http://www.adorama.com/alc/expert/219 Joe is our digital imaging technique and digital photo equipment innovations expert. <p><span style="font-size: small;">Zeiss has recently introduced a series of spare-no-expenses, top-quality manual-focus lenses optimized for today&rsquo;s digital SLR cameras. Let&rsquo;s put one of them through its paces.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12032 <p>Lots of photographers would like to own a really wide angle, fish-eye lens, but there has always been one major roadblock standing in the way: the price tag. These optical devices are complicated to design and build, and that complexity is ultimately reflected in the cost.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11968 <p>The Olympus E-P1 is a bit of a hybrid. It&rsquo;s not a point and shoot camera, although it looks like one. It isn&rsquo;t an SLR but takes interchangeable lenses.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11849 <p><span style="font-size: small;">When it comes to knowing the difference between program, auto, Tv, Av, and manual, do you feel a bit green? After this in-depth look at DSLR modes, you&rsquo;ll be an expert!</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11810 <p><span style="font-size: small;">How to put together a complete location/studio lighting kit that will fit in a carry-on bag</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11797 <p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Is this $10 app for the Apple iPhone a wireless remote shutter release killer? Let&rsquo;s touch the screen and find out!</em></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11672 <p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Here's a great idea: Use a wide-angle auxiliary lens attachment to compensate for your digital SLR's small sensor crop factor! Does it work?</em></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11587 <p><em>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 51</em></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11585 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 29</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11517 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 28</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11516 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 27</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11515 <p>.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11514 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 25</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11513 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 24</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11504 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 23</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11503 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 22</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11502 <p><span style="font-size: small;">100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 21<br /></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11494 <p>100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 20</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11493 <p><span style="font-size: small;">100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 19</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11477 <p><span style="font-size: small;">100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 19</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11476 <p><span style="font-size: small;">100 photo product profiles in 100 days: Day 18</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11475 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11463 <p>Part I</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11462 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8655 More and more cameras are offering higher ISO settings and along with the good news comes the bad. Noise in digital photographs is the visual equivalent of static you hear in radio signals. Most http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10906 (Editor's note: Thanks to the holdiay, we're giving you a "100 in 100" double feature today!) In this time of high-tech image stabilized and vibration reduction lenses as well as anti-shake cap http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10907 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8654 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8653 Day 82: Most lenses are designed to work under normal lighting conditions. In photographic terms, "normal" generally means outdoors. Normal lighting may work in overcast weather, shade of trees http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10905 Day 81: As the days get shorter, you will find it necessary to shoot in lower light—indoors as well as at night. This week, 100 in 100 explores ways to get the best quality images after the sun http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10904 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8652 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8642 Day 75: These days most digital SLRs offer multiple methods for metering the light in a scene. The most common method includes Multi-segment, sometimes called “matrix” or multi-zone metering. Th http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10887 Day 74: Another very useful exposure tool found on some digital cameras is the highlight alert feature that my pal Barry Staver calls the "blinkies" or "marching ants." When the highlight alert http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10886 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8643 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8644 Day 73: Correct exposure is critical, maybe even more so for digital capture than film, especially color negative film. That because the latitude (the ability to over or underexpose an image) is http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10883 Day 72: Contrast is the difference in brightness between light and dark areas in a scene and can be a function of the subject matter, lighting conditions, or a little of each. Controlling contra http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10873 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8645 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8646 (This week, we return to Joe Farace's ongoing series on exposure as Joe unlocks the mysteries of understanding how shadows and highlights work in the world of digital exposure.) Light has thr http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10880 In case you missed our ongoing 100 in 100 photo tip-a-day feature while Adorama was closed for the holidays, here's a chance to catch up on recently-posted tips: October 16/Day 34: Effect? Scene http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10778 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8597 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8595 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8594 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8593 Day 31: This week, Joe Farace takes an in-depth look at understanding digital exposure and the various metering and exposure controls on digital SLR cameras. Photographers, like skiers, can http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10773 Day 32: Shutter priority—aka Time Value, hence the abbreviation—mode is ideal for photographing subjects in motion, such as sports and action photography. Selecting Tv on the camera’s Mode Dial http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10774 Day 33: Scene Modes are Program mode on steroids. They turn the whole job of exposure over to camera's CPU to not only make all of the relevant exposure choices—and maybe even ISO and color bala http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10775 Day 20: When using the substitution method, you replace an object within the scene with an object of known reflectance, such as a Kodak Gray Card and take a reflected-light meter reading from th http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10744 