Choosing which camera to buy is a difficult decision to make. There are just as many different cameras to choose from as there are different types of mobile phones in the market. Do you go for the small and light compact or do you buy an entry model Digital SLR camera. With so many choices [...]

The discussion forum in Rob Gailbraith popular website has been shutdown while at the same time, it’s being sold.
The web site is operated by Little Guy Media, the digital photography training company headed up by Rob Galbraith. It was first launched in 1996, as an exercise in self-publishing documentary photo stories. Starting in [...]

Did you know you can now turn your photos into real US postage stamps with PhotoStamps. And yes, the stamps are officially authorized by the US Postal Service so it’s real. PhotoStamps from Stamps.com are a valid U.S. Postage, based on a technology called PC Postage. Stamps.com, the company behind PhotoStamps, has been a United [...]

Here is a very interesting paper by Richard F. Lyon from Faveon titled “A Brief History of ‘Pixel”
The abstract of the paper is as follows:
“The term pixel, for picture element, was first published in two different SPIE Proceedings in 1965, in articles by Fred C. Billingsley of Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The alternative pel was [...]

NASA has just released the first images of Mars from its new camera system. This will provide a platform of what type of images the Mars Reconnaissance Orbitor will provide when its main mission begins in fall.
Three cameras were used in this mission, these are 1. High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, 2. Context Camera [...]

Here is a very interesting site www.wrotniak.net that has a great article on how you can take photos of the Moon with your digital camera. In addition, the article explains the different variety of equipment used and the best method to use it.
Interestingly, the article mentions that “almost any camera, digital or not, can [...]

Here is an interesting list of the top 401 paid occupations in the US. According to a Bizjournals.com (analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), photographers are ranked 217 out of 401 paid occupations and this does not include free lance wedding photographers. The average annual salary is $34,028 with an hourly [...]

It seems that a few Nikon D200 DSLR cameras have been affected by banding (sporadic). Here is an example of an image (100% crop) affected by banding.

Although there has been no specific official announcement by Nikon, it is interesting to hear they are repairing the issue. Below is a scanned copy of a [...]

A digital single lens reflex (DSLR) “styled” camera is just a camera that might be mistaken for a DSLR from across the room. However it won’t perform like a DSLR camera. Just as you can carve an apple from wood and paint it red… it still won’t make it an apple.
If you are currently in [...]

Transcend Information is marketing a USB flash disk drive with an integrated VGA digital still camera (DSC). The JetFlash DSC is designed to enable users to take digital photos without the inconvenience of needing a USB cable or card reader to connect to a PC, according to the company.
Equipped with a 0.25-inch CMOS image sensor, [...]