Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Nikon looks to the future.
Nikon has added an in-camera vignetting adjustment in their latest D3 software release:

Now their approach is pretty limited, you cannot see the effect in other than Nikon software (Duh! What are they thinking of?) and many of the lenses that probably benefit most (like the 20-35mm D) are excluded. […]

One remote does it all.
Of peripheral interest to photographers who, like me, view their photo albums on a big screen TV, I nonetheless felt I simply had to mention this gadget for its sheer effectiveness and elegance.
Touch screen home theater controller were typically priced in the thousands of dollars and had to be programmed […]

Overlays add high quality pictures.
I popped over to Paris this morning, the flight taking just a few seconds, courtesy of Google Earth.
After all, if you are sightseeing, why not start with the most beautiful city on earth?

The small track ball on my Apple Mighty Mouse functions as a zoom control - neat.
Click on one of […]

Some more thoughts
I wrote of my first experience with Apple TV a while back. Since that time Apple has provided enhanced software which makes the device capable of downloading movies and TV shows.

That adds real value as the wife was getting a tad upset when the home’s DVD collection crossed the 500 count. My argument […]

Great device, poorly marketed
A year ago Apple released a piece of hardware named AppleTV. Because they totally bungled the marketing the device had few sales as no one quite knew what to do with it. Indeed, in a rare defensive move, Steve Jobs referred to the gadget “….as something for the den”. […]