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How to shoot very high speed sports photography

I’m not a sports guy, but this is an interesting way of getting high speed sequenced images from digital SLRs. This is from when Robert Hanashiro was covering Barry Bonds’ record swing for USA Today. He was using Canon EOS-1D Mark III cameras and Pocket Wizard MultiMax remotes to do the sequencing.

How to shoot 30 frames per second with digital still cameras

Photography Web Site of the day: The Minolta SR System

Being a Minolta lover, I feel compelled to share a site with great technical Minolta information. Here are the categories offered at http://minolta.eazypix.de.

Minolta SR Lens Index
Minolta SR Lens Database
Minolta Coded Lens Shades
Minolta Master Lenses
Minolta SR System Chart
Minolta SR System Guides
Minolta SR Instruction Manual Database
Minolta SR Promotional Literature
Minolta SLR’s of 1980 (german Datasheet)
Minolta SLR’s vs. Canon, Nikon & Pentax
Rokkor BLOG (german)

I really like the Minolta SLR’s vs. Canon, Nikon & Pentax link. It is a great chart showing the different models of SLRs by year from Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Minolta.

The technical Minolta information is very good. This is a site worth reading and bookmarking especially if you are a Minolta fan or collector.

Minolta photography equipment on ebay

Video interview of Yousuf Karsh’s wife Estrellita

This is a short interview of Yousuf Karsh’s wife about the master photographer. It’s not very long, but I enjoyed the story she told. This was produced by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.


Yousuf Karsh on ebay

Yousuf Karsh on Amazon

Yousuf Karsh on wikipedia