Review: Olympus Stylus Tough 8000
© Paul Mozell 2010
A descendant of the Olympus 1040 SW, the new Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 features the camera manufacturer’s expertise in rugged design. It is likely that Olympus has done everything possible to protect the inner workings of this point-and-shoot camera from water, shock, and pressure; save encasing it in thick rubber. On one vacation day with the family, for example, you could drop this camera from a maximum height of 6.6 feet, dive underwater to 33 feet, absentmindedly leave it in mini-freezer in your hotel room, and run it over with bellman’s cart full of 220 pounds of luggage and still — be able to make snapshots and movies. Read more
Dressing for Winter Photography
© Paul Mozell 2010 — Although I live in New England, I am often surprised by the intensity of the complaints about winter weather. Its not that I want to keep folks from emigrating to Florida. Rather, knowing how to stay comfortably safe and warm is much easier than most people think. Heat management, and dressing correctly, is the key to getting great photographs of the winter landscape and cold weather sports and activities.
Mushing on Chocorua Lake, New Hampshire © Paul Mozell
Online Photography Sales: Do It Yourself!
© Paul Mozell 2010
Selling your own photographic prints and licensing your work is now a do-it-yourself imperative! The photography marketplace is overflowing with online providers of print production services and increasingly, options for posting and selling licensed images on your own, without the help of a stock agency.
When the bottom fell out of the stock photography market about four years ago, largely due to the success of micro-payment or micro-stock agencies, a number of entrepreneurial small players stepped up and said to photographers, “we’ll give you the tools to sell your own work. Go for it!” You can waste your time uploading hundreds of thousands of images to iStock, Shutterstock, et al who will sell your work for peanuts, Read more
Everyday Adventures With High Definition Proof: The New Olympus STYLUS TOUGH-3000
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., January 7, 2010 – Olympus unveils the STYLUS TOUGH-3000, a shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof compact camera designed to capture all of life’s adventures from the extreme to the everyday. As the first Stylus Tough camera with High-Definition (HD) video, features like Magic Filter that expand your creativity and AF tracking to keep subjects in focus, the STYLUS TOUGH-3000 is as smart as it is durable. It’s also the first of several Stylus Tough cameras to be launched in 2010. Read more
Mamiya Announces iPhone Apps
December 15, 2009 – Elmsford NY – Apps for the Apple iPhone®, especially those designed specifically for photographers, have proven incredibly creative and useful. One that has been welcomed by studio photographers is Mamiya’s Leaf Capture Remote for the new Mamiya DM system. This app transforms an Apple iPhone® or iPod® Touch into a remote image viewer. Read more
Wedding Photography: Designing the 60 Second Spot
My workflow for this “ad”: Export images from Lightroom as jpegs. Import to iPhoto. Import to iMovie HD (I loath the new iMovie). Add a public domain soundtrack from Garageband. Export movie file to desktop and then upload to Youtube.
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