Canon 5D Mk II good enough for Obama…

…so its good enough for me! It turns out the newly assigned White House photographer, Pete Souza, uses the new Canon EOS 5D Mk II. How do I know? Well President Elect Obama’s official portrait (left) was taken with a digital camera for the first time. As Engadget points out, this means we can peek [...]

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Canon 5D Mk II Reviews

Those of you that read my blog will know I’m something of a Canon fan so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new 5D Mk II all year. Now its here, it seems from the reviews that it doesn’t disappoint. Engadget has just posted a list of the best reviews so far and [...]

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Custom White Balance Lens Cap

This is just genius! Previously if you wanted to set a custom white balance for your camera you’d have to cart around your own grey card. But some genius had the brainwave to include a translucent dome into the lens cap itself allowing you to use this instead. Put your camera in custom White Balance [...]

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Video on an SLR camera?

The Nikon D90 was one of the first larger SLR cameras to include a movie mode. This was closely followed by the new Canon 5D Mk II which upped the ante by providing full HD video recording. Now I’m not a fan of convergence to be honest. I’ve yet to see and use a multifunction [...]

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Photokina Interviews on DP Review

DP Review has posted some interesting interviews with the key people from the major camera manufacturers that they managed to get at this years Photokina. Whilst the interviewees are understandably tight lipped about future plans and developments for their equipment, there are some interesting points in the interviews. You can read all of the interviews [...]

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