All about Light Painting Technique

Light Painting is a photographic technique that consists in photographing moving light sources with a low shutter speed and a long exposure time. Thus, the movement of light is perfectly reflected in the image. For this technique, what is done is to draw with light to create different shapes, words, etc. Surely by now you have seen many ads that apply what I'm telling you.

At Abduzeedo have posted a tutorial in which the French photographer Christopher Hibbert offers some tips on how to take pictures of this type in different situations and how to achieve the desired effect. This is a technique that does not require very high expenditure for equipment, so maybe you want to take a look around and make some tests. The photo below, incidentally, is the very Hibbert.

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Fujifilm F70EXR

Fujifilm F70EXR, a 10x zoom compact

Fujifilm has presentadouna new compact camera that stands out for its 10x zoom. This is the F70EXR, which also offers a 10 megapixel sensor, a range of 100 to 12800 ISO, 47Mb internal memory and a 2.7-inch LCD screen. All this in a metal casing only 22.7 mm thick.

The F70EXR is heir to the F60 offers automatic controls that detect the most likely scene for the kind of picture options and optimize focus, color balance, exposure, flash use, etc. The camera promises a picture quality that rivals the D-SLR (another thing that really meets), dual stabilization, intelligent flash, face detection 3.0 and auto red eye removal.

The new Fujifilm FinePix F70EXR will be available from August 2009 for a price of $ 279.95.

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Fujifilm S200EXR, almost a DSLR

The Fujifilm Finepix S200EXR is one of those cameras that do not become a DSLR but offer more of what you can give a compact. It is a 12 megapixel camera with Super CCD EXR sensor and Fujinon increases 14.3 (30.5 to 436 mm equivalent).

It has a high contrast LCD screen of 2.7 inches, new intelligent flash EXR Priority mode, which automatically adjusts the camera settings. EXR also offers Auto mode that recognizes and selects one of six scene modes available. It allows to manually configuring the main settings of the camera.

The S200EXR also offers dual image stabilization to reduce blur and vibration, capture images in RAW and JPEG simultaneously and can record video at a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and 30 fps. It will go on sale next month for $ 599.95.

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Sony Introduced the Cyber-shot TX5

Water Resistant and Shock
Although its appearance does not look it, the last camera that Sony has been submitted for inclusion in the sub-compact SUV. This is the new Cyber-shot TX5, a camera with a thickness of only 17.7 mm that is resistant to water, dust, shock and low temperatures.

The TX5 is a new Exmor CMOS sensor A 10.2 megapixel, 4x optical zoom and touch screen 3-inch LCD. This new compact will go on sale in April in black, silver, pink, green and red for an MSRP of $ 350.

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New Kodak Touch Screen Slice

In addition to the four new models in the series M, Kodak also introduced at CES its new and attractive Kodak Slice. With modern design and a limited size, the Slice Kodak stands out for its 3.5-inch touch screen and 16:9 aspect ratios.

Other than that, has a 14 megapixel CCD sensor, optical zoom Schneider Kreuznach 5x and optical image stabilizer. Offers video recording in HD at 720p and 30 fps, face detection and an internal memory but not yet specified, according to Kodak, could house up to 5,000 photos.

The Slice Kodak hit the stores during the month of April at a price of $ 350.

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