Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Why Manual Focus is better than Auto Focus

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Manual Focus with LiveView on a D-SLR camera with Marek MularczykMost digital cameras nowadays offer a photographer many automatic options for taking photographs and less reasons for using Manual in many cases (not in cases of real photographers).

This makes many photographers to rely on Auto Focus on their cameras/lenses and never use Manual Focus. I remember when I started in photography with my first SLR camera – Zenit 12XP, and all focusing was done manually.

I still use Manual Focus on my current digital SLR camera, but that often. One of the situations when I use Manual Focus almost exclusively is when I shoot macro. This gives me the ability to focus precisely how I want it and make sure that everything  want in focus is in focus.

Very narrow depth of field you get with macro shots means that you need to be very precise while focusing, and it happened to me in the past that the image that looked sharp on the camera, wasn’t that sharp in reality when I opened it on  my computer.

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Could this be the Biggest Lens Ever?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Say hello to Nikkor 1200-1700mm lens!

Can you imagine such a massive lens?! And you thought, Sigma 120-500mm was a monster, didn’t you?  ;-)

Nikkorr 1200-2400mm lens

The spec of the lens:

  • Nikkor 1200-1700mm f/5.6-8.0,
  • lens construction – 18 elements in 13 groups,
  • aperture scale – F5.6 – F22,
  • weight – ca.20kg,
  • length – ca. 1m.

As far as I have managed to find out on the Internet, this lens has actually been introduced back in 1993 and at that time it cost $60,000…

Here’s another image of the lens:

Nikkor 1200-2400mm lens

Enjoy! ;-)

Official announcement of Nikon D3200!

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Nikon has officially announced a new camera – Nikon D3200!

Nikon D3200

Nikon D3200 is an entry-level camera with a high-resolution 24.2 MP sensor. Despite being an entry-level camera, Nikon D3200 offers Full HD 1080p video recording(!) which is a great feature for an entry-level camera in my opinion. D3200 comes in not as a replacement for D3100, but as another camera in a line of Nikon D-SLR cameras.

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Episode 72 of Photoshop Lightroom TV

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Photoshop Lightroom TV - Episode 72I cannot believe that it’s been another week since the last episode of Photoshop Lightroom TV. It’s time for another one! :-)

If you have been following Photoshop Lightroom TV, then you know that I’m always trying to bring something new, new tips, tricks, and tutorials.

This time, I’m bringing you a photography tutorial on using the LiveView and focusing with magnification, great tip!

In case, you’re not interested in photography, I have a tutorial on using Marquee Tool for selecting/cropping images in Photoshop CS6.

I hope you’ll enjoy it. ;-)

Here’s a link for you:

Photoshop Lightroom TV – Episode 72.

A ladybird

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Today, I thought I would share with you a few shots I took of a ladybird, in between training…  ;-)

Both images were shot using Canon EOS 7D with a macro lens Canon EF-S 60mm F2.8.

Enjoy and Happy Easter! :-)

Ladybird image by Marek Mularczyk

Here’s another one:

Ladybird image by Marek Mularczyk

Enjoy! :-)

Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G?

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Nikkor 28-300mmThere has been  no official public announcement of this lens from Nikon, but it has appeared on Nikon Europe websites.

Nikon advertises this lens as:

” High-powered DX-format zoom lens with wide-angle to super-telephoto reach. Build to handle diverse situations, this all-round lens offers an ultra-high 16.7 zoom ratio with an incredibly wide 18-300mm focal range. “

Here are the main features of the lens:

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Canon announces 5D Mark III

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Canon has announced a brand new version of 5D – Canon EOS 5D Mark III. It adds to a range of Canon cameras, and it is full frame.

5D Mark III builds on the previous version of 5D and it offers improved performance, enhanced processing power and higher resolution.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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I hope you have a good web hosting provider

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

I hope you enjoy using the web  hosting provider, I hope you have a good one. I’ve been using Freehostia for my web hosting for a few years now. Here’s their website:

Freehostia – web hosting.

And I recently made a mistake by deciding to use another hosting company, I thought it would be a good idea t o use someone based in the UK and I chose a big brand – 1&1. I didn’t know what I was going for… I was going for a ride… that cost me time and money that I wasted…

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New Canon’s range of cameras

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Canon has added new camera to it’s range of compacts – 11 to be precise. They come in all varieties – simple compacts to touchscreen ones to rugged ones.

Here are just a few highlights of some of them.

The entry models get: 16MP DIGIC 4 sensor, HD video (720p), 32 scene modes and more.

Here are some of the new “super” compacts:

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Full Frame Nikon D800 announced!

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Nikon D800Nikon has announced a brand new full frame camera – Nikon D800!

And it brings so many exciting features.

According to Nikon, D800 was built for today’s multimedia photographer. It challenges medium-format users with its features. It targets users that demand superior performance, speed and handling (it does look different from previous cameras)

Here are some of the features of D800:

  • full frame 36.3MP sensor!
  • Full HD video 1080p with stereo sound(!)
  • ISO expandable to 25,600
  • Advanced Scene Recognition System with 91,000 pixel RGB sensor
  • built-in HDR – you can combine exposures at up to 3EV

More information on Nikon website:

Nikon D800 on Nikon website.