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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Are you smarter than your camera? 5 ways to prove it

By Tom Bonner | Published: December 28, 2007

Modern dSLRs are technological wonders. They are crammed with components, sensors, LCDs and advanced circuitry. They do everything but talk — and a few are working on that. Despite all this technical wizardry, the average dSLR is fairly dumb. It can’t think. It knows nothing about art, composition or lighting effects. It doesn’t care if [...]

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Alpha A700 firmware upgraded to version 3, upgrade appears Windows only

By Tom Bonner | Published: December 27, 2007

Sony has released another firmware update for the Sony Alpha A700, which will update the camera’s firmware to Version 3. Sony says the new firmware will fix several issues with the A700. Sony discovered that occasionally an Alpha A700 SLR would stop responding with the Access lamp lit after capturing several images in quick succession. [...]

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Street photography: are you licensed to photograph in public?

By Tom Bonner | Published: December 20, 2007

Has anyone ever tried to prevent you from taking photographs in a public place? I’ve read about other photographers who have been harassed while they were capturing images even though they had every right to do so. For the last thirty years, I could say that no one had ever interfered with my photographic endeavors. [...]

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Full frame sensor with image stabilization revisted

By Tom Bonner | Published: December 14, 2007

There is intense interest in the yet unnamed and unannounced full frame Sony Alpha (possibly to be called the A900?) among Alphatracks readers. I recently received another e-mail suggesting further ideas regarding the full frame sensor with in-camera image stabilization problem. Or non-problem, depending on which theory you wish to follow. This time around, Marek [...]

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