Print Mini Business Cards Directly from Flickr with Moo
Have you ever wanted to turn some of your Flickr photos into business cards? It seems Moo thinks so. They have created an online service that takes images from your Flickr photostreams, sets and groups and prints them onto
You can order 100 cards for $19.99 US (available to Canada and USA) but what makes it unique is every card can have a different photo!
Each card can have a personalized message on the back. Moo had a promotion for Flickr Pro users where users got a pack of 10 for free with the Flickr logo on the back.
The mini cards are about half the height of a regular business card at 28mm x 70mm on heavy stock paper with a smooth satin finish.
As for image resolution their FAQ states “For the best results, the minimum recommended image resolution for a card is 640×480 (VGA).” The Flickr logo and buddy icon can be removed during purchase.
Getting your Flickr photos onto the cards is dead easy. I was impressed by how simple it was. Four pages in their browser application to final purchase.
Wonderful how popular new web businesses like Flickr can often spin off new opportunities for…
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Digital SLR Best Skin Tone Quality Contest Shootout
Do you take a lot of portrait photography? How about weddings or parties? Then you know how important well balanced skin tones are to your photos. Sure, you can take the image into Photoshop and adjust it but why go to the hassle because your equipment let you down?
The folks at shootsmarter have taken the bull by the horns and taken a crop of professional digital slr’s, run them through a test shoot, printed the results and given them a score.
The professional DSLR cameras tested were:
With 2 or 3 bodies each (except for the Canon 1D’s where only 1 each were available but they were rather new and in excellent condition) they adjusted for exposure compensation before the shoot.
“The files were all different sizes of course, but they were all printed to 12x18 size at the default 300 PPI resolution of the Frontier, and cropped by the Frontier software to eliminate the letter ID above the models’ head in each frame. We also did some minor cropping to the full frame sensor camera files to make…
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Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR
Canon’s EOS 5D dslr comes with a 12.8 megapixels in a 35mm full frame sensor. With a maximum 4,368 x 2,912 pixel resolution you can print large size images or crop with more flexibility without having to reduce the print size too much.
Previous to the 5D Canon only had one other camera with a full frame sensor, the EOS-1Ds Mark II. Being a full on professional D-SLR it was expensive and quite large and heavy.
With the EOS 5D digicam, Canon finally has a product that fits nicely between the high end and the prosumer level EOS 350D/EOS 400D digital Rebel Xts. For lens compatibility the EOS 5D supports Canon’s EF series lenses (not EF-S).
Reviews have given the camera high praise for its high resolution (of course) and low noise images. Couple this with a quality lens and you should get outstanding images.
Being a full frame camera, a 50mm lens will give you exactly that, not the longer 35mm equivalent 75mm with a smaller sensor. Optics matter on a camera with a full frame so this may mean upgrading to better camera lenses if you do decide to shell out the money for this DSLR.
With camera…
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