Donia, a DeviantArt member, wrote pretty useful tips on how to take better photos of your cat.
Canon 300D with Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8 & 1/60secs
She even wrote some interesting cats’ nature and tempers:
“Not all cats have the same nature, and there’s nothing you can do to change you cat’s temper. So when you are taking photos don’t try to imitate the attitude of another cat, try to study and represent your own cat’s feature and character. Curious Cat…”
FallisPhoto has quite good tips for any DSLR users on how to clean lenses.
He explained that we must use blower and lens brush first to remove as much grit as possible then we need some commonly used solvents in camera restoration and lens cleaning which are:
1. denatured alcohol, used to remove tar (from cigarettes, or pine pollen) and detriorated light seal material (sometimes found stuck to rear lens elements). Do NOT use rubbing alcohol; it will work, but it is not a benign solvent and it can attack some balsam cements used to glue lens elements together.
2. naphtha (Ronsonol lighter fluid), used to remove grease and oils (naphtha is REALLY good for fingerprints).
3. distilled water, used to remove everything else.
These are all benign and won’t harm your camera if you just keep them out of the electronics.
4. a 50/50 mix of hydrogen peroxide and ammonia, used to remove lens fungus.
Mike Stensvold reviewed the Konica Minolta Dynax5D/Maxxum5D at Photographic Magazine Online and wrote:
” Metering performance was excellent, and the 5D did a great job with bright, high-contrast subjects like white birds in direct sun. Dynamic range and color reproduction are excellent, but highest-quality JPEG images were a bit noisier at all ISO settings than with the 7D (I couldn’t test RAW image quality because the necessary software was not yet available when we received our test sample). All in all, though, image quality is very good. Besides ISO settings from 100 to 3200, the 5D offers an Auto ISO mode, in which the camera sets an appropriate ISO for the shooting conditions—very handy in rapidly changing lighting situations.
Bottom Line: The Maxxum 5D is a little slower than its “big brother” Maxxum 7D, but it’s a very good camera, capable of turning out very good images at a very good price—I wouldn’t have shot nearly 5000 photos with our test camera if it hadn’t delivered the goods.”
The new DiMAGE Z6 uses Konica Minolta’s proprietary CCD-shift Anti-Shake system, convenient for telephoto shots and dimly lit situations. This Anti-Shake system compensates to minimize the effect of camera shake, allowing users to shoot with shutter speeds four to eight times longer (2-3 stops) than on cameras without this technology. The DiMAGE Z6 can correct camera-shake without increasing the shutter speed, or raising the ISO sensitivity, which can increase noise.
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The EASYSHARE C360 camera with Printer Dock Series 3 combination offers a full-featured, affordable digital camera system with a touch of style. The elegant, pocket-sized camera design allows people to take the camera everywhere, then capture, print and share both everyday and once-in-a-lifetime moments. The large, two-inch LCD display enables instant picture review and sharing right on the camera. Convenient, intuitive back-of-camera controls provide access to most functions with just a slight thumb movement.
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The DiMAGE X1 employs an 8-megapixel, 1/1.8-type CCD - the highest resolution currently available in compact digital cameras. To take full advantage of this incredible resolution, the X1 integrates a newly designed optical system as well as CxProcess III, Konica Minolta’s top image processing technology that renders images as natural-looking as they appear to your eye.
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Equipped with a powerful 10x Zoom-Nikkor lens, the COOLPIX S4 offers far more compositional freedom than other compact cameras. In fact, delivering outstanding 38-380mm performance (35mm equivalent), it makes it easy for the photographer to capture a much broader range of subject matter — moving in for tightly composed portraits, zooming further out for stunning shots of architecture, or pulling right out to capture the full beauty of expansive scenery.
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Canon PowerShot 410 is a fast, affordable and feature packed, all within a pocket-sized body. The easy to use PowerShot A410 is the perfect camera for newcomers to digital photography. With a high resolution 3.2MP sensor and Canon 3.2x optical zoom lens the PowerShot A410 is capable of capturing images that will produce superb prints up to A4 size.
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Ian Andrews posted his Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens test and wrote:
” The ultra-wide group to which this lens belongs has gone a long way towards overcoming the biggest drawback of cropped sensor dSLR’s, that of lost angle of view at the wide end. Being newly designed, it has addressed all of the other problems that have been thrown up by digital sensors and optically, if they had stopped at 20mm there would be very little to pick up on. The one slight disappointment is the build quality when looked at in terms of the price, as the cost is more than some ‘L’ class lenses and is the biggest barrier to owning this lens after the need to have one of the limited cameras it will fit on.
In summary, the positive points of the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM are: Good optical quality, Nice size and weight, No unexpected nasties.
The negative points are: Price, Restricted fitting (Won’t fit D30/60 or 10D), Lens hood is an optional extra.”
Bibble Labs releases version 4.4 Update with support for Canon 5D & 1D Mark II N
Includes new Fill Light control and improved sharper output.
Austin Texas (October 17th, 2005) - Bibble Labs today announced availability of version 4.4 of its popular Raw Workflow software. Now supporting over 60 of the most popular DSLR and prosumer cameras, this update includes support for the new Canon 5D and 1D Mark II N cameras, as well as the Minolta 5D, A200 and Pentax *ist DL. Using Bibble’s integrated Photoshop plug-in, users of older versions of Photoshop including 7.0 and CS can now open raw images from the latest cameras without having to pay for a costly upgrade.
