Goodbye Polaroid
Tuesday 12 Feb 08 | Category: Technology
The Polaroid company are saying goodbye to photography, having announced that they will stop producing their instant film stock. I briefly had a Polaroid camera many years ago and the film was just too expensive but it's fair to say that being able to produce those instant results was akin to being a magician back in the 1980s.
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Lens Reviews
Wednesday 30 Jan 08 | Category: Technology
The Digital Photography Review web site, which is a great source of in-depth camera reviews, is launching a lens review section. The lens reviews will be illustrated by a fancy new widget."At the heart of the reviews is a unique interactive ‘widget’ has been designed to present the test results in a way that allows visitors to experiment visually with variables such as focal length and aperture and see immediately the effect such changes have on overall image quality, and to compare the performance of different lenses. The user-friendly presentation ensures that even those with limited technical knowledge of optics or digital imaging will be able to use the reviews."
What's great about the new widget is that allows you to set the focal length and aperture by sliders so you can see the relative performance of a lens across the entire range. There are only four reviews on the web site so far but I expect these to be added to pretty quickly.