文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Camera Stuff' CategoryAbout cameras, equipment, and postprocessing techniques Continuing in the series on the camera toys I've picked up on this trip to The States (other entries: GPS unit, tripod), this post is about the Katz Eye Focusing Screen that I picked up for my Nikon D200. An SLR's focusing screen is a frosted piece of glass that you're actually looking at when you look through the viewfinder, upon which the lens projects the scene being viewed by the camera. Katz Eye Optics is a company that makes replacement focusing screens for all kinds of cameras. (They're owned by a family whose last name is "Katz," so I [...] 
View full post » Among the camera toys I picked up recently are the components needed to make a really great tripod. The components, from top to bottom, are: Clamp -- Really Right Stuff PLC-1 Head -- Really Right Stuff BH-55 Column -- Gitzo GS3510S Legs -- Gitzo 3540XLS Quick release plates -- Really Right Stuff (not shown)(mouseover the items above to highlight them in the image at right) I'll talk about each of these below. If you're new to serious photography, as I have been during the last few years, Thom Hogan's writeup on the psychology of tripod purchases is a must [...] 
View full post » I'm ostensibly spending the summer here in The States for Anthony's English development, but the real reason is to load up on camera toys. I do get things in Japan, but I prefer to buy some things here because of price, availability, ease, or just mental comfort. It's been a while since I treated myself to some nice camera toys, so I've developed quite a list of fun toys to procure on this trip. This post is about the GPS unit I got a few days ago, a Garmin eTrex Legend HCx, as a replacement for my Garmin GPSmap 60CS [...] 
View full post » About a month and a half ago I was futzing around with night exposures and took this 30-second picture of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. I was wondering whether I might get the really interesting results as I did during cherry-blossom season, but in this case the result was thunderously boring. However, it was about this time that I decided to finally start playing with the new sharpening controls in the betas I was testing for Lightroom 1.1, and for whatever reason, I used this image as my first test. Proper sharpening seems to be more an art than [...] 
View full post » As mentioned in my previous post, Adobe has just released Lightroom 1.1, a free upgrade to their wonderful photo-workflow application. Correspondingly, I have upgraded my Custom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder, a web application that allows you to create custom metadata display configuration templates for use within Lightroom. This description is presented with Lightroom 1.1 as an example, although the config files should work in any version of Lightroom 1.x, including 1.3.1. This post is the introduction and documentation for my template-builder application. If you have used the previous version, you'll find lots of new things here, including new [...] 
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