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Canon Adds New DSLR Camera Photo and Raw Software Tutorial

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published June 15, 2006

Rob Galbraith has pointed out that Canon has added a couple of new New Digital Photo Professional tutorials. If you are an EOS owner and haven’t tried out the bundled software yet, get on over and download an update and try it out, you might be surprised at how good it is.

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Photography Lighting 101

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published May 12, 2006

What looks like potentially a great resource, Strobist: Lighting 101 aims to teach lighting numpties a thing or two about photography lighting

Intimidated by the idea of off-camera lighting? Don’t be. We are pretty much starting from scratch, so no worries. The first posts will be about what kind of gear you will need to do the minimalist strobe thing.

One thing I have to disagree with is their assertion that “light gives you far more bang-for-the-buck than does fast glass”. My nifty-50 lense is the best bang for buck I have ever spent on photography!

I am glad I came across these posts as I am in the market for a flash. I have had my eye on the Canon 580ex flash unit, items like the following will help me in my purchasing decisions

we are going to assume a couple of things:

1) You have a strobe that can be triggered externally via your camera’s PC connection, as seen in the first photo. (This example is a Nikon SB-28dx, a circa “D1 era” pro flash.)

2) You have a strobe that can be set to manual power and “dialed down,” as seen in the second photo.

Well it turns out the 580ex, despite being a leading model, does not have external PC control …

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Photography Video Tutorials

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 3, 2006

Scoble points to a new video-tutorial based photography tips site. Be warned though, unlike 99.9% of photography sites the content is not free.

Just Show Me How is a cool new site with tips for digital photographers and there’s a blog along with it too. Done by award-winning photographers. Pulitzer-prize winners and all that. Lots of fun, and has videos and such too.

The tutorials have tiny previews and the video quality looks pretty good, longer samples jump a bit due to the streaming. I presume if you purchase you get to download it in full. Right now the tips are very much at beginner level and I have to agree with what some commentors say, there are the same topics covered for free all over the web. They do have a weekly free video (this week is sunsets).

For some odd reason Robert gets some heat for recommending it. What’s the problem people? If you don’t like it just don’t use it, give the guy a break. Sheesh, anyone would think he was putting a gun to their heads.

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