Understanding the Canon Speedlite 580EX / 430EX

New owners of Canon Speedlites are often bewildered about how to use the flash unit effectively to produce the type of shots they want. Although the supplied manual does provide some technical assistance, Speedlites have been, and remain a mystery for many owners. This DVD sets out to change all that. With a running time of just over a hour, your host, professional photographer Tim Mantoani, takes the mystery out of these flashes and shows you how to use them to their best advantage. Whether you own one or several of these speedlites, Tim walks you through real world situations that can be made better with repeatable techniques. He not only tells you HOW the flash operates, butWHY the engineers designed the flashes with their current set of features. You've spent a lot of time and resources getting great camera equipment and learning how to use you camera effectively. This DVD will take you to the next level by allowing you to add light where you want it. Photography is all about communication. With a little information and one of these great speedlites, you can evoke exactly the response you want. These words appear on the back of the DVD: The new EX series of speedlites from Canon can be the most powerful accessory in your camera bag. Understanding how the controls work is important and this DVD takes you through their operation, step by step. Your host, professional photographer Tim Mantoani, demonstrates these flash units in a serie s
Customer Review: Handy Guide
A great companion to the canon speedlight instruction book. It does not over the 580 EX II specifically, but there is plenty of information to give you the basics and then some if you are learning the Canon speedlight system for the first time.
Customer Review: Canon flash - moderately helpful/studio oriented
This video was moderately helpful to me. There seems to be a limited availability of instructional material out there on this product from what I was able to find so, some help is better than none. The video does focus on portait style photography. If you are interested in learning about how to shoot childrens parties, weddings or events, you will be disappointed in the very limited information on that subject. If you are interested in studio portraits and studio macro photography you will get some good information. This video left me wanting more specific instruction on the operation and application of the 580ex outside the studio setting. Overall, if you are willing to pay $20 for a few good nuggets, it's worth it.

Music has always been the universal language, and recently, it has developed into a universal means of entertainment. Everything from the PC to dedicated MP3 players and even mobile phones and PDAs are made with music-playing capabilities. For people who listen to music a lot, here are some nifty new gadgets.

1. Sennheiser MX 1 High End Wireless Buds - the MX W1 is the first wireless set of earphones to boast of high fidelity audio without the need for bulky and unnecessary docking stations. It is also advertised as 10X more efficient than bluetooth and weighs only ten grams, with an average of 12 hours of play for a single charge. This can be a great gadget for people who are tired of messy, tangled wires.

2. Chinavasion's Casette Mp3 Player -this nifty new mp3 player looks exactly like a cassette player, but has a 3.5mm headphone jack, a usb 2.0 and a car cigarette power adapter. The absence of internal memory means you need a 2GB SD or MMC card to put your music files in. It works as a standalone mp3 player or can be used like a normal cassette in any cassette player.

3. Maxwell's VRSP-4000 iPod docking station - the VRSP-4000 differs from other iPod docking stations because it makes your iPod look like a classic boombox while it is charging. The classy style is not all for show, though, since Maxwell's "bit-revolution technology" will enhance the sound and recover details lost during mp3 compression. The VRSP-4000 comes with two 18watts speaker and an FM tuner.

Alan Mc Donald is a webmaster and a gadget addict always looking for new toys to play with, he recommends Gadget Mania for all your gadgets needs.

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Canon Digital IXUS 200a Battery (Hi-Capacity Battery)

Canon Digital IXUS 200a Battery. This is a 3.7 Volt, 1000 mAh, Li-Ion Battery . Dimensions: 1.90 x 1.20 x 0.40. 100% OEM compatible.

It is "high" time for you to start looking into the Magnavox HDTV with its crystal clear picture that has clarity never seen before. Soon all TV stations will be only available in HDTV. It would be wise to start doing your homework on the various HDTV TV's on the market.

What is HDTV? Some of the HD technical information can seem confusing and unclear to us regular guys. High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (SDTV) . HDTV is digitally broadcast digital television (DTV) that requires less bandwidth.

On February 17, 2009 the US intends to terminate all full-power analog broadcasting (some smaller local stations have later deadlines), with both standard definition TV (SDTV) and HDTV being allowed. This will require all new televisions to be manufactured with HDTV capability. There are adapters that can be purchased to trasform the analog set to HDTV.

The rise in popularity of large screen TV's has made the limitations of conventional Standard Definition TV (SDTV) more obvious and increased the need to purchase a Magnavox HDTV. An HDTV compatible television set will not improve the quality of analog channels. In fact it makes it even worse because of scaling artifacts. To receive the best picture display, high definition televisions require a High Definition (HD) signal.

Most cities in the US with major network stations broadcast over the air in HD. To receive this signal an HD tuner is required. The new Magnavox HDTV has an HD tuner built in. For HDTV televisions without a built in HD tuner, a separate set-top HD tuner box can be rented from a cable or satellite company or a Magnavox HD tuner box can be purchased.

HDTV broadcast systems are described in the following three ways:

1. The number of lines in the vertical display resolution.

2. The scanning system: Progressive Scanning (noted with a "p") or Interlaced Scanning (noted with an "I".) Progressive scanning simply draws a complete image frame (all the lines) per image. Interlaced scanning draws a partial image field (every second line) during a first pass, then fills in the remaining lines during a second pass.

3. The number of frames per second or fields per second.

A frame or field rate can also be specified without a resolution. For example 24p means 24 progressive scan frames per second, and 50i means 25 interlaced frames per second consisting of 50 interlaced fields per second.

We hope the above information was helpful and not too confusing. Do your research on the HDTV brands on the market and you will discover that the Magnavox HDTV would be your best choice if you want the best and most crystal clear HD picture.

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