Автор: Alick

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• Сamera takes 60,000 pictures a second. Это вам не 60 кадров в секунду.
  

  Many believed that the ultimate limit in high-speed photography had been reached when Baron Shiba, Japanese engineer, announced not long ago a camera that could take 40,500 pictures a second (P.S.M., May ‘31, p. 143). Now, however, the Japanese Institute of Aeronautical Research at Tokyo has installed an amazing camera that can take as many as 60,000 photographs in a single second’s time.

• Teaching yourself photography. Я еще не жаловался, что в последнее время стало маловато публиковаться хороших статей о фотографии? Так вот эта — одна из них.
  

  Imagine, for a second, that you are a young person with a camera. There are other cameras in the world around you, and there are people who use those cameras, too, but nobody really knows what they are doing, nobody can teach you anything you don’t already know, and the only tool you have in the world is the internet. All hope is lost … Or is it?

• Multifunction Pop-Up Flash Zoom Digital Camera Wide-Angle Lens. Какой ужас.
  

  This camera will take great quality images of 5 Mega Pixels with up to 12 Mega Pixel pictures available via interpolation. Also features with this wholesale digital camera is the large 2.4-inch LCD TFT display for a bright preview of your pictures and movies, a SD/MMC memory card reader for expanding on the 32MB of internal flash, and other great included accessories such as a camera tripod and high quality carry bag.

• Five rules for working with models. Очень, очень, очень правильные советы. Других не надо.
  

  Don’t kill your models.

• Sigma DP-1 Review. Блин, какая же прикольная штуковина.
  

  Which brings us to the Sigma DP-1, the subject of this report. For the first time we have a shirt-pocket sized digicam using a roughly APS-C sized sensor. This is approximately the size used in popular DSLRs such as the Canon 40D and Nikon D300, and slightly larger than the 4/3 format used by Olympus and others in their DSLRs.

• American Color, Russian Color. Очень любопытно. Обязательно посмотрите эти две веб-галереи. Они небольшие и оно стоит того.
  

  Lens Culture is pleased to present the color photographs of two emerging artists who are working with similar subjects and similar ideas, but half a globe apart. Trevor Traynor turns in a poetic photo-essay about children’s playgrounds in Moscow, just after a winter thaw. Douglas Rickhard documents the light and color and architecture of similarly empty places in his series, American Suburb. Both worth watching, I think.

• Top 10 Podcasts for Digital Photography. Любителям послушать о фотографии.
  

  Love podcasts? How about some great photography podcasts for you. These are the iTunes most popular digital photography podcasts.

• Nikon Upgrades my Picturetown. Надо будет попробовать. Все-таки можно NEF-ы загружать и показывать — альтернативу хрен найдешь.
  

  • The ability to upload RAW (NEF) files viewable as JPEGs
  • The ability to search for photos by the date they were uploaded or taken using a calendar
  • A full-screen slideshow option for viewing photos customizable with now up to 25 choices for background music
  • A new system allowing users to rate their images on a scale of 0-5
  • A seamless interaction with Nikon’s Wi-Fi enabled cameras including the newly announced S52c
  • The ability to receive photos uploaded via the Eye-Fi™ card

• A guide to Aurora photography. В фотографировании северного сияния самое сложное — это добраться до места, где оно вообще бывает хоть иногда.
  

  There are very few people who have more opportunity to view Northern Lights than those of us living in Central and Northern Alaska. I shoot the lights. A lot. I shoot for 6 hours or more some nights. Some nights they are out 5 minutes. Other nights, 5 hours. Sometimes it’s chilly.

• Exposure Log. Кен Роквелл сделал полезное. EXIF для пленочников.
• Съемка с проводкой. Статья в блоге «Простые фокусы» об одной из самых сложных технически техник фотосъемки. Не знаю, как у вас, у меня снять проводкой получается разве что случайно.
  

  Движение в кадре можно показать несколькими способами, начиная с банального “замораживания” объекта съемки в полете, прыжке или очень неестественной позе, в результате чего становится понятно, что такого быть не могло и у человека просто странно раздувались щеки от встречного ветра и заканчивая смазыванием тех или иных объектов в кадре.

• Ray Flash — The Portable Ring Flash. Какая смешная фиговина.
  

  ExpoImaging has introduced the Ray Flash a portable ring flash adapter for your hot-shoe flash unit. This is actually a fairly exciting new product from the team that also produces the ExpoDisc and ExpoAperture2.