George Schaub

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Medium Format Update
Breaking News And Highlights
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2002

Pentax 645NII
We start off with a new 6x4.5 format camera from Pentax, the 645NII. This second generation manifestation of the popular 645N adds mirror up functionality on the drive mode dial, a choice of EV increments in exposure compensation...

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Nikon D1x
Defining The Professional Digital SLR
George Schaub  |  Sep 01, 2001  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2001

The long awaited and anticipated Nikon D1X arrived in our offices the other day, and we couldn't wait to get to work with it. To those who have worked with a Nikon D1 the camera offers similar handling and workflow, although there have...

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Get Into Superwide With Sigmas 20mm f1.8 EX DG Aspherical RF Lens
George Schaub  |  Sep 01, 2001

Photographers have always been fascinated by super wide angle focal lengths. This focal length range, including 20mm, expands peripheral vision beyond the scope of human vision, and does so with a potential depth of field that makes...

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Samsung Maxima Elite 170QD
A 38 to 170mm Point And Shoot Zoom In A Coat Pocket Camera
George Schaub  |  Jul 01, 2001

Point-and-shoot zoom ranges keep getting more impressive. Not long ago the 35-105mm was the king; now, with Samsung's Maxima Elite 170QD we have a 4.4x zoom that stretches out to a rather incredible 170mm. Of course, point-and-shoot...

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Show Reports
Product Parade
George Schaub  |  May 01, 2001

What happens when you let
loose a team of crack photo and digital imaging reporters onto the floor
of America's biggest photo and digital imaging show? Read on.

Each year, the Photo Marketing...

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Olympus Camedia E 20N
A 5 Megapixel SLR With Super Fast Shutter Speeds, and More
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2002  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2001

The Olympus Camedia E-20N is the latest in their series of high-end digital cameras that straddle the line between consumer and professional markets. Although the E-20N does not offer interchangeable lenses, it stretches the envelope on the consumer side by offering features and abilities that outstrip...

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The Canon EOS D30 Digital SLR
George Schaub  |  Mar 01, 2001

When they first arrived on the scene digital SLRs were well beyond the means of all but the well heeled. News organizations, sports photojournalists, government photographers, and the corporate world were the first to take advantage of the new tech...

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The Contax T3
Lens Shutter Plus
George Schaub  |  Aug 01, 2001  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2000

Professional photographers need a snapshot camera, too. But they require one that delivers the sharpness they have come to expect in their working cameras and a quality look and feel. Happily, there is a small, and somewhat pricey class...

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First Look
The Ricoh RDC 5300
George Schaub  |  Jun 01, 2000

The digital camera market has seen a lot of new introductions lately, many of which are in the 3.3Mp family. There have also been many introductions of cameras with less pixel power, all priced accordingly. Along with this range of prices and pixel packing has come an understanding of when and...

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Newsletter
Color Play
George Schaub  |  Jan 18, 2005

There are times when you want your color to exactly match what's in the
scene, but for the most part color is a fairly subjective matter that can be
tweaked with ease in just about any image-editing program. Color has a hue--like
yellow, green or blue--as well as a vividness, which in photography is
often called its saturation. In addition, color can have a cast, which is influenced
by the prevailing lighting conditions when we make the photograph. That cast
can be influenced by the light source itself, such as photographing under direct
sun versus what we'd get when photographing under tungsten lights, and
by the position of the subject in relation to that light source, such as the
difference between photographing in the shade or open light. In addition, color
can also be influenced by the recording medium itself, be it film or digital,
and how the film is made or the digital image processor is programmed to change
the color during the recording processing.

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