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This has been making the rounds, so I’m hardly the first to post it. It’s still pretty amazing though. (Click here to watch a larger version on Youtube. It’s worth watching full-screen.) I’m never quite sure what to think of these whiz-bang features in new versions of Photoshop. They’re great tools for artists, to be [...]

DPReview has posted a typically excellent article explaining the various High-ISO/low-light modes found on compact digital cameras these days. It’s a must-read for anybody who’s looking for a digital point & shoot or who may be in the future. The executive summary is that camera manufacturer marketing departments are dirty, dirty liars, and that these [...]

Hans Nyberg has combined high-res scans of photos taken on the Apollo missions with modern digital image processing techniques to create scrollable, zoomable 360º panoramas of the lunar landing sites. Requires a recent version of QuickTime, and I’m sure they’ll take forever to load on slow internet connections, but it’s well worth it in my [...]

Here’s another one from my summer on Mt. Rainier. Specifically, this was taken on Pinnacle Peak, though not at the actual peak, because I didn’t want to die that day. I was climbing along a rocky ridge as a bank of clouds moved in, and I decided that rather than risk falling off the peak [...]

If you’ve never dropped and lost a lens cap, lens hood, eyepiece, or something worse, you’re probably not out there taking enough pictures. There are some places though where you really don’t want to drop your camera, like, say, orbiting the Earth. Don’t think they’ll be getting that one back. On that topic, here’re a [...]

Wow. Adobe has done the unthinkable and released a beta for the next release of Photoshop. If you’ve got a CS2 license I’d highly recommend going over to the Adobe Labs and signing up for an account and downloading the beta. You’ll have to enter your CS2 serial number on the site to enable the [...]

Looks like it’s for real. Nikon has introduced their D40 entry-level DSLR. I’ve got a couple of friends with D50s, and they’re very nice cameras but I’m not sure I could recommend this one. Most of the features cut from the D50 to make this one aren’t a big deal, but the inability to autofocus [...]

Looks like Nikon is pushing downmarket with their next (unannounced) DSLR, the D40. The rumoured specs and pictures of the camera are easy enough to find with Google, so I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Based on the rumours I’d be a bit reluctant to recommend this one to people; the inability [...]