Archive for ‘Digital Photography’

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Apr07

Excellent CNET Interview with Canon’s Chuck Westfall

by todd on April 7th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Posted In: Digital Photography

CNET’s Stephan Shankland has an excellent (and lengthy) interview with Canon’s professional products technical advisor Chuck Westfall… Q&A: Canon helps usher in the video SLR era Stephen asked a lot of questions. But, the one I was most interested in was about including GPS capability. Westfall waffled on that one. But, it was encouraging that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr01

Podcast 21: Conversation with Derrick Story, Pro Photog and Author, About iPhone Photo Apps

by todd on April 1st, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography, Apple, iPhone, podcast

Powered by Podbean.com The Internet is a wonderful thing. It gave me the opportunity to work with professional photographer and author Derrick Story for the past 7 years or so even though we have never met in person. Derrick was an editor at O’Reilly Media for much of that time. And, it was he who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar24

MobileViews Podcast 19: Pangea CEO Brian Greenstone Sets the iPhone Dev Switch Story Straight

by todd on March 24th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Posted In: Digital Photography, Apple, iPhone, podcast

Powered by Podbean.com Pangea Software has developed software for the Mac for over 20 years. CEO Brian Greenstone recently got a lot of attention from a report that he stopped developing for the Mac to focus on the iPhone. However, it turns out that this report is not correct. He stopped Mac game development about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul01

Tried RAW Mode for the First Time

by todd on July 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography

I only have one digital camera that can take photos in RAW mode. I bought the camera around 2002 or 2003 (I think) and never used the RAW setting because CF cards were expensive and the biggest card I had was only 256MB (plenty for JPEGs but way to small for RAW). With some time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jun21

My Pocket PC Camera Has Macro Setting?

by todd on June 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography, Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

I think I noticed the macro switch on my TyTn Pocket PC Phone Edition (aka Professional Edition) when I got it last year. But, I never tested it out until this week. While the TyTn’s digital camera is better than most Windows Mobile device cameras I’ve tried, it is still hampered by a cheap lens. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jun07

Back to Basics: Cameraphone Sports Mode Setting

by todd on June 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Back to Basics, Digital Photography, Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

Generally speaking, the cameras on most phones are much slower than even the slowest of the first generation consumer digital cameras back in the 1990s. So, I’ve never really expected to get much in the way of action shots with my cameraphone and ignored the so-called Sports Setting the camera configuration. However, while waiting for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May21

TwitPic: Send a Photo to Twitter From Your Phone

by todd on May 21st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography, Mobile Devices

TwitPic is a free web service that lets you attach a photo web link to a Twitter tweet. Here’s how you do it, head over to TwitPic and sign-in with your normal Twitter account name and password. Then, click on Settings and add the special email address it shows you to your cameraphone’s email contacts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May07

CHDK Wiki: How to Hack A Canon PowerShot Digital Camera

by todd on May 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography

I really tempted to try a CHDK Wiki Canon PowerShot digital camera firmware hack. But, a big streak of digital cowardice is getting in the way According to their FAQ, the changes are not actually written to the camera in a permanent way. The firmware hack can be reversed by simply removing the flash card […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mar29

Back to Basics: The Subtler Differences Between Cameraphones and Digital Cameras

by todd on March 29th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Back to Basics, Digital Photography, Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

Discussions (and sometimes rants) about camera phone photos usually steer towards pixel count, clarity, and color. However, there are subtler differences between camera phone photos and digital camera photos. Take the two photos above taken using a T-Mobile Dash cameraphone (left) and a Canon Powershot A710IS point-and-shoot digital camera. I’ve resized both photos from their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb03

DPreview.com Mobile Friendly Site

by todd on February 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography, Mobile Devices

My favorite digital camera review site recently created a mobile device friendly website. You can find the Digital Photography Review mobile friendly site at… http://www.dpreview.com/mobile/

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Jan13

Qipit Good! Scan Cameraphone Photos to PDF

by todd on January 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography, Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

Qipit good!… With apologies to Devo… I signed up for the free Qipit online cameraphone to PDF scanning service today. Although I’m focusing on the cameraphone aspect today, you can upload a digital photo taken with any kind of digital camera and upload it from the desktop too. For this test, I used a T-Mobile […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct06

Finally Got to Try Canon Fireworks Preset Mode

by todd on October 6th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Posted In: Digital Photography

I’ve been using various Canon cameras (including several 35mm) for a long time. But, for one reason or another I never got around to trying the Fireworks scene preset available on a number of models. This evening I finally got the chance to try it when I noticed fireworks in the distance and happened to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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