Some editors hide the possibility of inserting special characters mostly in hard-to-find menus. In many cases, this required the use of the mouse, an obstacle to authors. But for some special characters there is a way from ancient Unix times to insert these characters also by keyboard input without a mouse click. …read more
Input Special Characters on the Keyboard with ALT
Flash Release de Luxe – Wireless With Radio
The wireless flash trigger with radio has prevailed in most professional photo studios and is now also available for the amateur photographer at affordable prices.
The remote trigger is already available from EUR 40, -, only additional comfort extras drive the price up. The “Elinchrom EL Skyport” Radio Trigger (see photo) allows to set comfortably the flash power of “Elinchrom” studio flashes. The remote control can be separated up to four channels, an extra USB extension allows remote control of the entire flash unit from a PC or laptop. From “Elinchrom” also receiving units for other non-”Elinchrome” flashes are available, but then of course, without the possibility to change the power of the flash units by the “Elinchrom EL Skyport”-remote control. …read more
Free Your Flash – Slave Flash Trigger
Lightning ignited by remote control – with no cable clutter and for EUR 20.- only.
The slave flash trigger works by the reaction ofits built-in photo cell on the flash of a main unit in or attached to the camera and fires the connected flash unit at the same time.
Unfortunately, this type of flash release is not suitable for all applications. Depending on your camera, on the placement of the flash and on the shooting location sometimes you may have difficulties to overcome. …read more
Free Your Flash – with a Sync Cord
The first step in creative flash photography is the technical possibility, to place one or more flash units independently of the camera around the object. To be the “Master of Light” you can safely turn off the automatic mode of the flash. Thanks to the camera displays the necessary corrections can be checked immediately. Thus, the expensive flash sync cables, which transfer all automatic functions, are not necessary. The solution with a simple flash cable works perfectly. …read more
Free iPhone App: Formula 1 Live Timing
Since October 1999 I like to visit the official website formula1.com for its live timing function of every Formula 1 race. Now all the important information will be available during a Formula 1 race as a free App for the iPhone. Now, during the TV broadcast our television-Couch is no longer heated by my 18 inch laptop. …read more
Focus Error with Zoom Lenses Self-inflicted
With shooting photos of farther away objects at low contrast, the proper focus is often not so easy to fix, no matter whether focusing manually or automatically.
Using a zoom lens at wideangle position brings you close to the temptation to zoom in to the most important detail for more accurate focusing. After focussing you twist back to the desired wide-angle position. …read more
RunKeeper: Practice Control for Endurance Athletes
The iPhone App RunKeeper allows endurance athletes to track their practice sessions and by the way motivates to improve performance. Thanks to the available GPS data on iPhone 3G and 3Gs you get continuously the values for current speed, completed distance, exercise time and burned calories.
Additionally you can check your trip on the Google map. After finishing your practice session, this unit is stored in the Internet by connecting to your account on runkeeper.com and therefore accessible at any time. This can be a convenient way to get a good practice diary of your sportive sessions and gives an overview to your physical progress.
Even in the free version RunKeeper offers the essential features of a good training tracking. …read more
How to Photograph: New Year’s Eve Fireworks
Already Andreas Feininger [*] explained in 1961, that a photo is always just a clipped picture of reality. Attractive is a photo, if there is something visible, that only insufficiently can be detected with the naked eye. New Year’s Eve fireworks are such an appreciative photo object. Good fireworks photos hold in the long run of the luminous traces by the missiles, and show the full splendor of the explosions, which in reality are often much too fast for the human eye.
On New Year’s Eve we have a quarter or longer time for a lot of shots, which then usually should include the one or the other “master shot”. …read more
Christmas Present for Successful Flash-Portraits
Thus, this DVD as a gift can be the necessary kick to your partner to get fine portrait photos of yourself. …read more
Finally: Facebook 3.0 App for iPhone
Yesterday was the finally release of the new Facebook App for the iPhone from Apple. According to the official message from Facebook, there are a lot of new features. Painfully, we miss the opportunity to write own Twitter postings from the app directly.
As the Twitter feature on facebook.com was released only a few days ago, tweeting will be probably possible in the next iPhone version.
Otherwise, however, a lot of painfully missing features in the previous version are now available on the iPhone. Certainly this version of Facebook will soon be found in the first places of the ranking list at the Appstore.
Here is the list of new features available for the iPhone App: …read more