Sony NEX-5R

What really represents a new digital camera from Sony?

The new NEX-5R camera from Sony certainly has a lot of technical novelty, but is really is so good to think about this purchase? Let’s check what it has inside.

Sony claims that it has newly developed sensor, which it has almost same specifications as NEX-5N model, 16.1MP and ISO range from 100-25,600.

Sensor is connected with Sony’s BIONZ processor for better, low-noise image processing and higher ISO, also thanks to this processor the camera is able to take 10fps in Speed Priority mode.

A 3 inches touch screen can be used to fire the shutter, fortunately this option can be turned off to avoid taking unwanted pictures.

Implemented Wi-Fi connectivity makes possible to transfer all photos or movies straight to your phone, tablet or any computer. It can be also always connected in more traditional mode using USB.

And one most important change, this is first Sony digital camera which has interchangeable lenses.



Is it worth the money?

Price for basic kit will reach £699 (kit with 18-55mm) is not a best price for this type of digital camera. Their closest rivals provide cameras that has similar specifications are £170-210 cheaper. His younger brother can still take breathtaking, super quality pictures for £280 cheaper as it has same sensor.



Do I need to replace my older model?

In my opinion? Sony makes great move to create camera with changeable lenses, but we can wait until it will be more than that.

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Buying Your First Digital SLR Camera

A lot has changed in recent years when it comes to digital photographs. Cameras can be found at every step, mobile phones, tablets, computers, music players, watches, etc. Many of them, however, is used to video conversation or to share your pictures. Unfortunately, you can not say about the pictures that are professional quality. A lot of people think it’s enough. Well, maybe so, but these pictures are suitable only to show on the social profiles or websites and not often are suitable for printing or processing.

However, we are not enough. We want to keep an image of a family, a place, an event on a high-quality pictures, to be able to print them in the future, enlarge or edit. So what do we do? We are buying digital camera. The so-called dSLR (digital SLR). This is a camera that combines features of a digital camera with a professional SLR camera optics. And here we encounter the problem.

What camera to choose?

There are so many on the market.

Which is the best?

 

So let’s start from the beginning, bearing in mind that this camera has used us to learn photography. It has to be something easy to use, but should also have a professional camera features.

 

Should I buy a new or used camera?

If you do not mind to have something that is used by someone else, I recommend to buy used camera, paying particular attention to the condition of the camera is. In what state are the lens, is there are no scratches on them. In what state is the sensor. Are all the camera functions are working without a problem. Scratches on the casing or torn cover does not interfere with taking good or perfect pictures, you can also very easily repair the damage or replace. However, if you want to possess a new camera and you do not wish for this money, go ahead. It’s your hard earned money. However, no matter whether you are buying new or used, both will be able to perform the same quality of image. Anything more will depend on your skills. When choosing the camera head to invest in the system, not in a compact camera. The camera, which has separate lenses and separate body, has much more to offer. Due to this the camera lenses are interchangeable, you can adapt the camera depending on what image you will perform and where it will be taken. Lenses you can then use with the new body which you will buy in future.

So what camera brand to choose?

Most lenses available on the market is from Canon and Nikon. They are more accessible and their quality is very good. But you do not have to be limited to this two brands. There are many different, such as Sony, Olympus or Kodak. It may be that in your area will be more available lenses of these brands. Brand selection is also very dependent on what lenses you choose. Canon or Nikon lenses have anti-shaking system build in by which making them more expensive.

What resolution should have our new camera, and what is the resolution?

Higher resolution is a larger picture. In reality, however, big part of this resolution is rejected for noise reduction and anti-shaking system. Good results can be obtained, for cameras with resolution from 6MP (mega pixels).

Is there a need to have a big display?

Most of the pictures you will not be able to check until you see them on the big screen. Any kind of blur and flaws will not be visible on the camera screen. It is not recommended to take the camera for its display. Surely you will not be watching movies on it. Is only as a preview. But always remember to do a couple of shots of the same object, you can then choose the best picture.

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Buying Your First Digital SLR Camera

Nikon D800E

This time I want to present you a new professional camera from Nikon.

Model D800E was designed for professional users that needs to zoom each photo, crop or edit. This camera has removed anti-aliasing filter so even on large magnification picture is still sharp, but there is a big minus of it.

