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Live View and Image Playback

Earl April 1st, 2010 No Comments

Having begun shooting in the days of film, I must admit that I have had this long established process of capturing images and  reviewing them after they were in my computer, whether it was a workstation or laptop; kind of the same process as with film. In my just completed trip to Arizona, I was committed to using live view; the Canon terminology for viewing the image ,”before” taking the picture. With Live View, one is able to “see” the

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Comments on Jack Dykinga’s article in “Outdoor Photographer”

Earl February 27th, 2010 2 Comments

Mr. Jack Dykinga had a rather interesting article in the March 2010 issue of Outdoor Photographer titled “Transforming Large Format.” Mr. Dykinga, a long time user of large format cameras, described a technique that he uses a standard DSLR and tilt/shift lenses to produce a image file the seize of a medium format camera. While the description of the technique was a little ambiguous in the article, essentially one mounts a DSLR vertically on a tripod with a tilt/shift lens

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