October 17, 2007

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ProPhotoShow

More Canon SLR lenses in the works

canon_lenses.jpgCanon will be showing some prototypes of upcoming lenses at the Photo Plus Expo in Nov. It seems thy are working on an 200mm F2.0, and and 800mm F5.6. for their EOS SLR systems. That some fast telephoto and we don’t know what they’ll cost, but both of course are L series (this stands for luxury by the way) and with the kind of specs they look to have they wont be cheap.

These aren’t the first of their kind however. Some of you will remember the 1200mm F5.6 that came out in 1993, and was dropped in 2005. It’s in the picture on the left (ya the huge lens is it) and weighed over 35 pounds. It was an amazing piece, but would suck about 90 grand out of your checkbook. We hope that these up coming releases will be a tad more attainable.

They look pretty pretty impressive. Pro shooters know what a difference great glass makes, and it can really pay to get the best.

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October 14, 2007

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Canon, Gavin Seim, HDR Photography

Canon's Highlight Tone Priority. Another step towards in camera HDR!

There’s a feature on Canon’s latest high end linup, even including the new 40D called highlight tome priority.

This is not yet the in camera HDR that we’ve supposed would come in the future, but it is a step in the right direction and shows that Canon is on top of up an coming technologies. It seems that Highlight Tone Priority uses 14bit technology to help preserve highlights from being blown out.

Here’s an article over at kenrockwell.com where he gives an example and talks about how useful it is, and another article over at digital pro talk gives us more samples of what it can do. We’ve also checked out various comments from camera owners, and it seems like this actually does a good job to help keep those highlights from blowing out of the scene. Looks like yet another Kudos fro Canon, and that maybe in camera HDR could be in the pipes sooner than we thought.

Gavin Seim

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October 7, 2007

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Gavin Seim, Photography Podcast, Pro Photo Show Podcast, ProPhotoShow, Review, Software

PPS #38 Image Enhancement Software & Noise Reduction Reviewed

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Show Notes… Welcome to the wild episode
Aside from goofing off and having fun on todays show we review Corel Painter X (time index 17:23) DXO Optics Pro (time index 29:33) And compare noise reduction tools Dfine2, Noise Ninja, and Neat Image (time index 40:31)

We also discussed my new Hollywood Effects Actions, and where you can download a free photoshop  action, as well as the PPS article about Adobe Customer Support. The Canon ES2 portable printer was launched, and you can check out a really cool video of a trash the dress shoot.

Pick of the week was PanosFX Photoshop actions. You can enter the contest to win a full version of PainterX (Win or Mac) my sending one entry email to prophotoshow at(@) gmail.com

Lastly you can save 15% on Hollywood Effects actions by using promo code 11504416

Lastly heres a sample of an image made user the Painter X auto paint. Just a quickie, but it shows one example of what you can do.

painter x auto paint

Have a great week, and don’t forget to join the photography forum… Gav

[tags]photography, photoshop, noise, reduction, software, workflow, weddings, sports, portraits, actions[/tags]

 

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October 3, 2007

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Canon, news, ProPhotoShow

EOS 7D on the horizon

Engadget and others are reporting of a UPC that’s surfaced for the EOS 7D. We know virtually nothing at this point, but it seems logical that it’s a replacement of the very popular 5D.

It hasn’t shown up on the CIPA list as did the MK3, and the 40D did when they were on the horizon, but it’s likely to get more interesting from here for those who have been itching for that 5D replacement.

Stay tuned…

[tags]canon, 40d, 5d, 7d, new, camera[/tags]

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October 2, 2007

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lightroom, Software

An Aperture User Looks At Adobe Lightroom

From Fraser Speirs

Partly just because it was there and partly because I feel like I haven’t given it a fair crack of the whip, I spent some time yesterday and today with Adobe Lightroom.

For those who don’t care to read the minutiae, I’ll get to the point: In my opinion, Aperture vs. Lightroom is the same discussion as Canon vs. Nikon. Each has strengths and weaknesses, but it’s not a no-brainer decision either way. You’ll produce good results with both applications, and the real decisions come down to personal preference, and specific features that you may need for a very specific reason.

So, let’s dig in deeper:

Read the whole story here.

~ Jarrod Michael

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