2010 American Photo Editors' Choice Awards, Photomicrography and More!

2010 American Photo Editors’ Choice Awards, Photomicrography and More!	View this email online

	October 14, 2010 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines From the Forums: Adobe Photoshop CS5 or Elements 9, which do you prefer to use? Our readers share their thoughts. Join and Contribute!

	2010 American Photo Editors' Choice Of the hundreds of products released this year, these are the ones that matter most, the true innovations in the field. Gallery: The Year's Best Photomicrography Finalists from Nikon's 2010 Small World competition are beautiful, educational. Gallery: Nikkor 200-400 f/4 VR II Sample Images We took Nikon's new superzoom out for some serious "field" testing. New Gear: Lensbaby Launches Scout, a 12mm Fisheye Lens The company’s first non-bending lens offers a 160-degree viewing angle. Photo of the Day Think your photos have what it takes to be named Photo of the Day? Then upload your best shots to our Flickr page. See the whole gallery here TECH SUPPORT Saving Memory Cards Q. While making prints at a local store from an SD card, I saw that I had more than 300 pictures on it. Formerly this would have meant 10 slide trays and a lot of expense. Why not keep the pictures on and label the SD card, make prints when I want them, run slide shows on my TV, forget about filling my computer with files that will crash, and save a lot of shelf space? Too good an idea? A. It depends. While memory cards are quite robust, they can, and do, fail. That’s why, as with any type of electronic storage, we recommend redundant backup. Of course, you could do this with additional memory cards. Hard-drive storage is much easier and faster to search and organize, especially if your organizer is catalog-based, like Adobe Lightroom. The only other issue we’d worry about is loss of those postage-stamp-sized cards.

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The Future of Cameras. Plus, Photographing the Human Eye and More!

The Future of Cameras. Plus, Photographing the Human Eye and More!	View this email online

	October 7, 2010 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines From the Forums: How old do you think is too old for a digital SLR? Our readers share their thoughts. Join and Contribute!

	Future Tech: A look at Next Gen Cameras Edible cameras. Focus that changes after you shoot. What's really in store for photo technology? How To: Photograph Your Own Eye Create a startling close-up with a ring flash. Why Sensor Size Changes the Angle of View Learn how to understand the crop factor. Gallery: Canon Powershot SD4500 Sample Shots We spent some time with Canon's new superzoom compact. Photo of the Day Think your photos have what it takes to be named Photo of the Day? Then upload your best shots to our Flickr page. See the whole gallery here TECH SUPPORT Crop Now or crop later? Q. Generally speaking, which would give better results with distant subjects: an 18–200mm zoom at 200mm without cropping, or an 18–55mm zoom at 55mm with cropping afterwards? A. You’d have to blow up the image from a 55mm lens to16x20 inches to get about the same subject magnification as an 8x10 made from a 200mm lens. It’s technically feasible that, given a very good short lens and not-so-good long, they would provide about equal optical quality under these conditions. But it’s immaterial—the longer lens would still give you a much better image. Why? Given that you’d be enlarging the image from the shorter lens nearly twice as much as that of the longer lens, it would end up with half the dots-per-inch resolution. This would be like an image from a 12MP sensor compared to that of a 3MP sensor. (Halve the dots per inch in an image, and you get 1/4 of the dots overall.) Bottom line: If you want to magnify the image, do it in the camera.

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