Spring is my favorite time of year because Nature’s colors are a rare delicate and pastel hue. In short it is a season to imbibe and enjoy as a new cycle of vernal sounds, fragrances and colors cover the landscape. And if ye Editor is not mistaken, there is an invigoration in step and mood […]
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Google has provided a gift for art lovers – the Google Art Project. Think of the Art Project as Google Maps of the World’s Finest Art Galleries from the Inside. Using similar recording technologies to its Google Earth cameras, Google has gotten some of the most prestigious art galleries to allow their gallaeries and content
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In several articles on this Blog, ye Editor has been advancing the argument that smartphones and tablets are forcing compact camera and SLR makers to up their feature sets at the same or lower prices. Fortunately technology advances at least give the camera makers the opportunity to do so. But now some strong evidence points
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Adobe has released an interim upgrade to its various Creative Suites; but more importantly changed its update policy and pricing schedule. The driver according to Adobe is the fast rate of development in the mobile space – and so as can be seen below the major changes are in Web and mobile targetting products: Updated
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Nikon D5100 16.2MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 VR Nikkor Zoom Any doubts about the convergence of video cameras with digital SLRs went by the wayside with the arrival of the new Nikon D5100 video SLR. This blog has foreseen convergence for the past 4 years and now it has happened with Nikon D5100
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Here is the mission of the Xara 3D Maker in its own words in Flash version 8: [kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”http://thepics.biz/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/xara3db1.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”static” width=”400″ height=”300″] [/kml_flashembed] Here is the Gif Animation version of the same mission statement Note both animations were produced by Xara 3D Maker Given the mixed performance of the swf and then gif
The new Canon T3i Rebel certainly looks like a bulldog of a an SLR – and in away it is. Because the T3i marks the emergence of SLRs as the preferrred form of video camera. Sure their will be high end video cameras but not low end video machines except perhaps in the pistol grip
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It has become very hard to keep up with the rapid evolution of compact cameras. Ye Editor has found himself in the very embarrassing position of recommending a camera and having it nearly obsoleted by rival vendors in 2-3 months time. This “embarrassment of compact camera riches” might be explained by three major trends. First, there are now
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