The gotcha that got me I’m fortunate to have been able to get in to the new EOS 5D Mark III and Speedlite 600EX-RT with ST-E3-RT, but they have caught me out with a little trick of their own. I’m often asked to demonstrate how the workflow with Canon EOS Utility and Digital Photo Professional …
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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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I spend a good amount of time making presentations to show all kinds of photography skills and technical information, in this post I’ll give you a really quick way to rapidly turn a folder full of pictures in to individual Keynote slides. I switched from Powerpoint to Keynote around five years ago for my presentations …
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EOS Utility 2.11.0.1 I’ve just been looking over the new version of EOS Solution Disk for the EOS 5D Mark III and found a couple of small changes in EOS Utility. From a quick look I’ve seen some of the preferences have received a little update. Date / Time options for filenames and folders This …
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Today is the day you will likely find that your camera clock no longer matches your computer clock… In the UK the clocks moved forward one hour yesterday and that means the clock in your camera is now most likely an hour behind. You might not see this as a problem unless you ever try …
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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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I’ve recently been involved with reviewing entries from several photographers for a local camera club competition. According to the rules the entries were supposed to be JPEG images and tagged with the sRGB colour profile. It was quite a surprise to see so many of the entries with either no profile or often the one …
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I’m currently down in South Africa about to go to Cape Town for a couple of days, but for the last few days I’ve been busy at the Sandton Convention Centre presenting on Canon workflow software and also a session about my photography with Speedlites and other light sources. While preparing for the seminars I …
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