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Hasselblad’s 200-Mpixel Camera is Now a Reality

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 1 June 2011

Megapixel junkies can find their next fix in Hasselblad’s latest medium-format creation, the H4D-200MS. The camera boasts an amazing 200-Mpixel resolution, and was announced at Photokina last year. To put that in perspective, most professional DSLRS hover in the 20-Mpixel range. Hasselblad’s newest camera is about 10 times greater than that.   Medium-format, for those who don’t know, [...]

Finding Your Lens’ ‘Sweet Spot’

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 11 June 2010

From B&H Insights: …while we can’t possibly address the optimum shooting parameters needed to squeeze the highest performance out of every lens on the marketplace, there are a few guidelines we can offer up that might at the very least influence the way you go about taking pictures. The first thing we have to do is define [...]

Rules of Thumb – ‘Check Thy Camera Settings’

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 3 June 2010

You’ve read about the 7 Mistakes to Avoid as a Photographer and I showed you the results of now checking out the camera settings before a photo shoot at the Springville Rodeo. Today, courtesy of B&H here’s yet another reminder to ‘Check Thy Camera Settings.’ Along with all of it’s inherent ‘blessings’, the joys of [...]

The Spider Holster

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 18 May 2010

This is cool. You likely already know about camera straps and how they hang around your neck. Able Straps can even provide some nifty looking and functional camera straps. What you may not know is that instead of hanging your camera around your neck, why not put the weight on your waist? Introducing the Spider [...]

The Polester From Longshot Camera Systems

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 16 May 2010

When I first saw this, I thought it was some kind of a joke. I read the review by Betsy Linn over on Professional Photographer and then I watched the video clip on Longshot Camera Systems. I can see some situations where this might be fun to try out, but that’s it–fun. If however, your [...]


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