Mike Johnston asks are we getting used to paying a premium for new tech?
I think it’s always been that way. Technology is expensive when new but rapidly goes down in price. Digital camera tech is advancing at such a rate that anything older than a few months old then it can be very obsolete.
As Mike says, with regards to the new Canon XT and NIkon D50, the price is getting closer to a more realistic level. Digital cameras have reached a level where they are challenging and surpassing film in terms of quality and that tech is getting cheaper. It’s no longer necessary to buy the most expensive model.
The same is happening with PC sales too. Who needs to be a 4GHz CPU when a much cheaper 2GHz machine will run your web browser just as well?
Tag Archives: Photography
Useful links for photographers
Lots and lots of links here!
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View – We’re trying to pick out a hotel now for the reception. Haven’t even considered a photographer yet, and I’m banned from camera work for the day! Several good points in this article, including things I hadn’t thought of yet.
Should You Print Your Digital Photos at Home or Use a Photo Printing Service?
Should you get your photos printed at home or elsewhere? I’ve done both, but the prints I’ve got from shops and online have been of much better quality. The author, Valerie Goettsch, runs digitalphotos101.com which looks like it has a few interesting bits and pieces!
Market Your Photography Business
Without marketing your business isn’t going to succeed. Roy Barker introduces some ideas for budding professionals to follow. Stock photography is probably the easiest way to ease yourself into the photography business!
Struggling to Manage Your Ever-Growing Digital Photo Collection?
In this (what looks like a promo) article John Grand explains some of the issues with organizing your photos.
After reading this I went looking, and found Lodju (also available from Debian – apt-get lodju), and then looked into gThumb. It allows you to put photos into categories, and I spent an hour last night sorting some of my snaps! I backup to DVD almost once a month so hopefully my photos are reasonably safe! Now, if only gThumb would remember when I rotate my images! I don’t want to modify the originals, but having a rotated thumbnail would be great. Lodju does it!
Yum! Ice cream!
While waiting for our lunch in a restaurant in Killarney.
photoSIG – Torc Waterfall
We went down to Killarney this afternoon, and while there visited Torc Waterfall. It’s a beautiful location, the walk up to it is through a tree covered path surrounded by green-mossy rock and vegetation. I snapped a few shots up there so imagine my surprise when I saw that someone had posted a photo of the falls on Photosig a few minutes ago!
It’s unlike any of the ones I took, and it’s nice for me to see a different perspective on a beautiful scene!
Cobh Lit Up
We called down to a friend’s house in Cobh last week. Here’s a shot I took outside.
Work and Play
Workers at the building site of the new shopping centre going up in Blackpool. Shot at 300mm – you never know who’s watching! (f/8.0, 300mm, 1/124 sec, ISO 100, Av)
