• May
  • 21

Why You Should Be Shooting RAW | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

If your camera has a RAW setting, you should be using it, no excuses. Heres why.

As youd expect, there are some disadvantages. RAW capture is slower. Hold down the shutter release of a DSLR and it will happily shoot jpegs until the memory card is full, barely slowing down. Try that with RAW and even pricey cameras will slow…

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  • May
  • 09

The Secret Lives of Stormtroopers (PICS)

Star Wars fan and photographer Cindi Geeze doesn’t just play with her extensive collection of Imperial soldier action figures. She props them into humorous poses and photographs them. She and other toy-posing hobbyists post pictures depicting the iconic soldiers clowning around, and even whipping up treats for their dark lord, Darth Vader.

Started with one. Now there's seven, with an eighth on assignment with my boyfriend in England (he was always posing mine and I could tell he needed one of his own, though he was reluctant to admit it at first - heehee!). It's…

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  • Jan
  • 25

Mike Davidson - A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras

Good Starters Guide to digital photography

I don’t know about the finer details of CCD and CMOS sensors, but as far as I know, whatever you use, in order to measure the charge accumulated for one pixel, you need to get the charge off the sensor. So, if you’d like to take 5…

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