Posted by Constantin Chirila on Jun 18, 2009 in News
Just a few days back I have found that the people from Avanquest improvised their web application: SendPhotos 2. What’s this? Well is a free photo sharing solution
So what’s so special about this application? Well the most important of all, it has certified support for more than 160 telephones, including iPhone and Blackberry, followed by other features as :
complete revision of the Web client interface
the acceptance of the iPhone
the creation of a plug-in for iPhoto
management of the leading social networks including Facebook, MySpace and Picasa.
The Avanquest SendPhotos photo-sharing web site, now available in the free public Beta 2 version, lets users to shares their photos with friends and family trough the web browser either from PC or Mac, with increased security, due to fact that the photos are completely private, hidden from search engines. Also they offer 1 GB of free space, meaning you can put as close as 1000 images close to a size of 1 mb per photograph, in which you can also store safely your precious photographs.
Bottom line: although this is excellent for people to store photos from their phone, I am not very impressed for it to be an amazing photo-storing or even sharing solution. But I have to admit that I really like the design and functionality of the web site.
Posted by Constantin Chirila on Jun 5, 2009 in News
So what exactly Spider Camera Holster do? Well, it’s a belt clip with a “spider pin” adapter that can be screwed into your camera (where you screw your camera to your tripod). In my honest opinion, this is genius, because moves the weight of the camera from your neck to you neck. Many times i find myself wandering for hours with my camera hanging on my neck, be it a wedding or just walking through the city taking random shots. This is getting tiring and at the end of the day I often find myself with a pain in my neck, or my back. So as soon as it’s released I will definitely buy it and try it to see if it gives the security I need for my camera, because the system looks kind of unsafe for the camera. But, i can also put the neck strap on my shoulder so in case the holster fails at least I have a second thing to count on to hold my camera from crushing to the ground.
Posted by Constantin Chirila on Jun 4, 2009 in Personal
For like 3 days I have joined Twitter with the rest of the bloggers, after understanding and seeing how important is micro-bloging platform for the internet comunity.
So now that I have a Twitter account you can easily follow me at http://twitter.com/ConstantinC or you can easily click on the Twitter icon at the top of the blog near the RSS feed.
What you are going to gain to follow me on Twitter? Well, I usually surf the net a lot, and I find a lot of cool things worth to share, and Twitter allows me to post and share a lot easier than writing an article on the blog. I also daily read more then 60-70 blogs from witch more than half it’s about photography, so I can provide you with more information than this blog allows me.
Posted by Constantin Chirila on Jun 3, 2009 in Releases
Not being used to Pentax releasing innovative cameras, when I first saw the news, I didn’t paid to much attention. But today, from pure curiosity, I watched the presentation of Pentax K-7 DSLR camera, and I am simply stunned of all the cool feature it has, at a very affordable price, 1300$.
That being said i would like to point out some very cool features:
first and foremost it’s the improved high dynamic range that allows the camera to capture more details in darker area of a photograph
another feature first seen in a DSLR camera, it’s the ability to produce a HDR image in camera from 3 different exposures.
77 metering sensors improves the ability of the camera to automatically set the correct exposure of the photograph
ability to embed copyright information into the EXIF of all the photograph, feature seen only in pro DSLRs like Canon 1Ds Mark III or Nikon D3
improved weather sealing on the body of magnesium/steel alloy with steel sub-structure
ability to correct chromatic aberrations and lens distortions in camera.
live view with contrast and face detection focusing
improved vibration reduction with Sensor-shift system
ability to scan the image sensor and exactly points out where you have dust on your sensor, and ability that can help a lot when manually cleaning your sensor
video capture as the rest of the cameras from this generation
dedicated RAW button that allows easy switching between RAW and JPG file formats without wasting time changing it in the menu settings
allows you to custom change the name of the images
another useful feature is the dedicated white balance sensor
and last, but not least cool feature is, THE SIZE, having a very small size compared to Nikon or Canon.
Bottom line is that, they pulled out a cool camera, that I would love to have it in my equipment arsenal. These were only the features that appealed to me, but if you wish to read more about it’s specifications you can go to http://www.pentaximaging.com/slr/K-7/.
So what exactly Spider Camera Holster do? Well, it’s a belt clip with a “spider pin” adapter that can be screwed into your camera (where you screw your camera to your tripod). In my honest opinion, this is genius, because moves the weight of the camera from your neck to you neck. Many times i find myself wandering for hours with my camera hanging on my neck, be it a wedding or just walking through the city taking random shots. This is getting tiring and at the end of the day I often find myself with a pain in my neck, or my back. So as soon as it’s released I will definitely buy it and try it to see if it gives the security I need for my camera, because the system looks kind of unsafe for the camera. But, i can also put the neck strap on my shoulder so in case the holster fails at least I have a second thing to count on to hold my camera from crushing to the ground.
For like 3 days I have joined 
Not being used to Pentax releasing innovative cameras, when I first saw the news, I didn’t paid to much attention. But today, from pure curiosity, I watched the presentation of Pentax K-7 DSLR camera, and I am simply stunned of all the cool feature it has, at a very affordable price, 1300$.
