High End Digital Photography

Season 4, Episode 12
Original air date: 11/13/2005

Pentax *istDL

This is the show to convince all those photography pros and enthusiasts who need maximum control and quality that really, truly, the time has come to go digital. Steve shows us how a camera that is built for speed, Pentax’s *istDL, takes great shotswith lenses new or old. Adobe’s digital photography guru Colin Smith explains the difference between Camera RAW and JPEG file formats for your pics. And with the large-format Epson Stylus Photo R2400, you’ll be able to print photos on a range of media to last over 75 years.

Samsung Sports Cam

Couch potatoes need not apply: get in on the action with Samsung’s rugged SC-X105L, a 6-in-1 Sports Camcorder with external lens and impressive image stabilization. Also in this episode, Caroline introduces three Logitech webcams for video messaging: QuickCam for Notebooks Pro, QuickCam Fusion, and QuickCam Communicate STX.