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Continue reading →: Sony Cyber-shot vs. Digital Rebel vs. Fujifilm F11 Size and Weights
So what are the dimensions and weights of the recommended cameras, its interesting to see the tradeoffs, as you can see the Sony Cyber-shot is really in the middle so very convenient for travel. It weights less than a pound, while the whole kits for the Digital Rebel is 1.1kg…
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Continue reading →: More Web 2.0 sites
OK, as I promised I’m signing up to more web 2.0 sites. These are just from trying to find photo imaging sites: * “ShoZu”:http://shozu.com. This is one of a zillion sites that let you connect your phone to a photoblog on the web. Their big thing is a link to…
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Continue reading →: Polar s720i Battery Change
Polar S720i Heart Rate Monitors . I’ve had one of these for quite a while and the battery if finally dead. Got two years out of though. Fortunately you don’t have to send back to Polar, but you do get an additional year warranty if you do: Battery life is…
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Continue reading →: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 and Camera Buyers Guide
“DCViews”:http://www.dcviews.com/_Sony/h5.htm. Well, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 is probably the closest thing to the right small camera with big quality compromise. The key thing is that it can shoot decently at ISO 400 so is good for low light situations. Read the reviews, but with 12x optical zoom, 3″ LCD viewer,…
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Continue reading →: Free Photo Storage
“About”:http://freebies.about.com/cs/digphotostorage/ and also google:”photo storage”.The gold old days of the web are back, now there are literally dozens of sites that will let you store your photos for free on the web and the amount of storage is unbelievable. About has a good list to start with, but here are…
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Continue reading →: Photo Histogram
!>http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/images/thumbnails/histogram.gif! “Photoblog”:http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/tips/histogram_tips.php. These things appear everywhere, but what are they exactly. Photoblog has a good definition cribbed Photoxels: bq. The histogram is simply a graph that allows you to judge the brightness of an image. You can think of the area under the graph as comprising all the pixels in…
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Continue reading →: Canon i9900 Gamut
With all this discussion of gamuts, I wonder how you should actually print to my trusty Canon i9900. The results are pretty interesting: * With the very best paper, the Canon Pro Glossy, sRGB is really too small, it can print way beyond it * Even with Adobe RGB gamut,…
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Continue reading →: Canon Digital Rebel XT Gamut
For grins, Dry Creek Photo also has gamut information on the sensors in Canon cameras. They don’t have the 5D, but they do have the 1Ds Mark II and the Canon 20D. The Canon 20D is the same sensor as the digital rebel and running this shows that it is…





