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Another one of Arthur Court's high profile items, this grape casserole with 3-quart Pyrex baker will be a show stopper for your next main dish event. The elegant base features a grape motif with open work around the handles, intertwined with a vine design which criss-crosses throughout the bottom of the piece, all in Arthur Court's premium signature aluminum alloy. The oblong glass dish is Pyrex, and designed to bake your favorite casserole or lasagne in a hot oven. Take your yummy bubbly dish from the oven, place in the base, and serve it in style.
Instantly transform casual entertaining into a grand affair with the use of Arthur Court's distinctive serveware. Hand crafted with the designer's premium signature aluminum alloy, this casserole dish evokes a feeling of solid craftsmanship, rich detail, and a unique style. An elegant grape motif comprises the handle as well as the base's exterior while widely spaced woven vines form the bottom. On the practical side of things, the casserole dish comes complete with a 3-quart Pyrex insert streamlining oven-to-tabletop transitions. Heavyweight and sturdy, the dish rests upon four level feet and features open handles for a comfortable hold. The dish measures 21 by 11 by 3 inches; hand washing is recommended to preserve the metal's shiny surface. -- Amy Arnold
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With the age of digital imaging, nearly every (shallow water) diver can be involved with underwater photography. This review is of a true beginner camera outfit. The Chinese made, SVP Acqua digital outfit includes the camera system and waterproof case for under $ 100. There are obvious limitations and we'll cover them in this review.
Don't expect professional results with this camera, but you'll be surprisingly pleased with the versatility this little compact outfit provides. With all the features you'd expect to find in popular brand ' point and shoot ' cameras, this compact system will easily fit into your BCD pocket. The specifications are listed after our review comments. Since the factory's marketing brochure suppliedthese, we cannot confirm or dispute them.
First of all, before using this room... view the enclosed DVD instruction manual provided with the camera. There are many features and settings that you'll need to know before you get out on the water to use your camera system. We've used many different brands and all seem to have some logical settings and some not-so-logical procedures. Like most ' point and shoot ' cameras, there is a delay between pushing the shutter and having the actual shutter operation. After you become familiar with the operation of the camera and the features you're ready for the underwater part.
Like any housing, you need to keep the housing clean and free from sand or grit that could create a leak. Since themain seal is not really an o-ring, I was very careful to clean the surfaces with a cotton tip (Qtip) and apply some grease to o-ring the surface as well as a thin film on the seal itself. The seal is sort of a wedge shape, so it should provide a good positive pressure seal. The clean part is more for all the little control buttons that allow you to change settings of the camera underwater. We'll get into the best settings we found when using the camera underwater.
When they say the housing is good to 15 meters or 33 feet around, they are not lying. Not that we were trying to flood the housing or anything, but at 60 feet the room is not operational because the pressure is squeezing the controls and the camera shuts off. At 40 feet,you might get the camera to work, but don't count on changing the settings. At 35 feet, the camera seems to work fine with all the features and operational. For many divers, this will be too limiting because most of your dives will be deeper than 35 feet. However, keep in mind that the red/yellow/orange end of the spectrum is filtered out beyond this depth too.
The camera and housing combination are well matched and easy to operate. With the clear plastic housing, you can easily see the settings on the camera. Like most digital displays certain angles are more difficult to see, but with the proper shading and angle everything is visible on the 2 inch screen. Even though you can change the lens focal length from wide angle to zoom, wekept the setting on wide angle for the dives during the whole process because of the water. Keep this in mind for all underwater photography; stay close to your subject and use the widest angle possible for better results.
For the still shots, the camera was set for the strobe to fire with each shot. This uses up your batteries faster, but if the subject is closer than 8 feet, you'll have better imaging and color. The best results were our macro shots where we set the camera for ' close-up ' and used the flash. When using the movie mode, you'll be impressed with the sharpness of the images, but don't expect high quality audio. The housing must absorb a lot of the sound as much of the underwater sound is muted. More than likely, you'll edit with somemusical background anyway.
The color balance was a little off. We did change the settings according to the instructions and the results were that the color balance was a little on the blue side for topside shots. This was not an issue for the underwater shots as the blue tint of the water was eliminated. Most of the color balance issues can be handled in the editing phase.
The claim of being 12.0 mega pixels is a little deceiving because this is the hardware interpolation ' not the ' image resolution ' which is 5.0 mega pixels. All in all, we were not disappointed in the quality results of the better pictures. However, some of the shots showed the room shake even with the built in flash. This means that the shutter does adjust for the amount of light, so it'simportant to squeeze the cameral and hold it as still as possible.
We used an 8 GB SD card because we expected to take a lot of video and had ample memory space for two dives. We didn't use the provided USB cable because we use a card reader to our laptop and then back up the memory to a portable hard drive. The power source uses two Alkaline Batteries to triple, so it's not a problem having new batteries for each dive. We didn't use the voice recorder ' feature, but from our underwater video experience, it would not be recommended inside the underwater housing.
