Updates on Servers, Forums and 500,000 Subscribers!

Just a quick note to readers to inform you of a few important developments here at dPS over the last few days.

Firstly – we’ve just moved servers. dPS has grown so quickly over the last couple of years that our old servers were increasingly struggling to keep up (and were getting quite expensive to run). So we made the decision to switch (over to Amazon’s system). To do this switch meant a complete reworking of how the site was hosted ..read more

15 Must Have Photography Accessories Under $25*

< p>A Guest post by Kat Landreth from Pare and Focus. *All prices and estimates in USD.

Photography can be an expensive hobby. Cameras cost a bundle and lenses for DSLRs often cost a lot more than the camera body. Once you come to grips with the money you spent on the bare necessities it can be daunting to think about spending another fortune on accessories.

The good news is there are plenty of photography accessories that costs less than $25 (US). ..read more

Leica M Digital Photography – Book Review

Frequently, the purchase of a new camera also involves an outlay for another manual aside from the one supplied with the camera. Taking on a Leica means more than the mere acquisition of another camera … the history and sheer engineering tradition of this device means you also engage with a historic culture.

Leica M Digital Photography is a book deals with the Leica M camera and the M8 and M8.2 specifically. Author explains that he acquired first Leica — an ..read more

CAMERA: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital

I recently sold some early digital cameras on eBay and was startled to find there is an active market in the breed, so finding this book had appeared, I was already forewarned of the situation.

Camera collecting really came of age in the 1970s at a time when galloping technology was rapidly transforming traditional photography and its tools.

As electronic and computerised components took on the actual process of taking a photograph, so did the previous tools become obsolescent.

It goes almost without ..read more

Using The Ray-Flash Ring Flash Adapter To Reduce Shadows

I was recently lent a rather unique and useful flash adapter by the folks at Ray-Flash.  It’s an adapter that fits over specific strobe and camera combinations in order to make the strobe usable as a ring flash.  For those not familiar with a ring flash, in professional photography studios it is a circular flash that typically uses an accompanying softbox and special adapter to allow shots to be taken through the hole in the middle of the light.  ..read more

Photo Idea Index: Things [Book Review]

This one got to me instantly and powerfully: “not a book of pictures … (it) is a book of ideas.” As author Jim Krause calls it.

Measuring a pocket-book sized 23×15×2cm, it could fit into a mid-sized camera bag and would rapidly give you a jolt of fresh ideas when out and about with a camera.

In reality you have to take Krause’s “not a book of pictures” message with a pinch of salt: the book is actually chockers with pictures and ..read more

100 Ways To Take Better Nature & Wildlife Photographs

Probably one of the most desirable, yet challenging targets for photographers but also the least understood is wildlife photography.

It’s not all that difficult to shoot a simple record of birds and animals in the wild but to succeed in capturing creative, dynamic images … well, that’s another thing!

Author Edwardes admits that the advent of digital cameras has revolutionised his work and aims this book at photographers of all skill levels. The technical requirements he stresses are stringent but he adds ..read more

Sony Alpha NEX-3 Available For Pre-Order

Sony Alpha NEX-3 Available For Pre-Order

The newly announced Sony Alpha NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera is finally available for pre-order in the US via Amazon for $549.99. In case you didn’t know, the Alpha NEX-3 sports a 14.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, a powerful BIONZ processor, a 3-inch swiveling LCD screen, an SD/SDHC/SDXC card slot, up to 7 fps continuous shooting, ISO up to 12800, a USB 2.0 port, an HDMI output and 720p HD video recording. Pre-order yours now! [Product Page]

Win a ThinkTank Photo Retrospective 20 from dPS!

I’m a bit of a camera bag addict, I love quality bags and that can be said for every piece of kit that I have from thinkTANK Photo (and I have a few!!) so when Brian emailed us to say that they were releasing a range of bags that looked old school but were built with “new school” in mind, we were pretty excited!! That was a while back, due to manufacturing delays and some cheeky volcano, delivery was delayed ..read more

The New Digital Photography Manual [BOOK REVIEW]

In this fourth edition, author Philip Andrews admits early on that “when I first saw the new digital technology in all its glory, 19 or 20 years ago, I was not all that impressed.”

What has projected digital capture into public and professional acceptance has been not only the rapid technical advances but the accelerating takeup by Mums, Dads and pro users.

We now have mature digital capture as an accepted part of the photographic process, so with this in mind Andrews ..read more

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