Have you ever had this: While shooting out in the middle of nowhere, you notice a phenomena on your photograph in the sky. As it turns out, this phenomena sits on every photo in the exact same spot. From here on you can go the safe route and have your DSLR cleaned. But what if […]
16.384 shades of grey: Deepdive on ISOs ...
I recently got into a very interesting conversation online on the Canon EOS Digital Photography forum around Manual mode and auto-ISO. Interesting as this discussion may, be turned out there was an even more technical discussion from that one on how “This ISO thing” actually works and how a modern DSLR processes this data into […]
Reading Canon DSLR shutter counts
Ever wanted to know the shuttercount of your Canon DSLR? I did for my 7D. So I set off on the internet to find a way to do this. This blog post describes the how and what of my “quest”. Where you cannot get it from Shutter counts on Canon DSLRs is a little hard […]
Canon mounts, EF and EF-S and “L” explai
There are still a lot of people out there who don’t really know what EF, EF-S and L is all about. In this post I will try to clarify exactly what this is all about. Plastic versus metal mount Most Canon lenses feature a metal mount. In order to make lenses cheaper, some lenses have […]
A late Christmas present: Adobe gives aw...
Even though the CS2 suite is older software, it is still a great tool for doing the basics! Adobe decided to give us all a late Christmas present: You can now download the entire CS2 suite for FREE. Yes free! Handy for photographers I hardly ever use true picture editing tools (but RAW workflow software […]