Now for the bottom line advice on this gear: If you plan to take your underwater imaging seriously, save your money for a more comprehensive system. This could be the perfect outfit for a sportdiver that wants to share their diving experience with their friends and family. For less than $ 100 (prices range from $ 70 -100), not including your SD Memory cards or batteries, it is a value. The SVP cameras are available at some dive shops and are directly marketed from several importers online. The next "point and shoot" underwater outfits, without an external strobe, will most likely cost over $ 500. So, if you are going on vacation and thinking about having your own digital camera outfit for shallow water, this is the answer. Of course, for around $ 35 at most diving centers you could rent a room with everything included. Sometimes the choice is not easy, but you can know a lot more from someone who has tested the SVP out. It is a great stilland video camera outfit for "around the water and underwater to about 35 feet.
Specifications from the Manufacturer:
· Waterproof design: don't be afraid to take this Aqua room to the water-even underwater. The waterproof case will protect this room to depths of 30 feet.
· Very sleek and small room design
· Takes Pictures, Video, and Audio Clips with it's built in microphone.
· Resolution sensor gives you the option of taking 5: 3.1 MP, MP, 1.3 MP, and 300 k Resolution Images.
· Takes, 12 and 8 MP pictures through hardware interpolation.
· Movie mode: When a picture isn't enough, shoot 640 x 480 (VGA), video with sound at 30 frames per second.
· 2.0 "LCD screen: This compact colorscreen has plenty of room to help you compose your shots.
· Zoom: The 8 x digital zoom enlarges pixels to fill the frame with your favorite part of the image.
· Adjustable Flash
· Self timer: +2 Seconds 10/2/10
· Tripod Capabilities
· Onboard White Balance
· Waterproof to 50 ft
· 16MP Built in Memory, Takes SD Cards to expand memory.
· Power Source: 2 triple A Batteries
· Time Stamp Options: Off/Date only/Date and Time
· Comes with software, hookup via USB 1.1
· Video/TV out supported-Via video out cable.
· Automatic power mode-Inca batteries life by auto-switching the camera power off.
· Auto Flash, Auto Flash with red-eye reduction, Slow Sync, fill-in Flash, Flash off, Auto,Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Tungsten, Sunset, Custom etc. ..
· Multi-lingual INTERFACE Menu 8 Languages including: English, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and t. s. Chinese.
In photography, while it is true that having your own reliable and trusted equipment helps in producing beautiful photographs, it helps even more clearly if you set your mind even before the moment you take a shot about what you are trying to catch or capture in your photographs. Having wonderful photos involves nothing more than a bit of thought. However, to help people who are novice, non-artistic, or non-technical picture takers, a set of guidelines is mentioned below intended to improve their photography.
First is to move in closer. In order to have a better shot of your prospect, it is suggested for you to move closer. Having your subject fill almost the frame allows better details of your photo thus making it more interesting than an overall view. This also makesyour viewers appreciate and understand more your photo. In this way, you will be secured that the photo will truly reflect your subject.
Second is to be quick. There are situations in which your subject is in motion. In this case, it would be better to shoot right away.
Third is to keep the balance. A picture with balanced elements with one level or another is better appreciated. Even though you don't intend to sell the picture, it is important to have an effort to keep the picture balanced and beautiful.
Fourth is to be selective. You need to reflect on what really are your interests. You may place your efforts in attaining the best photograph of this prospect. Then be certain that there are no distractions in your picture. A way of doing this is to watch the bordersyour room.
After that, recompose if anything appears distracting to your picture. Finally is to look at the light. To look at the light does not mean to look directly into the sun, but it is to see what kind would you be working with. Which way do the shadows fall? Unless there is a need for a silhouette effect, it is suggested to shoot with the sun behind you. In knowing how to handle the light that is present is the best way for you to achieve a picture that you really wanted.
These are only some of the tips in photography that can be used in order to have beautiful photos that can be for keeps.
Getting the most out of your digital video camera can mean being able to create some really cool stuff. You just have to step outside the manual a bit and find the cool things you can do with your digital video camera and your editing software.
We have all seen them in a movie or a TV show, those very cool shots where they speed up time and capture a long segment of time and condense it into a very short amount of videos. An example is many of the TV news stations nowadays have a camera that captures the day's weather and then they process it down to a 20 second clip to show the clouds and weather racing by on screen.
Well this technique is not just a tool in the hands of the movie makers or the big TV stations. You can do thiswith your digital video camera gear too. I will go into two ways that you can accomplish this effect and get some cool results for your next video project. This one is worth playing around with in order to find the right settings to get the most dramatic effect.
Technique number one is to use the camera itself to do the time lapse recording for you. Almost all digital video cameras have the ability to do an interval recording. What this means in a nutshell is that you tell the House how long you want to record for and how long in between recordings and it will go on autopilot for you for as long as the battery lasts or the tape runs out. This is what those cameras at the convenience store, they do record a few seconds ofmotion every 30-60 seconds giving the overall view of the traffic in the store over time.
