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I have talked about depth of field and using aperture to minimize or maximize depth of field in the past. Today I will talk about Automatic Depth of Field function some camera’s have and depth of field preview. Automatic Depth of Field (A-Dep or DEP) is creative mode on some camera’s that will help you …
Internet Explorer and Firefox both come with integrated RSS feed readers. These are both pretty basic, but give you quick access to your feeds. I think I’ve mentioned in the past that I use BlogBridge. This allows you to have a profile of feeds that can be loaded on any computer that has BlogBridge installed. …
As mentioned in the past, I am President of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. As part of our move this year to digital competitions using projected images, I recently put on a program at the club covering some basic digital editing using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. In my program I covered topics including red eye …
Back in the day, Windows came with a file manager that seemed to have more features than the current Windows Explorer. You can view 2 different drives or folders at a time, making it very easy to copy files between locations. There are many 3rd party file managers out there, and one I heard of …
Regular subscriber Pat send me in a link to Nexus Radio and said: Cool free internet radio program, can also record songs to play on your mp3 player! The software is rated highly at Download.com. The software is by Egisca, and their site describes it this way: Nexus Radio is a free full featured radio …
I haven’t tried this myself, but Microsoft has a web site that lets you “test” Windows Vista: The Windows Vista Test Drive allows you to try (or “test drive”) this latest operating system from Microsoft without having to install it on your PC. By simply logging onto our test drive environment using your web browser, …
I recently posted a quasi-review of Nero 7 Ultra Edition ENHANCED. At around the same time, Download Squad had 2 different postings about open source (among other things, this generally means free). CDBurnerXP 4: Free CD/DVD authoring tool Despite its name, CDBurnerXP is not just a CD burning application for Windows XP. It’s actually one …
Where do you stand when it comes to your own photography? Are you too emotionally invested in the image? Maybe it is time you took a step back and re-evaluated your photos. We often have an emotional attachment to our images that clouds our view of the quality of an image. A memory of the …
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Digital photography or more specifically digital camera have become disposable items. New models are released at regular intervals and previous models do not hold high resale value. New models incorporate new technology, usually resulting in higher megapixel ratings, new features, and better quality images. But do you need one? There seems to be a community …