news, reviews, discussion forums, etc.

dpreview - IMHO, the best digital photography site. By far the best equipment reviews

Rob Galbraith site - excellent site. The forums are particularly useful because you don't have to weed out "equipment speculation" postings

Fred Miranda's site

Photo.net - Philip Greenspun photo site. Outstanding

TechPhoto

Digital outback photo - an excellent online magazine

Imaging insider

Steve's digicams

Chasseur d'Images digital photography forum (in French). Lots of pre-release equipment-related rumors

wetpixel.com - dedicated to underwater digital photography

digideep.com - underwater digital photography again; a comprehensive list of underwater housings

Canon cameras

Canon digital photography site (Powershot). Downloadable manuals, firmware

EOS Documentation Project

 

lenses

Canon lenses

Sigma lenses

Photodo - excellent lens testing site (with MTF charts). Unfortunately, not updated since June 2000

Photozone review site

Another site mirroring the lens review section of Photozone

Canon Malaysia site

Canon in French!

 

lighting (strobes, flashes)

Hensel Porty flash system

Elinchrom Ranger - similar to the Hensel Porty, but pulse length 2 - 4 times shorter

Quantum Instruments (Qflash)

High-speed strobe (pulse duration less than 0.1 ms)

Digital Camera Battery - DC/DC convertor-based high-capacity external batteries

 

odds & ends

Wimberley's gimbal-type tripod head

PocketWizard radio remote

 

workflow

Breeze software tools for digital cameras

Bibble RAW image manipulation software

Colorvision's Spyder & OptiCAL (monitor calibration)

Fred Miranda's very useful collection of Photoshop actions

Computer-Darkroom

The Digital Dog - Andrew Rodney's site (color management stuff)

ImageMagic (versatile image manipulation executables and libraries)

Extensis Portfolio (organization and management of raw image files)

ICC Profile Downloads (Popular Photography magazine). I have not tried them myself

Monitor gamma by Norman Koren

The monitor calibration and gamma assessment page by Pete Andrews

 

equipment vendors

ACE Index: specialty dealers, photography equipment sales by categories

BH photo - the biggest imaging equipment store

 

techinfo

Canon press releases

Canon technology

Foveon - the manufacturer of the "full-color" image sensor

EXIF image format

EXIF file format description

How to use Panorama Tools & PTGui to produce a printable panorama

Canon CRW decoding project

Canon PowerShot Guide for Linux Users - information on CRW structure and useful utilities - de-compressing, showing the raw file heap structure, decoding. (David Coffin's site)

Introduction to resolution and MTF curves

CCD vs. CMOS. It seems, however, that the type of CMOS sensor the article refers to has nothing to do with the one used in Canon cameras.

SoudVision - an intro on how digital cameras work

Canon PowerShot S300 - the mids behind the magic. An interesting article about the challenges involved in creating a new digicam

Measuring resolution and test charts

 

 

 

nature, landscape, wildlife photography

Nature Photographers online magazine

Nature Photo Index

North American Nature Photography Association

Photosig.com - very good site created and maintained by smart folks (Willis Boyce and others)

Mountain Light - fascinating photos by Galen and Barbara Rowell

Bob Atkins

Luminous landscape - Michael Reichmann

Theo Allofs Photography

Yann Arthus-Bertrand - Earth from above

Beautiful Landscape

Frans Lanting on-line

Inspirational images - Ken Hornbrook

William Neill Photography

Gerard Kingma Travel and Nature Photography

Andy Rouse Wildlife Photography

Steve Hoffmann's Nature and Scenic Photography

Don Baccus