Are you currently shopping for a new digital camera? Then you probably would like to see a few test photos taken with cameras that have made it on your list. Or maybe you own a camera and want to know what it is capable of. Whatever it is, the Chrome extension Photo Finder can help [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Now look at that. One of the things that Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery was criticized for in the past was lack of digital camera RAW format support. DSLR cameras give their users options to save their photo shootings in various formats, including RAW which offers several advantages over the compressed JPEG format. Among them [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Software, Windows

Many digital cameras store the camera’s serial number in the photo’s EXIF information, which can then be used to identify photos taken with that specific camera. The new web service Stolen Camera Finder uses this concept to locate photos on the Internet. You can upload a photo taken with a particular camera to the service’s [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

The open source project Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK) adds several interesting new features to select Canon digital cameras using Canon’s Digic-II and Digic-III processors. Canon cameras that use those processors are many Canon PowerShot and Canon IXUS models, a full listing is available at the German CHDK-Treff website. Among the features that can be [...]

Categories: Software

The newest Windows operating systems make it actually very easy to transfer photos from a digital camera to the local PC. The connected camera or memory card is usually identified automatically by Windows so that the photos can be copied directly to the Pictures folder of the operating system. While that is very comfortable to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

For those of you who thought managing external devices like digital cameras in Linux was a challenge, I give you DigiKam. DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac. DigiKam allows the user to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs easily in the Linux operating system. It [...]

Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Mac, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Not all operating systems handle the downloading of photos from digital cameras that well as Windows 7. The operating system automatically recognizes the photos and displays an option to transfer them to a location on the computer system, usually the My Pictures folder. Some operating systems do not offer that feature which means that their [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most digital cameras can save photos in different image formats including jpg and the raw format. Raw image files that are created have the name because they are not yet processed. This processing is usually done in a raw converter. It should also be noted that there is not a single raw format but dozens [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are tons of applications out there that help you manage your photo collections. Some of these applications are nothing more than glorified file managers, some are more in-line with image editors. Stuck in the middle of this vast gray area are tools like F-Spot which serve a very specific purpose – manage your photo [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software