Photography

The Canon Digital Rebel/EOS 300D has been released to the wild. Or DPReview anyway. A “low cost” digital SLR, selling at $900US for the body, which makes it about $83,000,000 Canadian, but still a drop from the $1,500 EOS-10D. Thanks to The Scobleizer Weblog for the link. I’m still waiting to see if the Pentax […]

Legal Handbook for Photographers is an interesting look at the legalities of what you can and can’t take photographs of, and what rights people who object to you taking photographs of have. Good link (and story) from Accordion Guy.

Darren wanted pictures from a cats point of view, so I present this beauty, representing what they see every morning when they show up at 6:14am to lick my nose and pet themselves on my goatee.

Cool find fozbaca. Snap Club sounds pretty cool for the photo-addicted of us. I like how Foz put it, “find the art in the chaos”. Interestingly enough, the photo staring at me from the frontpage is by none other than…. foz! How trippy is that. I’m not sure the point of the site, other than

Wow, found Panoramic Photography by Brad Templeton and it’s a sweet site, with about 80,000 panoramas for your multi-desktop pleasure. Now I just need more monitors for some of the 360 degree shots!

Finished off my roll of film the other day and got it developed at London Drugs using their “we’ll put your images onto CD but we’ll rip you off by charging you $2 for a blank CD” deal to try it out. The images I got back weren’t bad, what you see haven’t gone through

A very nice review of the A70 that K just got Tig, and that I’m more and more seriously looking at getting when I get my next paycheck, assuming those nasty end of month bills don’t leave me starving and on the street.

Salam Pax, the now famous blogger in Baghdad who writes at Where is Raed? has a photojournal up. Very cool, and a bit eerie I guess, to see life in Baghdad. Normally you can only see it through the eyes of the tv cameras and professionals, and this is just some guy who lives there.

… but not for me. Tig is a bastard, and here is the proof.

This might interest dad, whose been doing some digital imaging and stuff like that. I asked the random($foo) guy a couple of questions about his photography and he threw back some great stuff. I noted he used the EOS-10D as a camera but when I first looked at it I thought “nah, it’s an SLR,