exposure

Flickr and Picnik: Online photo editing made even easier

Crave As well as sophisticated resizing and cropping options, you can use sliders to alter exposure, contrast, sharpening and assorted levels. It's all go at Flickr at the moment. Having just tweaked their maps and launched a new uploader application for...

Tags: flickr, editing, account, resizing

10 December 2007, 10:44

Photos: Real sciencey words about Fujifilm's FinePix S8100fd

Crave Pay attention -- here comes the science words: face detection works by triangularating a subject's eyes and mouth, using an algorithmic doohickey to optimalise focus, white balance and exposure for up to ten faces in a single frame.

27 June 2008, 11:03

Hands on with the Ricoh R8: Putting the R8 in gr8?

Crave The thumb control gives you one-touch access to exposure compensation, white balance and ISO level. The brand spanking new Ricoh R8 is a follow-up in name to one of our favourite compact cameras of last year, the R7, although they look nothing alike.

Tags: ricoh, modes, zoom, compact

21 February 2008, 11:10

Crave Talk: To slim or not to slim?

Crave Is that different from cropping or tweaking the exposure, he says, which a digital camera can do before your picture ever escapes? In an attempt to flog more cameras in an age of plenty, HP is busy making a feature out of distortion.

Tags: hp, cameras, reality, photograph

22 September 2006, 10:46

Sony Alpha A900: Full-frame Alpha male

Crave Sony claims this will save you 2.5 to 4 stops of exposure. The Sony Alpha A900 has been knocking about in prototype form for a while, but now the official announcement has been made we can take a look at the camera Sony is placing its (Alpha) bets...

Tags: sony, alpha, resolution, sensor

10 September 2008, 10:52

Fujifilm FinePix F100fd: 100 not out

Crave Like the system introduced to Canon's latest IXUS, face detection 3.0 features automatic red-eye removal and adjusts white balance, as well as focus and exposure. It's nearly time for PMA, and the next of the current rash of camera announcements to...

Tags: fujifilm, face, detection, eye

29 January 2008, 16:28

Canon Digital IXUS 80 IS: Let's face it

Crave It also adds white balance adjustment to the usual exposure and focus settings optimised for faces spotted in the image. With the gargantuan PMA 2008 photography trade show looming, a number of camera manufacturers have already fired out the first...

Tags: canon, detection, iso, face

29 January 2008, 13:06

Samsung S760 and S860: Ain't no party like an S Club Party

Crave This starts with the autofocus spotting a face and focusing on it, at which point the autoexposure kicks in to select the appropriate exposure. Crave has long been aware that the S section of any decent music collection is by far the best.

Tags: samsung, face, megapixel, optical zoom

5 December 2007, 10:09

Canon EOS 1000D: 10-megapixel dSLR announced

Crave The first announced kit includes a Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS lens, complete with image stabilisation that Canon claims will save you four stops of exposure. The rumour mill has been grinding frantically for months, and now it's finally here.

10 June 2008, 10:16

Truth or illusion: What's real on YouTube?

Crave She subsequently discussed the videos on CNN, The Tonight Show and MTV -- not bad exposure for a previous unknown. A single homemade YouTube video can receive millions of visitors a day, so it's little surprise that advertisers are keen to exploit...

Tags: youtube, art, artist, advertising

18 September 2006, 12:50

Nikon Coolpix S500: Model behaviour

Crave The problem with this is that compact cameras don't always perform well at the higher ISO levels required to compensate for such short exposure: early indicators suggest the S500 doesn't deal well with this issue.

Tags: nikon, compact, optical, cameras

9 July 2007, 10:22

Hands-on with the Samsung VP-HMX20: Flash! Ah-aaah!

Crave That flippy-swivelly screen is a 4:3 ratio 69mm (2.7-inch) touchscreen, giving access to manual controls such as exposure and focus via onscreen sliders. Flash! Ah-aaah! He'll save every one of us! In a pre-Bank Holiday treat, today at Crave we got...

23 May 2008, 16:07

Crazy cameras: Seven strange snappers

Crave Perhaps you have some kind of complicated exposure calculations to do. Those zany camera manufacturers. We know they have a sense of humour: just look at the tiny internal memories they slap in our compacts!

20 November 2007, 8:14

Fujifilm FinePix S8100fd: 18x superzoom

Crave You get manual control as well as shutter and aperture priority, and a 5 frame exposure bracketing mode is also available. In the world of technology, there's a number of ongoing todger- measuring battles that just won't go away.

Tags: fujifilm, megapixel, zoom, frames

30 January 2008, 13:03

Nikon D80: Gold! Always believe in your dSLR

Crave You can also overlay two images or create a multiple-exposure image from up to three consecutive shots. The 70s was the kitschy decade that taste forgot, but in the 80s it all got so much worse. Flares get trendy again every few years, but no-one's...

Tags: nikon, eye, lens, inches

10 August 2006, 9:15