixel, and carry an MSRP of $199.99 and $149.99 respectively.
PowerShot A550
The A550 sports a 7.1 megapixel sensor, 4x optical zoom, a 2 inch LCD screen, and the DIGIC II image processor. As a replacement for the A530 it has a larger screen, better batter life, and a movie mode that can record VGA resolution at 30fps.
PowerShot A460
The A460 has the same 4x optical zoom and 2 inch LCD screen as the A550, but has 5.0 megapixels instead of the 7.1.
More Information
Canon Press Release