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Olympus E-410 review

If you are into digital SLR's then you might be interested in my brother's thoughts on raw processors for the Olympus E-410

Here's the review.

Reflections

  Cool reflection of Trinity Church 
  Originally uploaded by bsabet.

I was walking to the office this morning and saw this cool reflection of Trinity Church on the John Hancock building in the back bay.

Not a bad photo from a blackberry curve.

My Rebel XT should worry

this thing looks sweet.

A view from Spark

  The View From Spark 
  Originally uploaded by stevegarfield.

Steve Garfield came by my office this morning and took this photo from our conference room.

It's a cool look at the back bay.

Geotagging in Flickr

Flickr has had geotagging support for awhile

it's very cool and very easy to do

I usually forget to add geotags but I'm going to try and add it to my workflow routine

If I did geotag a photo than you will see a "Map" link like this photo.

Then you can click on the "map" link and presto. it's a beautiful thing.

Wide angle lens review

Amin (my kid brother) picked up a new Canon wide angle lens recently and posted a review on his photo blog.

He's having lots of fun with his new toy.

Flickr's new slideshow - at last!

I've been waiting for Flickr to improve their slideshow.

This afternoon they came out with a new version at last

From the Flickr blog

"We've launched an improved version of the Slideshow.
Here's the feature comparison:

Old Version -- sucks
New Version --  rules!

You wanted bigger photos!
You wanted to see titles + descriptions!
You wanted to see your photos on a black background!"

It's awesome.

I'm happy.

New blogger in the family

My brother Amin is a doctor in Maryland

I've encouraged him to start blogging since he's super passionate about photography and other stuff.

He started today with 3 posts. I liked his review of a new lens he recently picked up.

If you are into photography and related gear than you should check out his blog and photos.

Candid shots

I dont' go anywhere without my Rebel XT or my little SD800. I love making pictures.

But I take way too many few candid photographs. I know that.

With all of my gear I should be a better photographer.

Today Lifehacker posted some helpful tips on how to take better candid photographs. Worth a read for my fellow shutterbugs.

It ain't about megapixels

The arms race for more megapixels in digital cameras is in full swing.

As an example, Canon has a newer DSLR that is now up to 16.7 megapixels. Sounds yummy but still a far cry from the human eye which is apparently closer to 576 megapixels.

A friend of mine recently asked me which digital camera she should buy. Lots of choices with a wide range of features. Consumers are drawn to the camera's with more megapixels.

But what we really need is better and faster autofocus in our digital cameras.

Here is a recent action shot I took of Ellie with my 7 megapixel Canon SD800is (point & shoot).

And here is a recent action shot I took of Ellie with my 8 megapixel Canon DSLR.

In both cases the lighting was pretty bad. But the focus is clearly better with the DSLR. No contest.

Some company is going to come out with a small digital camera with a lightning fast autofocus. Thats what we really need.

It ain't about more megapixels.