Now if you want to capture some time lapse in your digital video camera you will need to get into your cameras menu and find Interval Recording (or in my case Int Rec, as I use a Sony PD 150 for my room) When you select this option you will decide how long of an interval between shots you want and how long to record each time. If you are trying to capture something that takes a long time to occur and in which not much happens quickly you will want to set the interval at around a minute and the record time as short as possible on your room. An example would be if you wanted to record a day in the life of a flower or the clouds rolling by in the sky.Suppose however that you want to capture an event that has lots of action and occurs over a much shorter time frame. Then you would want to shorten the interval between recordings and increase the time of each recording. So in this case you might record every 15-30 seconds and record up to 2-3 seconds of video each time.
I used this technique to capture an afternoon of work being done by a team of carpenters on my house remodeling project. The result was a flurry of activity as workers raced hither and yon nailing boards, carrying equipment and building walls. I have added it to my photo collection of the project. (Hey I had to live through the project so I might as well have a great record of it for posterity!)
Now suppose you have one of the great video editing softwarepackages on your computer to work with your digital video camera. Now you can do it in post as they say in the business. You can record any length of video you want (subject to the limitations of your tape length) and then import it into your editing program.
Sidebar:
I use Adobe Premiere Pro for editing my jobs, but I have also used Avid DV Express, Final Cut Pro, and others in the non linear editing world. These are all great programs and are very powerful products that can create some very professional looking videos. You don't have to have these products to create your own videos but if you are serious about digital video editing, it might be a good idea to take a look at these options.
Get the fast action that other cameras miss thanks with Sony's Quick AF Live View. Shooting with the A560L DSLR camera offers impressive features like Full HD 1080i movie mode and 3D Sweep PanoramaTM mode that truly captures the true beauty of any landscape. And you will enjoy superb detail in dark settings with Handheld Twilight and Multi-Frame NR modes. Finally, up to 7 fps shooting, the freedom of interchangeable lenses and six Creative Style settings all combine to deliver serious performance with exceptionally high-quality results. The A560L comes with a DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 zoom lens.
So, you've decided to make the jump from simple point and shoot cameras into the realm of SLR photography. If you've done any sort of research, your mind and eyeballs are probably reeling from an overload of information. Digital SLR photography, is one those hobbies that is rich with technological jargon. It gets worse, if your one of the perfectionist type that really likes to analyze any major purchase minutely ... intent on getting the best digital SLR camera for your money. You could be in for a long bumpy ride. Today it's time to shorten that ride and smooth out the bumps.
Kit includes:
♦ 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR Camera Body & EF-S 18-55mm IS II Lens
♦ 2) Canon EF 75-300mm III Zoom Lens
♦ 3) Transcend 32GB SecureDigital Class 10 (SDHC) Card
♦ 4) Zeikos Digital SLR Camera Backpack (Black/Silver)
♦ 5) Zeikos RC-6 Wireless Shutter Release Remote Control
♦ 6) Spare LP-E8 Battery for Canon
♦ 7) Vivitar 58mm UV Glass Filter
♦ 8) Additional Vivitar 58mm UV Glass Filter
♦ 9) PD .45x Digital Wide Angle Macro Lens (58mm)
♦ 10) PD 2x Digital Telephoto Lens (58mm)
♦ 11) PD-57TR Photo/Video 57" Tripod w/ Case
♦ 12) SecureDigital (SDHC) Card Reader
♦ 13) PD 6-Piece Camera & Lens Cleaning Kit
♦ 14) PD Memory Card Storage Wallet
♦ 15) LCD Monitor Screen Protectors
The Canon EOS Rebel T3i features 18MP CMOS Image Sensor, Full HD video, Live View and Vari-angle 3.0-inch LCD monitor. Included is the EF-S 18-55mm IS II Lens for lightweight, versatile shooting and superior images.
The Canon EF 75-300mm III Zoom Lens is a compact and lightweight 4x telephoto zoom lens ideal for shooting sports, portraits, and wildlife.
Take more high-resolution pictures faster (10MB/sec. minimum) with this 32GB High-Capacity SecureDigital (SDHC) Class 10 memory card.
This Wireless Remote Control is a miniature infrared transmitter, operates at ranges up to 16.4 ft./5m.
Increase your shooting capacity with this powerful LP-E8 Lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
This 0.45x Wide Angle adapter more than doubles your camera's wide angle field-of-view and the detachable macro lens enables you to photograph small subjects up close.
This 2x Telephoto lens doubles your telephoto magnification and detail without any pixelization.
Ideally suited for large, wide televisions or for families requiring a good amount of storage space, the Jairo Media Stand provides a simple solution. It includes three drawers that open with the gentle push of a finger (do not pull) as well as two long compartments directly underneath the top shelf. Two holes in the back of the unit for threading cables helps keep them organized. The Jairo TV Stand is made up of solid rubberwood with a dark brown veneer finish and is fully assembled.
