The Camera Platform Debate: Canon Vs Nikon
Mac Vs. PC, Coke Vs. Pepsi, Nikon Vs. Canon In many ways, this photographic debate is very much like the Mac Vs. PC debate. In many ways, it’s not. The debate has always been fuelled by passionate fans of each…
Review Saramonic SmartMic Mobile Condenser Microphone
I came upon the Saramonic SmartMic (also called the i-Mic) by accident, while window shopping at FotoTrade. I mistakenly thought it was similar to the Rode SmartLav+ and was quite surprised to find a similar product at that price point….
Lens Buying Flowchart
This simple-yet-effective lens buying guide helps you make the right decision every time. Found somewhere on the internet. #Humor
What dSLR Camera Should a Beginner Buy? – Tiny Tips 21
Most first-time dSLR camera buyers ask around a lot, and do a lot of research before making their first (or second) camera purchase. They’re justified in their concern that they should not buy something that turns out to be a…
How-to Save RAW File Edits Without a Lightroom Catalogue file
If you don’t do this one thing, you will lose all your edits when your lightroom catalog file gets corrupted. This is the one setting that I always turn on as soon as I install Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (LR) on…
How To Recharge Silica Gel Crystals
Silica Gel absorbs moisture in the air around your camera equipment (such a material is called an adsorbent). This ensures that the area is not friendly for fungus to grow inside your camera lenses. But did you know that if you…
GoPro Vibration Reduction Techniques – Tiny Tips No. 20
Sometimes, when you mount a GoPro camera on the body of a vehicle, the engine, panel vibration or buffeting by the wind, makes the camera vibrate. The result is video footage that seems to warp, wobble, and kind of act…
Hasselblad CFV-50c CMOS Sensor Digital Back for V-system
The name Hasselblad is synonymous with high quality medium format photography. Over the years hundreds and thousands of medium format 120 film Hasselblad cameras have been made and sold. They eventually became unsuitable for most commercial photography (except that Phase One have kept…
Free Software: onOne Perfect Effects 8 Premium for free
onOne software, is offering their Perfect Effects 8 Premium software as a free, fully licensed download until May 12th. They’ll let you use it on two computers, either Mac, or PC. Perfect Effects allows you to use one-click preset effects…
Is this the future of the compact camera? Sony’s new Cybershot QX100 and QX10 lens-style cameras
Sony has just announced something that is probably revolutionary to the compact camera market, but when you think about it, seems like an obvious step in its evolution. It’s a stabilised zoom lens, that has a 20Mpx sensor, battery, flash…
The Death of Google Reader & How To Stay Subscribed to Beyond Photo Tips
Everyone is talking about it … the imminent death of Google Reader on July 1st … and a ton of you are still using it. It’s time you did something about it, or you’ll lose all the RSS feeds you’ve…
Renting stuff – Borrowlenses for 17 days
It’s always nice to use equipment that you’ve not had access to before. You could ask a sympathetic (and well-off) friend to lend you his stuff, or you could rent a specific lens or camera that you’ve been meaning to…
1 Trillion FPS. Photographing Light Itself
Who would ever have thought that we’d be able to see how light travels through our world? Yet here’s a video of a pulse of laser light travelling and dispersing through a bottle. Ramesh Raskar from MIT’s media lab talks…
Memorable Photographs – How They Got That Way
A friend writes to me: I’m no photographer, and therefore I’ve never understood what makes a photograph amazing? Nationalist sentiments aside, what’s in the photo – “Heroes of Iwo Jima” that makes it so awesome and memorable? Also, the National…
Tiny Tips 19: 5 Top Tips When Shooting Tethered
Here are a few tips for when you shoot with your dSLR tethered to a computer. We’ve learnt these lessons the hard way. Try it out beforehand with the particular computer and camera that you will be using. Hardware has a way…
