Photography With the HassleBlad.

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Hasselblad, the Swedish camera company, has launched a $7,000 photographic camera, marketing its style and convenience. It certainly is handsome. It certainly is $7,000.How does $400 sound instead?For that, you can find one of the used Hasselblad film cameras, which are largely discarded with all the advent of photography. (Both prices add a lens. For extra perspective, consider that new, professional digital Hasselblads select upwards of $20,000.)The tariff of all film cameras has plummeted, but Hasselblad is often a special case. Its medium-format machines -- which take pictures on negatives much larger than the normal 35mm size, making for finer resolution -- remained virtually unchanged to the better portion of 50 years. "Essentially,...

Nikon Coolpix S31 Waterproof Camera

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Nikon Coolpix S31 Handling The Nikon Coolpix S31 differs from the majority of compact cameras, for the reason that it has four buttons for the left with the screen - they're used to control most options. The zoom control is around the right, with an on/off button around the top and to use shutter release and video start buttons on either side. The menus include large text and bold, colourful icons, with options selected with all the four buttons on the left hand side with the camera. The life...

Video Tutorial Canon EOS 101

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 Canon U.S.A. has launched a brand new tutorial video series that can show photographers how to improve their photographic skills. The Canon EOS 101 tutorial video series, available 24/7 on the Canon Digital Learning Center and Canon’s YouTube channel, provides entry-level Canon EOS users, photography students and anyone not used to using a digital SLR camera the guidance essential in helping enhance their imaging skills. You can access the Canon Digital Learning Center via the link below. Website:...

Canon PowerShot SX50 HS

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In the ever-increasing battle for your biggest, baddest megazoom on this planet, Canon has fired its latest salvo using the PowerShot SX50 HS. This digital camera's 50x optical zoom delivers the equivalent of 24-1200mm vary from a 24mm wide-angle lens, and boasts several improvements over the PowerShot SX40 HS, an IR favorite plus a popular Dave's Pick. But staggering range isn't every one of the SX50 HS offers. A refined 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor as well as a DIGIC 5 processor was created to...

Photography exhibition Limerick hotel

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A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition by students at Limerick College of Further Education moved on display in the Absolute hotel on Sir Harry’s Mall.Second year students have exhibited a variety of their act on the college’s third annual photography exhibition.Eoin McCarthy, head in the photography department, containing seen students win many national awards and build successful careers in photography, said you'll find 30 images on display from portraits, landscapes, abstract, still life, urban shots, and advertising photos. An advertising image by Martin Frank was selected because the overall winner for the night.The college currently offers two one-year full time courses in photography. Students who successfully complete the courses receive FETAC and...

Eddie Adams Day Photography Festival

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Eddie Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and photojournalist, is being remembered earlier this week with the Eddie Adams Day Photography Festival. This is going to be its second year.Born in New Kensington in 1933, Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his famous capture on camera of the South Vietnamese police chief executing a Viet Cong prisoner on a Saigon street throughout the Vietnam War. He continued to mark his legacy with noteworthy portraits of celebrities and politicians with his fantastic coverage of 13 wars until his death in 2004.Dan Henderson, president from the New Kensington Camera Club, that's sponsoring the Eddie Adams Day event, said he is looking forward to a substantial turnout.Similar...

Photography show in sunken warship

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A former World War II warship that got a new life being an artificial reef is an underwater art gallery.The USS Mohawk CGC was sunk inside Gulf of Mexico about 30 miles off Sanibel Island of a year ago. This month, 12 images by Austrian photographer Andreas Franke are already installed within the sunken ship.The photographs will continue on display through Sept. 14. Each image is encased in steel-framed Plexiglas, but tiny marine organisms are required to find a way into the frames, giving the pictures a unique patina.For the project, Franke superimposed images of models in World War II clothing onto original photographs.Lee County tourism officials say the 165-foot Mohawk launched attacks against German U-boats and rescued 300 survivors coming...