Photo Geek

My first published article in the Canon Connection.  Issue 4, third quarter of 2008.

This article covers using Canon RAW and DPP to prep for doing an Orton style photograph in Photoshop.

Canon announce the new EOS 50D.

This blog was upgraded to Wordpress version 2.6.1 today, August 16th, 2008.
There were 60 bug fixes and a number of improvements, especially for foreign language support.  For most readers here the change should be seamless.

Each month Chuck Westfall from Canon USA answers questions with insightful answers in The Digital Photo Journalist.This months issue he covers: 

How Panning works on the IS lenses
Display problems
Using 8gig SD cards in the 1D Mark II
Removing aspect Ratio in DPP when preset in the Mark III
Handling Tilt and Shift lenses

And don’t forget to read the [...]

Canon patents fuel cell DSLR

I was first introduced to this technology at the 2005 Canon Expo.  I for one have been waiting on the release of this technology with baited breath.
What this would mean is a single fuel cell could power the entire camera system, including the external flash.  This would allow for a lighter weight [...]

First impressions of the new Rebel XS.

A video of the Canon EOS 10D being assembled via a cad program.