Bower has partnered with Cisco under the “Designed for Flip” program to launch a .45x Wide Angle Magnetic Lens. The lens will enable the videographer to take video shots with a much wider and panoramic view to capture scenes that were unable to be captured before. The lens is simple to use and easy to attach. The lens comes with a sturdy magnetic design specially designed to fit all Flip cameras. Bower has manufactured the lens with high quality Japanese optics.
Lensbaby’s newest lens gives photographers a versatile and affordable option for Fisheye photography, plus access to all of the unique creative photography effects offered within the Lensbaby Optic Swap™ System.
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You might think that with digital offering a unique ISO setting for every frame, and with the coordination of high ISO and sophisticated noise reduction software, that there would be less and less demand for and use of auxiliary lighting. Yet, use of flash, from built-in to ringlight to large portable battery packs and softbox location gear, has risen, and with it the potential for more finite...
Every manufacturer has a slightly different take on how to do it and David Honl has come up with his own original solutions in the form of some nifty and very portable light shapers that fit practically any shoe-mount flash without recourse to special adapters.
“All power corrupts, but we need the electricity”—Anonymous
It was a dark and stormy night… Mary and I were watching a DVD when the house was hit with a massive power surge. For a second I wondered about my computers but quickly forgot about them until turning them on a few days later. My Mac Pro and peripherals that are connected to a hefty APC (
One of the most popular and beloved inventions of the 20th century was the Polaroid camera. Press the shutter, wait a few seconds or a minute, and voila! an instant black-and-white or color photograph miraculously appears.
Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and software. All...
As studio lights have gotten bigger and shoe-mount flashes more sophisticated, on-location photographers increasingly have reached for speedlights to solve lighting problems.
In the days before digital, most film cameras had built-in, battery-driven motor drives. But cameras with motor drives were around long before the electronic age, the only difference being that they ran by clockwork.
Say clockwork to collectors and Robot is the name that springs to mind. These cameras were the brainchild of Heinz Kilfitt, a German watchmaker and prolific...