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Read reviews of the latest wildlife and nature photography equipment. Our camera equipment reviews cover lenses to accessories and everything in-between.
Friday, April 1, 2005 Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9An affordable pro-level image-editing program  Image editing is as important a part of image creation now as lens selection, composition and exposure. Instead of leaving the final result to your local lab, today’s digital darkroom provides total control from the moment the shutter is released to the creation of the final print. Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 is an affordable and powerful program that allows you to see your vision through. Paint Shop Pro 9 offers a wealth of tools, including a One Step Photo Fix that automatically enhances your images at the touch of a button, yet it’s the more advanced features that make it exceptional. |
Friday, April 1, 2005 Sigma 105mm ƒ/2.8 DG Macro & EF-500 DG Super FlashThis macro lens and electronic flash make a great combo for close-ups  I have a love-hate relationship with spiders. I find their webs and variation in body styles and colors to be fascinating subjects, but I don’t like walking into their webs at night, which happens too often at certain times of the year. I’d rather not have a spider crawling down my neck either! Recently, as I went outside one night to walk the dog, I pulled up short of entanglement with a head-high web barely visible in the moonlight. I noted a big spider and a striking web that promised some interesting images. |
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Gadget Bag: New Lenses In A Digital AgeThe latest designs bring true wide-angle capability and more to the digital format  You've no doubt seen or heard about new "designed for digital" lenses that are optimized for better performance with digital image sensors. If you’re like most people, though, you’re not quite sure what that means—just what makes a lens that’s "designed for digital"? We’ll cover the details and show you how the new lenses have helped overcome some of the challenges once posed by a switch to digital, and how these advanced optics can improve your images. |
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Canon PowerShot G6A rotating, live LCD and 7.1 megapixels make this an ideal field camera  The talk of digital for outdoor photographers is heavily oriented toward D-SLRs. Yet when I teach classes around the country, I hear many photographers admitting to loving the little advanced compact cameras for their size and capabilities. Canon‚’s latest model in this group is another G-series camera, the PowerShot G6. It offers a smart design with an SLR-style grip, a 7.1-megapixel sensor and all the photographic controls you’d expect in a digital SLR, but in a far more compact package. |
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Canon EF 70-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6Great quality in a small package  A perfect test of the new Canon EF 70-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens came while photographing seabirds on a foggy morning in Morro Bay, California. Bobbing around in a small kayak, I used the lens with its Image Stabilizer technology and composed dozens of sharp images during those early-morning hours. A kayak is no place for a tripod, and with the lens mounted on a handheld Canon EOS 20D, the resulting photos were remarkably crisp. The 70-300mm was easy to handle since it’s a mere 3.9 inches long and weighs just 25.4 ounces. Despite its performing at an equivalent 35mm focal length of nearly 500mm (112-480mm), the lens compensated for both body vibration and the unpredictable movement of the boat.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Gadget Bag: Light In The FieldFlash units and accessories can make a difference in your outdoor photography  Electronic flash helps provide a photographer greater control over the lighting of a subject. It can supply just the right amount of fill light to illuminate the foreground of a landscape, and it can bring out the details and color of a flower photographed with a macro lens. Regardless of the subject, a flash provides the ability to control and shape light to suit your vision of the scene. Whether it’s a dedicated TTL flash, ring light or wireless slave, these small portable "suns" that we stuff in our camera bags can make a world of difference.
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Saturday, January 1, 2005 Canon EOS 20DA new digital SLR offers strong sensor performance  The megapixel wars have most people thinking that sensor size is everything. In our experience at OP and PCPhoto magazines,we’ve learned that while sensor size is important, other elements go into a quality image, especially if sizable enlargements are desired from the file. |
Saturday, January 1, 2005 Tamron SP AF200-500mm Di LD (IF)Enjoy super-telephoto focal lengths at an affordable price  The Tamron SP AF200-500mm ƒ/5.6-6.3 Di LD (IF) lens is the kind of optic that excites many of us, especially if we’re shooting digitally. That’s because a focal length range that typically has been fairly costly to add to a camera bag becomes incredibly affordable with this lens. It’s also a boon when used with a digital SLR, where the magnification factor boosts the apparent focal length to 760mm. |
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 2004 Holiday Book GuideOP's annual selection of books to inform and inspire every photographer  With so many captivating photography books published every year, winter is an ideal time to catch up on some reading. Bring yourself up to speed on the latest in digital technology with Peter Burian’s new book. Find inspiration in Art Wolfe’s latest remarkable collection of photographs. Or learn about the surprising efforts of oil companies to protect the environment in Passions and Patience, or the fascinating social behavior of wolves in Wolves of the World. |
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