DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AMATEUR

Jewelry Photography - new photo area to dig in to?

2011-01-10T12:23:00.001+01:00

Ever thought about jewelry photography? I stumbled over the following that I found interesting and that leads to a new photo area to try and learn more about, see link.

Starting as Wedding photographer - here some guidance

2009-07-30T09:07:00.006+02:00

Nine steps to concider to get a successfull profession as wedding photographer, or Wedding photojournalist as seems to be the buzzword now!
Great reading!

HDTV video clips

2008-09-07T19:09:00.005+02:00

A link to a site with quite a large selection of HDTV video format samples has been added to the link list.

RSS Feed for this blog

2007-09-03T13:39:00.000+02:00

A RSS feed has been added to this blog to enable an easy way to get the latest updates!

Subscribe to this blog using: http://digitalphotoamateur.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

Podcasting - program files to your mp3 player

2006-07-08T23:01:00.000+02:00

Yet not heard about pod casting? Take the opportunity to listen to a presentation of this new buzz on the following link! I have just started to test this new and simple technology, downloading pod casts with Juice and iTunes to my PC and then transfer the downloded mp3 files to my SanDisk mp3 player for listening.

Photo Series Gallery that Inspires

2006-03-31T18:43:00.000+02:00

How do you produce 555 great looking photos from a Dance Championship for your photo gallery? A guy in Estonia took the approach putting his finger on the digital camera trigger and did almost not release until 12 hours and 20 000 shots later! The result is a really inspiring photo gallery! Look for yourself here.

Guidelines for composing landcape pictures

2006-01-28T19:09:00.000+01:00

Do you think you are still a bit from getting the perfect shot of the great nature sceneries you come along? Maybe some picture composition rules could benefit. A comprehensive but still easy to grasp guide for landscape composition 'rules' is available here.

2005-01-24T13:49:00.000+01:00

Photo work tutorials

Tutorials for different techniques to prepare digital photos are presented on the Gimpguru.org site! Shown are eg tutorials for converting color images to black&white, toning of images, simulating infrared photography etc! Very impressing and very nice illustrations!

2005-01-02T15:06:00.000+01:00

DAB Radio chips in Mobile Phones and PDAs

Olympus C-5060 is now mine!

I bought it actually yesterday. Wow, this is a great digital camera!

Based on earlier experience from buying the Canon Photoshot S20 several years ago I did an immediate investigation to find out if the camera had any hot pixels on the CCD. I experienced hot pixel faults in the S20 and got the camera replaced by the store. It is not a catastrophe to have one or two dead or hot pixels on a 5 Mega Pixel CCD but it will annoy you every time you see them when looking at pictures on the PC screen! Therefore my concern when I now bought the new C-5060.

Did I find any hot pixels then? Yes I did! I found one, in the upper right part of the pictures I took as test samples.

How did I figure out that it actually was an hot pixel? The method I use is what I call 'the light and darkness test'. Take a few pictures on dark areas, filling out the full picture, without flash and not over exposed. Do the same but with a very light area as the motive, now it's ok to use the flash if needed.

Now to the evaluation of the pictures: Look all over the pictures in full size (100%) on the PC screen; if there are hot pixels you should have no problems identify them this way. If you find light pixels on the same spot on all dark pictures you can be shure of having hot pixels on the CCD and the opposite, if you find dark pixels the same way on the light pictures, then you have dead pixels on the CCD.

My first thought was to get the camera replaced. However reading through the user's guide I found the great function called pixel mapping. This function helps you get rid of faulty pixels; and it really worked! The hot pixel dissapaered!

Now I need to get used to all the possibilities this camera offers - I expect great fun the time to come.

2004-01-25T20:35:00.000+01:00

Olympus C-5060 – probably my next

The latest 2-3 years I have taken 3 000+ pictures with my Canon Photoshot S20 digital camera. Earlier, I had an OM-2 SLR for quite some 20 years, taking both colour slides and b&w. I have to admit I have not taken the amount of pictures with my OM-2 over all those years that I have done with the S20. Digital photography is really exciting, not to say thrilling, a new dimension of amateur photo work!

I still think the Canon S20 is a great camera, good picture quality and a handy format, the same time with a full metal body. Now, however, I like to evolve toward something a little bit more exciting. The latest months I have studied d-cam reviews in papers and on the Net. I have especially focused on tracking information regarding cameras in the range of 5 mega-pixels as Canon G5, Nikon Coolpix 5400, Olympus C-5050 and C-5060. Lately I have narrowed the scope to C-5050 and C-5060!

Canon G5 was for long my preferred choice. I found that the picture quality seemed to be great, very good battery capacity etc, while the CA has been reported to be disturbing as well as the fact that the optics blocks part of the sight in the view-finder.

I had the opportunity to test the G5 side by side with a C-5060 in a camera store the other day, and among other things I found that the G5 was much slower in focusing on an object than the C-5060.

The C-5050 is a great looking camera. Probably the best aperture in class, 1.8, uses standard AA batteries supports quite different sets of memory cards and feels good in your palm. However the camera is not that fast in operation speed and even worse, sample pictures shows extreme colour cast (green and red/magenta) on sharp contrast edges; this makes it out of scope for me.

The C-5060 presents a very good wide angle, 27 mm (equal to 35-camera), best in class together with a 4x zoom. It is possible to fit filters directly on the objective without the need to purchase an extra adapter. It is fast. It is nice to hold and use and it is presenting very good picture quality!

The Olympus C-5060 is the digital camera that I really will consider buying as my next digital photo tool!

C-5060 reviews can be found at these places:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/c5060.html
http://www.megapixel.net/cgi-bin/fs_loader.pl?p=http%3A//www.megapixel.net/reviews/oly-c5060/c5060-review.html
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/C5060/C56A.HTM
http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/c5050/c5060-rev.html
http://www.molon.de/5060.html#Reviews

2003-08-04T13:56:00.000+02:00

The Megapixel Chase - get to know the digital picture resolution basics

Is it ok to stick around with the 'old' 2 or 3 Megapixel digital camera or is a newer 5 M a must? Intuitively will a camera with a higher resolution give better picture results. But before making up your mind rushing away buying the new fancy 'more megapixel' camera, read the excelent description of the basics for digital picture resolution that is presented at http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/und_resolution.shtml. Then, you are better equipt then ever to find out at what megapixel level you could settle down and concentrate on taking digital pictures and not chasing megapixels, for a while.

2003-08-01T10:59:00.000+02:00

Digital camera reviews

To learn about new digital cameras I use to read the digital camera reviews on the following sites:
Digital Photography Review
Steve's DigiCams
Megapixel.net