Hurray, I have a new camera! I went to Samy’s Camera this morning thinking I would buy the Canon A640, and I came home with a completely different camera! It’s soooo pretty and so little. It’s a Canon PowerShot SD800 IS ELPH, with 7.1 megapixels and and an image stabilizer in [...]

I’m ready to buy a new digital point-and-shoot camera. My compact Canon camera croaked out a few months ago (big bummer), and I’ve been lugging around my Nikon DSLR in my purse ever since. After some research, I’ve narrowed it down to two models, and I’d love some help in choosing. [...]

In my never-ending quest to find the perfect low cost home studio/macro setup, I’ve recently purchased a 28″ light tent/box.  I’ll post some photos and specifics shortly.  This is just to let you know that 28″ is a big tent.  I should have went for the 22″…

I received a great photo umbrella and universal swivel holder from my sister-in-law this past Christmas. As usual, Strobist turned my onto these low cost wonders. I’ve been doing a lot of cardboard lightbox macro shots lately and have been pretty happy. However, the box does somewhat hinder your ability to vary the direction of [...]

Shayne got me an awesome new lens for Christmas. It’s a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 autofocus lens. I love it! I wanted this lens because the lenses I have for my digital camera are not very fast. The light in my livingroom, where I take most of my pictures of Chloe, is [...]

Looks like Samsung is upping the ante on professional monitors where color rendition is of upmost importance.  Enter the Samsung XL20.
The monitor uses an LED backlight and can display 114% of the NTSC color gamut as well as the full Adobe RGB gamut (which Samsung’s press release calls the Adobe RGB “natural” gamut). Typical LCD [...]

Yes, it’s true. Many new model point-and-shoot digital cameras are also movie cameras. Simply turn the dial on the top of your still camera to the movie camera icon. When you press the shutter release button, you will be shooting a movie with sound and everything. Granted, the quality of [...]

A couple days ago, I mentioned that that I am going to do a few posts on some inexpensive studio setups. Well, it’s your lucky day because here’s the first of the two.
As I said, I’ve been doing some product shots for a company. It’s Saint Charles Shave, a small firm that specializes in shaving [...]