You know how it is on vacation. You take your camera, shoot pictures, and when you get home you see that you forgot to set the date/time on your camera. Even worse: your wife also took a camera with her, and she actually read the manual and set the time correctly. So now you have two sets of photos with mismatching …

I recently bought a 50mm lens with a circular polarizer. I though I'd share some quick examples to show what a polarizer filter does for your photo's. The polarization effect is probably one of the few (if not only) effect which you can not reproduce in photoshop or any other image processing program. Most applications …

If you have a Canon Ixus 80IS, like me, and you shoot video for your widescreen television at home (like me), you may want to try out this little trick. The Canon Ixus is a 4:3 camera. The video that comes out of it is almost square shaped. When you try to make a 16:9 video, you can stretch it, or crop it. Cropping is …

My wife bought me a playstation 3 last year, and I've enjoyed many hours of gaming on it, finishing Tomb Raider underworld, and now making decent progress in Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. I was a bit sceptical about the DLNA capabilities of the PS3, because I read a lot of bad news on this fairly new …

Last sunday, I was at the Zoom Experience 2008 in Utrecht. The organization has learned a lot since last year's debute of the Zoom Experience. There was plenty of room to walk, lots of places to sit down and talk, and the talks were in seperate areas with less noise. This is what the Zoom Experience looked like on …

We have returned from our trip to New York. Actually, we've been staying in Weehawken, New Jersey to visit Manhattan. Today I maxed out my upload limit for this month to put the pictures online. You can see them at my 32hq account (because Flickr hurts my eyes). Enjoy the pictures. When the monthly upload limit expires …

Since Wordpress has a 50MB space limit for images uploaded to the blog, I was looking for a place to host my galleries. Some friends of mine have Flickr accounts but I really hate it's cluttered and non-intuitive user interface. Yesterday evening I found a very good alternative to Flickr, which actually is much cooler. …

Hi, I just discovered oypo.nl, an online service for photographers to sell prints of their photographs. It's a simple concept, where a photographer uploads images, and the website sells prints of these images to anybody who orders them. Part of the commision is going back to the photographer, and to some extent the …

As a Mac user, I have absolutely no problem editting, moving and viewing large video, audio and image files. There was one thing I missed though, and that is a tool which is able to quickly view a large JPG (like OSX's own preview) but then skip to the next image in the directory when selecting "next". Today …

Do you still want "that last lens and that's it"? According to the statistics on this page, you probably already have the right lens in your camera bag. Chances are that you are using your cheapest lens most often. The best quote from this page must be "The cost of the lens is inversely proportional to …