October 2010
How-To
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Control Your Depth of Field
Try the Focus Slice Auto-Align technique to get tack-sharpness from near to far
A conventional lens has the planes of the sensor (or film), the lens and the focused slice of reality all perpendicular to the axis of the lens.
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Whatever It Takes
Adventure photographer James Kay’s career is defined by his tenacity and drive to bypass the ordinary and take the extra steps to get something extraordinary
I can still recall the soft pillows of clouds drifting across the face of the Teton Range as I drove north to meet a client at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park many years ago.
Gear
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Image Stabilization And You
How to choose and make the best use of stabilized cameras and lenses
By Mike Stensvold
For the sharpest shots, a tripod is essential, but you have to carry it with you and set it up each time you want to make a shot—not great for capturing a bighorn sheep that suddenly bursts into view and is gone just as quickly.
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In Focus: October 2010
STABLE LENS
The Sigma 17-50mm ƒ/2.8 EX DC OS HSM is a compact, fast-aperture standard zoom with optical stabilization. With two FLD glass elements, one hybrid aspherical lens element and two glass-mold elements, the lens corrects for all types of aberrations.
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Sony Alpha NEX-VG10
A camcorder with an APS-C, 14.2-megapixel sensor and interchangeable lenses—for under $2,000
By The Editors
About three years ago, the first DSLRs with HD video capability appeared, offering the benefits (over HD camcorders) of much larger sensors (for much better low-light/high-ISO performance and limited "filmic" depth of field), relatively low cost and interchangeable lenses.
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Sony Alpha SLT-A33 and SLT-A55
A pair of new cameras change the whole DSLR paradigm
By The Editors
We’ve had DSLRs for some time, and more recently the compact mirrorless interchangeable-lens digital cameras.
Locations
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Crossing Cultures
Frans Lanting journeyed to the Australian outback for a cross-cultural artistic collaboration
Photography is not often a collaborative endeavor. True, even the best photographers rely on assistance from a team of producers, fixers, translators and retouchers, but the actual act of creation is usually a solitary one.
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