Photographs, Photographers and Photography

CubicConnector does the trick.
That rather intimidating title is nothing more than the addition of ‘click here’ functionality to a QTVR movie/panorama.
This is best illustrated by the enhanced version of the 360 degree panorama of my home theater which has graced these pages before.
Once the QuickTime image loads - click below - cursor over any of […]

Apple to exhibit at Photokina.
Photokina is the biennial show of photography goods in Cologne. The next one is this coming September, starting on the 26th. The format of a physical show is getting rapidly obsoleted with most press releases and product announcements being done on the web nowadays; still, lots of people show […]

A master of lyrical monochrome.

There is so much to like in the Aperture book ‘Josef Sudek - Poet of Prague’ that it’s hard to know where to begin. Sudek (1896-1976) spent nearly his whole life in Czechoslovakia. From 1940, inspired by contact prints from large negatives he devoted himself to this way of working, […]

Not an unknown issue.
Mention of the dust removal system in the new Canon 400D prompts this column.
I pointed out how easily the guileless are fooled by horribly overpriced sensor cleaning solutions here.
I have since added another very effective tool to my sensor cleaning arsenal, on top of that little $5 brush. It is made […]

Canon addresses the dust issue.

The curious thing about Canon’s newly announced EOS 400D, the replacement for the estimable 350D, is the use of a 10+ mp cropped sensor. This cropped sensor has a higher pixel count than the 8.2 mp in the premium ‘amateur’ Canon EOS 30D model. That’s interesting positioning, probably driven […]

100″ of forest glory!
I wrote the other day about displaying QTVR pictures on the TV screen.
Today, using the same connecting cables with my iBook I plugged the computer into the ‘Video 1′ input on the AV unit in our home theater and what do you think I got?

Surround sound quality from the MP3 soundtrack - […]