Reviews

Zeiss ZE 21mm f2.8 Review

June 20, 2011
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Built like a tank is the first thing that comes to mind when I started looking at the Zeiss ZE lens line.  I was never used to lenses that felt so well built, I’d always been on a budget with my school coming at the tail end of the film days and always having to [...]

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Photosmith iPad App Review

June 13, 2011
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As a long time Lightroom user and lover of the iPad I’ve always longed for a way to really utilize the two for my travel photography. That day seems to be becoming more and more a reality with the release of Photosmith for iPad. Traveling with a laptop is not always the best experience, it [...]

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Craft and Vision iPad App

June 1, 2011
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I’ve used the iPad for lots of fun of the last year and played with quite a few of the existing photo apps that are available, but that’s really been the point of it, fun. In the last few months however more and more apps have started to appear that show more of the potential [...]

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LightTrac for iPad

June 6, 2010
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All of the apps we’ve looked at so far revolve around editing photos on your iPad, were taking a turn from that today. LightTrac for iPad is an app that will come in extremely handy for photographers that like to plan shoots. More importantly they like to plan what time of day to shoot at [...]

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PhotoPad iPad Review

April 27, 2010
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iPad photography app PhotoPad is one of the most downloaded free photography apps on the app store. The question is how does it fare against some of the great paying photo editor apps available? The app is pretty simple you load images that are already stored on the iPad and then you have a few [...]

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Photogene for iPad Review

April 25, 2010
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So I’ve been playing with Apple’s iPad recently and have come to the conclusion that the it’s a great tool for photographers. You have a multitude of things you can do on it from using it as a digital frame, to editing your photos, to displaying images to your clients or potential clients. For those [...]

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Annie Leibovitz – At Work

April 4, 2010
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I’ve written this review countless times and each one has sounded worse then the one before it and for a long time I didn’t realize why. Then it came to me; Annie is a great photographer and the book has tons of great photos but that is not the reason to buy the book. It’s [...]

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Is the Canon 5D enough?

March 21, 2010
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With all the talk out there from Nikon, Canon and Sony about high resolution and high quality, high ISO performance it’s easy to get caught up in the race to buy new equipment.  There have been countless times that I’ve wondered if I should upgrade my 5D to the 5D mkII or the D700, that’s [...]

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Olympus EP-2 Video

March 6, 2010

I went out today to shoot some test video while riding in the car, this was and is not intended to be the best video but I wanted to see what the camera can do in video mode when things are moving fast. To that end I shot the following video while going over a [...]

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Olympus E-P2 Manual Focus Assistance

March 2, 2010
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I’ve been using and really enjoying the Olympus E-P2 for the last month, and lately with the addition of the Canon and Nikon adapter rings the camera has become even better. The only problem I’ve had with using the Canon and Nikon lenses on the E-P2 is the lack of a way to ensure proper [...]

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