3D compact from Rollei

Powerflex 3D

This month comes the German manufacturer Rollei with a compact 3D. With this Powerflex 3D you can shoot both photos and video in 3D.
To create 3D images with the Powerflex, the camera features two lenses and 5 megapixels CMOS image sensors. Recording can the compact in HD quality (720p) at 30 frames per second. Of course it is also possible to take normal, two-dimensional images (8x zoom) and HD video shots.
At the back of the camera Powerflex you find a 2.8-inch LCD screen where you can watch the images directly. Thanks to the special Parallax Barrier technology for reviewing the three-dimensional pictures and videos are no special 3D glasses needed. Using an HDMI connector you can see the images directly on a 3D television. To do this you special glasses.
The Rollei Powerflex 3D is available from January for a suggested retail price of $412,00

More information: www.rollei.com.

Camera Gadget: Super Secret Spy Lens

secret spy lens

Always wanted shoot people ’in the wild’, but fear the reaction? With the Super-Secret Spy Lens you can get shoot almost unnoticed. Your objective is longer, but don’t let that spoil the fun.
A lens that does not look straight ahead, but to the side: this is the Spy Lens in a nutshell. And since few people pay attention to the camera, but to the direction were the lens points, you can sneak the most bizarre photos. And those are often the nicest.

The Spy Lens is actually a lens you mount on the front of your 'real' lens with the supplied adapter. Without the Spy Lens adapter fits on a lens with a filter size of 52 mm. For any other format is an optional adapter ring needed. The range starts at 49 mm ($ 5) runs through to 77 mm ($ 10). This ring you screw on your lens like you would do with a filter. Instead, then place the Spy lens on it and you can start.

Tilted mirror
On the side of the lens is a hole. If you look in it, you'll see a tilted mirror, which ensures that your camera is not looking straight forward, but in another direction. The whole you can turn left, right, top and bottom. So if you want to shoot someone in front of you, then you have to turn sideways  to that person. The front of the Spy Lens features a translucent piece of glass, making it looks like a normal lens.

Vignetting

The lens fits using adapter and gradient ring on each camera and almost any lens.

Some drawbacks still deserves mention here. First you have to deal with vignetting. Only with a super zoom lens that’s minimal. The Spy Lens is only usable on tele (zoom) lenses, but not on a fish-eye or wide angle lens. In addition, you suddenly have a gigantic long lens, which is obviously less practical in use. Only a real photographer however, will see at a glance that it is not a normal lens.

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Photographing in the snow

Snow Picture

Tips exposure and white balance

Overexposed and adjust white balance is sometimes necessary for really white pictures.

Winter Landscape Photography

If everything looks as white and beautiful  it’s sometimes hard to choose what to photograph. Go look at a nature reserve, a meadow  or a forest. Perhaps there is an area nearby  where wild horses or cows are.  From steamy, large animals in a serene, white landscape you can make stunning photos. Find preferably an area that is known. 

Composition

In addition to find a subject, the photographer have a greater task for making a good composition. Normally in a compilation of picture elements often make use of colors and surfaces. But virtually the only color in a snowy winter landscape is white and the smaller areas are covered with snow. Take particular something in the foreground for additional depth to the picture creation, a handrail, a set of skis, a twig, be creative. Diagonal lines also reinforce the feeling of depth.  A fence, ridge or forest can be good for this to use. Consider also the 1/3-2/3 rule, the focus SLR camera as that one third of the image is blue sky, against two parts white snow. It brings the composition into balance.

Polarizer: Use a polarizing filter to intensify the blue sky.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reverberation

However snow looks beautiful, it remains a difficult subject to photograph. When the sun shines on it, the white layer reflects much light. The camera do not always deal with it. It's sunny and there is some blue sky in the picture, then the probability the automatic setting gives a good result.  With cloudy weather the reflected light destroys a good light measurement quickly. The light meter measures many 'false' light reflections from the snow and therefore stops to early exposing the snow so the snow is gray and the whole picture is too dark. Who understands the histogram of an image can also ascertain whether the photo is underexposed, by a photo with a large share of snow, a large peak to the far right side of the diagram can be seen. Is the peak is not exactly right, then the chance of a dark picture is great.

Exposure Compensation

In order to solve this exposure compensation  can be used.   This function usually has a square pictogram with a plus and a minus sign. When you choose now for a compensation of +2/3 or +1 you make the picture actually to light, but this just compensates the deviation of the camera. If possible, always make a few photos with different exposure compensation, a bracketing-ranging from 0 to +1.5. When the offset is too much, then the details in the lightest parts fall away. 

The road acts as a sight line that our eyes automatically follow. It provides depth in the photo of snowy trees.

 

White Snow

Is the place of the subject in the shade, there is a significant chance of a blue image. Experiment with the white balance mode cloudy or shadow, whether it adequately addresses, otherwise, the white balance manually will help. Select manual white balance, focus on beautiful, white snow and shoot. The device now knows what is really white and takes the test as a benchmark measurement.

Camera and cold

People are usually well dressed against the cold. The camera gets no extra coat, although the technique is more difficult in the cold. Battery life seems shorter, so every day have at least a fully charged battery or a spare set of batteries. In extreme cold weather, the camera even can quit. Carry the camera under your coat can help. Otherwise care for a sturdy, insulated camera bag.