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Nov 19 2009

Guest Host on This Week in Photography

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This week I was honored to be a special guest host on the This Week in Photography podcast with Frederick Van Johnson, former Edmonton Journal photographer Steve Simon, and Ron Brinkmann. For those not familiar with TWiP, it’s a weekly podcast that features discussions on the latest photography news, interviews with a variety of photographers,...

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November 21, 2009 - 1:02 pm

Tom W - I use UV filters to protect my lenses, as I don’t see my image quality being affected. I also use a polarizing filter and have a set of Lee ND Grad filters.

On TWIP you commented that you sometimes take photos with the 40D to make use of the crop factor. Wouldn’t you get better results if you took the photo with the 5D MkII though, and then cropped the image?

A 40D is 10MP. A 5D is 21MP, and so if you crop the image to the middle ~63% (to get the equivalent of the 1.6x crop sensor on the 40D), you will still get a 13MP image – 3MP more than from the 40D.

You will also get the benefits of the bigger pixels – reduced noise, increased dynamic range etc.

November 21, 2009 - 2:59 pm

Bruce - Great points Tom and cropping is definitely an option however I prefer to get it framed up in camera rather than relying on cropping. You also lose a few stops when you use a teleconverter so it can depend on the lighting conditions. I shoot a lot of events in less than ideal lighting conditions so I find I don’t use it all that often. Thanks for listening to the show!

November 25, 2009 - 7:49 pm

Peter Urban - Hey Bruce, Good to hear you on TWIP – congrats Nice episode. Keep up the good work.

December 15, 2009 - 11:52 pm

Robert G - Today’s lenses are marvels of engineering and designed to perform their best as is…there is nothing in the design process to allow for another air to glass surface.

That being said, there are conditions (BC rains, prairie dust storms, etc.) where I do add a UV filter.

When these filter break, it is usually from straight on impact and that generally drives the broken filter right into the front element of the lens. Lens coatings are tough but glass to glass will frequently leave some sort of signature.

Circular polarizer is a must have.

Best form of general lens element protection…lens hood.

Good shooting…

Jan 21 2009

Firmware Update for the Canon 40D

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Just noticed today on Canon’s website that they have released a firmware update for the 40D which happens to be the camera I currently shoot with (although I’m hoping a 5D Mark II will be in my future soon). Here are the details on the update from Canon’s site:
Firmware update Version 1.1.1 incorporates the following...

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Jan 07 2009

Backup, Backup, Backup. Once That’s Done – Backup Again.

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A recent story in the Edmonton Sun reminded me how important it is to make sure you are backing up your photographs. In this particular example, a commercial photographer in Edmonton had his studio broken into and all of his hard drives stolen. Here is the story. http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2009/01/05/7919136-sun.html
After reading about this, the first thing I...

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Jan 01 2009

Photography Sites & Blogs I Followed in 2008

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One of the ways I like to keep up with what’s new in the world of photography, gather inspiration, and learn new techniques is to subscribe a number of blogs and websites. I also started using the social communication tool Twitter to follow a variety of photography related individuals and companies. Here are some of...

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