Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6.1 is in other respects said to be the same as the recently published Lightroom 2.6 release, which added support for a variety of cameras from Canon, Nikon and other and fixing a processing issue on PowerPC-based Mac OS machines. The latest release, is only Leica M9 for users, others should stay at their 2.6.
The glitch which caused crashes when processing Leica M9 images seems to be included in the final release of Lightroom 2.6, as Adobe was making changes to improve image quality based on customer feedback.
Lightroom 2.6.1 is available for both Windows and Mac OS operating systems.
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Dansk The first to two years I took digital photos, my meta data was messed up by my camera software, due to this I store the first couple of years as folders named by who’s on the pictures.
Since 2003 I store my images in the following structure:
{Year}
{Month}
{Day} (And then in some cases a description)
This is how my folder for December 2009 looks like:
2009
12
02
05, A trip to Sweden
17, Circus at school
20, Visiting Uffe and Maj-Britt
24, Christmas
27
28, At the Zoo
How do you store your images?
Tags: How to store images, Image library, Library, Pictures, Store
January is usually the month when various websites and television media publish top 10 lists, and this January the media have focused on the last 10 years in the zeros. So I’ve decided to use the opportunity to tell you about my first 10 years of photography, especially digital.
Feel free to join in with your own experiences.
I’ve always been fascinated by pictures, especially portraits but for many years I lacked the equipment to pursue my dream of being able to take really good portraits. Around 95′ or 96′ I got myself an old Zenith camera for 10$ – but there were too many things I knew nothing about, for example the shutter speed actually can be too fast for the speedlight. So I burnt a lot of rolls of film on that account.
But in 2000 I got into the wonderful world of digital cameras, the family’s first camera was a Canon S10 at 2.11MP which we got as a wedding present in July 2000. I used the included 8MB Compact Flash card for 1½ years before upgrading to a 64MB, and looking back at it, it is a little annoying that at the time I knew so little about it that I actually prefered the amount of images on the Compact Flash card over the size of them.
At that time I had no problems in reducing the size to 800×600, instead of 1600×1200 to make room for more. Certainly not anything I could think of now where it should be as large as possible – and only in RAW.
Another thing that annoys me when looking back, is that I realized to late the value in having metadata in the images when it is taken, the focal length, whether or not the flash fired, etc. etc. The problem was that I used Canons program ZoomBrowser to download images from camera to computer. And if I had rotated the images in the camera, eg. rotated portraits instead of waiting till I imported them to my computer. But that method destroyed the metadata, but it took a couple of years before i realised that.
So in that period of time, I only have the metadata on half of my pictures, the other half lack the information.
The camera worked well until 2004 when it began to be somewhat unstable. There were some times you have to take the card out and put it in again. And the battery was beginning to act up, it was a NiMH battery and those have problems when they only are used half before charging. Not like the new kind that are able to handle that.
With a fully charged battery I could turn on the camera and take a few pictures then it went off again, so I bought some new batteries and the camera lasted about half a year more, finally the camera completely stopped working.
In September 2004 I bought a used Canon EOS 650 on Lauritz.com, again, I tried me with an analog SLR. And it was clearly better to have a camera which had no automation, rather than my old Zenith camera. But still, I didn’t think that I learned anything about taking pictures with the camera, at least not techincally. I shot a lot of rolls of film, but I didn’t get them developed right away, some times months before developing them. And then I could not remember how the camera was setup when taking the pictures.
But I think that most rolls of film have been developed.
Since our Canon S10 camera was busted, and we only had an analog camera in 2005, that I do not have so many pictures in digital form from 2005, only around 200 images, it has to.
Perhaps I should start scanning them.
Part two will follow in a couple of days.
Tags: Canon EOS650, Canon S10, compact flash, Lauritz.com, Looking back, meta data, Photography, RAW, Top 10, ZoomBrowser
Today Nikon released a new firmware upgrade for the Nikon D700.
Here are the changes made:
- Auto white balance performance has been improved.
- Support for 64 GB memory cards has been added.
- When ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control in the shooting menu is set to On, the Maximum sensitivity option can now be specified in steps of 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV or 1 EV, according to the Custom Setting b1 ISO sensitivity step value setting.
- The length of time the camera waits before adjusting focus in response to sudden changes in the distance to the subject can now be selected from 5 (Long) , 4, 3 (Normal), 2, and 1 (Short) from Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on. With the increase in the number of options for Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on, this item will be set to 3 (Normal) after firmware upgrade. Adjust this setting as needed.
- When the camera’s AF-ON button is pressed, the monitor turns off and a focus point can now be selected using the multi selector.
- When the MB-D10 AF-ON button is pressed (with AF-ON selected for Custom Setting a10 AF-ON for MB-D10), the monitor now turns off and a focus point can be selected using the multi selector.
- A Use GPS to set camera clock item has been added to the GPS item in the setup menu. When Yes is selected, date and time information acquired via connection to a GPS device is used to set the camera’s internal clock. After selecting Yes for the first time, turn the camera off and then on again to reacquire GPS data.
