Tech Talk Archive

  • Canon’s New Baby 7D

    Canon’s New Baby 7D

    Canon’s EOS 550D follows in the footsteps of the mega-selling EOS500D and borrows from the revolutionary EOS 7D. It has an...
  • Crop photos for impact

    Crop photos for impact

    Enough said from me. Hopefully someone with more nous will tell us their methods of deciding what to leave in or...
  • Taking Care of Your Underwater Equipment

    Taking Care of Your Underwater Equipment

    1.   Make sure your O ring is intact The O ring is what guarantees no water will enter your camera. Check...
  • Apple iPad first hands-on!

    Apple iPad first hands-on!

    If the Engadget guys who made this video sound excited, you can’t blame them. As a Mac user myself I know...
  • A Photographic Studio at Home

    A Photographic Studio at Home

    The idea of taking photos whenever one pleases means one of two things: (1) absolute control over the elements, or ...
  • Cyber-shot® Digital Camera TX7

    Cyber-shot® Digital Camera TX7

    Here we go again! Another year and another bag load of new “the best we have ever seen” point &...
  • Say Hello to My Little Friend: Fill Flash

    Say Hello to My Little Friend: Fill Flash

    Scenario: you are photographing a subject in broad daylight. The camera sees a bright scene and adjusts its exposure accordingly. Result:...
  • What Really Matters in Photography

    What Really Matters in Photography

    Many may disagree but when it comes to photographic equipment, the thing that matters above all else is the quality...
  • Is Photography Expensive?

    Is Photography Expensive?

    Why is photography so expensive? I hear it all the time… When you think of photography as a creative outlet; as...
  • Summer Light

    Summer Light

    summer light from Glen Ryan on Vimeo. Quick test of manual controls on Nikon D3s – just shot it in the...
  • Sony Alpha DLSR α550

    Sony Alpha DLSR α550

    Sony’s α550 Digital SLR is a 14.2 megapixel camera with a number of built-in features to guarantee sharp and perfectly...
  • Sony Alpha α500 DSLR

    Sony Alpha α500 DSLR

    SONY’S α500 is a 12.3 megapixel Digital SLR camera with a 3-inch extra fine LCD display that tilts, up or...
  • I’m Kelvin, I’m Here to Help

    I’m Kelvin, I’m Here to Help

    Kelvin temperature… photographer’s best friend, beginner’s bugbear… In photography, Kelvin is simply a measure of colour temperature indicating to a shooter...
  • Alpha Bet Pays Off For Sony – α230 | α330 | α380

    Alpha Bet Pays Off For Sony – α230 | α330 | α380

    SONY’S EASY-TO-USE ALPHA α380, α330 and α230 CAMERAS make it a breeze to step up from point-and-shoot digital still cameras...
  • Shooting Video With a DSLR

    Shooting Video With a DSLR

    TECHNOLOGY IS NOT ONLY EXPANDING RAPIDLY, it is merging and consolidating multiple technologies. This has become apparent in the DSLR...