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Golden Marina

Every evening during summer holiday, my wife and me spent dinner time on the main street of Ponta Delgada, the street very close to sea and marina full of small…

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Passage of time

In this post I will show you composite photo, the result of fake long exposure technique done in Adobe Photoshop. Fake long exposure technique Sometimes happens, and all of us…

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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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Orchy river

I love Scotland. You know that. I fell in love long time ago by viewing Ian Cameron's images. And I confirmed this love this year definitively during my trip to…

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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…)

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