January 6th, 2012
MELVILLE, N.Y. (Jan 5, 2012) – The new Nikon D4 digital SLR builds upon the legacy of the proven Nikon flagship D-SLRs before it, engineered to give today’s professional multimedia photographers a new apex of speed and accuracy with unparalleled image quality, low-light capability and Full HD video. The Nikon D4 hosts a multitude of advanced [...]
December 19th, 2011
Thanks to Dave Williamson for passing along this great article on why sensor size matters. I’ll never forget when I moved from a CoolPix-995 (3.1 megapixel tiny sensor) to a Canon 1Ds (full frame 11.4 megapixel). The images from the 1Ds were so magnificent, amazing and detailed I would spend hours looking at them in Photoshop. With [...]
December 16th, 2011
I noticed that there are significant price reductions on the 5DMKII at both Amazon and B&H. I thought they are significant enough that I shoud pass this along. Amazon - Body only for $2175 USD B&H (Sale is over now)- Body only with SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card & Lowepro Adventura 170 Shoulder Bag & [...]
December 1st, 2011
After seeing the results of the real estate photography equipment polls I can’t help from commenting on the results. I’m totally stunned that the Canon 10-22mm is the most popular lens. Not that it isn’t a great lens, it may well be the highest quality lens for cropped sensor DSLRs. I’m just surprised that it is beating [...]
November 28th, 2011
When I did the post yesterday on “What are the top selling DSLRs?” I planned to do a post today with a poll on what the most popular wide angle lenses real estate photographers are using. Suzanne Feinberg convinced me to add a poll to is to find out which DSLRs are most popular with [...]
November 27th, 2011
At this time of year when everyone is thinking about buying stuff I thought it would be interesting to see what that best selling DSLR is. First of all, since the actual total sales of DSLRs world wide isn’t available we have to figure out a way to get a close estimate. My approach at [...]
November 23rd, 2011
Today Nestor, from some place in Hawaii, asked me for some advice about where to sell his used Canon Xti and a Canon 10-22 lens and what to ask for it. He’s decided to move up and want’s to use the cash from his old equipment for his new gear. This is a great subject. There’s [...]
October 11th, 2011
Today I talked to Zeke Kamm in Bend, OR at nice-industries.com who is launching a new product called the Nice Clip on Kickstart.com. Kickstarter.com is a cool way to help small businesses get off the ground and launch a product. Zeke says: This product is a new mobile phone/electronics/photo accessory launched on Kickstarter – The [...]
October 4th, 2011
It’s not that I’m obsessed with new gear, I just hate to see anyone buy gear just before new stuff comes out. Nikonrumors.com claims that there’s a 99% probability of a upgrade to the D700 that will be called the D800 and will have a whopping 36MP sensor. I guess Nikon didn’t get the memo [...]
September 27th, 2011
Tom in Seattle got me going on this subject last week when he was showing me a camera site where they are selling 5D Mark IIs for basically ~$1,000 USD off of the standard Amazon and B&H price. I recommended that he not bite on this ridiculously low price. It felt to me that the [...]
August 18th, 2011
Monday (August 15th) Snapsort.com relaunched with a bunch of nice updates that helps you compare camera specifications. Things to take note of are: Instantly explore the world of cameras based on your unique criteria. This isn’t a list, snapsort.com uses AI to recommend the best camera for you. All the data is in one place. [...]
July 27th, 2011
Last week Dave Baxter, in upstate New York, told me that he was inspired by all the talk here on the blog about Exposure Fusion and wanted to know which camera body would be the best for shooting auto exposure brackets (AEB). While I knew that the recent Nikon DSLRs would shoot 8 EV of [...]
June 26th, 2011
Peter Brandt posed a question last week about the Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8 FX wide angle lens. Peter’s question was, “wouldn’t the Tokina 16-28 be a better lens than the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S?” Peter points out that the Tokina 16-28 is less than half the price of the Nikon 14-24mm and for interiors you [...]
May 11th, 2011
I know, I can hear the objections already! For many years I’ve had a Point and shoot section in my recommended camera list and in the choosing a camera chapter of my Photography For Real Estate eBook. But that’s all over now. Here is my reasoning: To do quality work you need to have a [...]
April 21st, 2011
Back on April 4 I did a post on wireless tethering of your DSLR to and iPad. At the time of that post you needed to have a wireless network available to get an Eye-Fi Pro X2 (located in your DSLR) to talk to an iPad. Today Eye-Fi released a software update for the Pro [...]
April 5th, 2011
I have been eyeing the Eye-Fi Pro X2 SD card for a while now. The idea of having wifi build into your memory card is kind of cool. The feature that pushed me over the edge to buy one is the promise of wirelessly tethering my 5DMKII to my iPad. This video at fstoppers.com demonstrates the way [...]
March 1st, 2011
Thanks to Fred Lord for pointing out this recent article over at digitalphotopro.com that tests the noise in images taken over the whole range of ISO settings. Conventional wisdom has always been that with all DSLRs the lower the ISO the lower the noise. This test shows that this may not be completely true. For [...]
February 7th, 2011
Today Canon announced a couple of new low-end HDSLRs. The EOS T3 /1100D and the EOS T3i/600D. In reading the new specs it’s pretty hard to find any earth shaking changes (except perhaps the swivel LCD screen on the T3i). Moore’s law slowly keeps grinding on toward fantastic quality, smaller size and lower cost. What’s else [...]
February 2nd, 2011
If you are a Camera geek like me you’ll love Peter van den Hamer’s analysis and charts over at luminous-landscape.com. Peter explains that the purpose of his article is to answer the following interrelated questions: What do the DxOMark Sensor results mean? How valid are the benchmark scores? Why do large sensors outperform smaller ones? Why don’t [...]
January 25th, 2011
Steve Fuller of Kelowna, BC recently pointed out to me that after many years of using the Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 that he was moving to the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. The Tokina 11-16mm lens is specifically designed for APS-C sensors (cropped sensor DSLRs). It’s been on the market since about 2008. This lens is available in [...]
