On January 5th, Photoworld was lucky enough to be able to attend the dress rehearsal and official photo-call for the new Cirque du Soleil production at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and to put the Alpha 700 through its paces for high ISO fast action stage show capture. This article with large reproductions of . . . → Read More: Alpha 700 shoots the Cirque du Soleil
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It’s the same on every web forum – if you post a digital picture which would be acceptable to a photo library or professional buyer, half a dozen grumpy one-liners will come out saying ‘That don’t look sharp to me’ or ‘there must be something wrong with your XXX’ (fill in D300, A700, E-3, D3, . . . → Read More: True detail vs. fake sharpness Share this: 3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Photo Techniques, Troubleshooting I HAVE set up a pBase gallery with a large number of comparison studio shots, all the way from ISO 100 to the maximum, using the A700 and Nikon D300. It has some minor discrepancies in shooting conditions which I need to explain to anyone visiting the gallery. . . . → Read More: Does the Alpha 700 really do ISO 12,800? Share this:BEFORE we publish a fuller assessment of the Sony Alpha 700, here is a taster of just one improved function, the Dynamic Range Optimisation (DRO) system built into the camera. For social, wedding, sports, music, theatre, news and event photographers DRO Advanced Manual settings are a real magic bullet zapping the bugbears of excess contrast, . . . → Read More: Advanced DRO – the A700’s magic bullet Share this: 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, Photo Techniques I’m still testing the Alpha 700 and still struggling with aspects of image quality, notably the failure to get much wow factor from straightforward shots in good light. It seems easy enough to get exceptional high ISO images, of the type they are expected to be, but even then many examples seen are marred by . . . → Read More: Alpha 700 as a 6 megapixel DSLR… Share this:ON OCTOBER 10th I left the UK London press launch complete with an Alpha 700 review camera. I’ll be covering the many aspects of the Alpha 700 performance in later reviews, but this camera is so good I wanted to get just something out to you right the next day. . . . → Read More: Alpha 700 – well up to the job! Share this: Comments are closed Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, Photo Techniques, Software Reviews IT IS very difficult to find a good JPEG from the Alpha 700 pre-production model tests shot in Italy, because too few cameras were available for too short a time – and many of the journalists present were not photographers. But we have found one image you will love. . . . → Read More: Alpha 700 JPEG quality revealed Share this: Comments are closed Cameras (DSLR), Equipment Reviews, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Photo Techniques, Software Reviews THE Konica Minolta Maxxum/Dynax 5D colour modes and conversions are like a whole box of film choices in one roll. This article was written using the 5D in 2005. The modes of the Sony Alpha 100 are similar, but the colour palettes will vary from these results. . . . → Read More: Colour modes and conversions (5D) Share this:I SELL digital images through Alamy, the on-line photo library. When an original piece of art is out of copyright, and displayed in public or by an owner permitting photography, the ability to get a good quality reproduction copy on the spot without lights, tripod or flash is valuable. Some 8 per cent of my . . . → Read More: How anti-shake aids art exhibit shooting Share this: One comment - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Photo Techniques WE spent a great week shooting mainly in Vaucluse, the district to the east of Avignon in the south of France, with Shirley using the 18-250mm Tamron f/3.5-6.3 lens exclusively. One object of this was to get some more example photos for a short article on the lens in our forthcoming Photoworld magazine. . . . → Read More: Frozen water – at 1/10th of a second? Share this: |
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