Without having a good anti-aliasing filtration system, a person operate the actual possibility associated with good factors or even outlines of sunshine dealing with strange colors which were unable generally there, or even along with good duplicating designs, the danger which areas from the picture usually takes upon strange colored rings, thrilled through powerful, good designs spread regarding because much aside since the -pixels on their own.

Nikon D800E is a powerful camera with 36.3MP full-frame CMOS sensor that can take photos up to 7360 x 4912px resolution. ISO expandable to 25-6400, Shutter speed from 30-1/8000th second, Full HD Video recording.

This tool should be used only by people that wants to edit taken photos later on using computer.

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Nikon D800E

Samsung Galaxy Camera

Samsung has officially released their new powerful device the Samsung Galaxy Camera. The Samsung Galaxy Camera is one of the first semi professional digital cameras powered by Android.

I can imagine you’re thinking ‘so whats so special about this one? Well to begin with, this device has a 16 MP camera with 21x optical zoom, it’s readily equipped with built in HSDPA (3G) and LTE (4G) connectivity and  802.11 a/b/g/n dual-band WiFi and has a powerful Android tablet with Quad-core 1.4 Ghz CPU and a  4.8″ touch screen.

 

It’s much like the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone but without GSM voice communication support, so you will find in it GPS, a HDMI port, free 50GB Dropbox online storage, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, organizer, image and video editor, voice memo and much much more when you connect to the Google Play Store. There’s also good news for all you sharers out there because the Galaxy camera has a function where it makes it easy to take a photo and share it instantly on your Facebook wall or e-mail it to a friend.

The Samsung Galaxy Camera will be available at a reasonably affordable price of £399 starting in October in UK.

What do you think of the new addition to Samsung? Good? Bad? Ugly? Leave your comments below!

Here you can find the full specification details of the camera in its full glory!
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Canon EOS 6D

Here we have new trinket from Canon.

Presented here for the EOS 6D outright is stuffed with technical innovations such as WiFi, GPS and HDMI output. A 3.2-inch, very bright and clear display allows for instant viewing of photos taken. WiFi module allows you to quickly send your photos to our computer, or cloud. Eleven-point autofocus allows for a very accurate capture of an desired object. Many additional options such as Contrast Detect, Phase Detect Multi-area single-point Selective Singles, Continuoius, Face Detection and Live View image will help performed easily beautiful photos even for the most novice users.

 

The camera will be available in the UK in December with an estimated price will be £ 1.799 for Body-only. Kit with EF 24-105mm f / 4 L IS USM lens will cost about £ 2519.99. I recommend it who kept users to begin their conquests in the world more professional photography. Those however, who already are equipped with a good quality camera, I’m recommend to seriously consider another expense as the Canon EOS 6D needs a new type of lens.

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Canon EOS 6D

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3

This time something from Panasonic division.

Freshly unleashed Lumix DMC-GH3 is a new flagship camera from Panasonic. It is one of their first mirrorless camera with weather sealed body and pro level movie features.

Here are some details that distinguish this model from other cameras:

• 16.1 Mpixel Live MOS sensor that will allow to make “real to life details” photos


• Lastest “Venus Engine”


• Super Speed Auto Focus system


• Water and dustproof alloy body with customizable buttons


• Rotating 3″ OLED touchscreen


• Electronic Viewfinder


• Manual controls (ISO, Shutter speed)


• Smart Auto modes


• Built in WiFi


• Full res continuous shooting


• HDR, time-lapse, multiple exposures mode,


• Built in flash


• Full HD video recording with stereo audio


• SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slot

Panasonic gives us great toy which we can connect over WiFi to our smartphone, computer or tablet. Device can automatically send photos to any remote storage we want to. With smartphone app we can almost fully operate with camera, release the shutter, change settings, send photos and much more.

Rumors say the camera will be available for around $ 2,000/£1250

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3

The Sony RX1

The Sony RX1

Photo taken from  www.reviews.cnet.com

by Lori Grunin

Sony’s new addition to its camera family has cleverly included a full-frame sensor in a Cyber-shot-branded camera. They’ve named it the RX1, a "compressed" digital camera for professionals that provides the exact same 24.3MP Exmor CMOS sensor released today along with the A99. Labelling the rangefinder-esque one-pound shooter “little” may appear off-base, particularly contemplating the Zeiss Sonnar T* 35mm f/2.0 fixed prime lens sticking out from its front, however it's not really very big (3-inches tall by 4.5-inches wide) up against its small cousin, the RX100 - looking at how much bigger the RX1's sensor is, well, that's when some might fall in to a subdued shock. 

