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  • Palm Warbler Winter Colors
    Bird Photography,  Nature,  Wildlife

    Florida Bird Photography with the Canon 100-400mm Mark II Lens

    Palm Warbler – 560mm with 1.4X Telephoto Extender Attached (Above Photo) On a six day bird photography vacation to Florida, I decided to leave my Canon 500mm f/4 lens at home and bring only the Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 Mark II lens…

    By Martin Belan
  • EOS Inspector
    Photo Gear

    EOS Inspector – A Mac App to find the Number of Shutter Actuations on your Canon DSLR

    As many of you Canon photographers know, Canon has decided to hide the number of shutter actuations on their cameras.  Other camera manufacturers like Nikon publish the shutter count in the EXIF data. The shutter actuation data is useful as…

    By Martin Belan
  • ShutterCount
    Photo Gear

    ShutterCount – An Easy way to Find the Number of Canon DSLR Shutter Actuations on your Mac

    Canon does not include the number of shutter actuations in the camera’s EXIF data.  There are a number of apps out there to get the number of shutter actuations from Canon cameras that either don’t work reliably or require using…

    By Martin Belan
  • Bluebirds - Canon 300mm f/4 with 2X Teleconverter
    Photo Gear

    Testing the Canon 300mm f/4 lens with a 2X Teleconverter

    Sometimes I just don’t want to carry around my Canon 500mm f/4 lens with a big, sturdy tripod, but I still want to be able to photograph wildlife and birds.  The Canon 500mm f/4 is a terrific lens but it…

    By Martin Belan
  • Backyard Birds 2X Teleconverter Test
    Photo Gear

    Testing the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Firmware Update 1.2.1 with a 500mm f/4 and 2X Teleconverter

    The recent EOS 5D Mark III Firmware upgrade 1.2.1 enables the center AF point to autofocus when the combination of a lens and a teleconverter’s maximum aperature is f/8.  This means the 5D Mark III will now autofocus at only…

    By Martin Belan
  • gPhoto2 Command line Mac Terminal
    Photo Gear

    The Truth about Checking the Number of Shutter Actuations on a Canon 7d and 5d Mark III DSLRs

    After spending ½ a day researching and trying to find the shutter actuations for my Canon 7d and Canon 5d Mark iii DSLRs, I decided to write a blog post about what I learned.  I searched dozens of message boards,…

    By Martin Belan
  • Canon 5d Mark III Dual Card Slots
    Photo Gear,  Travel

    Travel Light for Photography – Canon 5D Mark III Dual Card Slots

    Normally when I travel for photography, I bring along my laptop and a small external hard drive to back up my photos.  I also don’t reuse my CF cards so that I have redundant copies of my photos until I…

    By Martin Belan
  • Hinckley Lake 5d Mark iii Panorama
    Photo Gear,  Software

    Panorama for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 vs. the Canon 5D Mark iii

    One of the new features for photographers in iOS 6 is a built-in panorama mode in the Apple supplied camera app.  The new panorama feature allows iPhone 4s and iPhone 5 owners to take up to 240 degree panoramic photos. …

    By Martin Belan
  • Canon 6D for Travel Photography
    Photo Gear,  Travel

    Is the Canon 6D a fit for Travel Photographers?

    Canon just announced their new mid-level full frame camera this week – the Canon EOS 6D .  I started wondering about what this new entry meant to the travel photography community.  After conducting some research on the 6D and its…

    By Martin Belan
  • Canon 6D
    Photo Gear

    Canon 6D Specification Comparison

    To research the new Canon 6D mid-range full frame DSLR, I put together this comparison chart to evaluate the features of the Canon 6D, Canon 5D Mark III, and the Canon 7D.  I thought this Canon DSLR comparison chart would…

    By Martin Belan

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