Oak wood in movement
Empty oak stems and lot of leaves on ground at the end of autumn create perfect conditions to try a special mobile phone camera application called Camera FV-5. This camera…
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November 22, 2014
Happy New Year 2014
This is photo from traditional Prague's New Eve's fireworks show. Last year I made photo near Mánesův most, now I am went to Velká Strahovská zahrada because fireworks was moved…
January 3, 2014
Useful online calculators for landscape photography
There is a plenty of photography tools published on the web. These tools can be widely used for planning trip, for understanding how your camera is working, for post-processing of your images and so on. In this article I will provide you links to calculators which can be helpful on topics mentioned above. All of them come from Cambridge In Colour web site. (more…)
March 29, 2012
Elevate your old Canon Powershot camera with CHDK
There are several occasions for which it is not good idea carrying big & heavy DLSR and taking shoots with mobile device take out from your pocket does not bring desired quality. In that case, your bridge camera (compact) could be suitable solution. If you have newest model, you are lucky because probable your device has built-in features as
- storing images in RAW, bracketing,
- full manual control over exposure,
- zebra mode,
- live mode,
- histogram and grids.
If you have older one device with brand of Canon like me (Canon Powershot S5IS), don’t despair of it – and try CHDK firmware enhancement in advance. Also, in case of my device, I will also benefit from one additional f-stop (from f8 to f11) and extra long exposures with up to ~2000 s. It is a simple, trust me 🙂 and take approximately half hour to working. It sounds good, is not? (more…)
March 17, 2012