Archive for July, 2009

The AutoISO-feature, available on most modern DSLR cameras (digital system cameras), enables the camera to set its own ISO-values. The user selects a shutter speed as the “minimum speed”, telling the camera that it should attempt to keep the shutter-speed at this level or faster. Based on the amount of light in the picture, the size of the aperture (the f-stop) and the selected minimum shutter-speed, the camera carefully chooses a custom ISO-sensitivity. By “custom ISO-sensitivity” I mean a value that’s not limited to ISO200, ISO400, ISO800 or ISO1600 but a value that can be set anywhere on the scale (ISO240, ISO530, ISO670). The maximum ISO-sensitivity can also be defined to lower noise, meaning that the camera never goes past this ISO-value but instead lowers the shutter speed.

How does AutoISO help you then? Well, imagine you’re shooting indoors. The lighting conditions can change rapidly and you need to take well-exposed shots all the time. Keeping a firm ISO is not flexible enough whilst constantly changing the ISO-sensitivity is not time-efficient. The AutoISO-feature keeps you shooting at a fast shutter speed all the time by making much faster and more accurate changes to the ISO-sensitivity on-the-fly.

All-in-all the AutoISO-feature is a great tool and is well worth the time to try it out!

Recently, the company behind a host of security- and storage-related programs, Sunbelt Software, released its Antivirus Software called VIPRE.
The software has been designed to efficiently cure and prevent viruses, spywares, trojans, etc. But the interesting part here is that it has been built to be faster than Norton, McAffee, NOD32 and other currently popular antiviruses.

VIPRE Antivirus features, other than its very intuitive and sleek design, advanced anti-rootkit technology, real-time monitoring with its Active Protection™ and a unique and very resource-friendly anti-virus and spyware engine.
VIPRE is highly worth a try, whether you’re satisfied with your current antivirus or not, and you can now download the free working 15-day trial to do so now!