digital cameras
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Effectively Harness The Sun’s Light For Better Photos
4:15AM Azadeh Ensha | When it comes to taking a great photo, artificial lighting can’t replicate what Mother Nature offers—if you know how to put the natural light to good use. Here’s how to turn your face towards the light properly. More »
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CuteCanonCapture Snaps Photographs Via USB
8:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free Windows application CuteCanonCapture turns your computer into a remote trigger for your Canon digital camera. More »
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Dead-Simple Camera Clamp Mount
7:00AM Adam Pash | Flickr user six million dollar man loves creating timelapse videos with his new timelapse garden video camera, but when it came to mounting the camera for those long timelapses, he employed a little DIY ingenuity. More »
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Buy Pro Camera Gear On A Student Budget
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Professional camera gear is prohibitively expensive for most hobbyists. If you’re not paying your bills with your lens work, use PetaPixel’s guide to pick up great lenses and other gear on the cheap. More »
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Cameras Improves The Way OS X Deals With Connected Cameras
3:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Never been entirely happy with the way your Mac reacts when you plug in your various camera-sporting devices? Wish it could do something different when you plug in your iPhone versus your DSLR? Cameras can help. More »
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Skip Deletions To Save Your Digital Camera’s Battery
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | An experienced, battery-killing photographer knows what kills the juice in digital cameras, and it’s the LCD screen. He recommends dimming, auto-sleeping, and avoiding shot review as much as possible, along with a few other battery-saving techniques. More »
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Deter Thieves By Uglifying Your Camera
3:30AM Adam Pash | A few years ago, blogger Jimmie Rodgers’s camera was stolen while volunteering in an impoverished Brazilian community, so he did what any sane person would do: He bought an new camera and made it ugly. More »
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Improve Your Outdoor Portraits With An Eye For Lighting
3:30AM Adam Pash | The photog gurus at weblog Digital Photography School offer up 13 tips for improving your outdoor portraits, several of which explain how to best take advantage of whatever lighting conditions you’re shooting in. More »
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BestInClass Tells You Which Camera The Experts Would Buy
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | You’re a fan of photographing food in restaurants and your kids outdoors, and you’ve got about $300 to spend on a new digital camera. BestInClass can tell you what experienced shooters would recommend buying. The site, which compiles and sorts the reviews and blog posts of more than 750 professional shooters, hobbyists, and photography web sites, doesn’t make you do any sorting, sifting, or weighing of whose opinions matter more. You check off boxes to indicate what you like to photograph, choose a size (fits in jacket, pants, or doesn’t matter), and then slide to a price limit (though bear in mind that last one will be in US dollars). The results are a nicely streamlined selection of reviews and buyer information, topped off with a specific camera BestInClass sees as your best bet. The sites uses a “fancy algorithm developed over two years” to pick out which make and model fits what you picked as your typical uses, then ranks the rest on the same criteria. You get review outtakes, average customer reviews, technical specs on each model, and not too many ads to interrupt your dig. BestInClass expects to expand into different consumer purchase arenas, but is focused on digital cameras at launch. We can’t say yet whether its algorithms do a better job than an afternoon spent feature-comparing, but it’s at least a great starting point for narrowing the field. Free to use, no sign-up required. BestInClass [via MakeUseOf.com] More »
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