What exactly is Live View? Why do we need Live View, especially when we have lived without it for so many years? Is it just one of the newfangled features that puts some more pressure on our learning curve? Or, is it really a useful feature that could enhance our photography? Read on... Live View is a function of a digital camera that allows us to ‘pre-view’ a subject/scene … [Read more...]
Pin-up Photography
Pic A Having crossed over 20 active years in commercial photography, Dilip Yande says his forte is Fashion and Portrait photography. He believes variety is the spice of life, and to keep himself motivated he does a lot of tabletop as well. For Dilip, names like Rembrandt, Renoir, Gauguin, Picasso, Turner, Monet are household names because of his childhood that was spent in a … [Read more...]
10 How to Tips
1. The camera LCD Monitor is much brighter 1 How to adjust your camera’s LCD brightness I have yet to come across a digital camera’s LCD that is not overly bright. May be this is a marketing decision (so that even your underexposed images look fairly okay on the LCD). When images are transferred to a computer, they almost always look darker. So how do you adjust the … [Read more...]
Canon PIXMA PRO-10-The Middleweight!
Professional photo printers come in various sizes, specifications, and prices. Canon has printers ranging from A4 to large format commercial models. The company recently launched three A3+ professional photo printers in the PIXMA range — the PRO-1 (12-colour), PRO-10 (10-colour), and PRO-100 (8-colour). Here we are reviewing the PIXMA PRO-10, the ‘middleweight’ in this … [Read more...]
Back with a Bang-Epson Stylus Photo R3000
Epson printers have always been at the forefront in terms of image quality. Their earlier model, the Epson Stylus Photo R1900, has been very successful in the professional A3 segment for quite a long time. The printer’s continual success meant that it did not require an improved model to take on the competition. Hence Epson did not launch a new A3+ professional model in … [Read more...]