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Photographer Ken Rockwell writes about taking pictures using the Real Raw format: Film. He argues that using film is better in many ways. His article on Why We Love Film compares film and digital photography, and film comes out looking very good. But digital still has its uses. For example, it is very useful for [...]

There are a many choices for online storage. However, many of them only give you a gigabyte or two for free. This is where Microsoft’s Skydrive is changing the game: They give you 25 GB of free online storage space with a 50 MB limit of individual files. You need a Windows Live ID to [...]

Dpreview is at it again: They have posted a review of nine ultra compact digital cameras. This is the second round of reviews as they earlier reviewed nine budget cameras. The nine ultra compact digital cameras are: Canon PowerShot SD790IS Casio Exilim EX-S10 Fujifilm FinePix Z200fd Nikon Coolpix S210 Nikon Coolpix S60 Olympus Stylus 1040 [...]

Just in time for the holiday season, Dpreview has posted a review of nine budget digital cameras. So if you are in the market for a digital camera that won’t break the bank, this review is worth reading. The cameras are: Canon Powershot A470 Canon Powershot A590 IS Fujifilm FinePix Z20fd Kodak Easyshare C1013 Nikon [...]

Google is now hosting millions of historic LIFE photos from the 1750s all the way till today. It provides an interesting view of historic events. Using Google’s search functionality, you can browse the photos any which way you want. Browsing by year, for example, shows the zeitgeist of the time. It is easy to get [...]

Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery 3.0 [via gHacks blog post Photo Recovery Software] can recover images from a memory card. If you have ever accidentally deleted photos from a card or formatted the card, you know how valuable such a program is. Or it can help you out if your memory card is corrupt because [...]

A digital camera’s sensor has a more limited dynamic range than the human eye. This means that if you expose a photo for the bright areas, the camera may not “see” details in the dark area that your eye can see. Likewise, if you expose a photo for the shadows, the camera may not “see” [...]

IrfanView is a fast and small picture and photo viewer. It handles just about every picture and photo file format available. Using IrfanView you can crop, rotate, enlarge, and otherwise manipulate pictures. There is a powerful batch processing feature that allows you to perform the same manipulations to many pictures at once. It will show [...]