Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, Night time shot, Holiday in April 2012

Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, Night time shot, Holiday in April 2012.

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Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, Holiday in April 2012

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Here's a quick low res/low quality view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.

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Three Basics of Photography

A quick YouTube video from JMatthewGore covering the three basics of photography, aperture, shutter speed, and iso. More information available on LightAndMatter.org

Adobe Lightroom 4.1 RC2

Adobe Lightroom 4.1 RC2

Adobe has released a new release candidate for Lightroom 4.1. It has added support for the Canon 60Da, the 5D Mark III was added in RC1.

There are various other bug fixes, most notably bugs from RC1.

Lightroom 4 did not properly open external applications when using the “Edit In” functionality.

Point Curve adjustments made in Lightroom 3 have been restored.

Addressed performance issues in Lightroom 4, particularly when loading GPS track logs, using a secondary monitor, and the controls within the Develop module.

Ability to update DNG previews and metadata for more than 100 photos has been restored.

This update allows for improved viewing of subfolders and stacks in folders with a large number of photos.

It was possible that a layout of a saved book could be lost after quitting Lightroom.

Adobe labs link

Android long exposure using Camera FV-5 lite

Here are the results of my long exposure experiment with my HTC Desire Hd, using the Camera FV-5 lite app, with a 20 second exposure, iso 100, in the dark, trying to write my name using the remote for my Sony TV.

It seems the phone can detect the IR signal from the remote.

Hong Kong, Eaton Smart Hotel, Jordan, Pak Hoi Street

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The view from the corner of the Eaton Smart Hotel, on Pak Hoi Street, Jordan district, Hong Kong, just off Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Raw file viewer - Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (16.0.0652.0621)

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (16.0.0652.0621)


http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

I know that this might be old news to some of you, but I thought I'd make this mental note about the fact that it exists.

Microsoft have built a codec that enables the Windows Photo Image Viewer to view the raw file formats produced by many camera manufacturers such as Canon (cr2), Nikon (nef), or Sony (sr2).

Below is a snippet from the link above.

The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack provides support for the following device formats:

• Canon: EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in North America), EOS 10D, EOS 1D Mk2, EOS 1D Mk3, EOS 1D Mk4, EOS 1D Mk2 N, EOS 1Ds Mk2, EOS 1Ds Mk3, EOS 20D, EOS 300D (the Kiss Digital in Japan and the Digital Rebel in North America) , EOS 30D, EOS 350D (the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N in Japan and EOS Digital Rebel XT in North America), EOS 400D (the Kiss Digital X in Japan and the Digital Rebel XTi in North America), EOS 40D, EOS 450D (EOS Kiss X2 in Japan and the EOS Rebel XSi in North America), EOS 500D (EOS Kiss X3 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T1i in North America), EOS 550D (EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in North America), EOS 50D, EOS 5D, EOS 5D Mk2, EOS 7D, EOS D30, EOS D60, G2, G3, G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, Pro1, S90
• Nikon: D100, D1H, D200, D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D300, D3000, D300s, D3X, D40, D40x, D50, D5000, D60, D70, D700, D70s, D80, D90, P6000
• Sony: A100, A200, A230, A300, A330, A350, A380, A700, A850, A900, DSC-R1
• Olympus: C7070, C8080, E1, E10, E20, E3, E30, E300, E330, E400, E410, E420, E450, E500, E510, E520, E620, EP1
• Pentax (PEF formats only): K100D, K100D Super, K10D, K110D, K200D, K20D, K7, K-x, *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DS
• Leica: Digilux 3, D-LUX4, M8, M9
• Minolta: DiMage A1, DiMage A2, Maxxum 7D (Dynax 7D in Europe, a-7 Digital in Japan)
• Epson: RD1
• Panasonic: G1, GH1, GF1, LX3