Whilst it's not a "pro-NEX" as quite a few die hard photographers had wanted, Sony mentioned that it selected a set lens to prevent the size of a lens-mount.

Looking at the quality of the Sony RX1's photo's
taken from  www.engadget.com 

Movie shooters will be pleased to know that the camera shoots 720p AVCHD 2.0 footage at 24 and 60p, with 30p assigned to the web-friendly MP4 file format. 

Even though the connected lens is the only choice for optics, it's custom-built to exclusively flatter the sensor. In the camera, it's packing a 9-bladed aperture ring, which Sony claims ought to assist in producing Bokeh. Better yet, the lens offers manual aperture, focus rings and a macro switch that mechanically modifies the optics for close-up shots.

The 24.3MP sensor is powered through Sony's most recent Bionz processor, so a person can certainly assume pictures of practically equivalent quality and 14-bit RAW files stored onto your SD card. That said, the autofocus onboard is contrast-based like the NEX-7 (not precisely best if a photographers in a severe low-light scenario), whilst it's burst rate tops out at 5FPS; these 2 factors in specific are downgrade's from the A99's phase-discovery AF and 6FPS burst chops. Native ISO range will go from 100 to 25,600, which may be lengthened as minimal as 50, and as huge as 102,400 thanks to a function named Multi Frame Noise Reduction (basically put, several photos are put together to create 1 fresh picture in {dim conditions).

Pop up flash of the RX1
taken from www.digitalcamerainfo.com 

For ergonomics, the camera seems very much like a chunkier RX100, however it has the support of a hand grip this time. On the camera's top right you'll get committed mode and exposure compensation knobs and a threaded shutter button. Whilst the left side possesses a pop-up flash which may be shifted backwards à la the NEX-6 and 7 (See image to the left).. 

Going along towards the back, towards the screen's right you will see 4-buttons along with a control wheel, manual control dial, dedicated movie button, and programmable function button, amongst others such as the AE-lock.

As I described before, the RX1 is specifically focused at professionals and should be offered in the UK in November, the price is still to be confirmed. 

Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition 2012

Large eruptions blasting from the sun's exterior and star covered skies on top of cities are merely the icing on the cake for the spectacular images in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 competition.

Situated within Greenwich, UK, through the Royal Observatory, the competition is at this point in the 4th calendar year and goes on to draw in a record amount of entries through both expert and recreational photographers.

The winners are going to be publicised on September 19th 2012 and shall be included from the 20th October 2012 in an event at the widely known Royal Observatory close to London.

A view of the Milky way from Uludag National Park, Turkey taken from  www.rediff.com

Every candidate to the contest ended up being put forward to a Flickr group and the competition's judges comprised of Sir Patrick Moore (from the BBC’s 'The Sky at Night'), Dan Holdsworth (a well-known photographer) and the Dr. Marek Kukula (a public astronomer of the Royal Observatory).

Challengers from all around the entire world were shortlisted in this specific magnificent selection that had shots containing astonishing sights of the moon, sun and stars.

Destinations weren't only constrained to the Earth, with photographers catching points of interest from all over the solar-system.

I'll keep you updated with what’s happening with the competition in weeks to come so watch this space!

The 2012 British wildlife photography award winner

Together with a dozen different groups addressing all kinds of things from marine life and animal actions to creepy crawlies along with urban center animals; the prizes brilliantly showed the hidden uniqueness and astonishing variety of Britain’s animals. 

Additionally, there were 2 exclusive junior groups to really encourage teenagers to get in touch and connected with nature by using digital photography.

The successful picture had been shot on a rural spot off the to the North coast of Ireland. Dr Matt Doggett who had taken the winning picture explained that it had been an amazing encounter getting in water and being encircled by some high-speed divers.

This is the winning picture by Dr Matt Doggett {Taken from www.bbc.co.uk) 

Some explained that this years show had the largest amount of entries until now ever since the competition started in 2009. 

Others went on to say that it was particularly rewarding that there was a rise in younger entries with their relationship among RSPB Wildlife Explorers as well as BWPA, which often bodes well for future years of wildlife conservation as well as photography.

A member of the judging team continued to say that wildlife photography in Britain is at this point fantastic. 

The entries included magnificent photos taken by a few of the best photographers in the country who gained the award as well as attended the event.