It’s been a little while since I had a Canon 5D Mark II in my hands. I’m very grateful to the good folks at Canon and at 1000Heads for loaning me such a wonderful beast to shoot the digital mission out at South by South West. When a gadget is “shiny new” it is hard to give an objective view of… Read more →
Category: photography
Why Photography Means More to Me Now
I’m finding this post more difficult to write than normal, so I’ll try and keep it short – as short as it can be, given the issues involved. This is me, camera in hand, with its little SXSW press tag on. Videographer – Photographer it says on it. It does make me scratch my head and set one eyebrow lower… Read more →
Becoming a Videographer with the Canon 5D Mark II
A week in, and I’m convinced that the Canon 5D Mark II is a truly great camera – and I’ll post more about taking shots with it soon – However, it is the video capability that is getting a lot of buzz with users. You can hardly move about the interwebs without bumping into an amazing video shot with it.… Read more →
Going to a Full Frame DSLR Camera
Excuse the Camera geekery, but I know that this will be interesting to my DSLR friends, because everyone keeps asking. So, remember that I currently have a Canon 5D Mark II in Hand. It is has a full frame sensor. That’s a big deal to Digital SLR buffs. Most of the budget and semi-pro models have what’s called a cropped frame sensor.… Read more →
Canon 5D Mark II in Hand…
So, the UPS Van arrived today… Then I got to unboxing something very special… This is what I’ll be using to photograph the Digital Mission to South by South West. A HUGE thank you to the folks at 1000Heads and Canon for getting this beast into my hands in time for the trip. Getting hold of an EOS 5D Mark… Read more →
Going without a Digital SLR.
Of all the Canon Spring Collection I played with the other week (see A Camera for Extreme Photography!), the one camera people keep asking me about, and that I keep coming back to is the Canon PowerShot SX200 IS. One of the secrets to getting good at photography is to carry your camera everywhere, and that’s pretty much what I do.… Read more →