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Buying a digital camera: when megapixels don’t matter

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Mathew Lodge

Thinking about buying a new digital camera? The best advice I can give you is to avoid maxing out megapixels and you’ll get sharper photographs with less grain (noise). This seems counter-intuitive, but is the effect of camera technology running … Continue reading →

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The Myth Of More Megapixels

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Mathew Lodge

On a recent trip to Asia, I was browsing an electronics duty free store in Tokyo airport, chock full of the latest cameras. Not being able to read Japanese, the only recognizable characters in the displays were the numbers — … Continue reading →

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Using Canon 50D and 5D MkII with older Photoshop and Lightroom versions

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Mathew Lodge

Judging by the comments on photography sites, many people have yet to upgrade Adobe Photoshop CS3 to CS4, or Lightroom 1.x to 2.x. Adobe doesn’t update the Camera Raw plug-in for older versions of Photoshop, which is a problem because … Continue reading →

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