Apple Patents Multi-Point Exposure/Focus Selection for the iPhone
A new patent application by Apple is showing off some of the technology we may be finding in the next generation camera. The application, which you can read in its entirety here, mentions a few new features, among them the ability to select multiple focus points, allowing the the phone to take over and adjust...
HDSLR Electronic Follow Focus Control from Manfrotto… 1st of Its Kind
This product is what so many HDSLR shooters have been waiting for… Manfrotto just announced an electronic follow focus system for DSLR cameras with two versions: a clamp system (control attaches to flat surfaces, or to pipes and tubes) and a pro version (ability to switch between photo and video, focus control, rec/stop/shutter release, live view...
VizTools: HandiZoom DSLR Shooting Solution for ENG
With the need to shoot on the fly for ENG or situations that only allow for a quick shot such as concerts or other events, the VizTool HandiZoom looks to be an exciting answer to the DSLR shooter issues with focus and zoom while staying compact and on the fly. It seems to adopt the...
How To Recover From Online ADD So You Can Grow Your Photography Business
Online ADD. That’s what I call it. And you’re probably a victim of it. It goes something like this … You decide to build up your photography business, so you head online to start checking things out. You visit site after site, taking in whatever they are talking about. If it’s a great site, you...
Your Weekend Project – Purposeful Focus
Focus is inherently critical in photography. What is OUT of focus is just as important as what is IN focus. Using unexpected focus, or off-center focus, can add interest to your photographs. This weekend practice purposeful focus. Focus and recompose, or practice moving your focus points around through the viewfinder. Break away from auto focus...
Sony A99 Reportedly Boasts a Staggering 102 Cross-type AF Points
Sony is reportedly focusing on autofocus as one of the main battlegrounds it’ll wage war on in the DSLR market. According to sonyalpharumors, the company is working on a new A99 SLT camera that’s already being tested by photographers in the wild, and one of the main selling points of the camera is a whopping...
Zone Focus Explained
Zone focus is a technique that allows the photographer to essentially “set and forget” the aperture and focus. When used correctly it adds speed and convenience to your shooting experience, especially in situations when fast-moving subjects outpace auto-focus capabilities. Zone focus is also known as “f/8 and be there,” a term that was coined by...
Focusing On The Wrong Question Could Cost You Millions
Let me ask you a question. If you could ask five million-dollar business owners a question about making your business succeed, what would you ask them? I’ll bet its something like this: How do I make more money? How do I find more clients? How do I get my website more traffic? How do I...
Jumping Spiders’ Eyes May Inspire New Camera Technologies
In a paper published in Science this week, Japanese researchers reported on a discovery that jumping spiders use a method for gauging distance called “image defocus”, which no other living organism is known to use. Rather than use focusing and stereoscopic vision like humans or head-wobbling motion parallax like birds, the spiders have two green-detecting...
Sharpening De-Mystified
We all want absolutely tack-sharp photos. We all know that sharpness begins with the shot itself – there is no saving a blurry photo in post-production. We are somewhat familiar with sharpening techniques in Lightroom or Photoshop, but what is the best way to apply sharpening for landscapes? Portraits? Cars? Street scenes? When is the...
Monthly Photo Challenge – December
The Monthly Challenge for December is bokeh. There is one thing about this challenge that make it a little more than just bokeh. For this challenge the bokeh must be of either light or snow as shown in the images included with the article. What Bokeh is: Bokeh is the out of focus portion of...
