Camera Talk
Canon 135mm f/2 first reaction
Today I got a Canon 135mm f/2 lens. After years of hearing how great a lens it was compounded with my desire to rely more heavily on primes for my non-sports work, I decided I’d make the jump as soon as I found a good deal on the lens. Well, a good deal I found. [...]
Canon 5d Mark II thoughts and analysis
Canon officially announced the new 5D last night. Its been in the works for awhile as the original 5D has been on the market for over 2 years now. As expected, it posted some pretty impressive specs. Full Frame 21 megapixels ISO 50-25,600 1080p video w/ mic jack Improved 920k pixel LCD (old was 320k) [...]
High Dynamic Range at Bobby Dodd Stadium
Tonight I’m shooting the Georgia Tech football game against Jacksonville State University, which I coincidentally helped cover when I was interning in Anniston. Anyways, I got to the game fairly early to avoid traffic and decided to play around with high dynamic range imaging. HDR involves taking multiple photos of the same scene at different [...]
Middle School Math finally comes in handy
I found this tutorial today about how to turn a standard TI-83 graphing calculator into an intervalometer. An intervalometer lets you set the camera to shoot a frame at regular intervals over a predetermined amount of time. Afterwards, you use any video editing program to stitch the images together to get time lapse. I found [...]
Digital Film (No, Really)
Back in 2003 when I was still at North Springs High School I came across an old issue of Popular Science Magazine that briefly discussed a new technology for film SLR cameras that would transform them into digital cameras. Although the magazine was from the late 90′s, the idea behind the technology intrigued me. Basically, [...]
25,600 is a lot of ISO
A few weeks back I did some comparisons using Rob Galbraith’s posts on various ISO settings to compare the quality of images of Canon’s 1D Mark IIII and the Nikon D3. Nikon’s claim is that the D3 handles high ISO’s better, even letting you set the ISO as high as 25,600 in-camera. After looking at [...]
Fine Gizmodo, you win this time!
In my new feud with Gizmodo, it seems they have a hand up on me this time. They pointed to a Canon lens that measures in at 5150mm f/14. Oh yeah, and its 220 pounds. See that small little silver box on the right side of the lens? Thats the camera attached to it.You can [...]
Canon 200mm f/2.0 and 800mm f/5.6
Back in October I mentioned that Canon had announced they were going to release two new lenses (New Canon Lenses). Well, on the verge of the PMA Trade Show, Canon has announced they are ready to go on sale. Cnet has the coverage here.
How a camera lens is made
Gizmodo posted a video about how an optical lens is made. I found it interesting and thought it would be worth reposting here. You can see it by going here.
In the event you have a ton of money to blow…
Someone is selling their 1200mm f/5.6 lens via B&H’s used site (see link here). Here is some interesting info about the lens taken from the page: The Canon 1200/5.6L USM, the longest fixed telephoto lens ever built by Canon, contains 13 elements (2 Fluorite) in 10 groups and focus’ down to 49.5′. With an angle-of- [...]
