Buyer’ Guide March 2016 – Latest specifications and prices of Digital SLRs … [Read more...]
A superlative manual focus wide-angle lens! – Zeiss 28mm f/1.4 Otus APO Distagon T* Lens
This new offering from Zeiss is the first wide-angle and the third overall in the Otus series of premium grade lenses. As with all Zeiss D-SLR lenses, this is a manual focus only lens but with electronic contacts. This particular model is available in Canon and Nikon mounts. Zeiss is one of the few manufacturers who deliver their lenses with a signed inspection card indicating … [Read more...]
Polarising Filters
SP reader Arijit Das had requested us to explain, in Ask Uncle Ronnie, how to correctly use a polarising filter. Since the explanation is rather lengthy, we decided to have a separate write-up on it. Rohinton Mehta A polarising filter is one of the three very important filters for use in digital photography – the other two being the Neutral Density and Graduated Neutral … [Read more...]
The Thais Get It Wrong Too!
White Balance
Setting proper White Balance (WB) is very important if you want your images to be without any unwanted colour cast. I’m sure most photographers know this and yet, either out of sheer carelessness or with utter disregard, many photographers continue to take pictures without paying due attention to this very important camera setting. In this write-up, in the form of questions and … [Read more...]
