Photography

NEW WORKSHOP: Plein Air (Outdoor) Photography along California's Central Coast, 14-17 April 2011. Next month Dave Wyman and I are teaching a workshop and leading a photo tour through some of the most beautiful springtime locations on...

NEW: Current California Radiation Levels. I've always wanted my own Geiger Counter since childhood. Recent events finally gave me a good excuse to buy one a week ago before they all sold out. Since there is no intelligible data p...

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) I've worked in the design of the world's largest television broadcast networks back when I had a real job, and here's how we covered our power needs. Normally, everything runs from the power c...

Report from Japan Adorama has a summary of the damage sustained by the various camera makers – so far, and who, if anyone, is still cranking out cameras.   Free Trip to Africa tonight If you're in San Diego...

Free Trip to Africa on Thursday If you're in San Diego, be sure to come to my photo club's meeting at 7PM in PB on Thursday, where my African friend Paul Renner will be giving a show of his awesome animal photos. Paul...

Lexar Ships World's First 128GB SD Card At least we have some good news: Lexar announced today that the 128GB SDXC cards are shipping. The even better news is that they are cheap. Top-model cards used to cost around $1,000 when the...

How do I meter my lens pictures? How do I meter photos like the one below of the 135mm lens? I don't! I shoot these in my studio with a trio of manual Novatron strobes. I start at f/22,...

LEICA 135mm f/4 ELMAR (1960-1965). NEU: LEICA 135mm f/4 ELMAR Review. Thank goodness, this is the last review I need to complete to cover all the lenses I borrowed the other week in Yosemite. Now hopefully I can...

Nikon 70-300mm VR. review. DEAL: Refurbished Nikon 70-300mm VR for $349.95 at Adorama, while they last.   LEICA 50mm SUMMICRON f/2 with Near-Focusing Range. NEW: LEICA 50mm SUMMICRON f/2 with Near-Focusing...

World's Fastest SD Cards: D7000 Only! I don't follow all this since I shoot carefully, instead of quickly, but for you speed demons, apparently the Nikon D7000 is the only camera which can take advantage of SD cards that meet the newes...

How to Get Rid of the Thirds Boxes in Photoshop CS5 It's hidden as a pre selected drop-down option in the Options Panel. Find that, and select NONE under Crop Guide Overlay. The reason that this was impossible to find for months is......