- When Enable is selected for GPS>Auto meter off in the setup menu, the time until meters turn off is now extended by up to 1 minute to enable camera acquisition of GPS data immediately after the camera is turned on, and immediately after meters turn on. (only with GPS Unit GP-1)
- When On is selected for Long exp. NR problems were experienced when shooting at shutter speeds slower than 1 s but faster than or equal to 8 s. This issue has been resolved.
- An issue that prevented display of the focus point with playback of images captured with continuous shooting has been resolved.
- When the virtual horizon was displayed with shooting in live view tripod mode and live view was then cancelled, the focus point displayed in the viewfinder could not be moved. This issue has been resolved.
- When some memory cards were inserted in the camera, “CHA” was displayed in the top control panel and images could not be captured. This issue has been resolved.
- When [M] exposure mode was used in live view shooting via Camera Control Pro 2, the electronic analog exposure display did not function. This issue has been resolved.
Full details and download:
Nikon D700 firmware 1.02 – Windows
Nikon D700 firmware 1.02 – Mac
- Support for 64 GB memory cards has been added.
Tags: Firmware, Nikon, Nikon D700
Yesterday Scott Kelby announced the return of D-Town TV, but this time it will be a show dedicated to all DSLR’s – Not just those from Nikon.
The show will air on January 7th 2010.
Tags: D-Town TV, Nikon D-Town, Scott Kelby
Professional photographer Mark Wallace has created a distance demo of the PocketWizard Mini and Flex.
Please PocketWizard – Begin shipping the Nikon version!
YouTube – Distance demo with PocketWizard Mini and Flex.
Tags: AC5 Soft Shield, Canon, Flex, Mark Wallace, Mini, PocketWizard, Remote Trigger, Snapfactory
Photographer Joey L has created a very funny video called “Nikon Girl” and if you can spare almost 4 minutes of your precious time, it’ll make you laugh. Have fun!
Or stop by Joey Lawrence | The Blog – The Photo Club, my alter ego is born.
Found via Nikon Rumors for Nikon enthusiasts.
Tags: Canon, Hip-Hop, Joey L, Joey Lawrence, Nikon, Nikon D200, Nikon Girl, Rap
I have been testing Lightroom 3 Beta for the past 4 weeks, and I like some of the new stuff added to the program.
I have however also submitted a couple of bug reports, and for one of those I created a video of my workflow when looking a photos after a photo session.
As always, go HD and full screen for the full viewing pleasure.
Should I continue to create videos like this?
Tags: Adobe Lightroom, Handling Photos, Lightroom, Managing, Portrait, Survey Mode
I attended a workshop a week ago, and one of my new photography friends contacted me. She needed to get some details regarding my on-location flash equipment. So I wrote this list with links to where to buy or find it.
Lighting stand
I previously used some Interfit lighting stands (Interfit COR750), but I recently upgraded to a couple of Manfrotto 5001B Nano Light Stands. These lighting stands are a lot smaller, weighs 1kg (instead of 1.6kg) and are very collapsible.
Buy it: Manfrotto Stativ (Kamerahuset), Manfrotto Stativ Nano (DustinHome)
Swivel Head
After my little photo session at a local shopping mall, I realized that I needed umbrellas to soften the light. So I bought the Manfrotto 026 Swivel Head that also holds the umbrella. These little beauties are great, and hold the umbrella in perfect place.
Buy it: Manfrotto Lite Tite (Kamerahuset)
Umbrella
I use shoot through umbrellas, but other photographers use a reflection umbrella and shoot into it and reflect the light back, I guess its a matter of taste. I just got a couple of cheap ones (about 15€), that way I can replace them in case they get worn out.
Buy it: Lastolite gennemlysnings paraply (Kamerahuset)
Reflector
This is a great light modifier to remove shadows on your model, I found mine – A 5-in-1 reflector on ebay. Its Golden, Silver, Black, White and transparent for diffusing the light. I’m using it either by reflecting sunlight or the light from my flash’es.
Search for it: on Ebay
Remote Radio Trigger
I got my first Cactus Triggers/Powerty Wizards more than a year ago. It was a set of 1 transmitter and 3 receivers, but during a modification of the triggers to increase the range I busted two of the receivers. So instead I bought a set of modified second hand triggers from another photographer on flickr.
Search for it: on Ebay or QXL.dk
Flash/Strobe/Speedlight
It has many names, and are essentially a light source, either battery or powered by a generator/electricity. I use a Canon EZ540 that a good friend of mine has borrowed me, and a Canon EX430 – From when i used an analog Canon EOS650. But in the very near future I’ll need a SB-900 to have a flash that is 100% compatible with my camera.
Manfrotto 5001B Lysstativ
Manfrotto 026 Lite Tite paraply og flash hoved
Gennemlysnings paraply
5-in-1 reflektor
Tags: Flash, Gear, light stand, Manfrotto, nano, Nikon CLS, on-location, reflektor, Strobist
Adobe has released Lightroom 3 as beta to to public. It can be downloaded here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/
Tags: Adobe, Beta, Lightroom 3
