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Photographing basketball on the cheap

By Tom Bonner | Published: February 12, 2009

Indoor basketball shot with a Vivitar M42 lens and Minolta 4000AF flash. Would a top-of-the-line lens/flash combination produce a better image? Feb. 11, 2009 Sports photography is breed apart. In most forms of photography the photographer takes his or her time, carefully adjusting the lighting and arranging the scene to capture the perfect image. It’s [...]

Also posted in Aftermarket Lenses, Flash unit, Lenses, Photography | 9 Comments

Shooting BarCamp Charlotte with a M42 lens on the A350

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 27, 2009

Certainly NOT your father’s Oldsmobile. Jan 26, 2009: I had a chance to attend BarCamp Charlotte last weekend. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, barcamps consist of a loosely organized group of bloggers, internet marketers, computer programmers, film makers, web developers and new media types. While photographers weren’t as well represented as some of [...]

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Sony A350 — the perfect dSLR to photograph model trains

By Tom Bonner | Published: January 23, 2009

1/64 scale steam locomotive captured with Sony A350′s tilt-out live view system. Jan 21, 2009: For the last several years, I’ve taken the grandkids to see the “trains, trains, trains” exhibit at the Kings Mountain Historical Museum. Held each December, the event is put on by the Carolinas Division of the Atlantic Coast S-Gaugers. S-gauge [...]

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A visit to the Bob Timberlake Gallery in Lexington, NC

By Tom Bonner | Published: December 19, 2008

Is that antique sailing canoe levitating in thin air? Find out in the image gallery. Dec. 17, 2008 A few weeks ago, we dropped in at the Bob Timberlake art gallery in Lexington, North Carolina. My wife fostered my original interest in Timberlake’s art. Then, while we were living in Wilmington, the St. John s [...]

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Apple pickin’ with the Sony Alpha A350

By Tom Bonner | Published: November 24, 2008

F/9 at 28mm and extremely shallow depth of field? Only from the mind of Minolta Nov. 25, 2008 A couple weeks ago my wife suggested we go apple picking. It has been a while since I last picked apples and as the last of the fall colors were still decorating the trees, I agreed immediately. [...]

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A visit to historic Old Salem Village

By Tom Bonner | Published: October 31, 2008

We spent a couple of days in Winston-Salem (North Carolina) recently. One of the highlights was a visit to Old-Salem Village. Established by the Moravians in the 1700s, the village is an interesting mix of modern shops in a historical setting. Unlike most attractions of this type, the town is freely open to everyone, with [...]

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Sony Alpha DSLR-A300/A350 Digital Field Guide: Coming Soon!

By Tom Bonner | Published: October 27, 2008

I’m back…. I haven’t abandoned Alphatracks…although it probably seemed like I had. In actuality, I have been wrapped up finishing the Sony Alpha DSLR-A300/A350 Digital Field Guide  for Wiley Press. It was a lot of work, with many late nights and more than a few weekends spent rewriting text and editing images. I really enjoyed [...]

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Sony Alpha A350 ships — Adobe pulls ACR update

By Tom Bonner | Published: March 26, 2008

Sony has started shipping the Alpha A350. I took delivery of one of the big orange boxes last week and have started putting the A350 through it’s paces. So far, I am fairly pleased with the 14m dSLR — I will post a review with samples shortly. I had hoped to update my copy of [...]

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Sony Alpha division manager interviewed on The Digital Photography Show

By Tom Bonner | Published: February 21, 2008

Mark Weir, the Senior Technology and Marketing Manager for Sony’s Alpha dSLR division appears in an interview on the latest podcast from The Digital Photography Show. I am a frequent listener to the DPS podcast. It is an easy-going. no-stress show. Hosts Scott Sherman and Michael Stein freely admit they aren’t professional photographers — they [...]

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Sony Alpha news explodes at PMA 2008

By Tom Bonner | Published: February 3, 2008

What a difference a year makes. At the 2007 PMA show Sony Alpha dSLR line was shunned by most of the press. There were no great announcements, although Sony did show off two mockups of yet unnamed dSLRs. The “Advanced Amateur” model eventually came to pass as the A700, while the tantalizing “flagship” is still [...]

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