Print your own camera

Sometimes, despite all the advances in camera technology and the increase in mega-pixels and sensor size, its the simpler things that bring the most joy! This is definitely the case with one Flickr user – Dippold – who has shared a template to build your own camera. A perfect little project to keep you from [...]

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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Upgrade

As you’ve probably seen the firmware upgrade for the EOS 5D Mk II is now available (link below). Whilst most of the news and blog posts have focused on the additional of a function to allow manual exposure control when shooting HD Movies is does contain some other improvements and fixes. So even if you [...]

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Time Lapse Photography

by FJTU (a veces on-line) Following my previous post about increases in the use of and equipment for taking videos on your DSLR I thought I’d post something for those of you that don’t have the ability to record video. DPS has just posted a great introductory article on time lapse photography – the process of [...]

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DSLR Video Catching On

It’s surely a sign of a maturing martket when accessories start to be produced for something. With the increasing number of DSLRs that now allow you to take video such as Nikon’s D90 and D5000 and Canon’s 5D Mk II and 500D, it seems people are catching the DSLR video bug. There was the recent [...]

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Look what's arrived!

Look what arrived in the post for me yesterday! After waiting for quite a while I’ve finally upgraded to a Canon 5D Mk II. I haven’t really had chance to sit down and have a serious play with it yet but I plan to try and get out this weekend to take some shots and [...]

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