Digital Lens Optimiser (DLO) improves picture quality The latest version of Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software v.3.11.26 includes Digital Lens Optimiser (DLO) on the lens tab in the tools panel. DLO goes much further than the peripheral illumination aka vignetting, chromatic aberration, colour blur and distortion settings found in the Lens tab of DPP. DLO …
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The EOS 5D Mark III is a fantastic camera and I’m enjoying using mine already, but it’s suffered from some shortcomings in the few weeks since launch. One of the first was the issue that the software Canon supplied to process the RAW images, Digital Photo Professional (DPP) was not able to process the RAW …
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So that was Focus 2012… Finally with the doors closed, the visitors gone and stands packed down I think it’s time to share my thoughts on the Focus on Imaging show. I haven’t seen official attendance figures, but there were times each day when some walkways were so busy it was hard to move around …
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The Uk’s biggest annual photography and imaging show, Focus on Imaging from the 4th to 7th of March lets get close to the latest and greatest that the industry has to offer. I’m really happy to say i’ll be there on the Canon booth – L26, right in front of the entrance at hall 10 …
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The latest version of Digital Photo Professional has introduced a feature that I really can’t think of a use for, circular crops. What’s more the way it works is a little strange. A circular crop of an image makes sense if it’s to be framed and used with a circular mount card, also if the …
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With record temperatures in the UK for April, there’s been plenty of opportunity to shoot sunset lit photos, and just recently I shot a short session for a new model. The sun was right at the horizon and casting lovely long shadows and also giving very warm skintones, and I knew that shooting RAW would …
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With the launch of each new EOS DSLR Canon updates the suite of software that supports it’s cameras. Usually the changes are incremental, typically adding support for the new camera and any new features it may have. Good thing is that the new software is also freely available for download by Canon users so they …
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Last week I was quickly reading some tweets while waiting to start my day’s presenting task and saw a tweet from Dutch photographer Frank Doorhof. I’ve exchanged quite a few twitter conversations with Frank over the last year or more and Frank’s tweet was asking for pictures that he would critique. I had the final …
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Often I keep my images as I shot them, retouching is often a simple case of adjust a few sliders in the RAW conversion. I also use Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software for a lot of my RAW conversions. Sure it’s not the slickest workflow and it’s not the fastest RAW converter, but to my …
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