Photochrome Camera Club

Getting really comfortable with digital photography?  Get ready for the next step: shooting video with your DSLR.  Two DSLR cameras recently introduced have the ability to shoot High-definition Video: The Nikon D90 and the Canon 5d Mark II.

The 12.9 megapixel Nikon was first out of the blocks.  It can shoot up to five minutes of HD video – 1280 x 720 pixels at 24 frames per second – while recording mono sound. You can read more about the camera on the Digital Photography Review website.

The second entry is the full-frame Canon 5d Mark II.  The 21 megapixel Canon can shoot 1920 x 1080 resolution at 30 frames per second for up to 4GB per clip while recording stereo sound.  The 5d Mark II is just coming on the market.  You can read more about it on the Canon website.

The one single most important thing you can do to improve your photographic technique is to learn to use a tripod.  A tripod will produce sharper images with greater depth of field.  This is absolutely essential for macro photography.
A tripod also helps you to make more carefully framed and composed images and reduces the number of “grabshots” that end up in the wastebasket.
Jo-Ann Ordano, Past President

Reprinted from the March 2005 edition of the Photochrome Color News

Location: 1201 Mason Street / Washington Street.
This will be an interesting and challenging trip putting creativity out front. Subjects are a few historic cable cars, mechanical displays, a gift shop and some winding wheels in motion that pull the cable cars. Outside on the corner you will have the opportunity to photograph cable cars as they come and go, up and down Mason and Washington Streets.
Tripods and flash attachments are OK, just don’t block the aisles.
Admission is free.
For more information go to Cable Car Museum. You can actually get there by taking a cable car ($5.00) each way, or the 1 California bus. Grace Cathedral Garage is three or four steep blocks away. The parking fee is $2.50 / 20 minutes.
Hope to see you there.
Gary Larsen

Bird Photography

Note the special night due to a holiday.