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8574 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8577 Day 19: If you've read yesterday's tip, you've probably already figured out that this method asks you to take a light meter reading from the highlight area within a scene but if you remember how http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10733 Day 18: If the shadow areas of the scene are most important, you might be tempted just take a meter reading only from that area. If you do this, you could overexpose the image and cause total la http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10716 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8578 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8579 Day 17: You can always put your DSLR in green mode and just point it at the subject and click. Many times this will produce an acceptable exposure. For those times when it doesn’t, you need to t http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10706 Day 16: I'm always surprised at the number of people who don't care about correct exposure, using the already worn-out phrase, "I'll just fix it later in Photoshop." Where exposure is concerned, http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10673 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8580 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8546 The 10MP E-520 is slotted in Olympus’ product line between the compact and inexpensive E-420 and the pro-level E-3. It shares the compact size—but it’s not quite as small—as the E-420, along wit http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10511 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8551 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8538 Level: Advanced/Pro Day 95: Today, Joe Farace wraps up his adventures in self-publishing a photo book by showing you how and when to hit the "print" button. When you think you are finished ad http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10398 Level: Advanced/Pro Day 94: Blurb.com's BookSmart includes a number of standard book pages including Title, Introduction, Copyright, and Introduction so be sure to use them in to make your book http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10458 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8537 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8536 Level: Advanced/Pro The geek term is for printing one or more books only when you want them is “print on demand” and Blurb.com is one of the websites that lets you produce your own books in qua http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10455 Level: Advanced/Pro Day 92: Sometimes a publisher simply doesn’t understand your original idea and after you self-publish your book you might consider sending a copy to a traditional publisher http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10452 Day 91: Self-publishing books, thanks to the Internet and computer technology, has never been easier. But this is no vanity press: If you have professional aspirations, self-publishing is a soli http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10449 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8534 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8497 Day 55: Aspect ratio is the numerical relationship between the height of the image and its width, and is usually expressed with two numbers. All 35mm cameras use the same 24x36mm (3:2) format an http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10357 Day 54: At some workshops and events I attend, photographers often show me inkjet prints and ask what’s wrong with them. Most times, the answer is simply that the heads are clogged and need to b http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10353 Day 44: There are two big myths about making great scans: The first is that the process is so difficult that it’s beyond the capabilities of the average person. The second is that it is really e http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10335 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8486 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8474 Day 32: It’s April Fool's day--a fine time to learn a Photoshop fake-out! And in keeping with this week’s “100 in 100” theme, it has to do with water. One way to increase an image’s drama is http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10306 Kodak Professional High Speed Infrared (HIE) film was a high-speed color slide film with moderately high contrast and was sensitive to light and radiant energy to 900 nanometers (nm) in waveleng http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10304 <p><em>Can you really fake color infrared digitally?</em></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8473 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8466 Day 29: A color’s wavelength is measured in nanometers or one billionth of a millimeter with light having wavelengths from 700 and 900 nm is considered to be infrared. This band of infrared ligh http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10301 Day 28: Because the imaging sensors in digital camera are sensitive to more than visible light, some manufacturers place an infrared cut-off filter in front of the chip to block IR light from st http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10299 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8472 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8471 Day 27: Is your digital camera capable of infrared (IR) capture? Point a TV remote control at the lens, push a button, and take a picture or look at the image on the LCD panel. If you see a poin http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10296 Day 26: Back in the days of IR film, you had to use special film and load and unload your camera in total darkness to reduce the damage of fogging. To shoot infrared film you also needed special http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10294 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8470 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8458 Day 20: If you're an eBay seller, you don’t need fancy studio flashes--a simple hot light will illuminate your products quite well. Here’s what you need to know—excerpted from Joe Farace’s class http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10279 Day 6: Races are not always run on bright sunny days--sometimes they race at night. Events such as the 12 Hours of Sebring, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, some races in the American LeMans Serie http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10248 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8441 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8437 Day 2: No single noise reduction program or Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug-in is a perfect solution and while you may try hard, working through the many options, choices and sliders, the softwa http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10242 <p>Even back in the old film days, you had two decisions about making prints: You can do it yourself, or have somebody else make them for you.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8424 The new Olympus E-3 is the flagship of its digital SLR line and combines speed of operation--from startup to capture—with live view and dust-reduction capabilities. It has body-integrated mechanica http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10074 Day 78: Larger capacity memory cards let you store more images but also cost more leading to a debate about what's best option: Fewer, larger capacity cards or more, lower-capacity cards?...[Read http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/10026 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8398 http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8380 Day 64: Noise in digital photographs is the visual equivalent of static. Most digital cameras add some level of noise to images. In traditional photography the nearest equivalent is film grain. Dig http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/9998