http://www.touristprofile.com travel and photography Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to DCRP, Canon will release later this month a new firmware update for the Canon EOS-5D Mark II. The new firmware, version 2.0.3, will add 24p video acquisition and will lower the frame rate in 30p mode to 29.97 fps. As an extra the user will get manual audio ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography-news/canon-firmware-update-to-improve-eos-5d-mark-ii-video-recording/ Since I read lots of news in digital format and sometimes I find interesting things that I feel are worth being spread.. this is the first post from a new category here on Tourist Profile, the "photography news" section. Tamron has announced the making of a 70-300mm F/4-5.6 telephoto zoom lens ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography-news/in-the-news-tamron-sp-70-300mm-60th-anniversary-model/ During the just passed weekend I got the chance to visit the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart. The time there was worth spent not to mention that it took almost half a day to walk through all the floors and look and listen to all the Mercedes history. I was pleasantly ... http://www.touristprofile.com/visited/mercedes-300sl/ A little while ago I was visiting a good friend of mine and decided to take the camera with me and take a few shots of his pets. Some turned out good, some turned out .. not so good, but we had fun and got more experience in photographing pets. ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography/happy-shot/ Noticed that some people end up here looking for tourist profile information so here are some basics: 1. age 2. gender 3. race/nationality 4. group type (family, schools, business) 5. Occupation and income 6. purpose of the visit 7. local/domestic/international tourist Who collects information and makes a tourist profile? Most commonly this type of study is conducted by ... http://www.touristprofile.com/mumbling/the-basics-of-a-tourist-profile/ ..or how they put it on the official website Earth : Europe : Germany : Baden-Württemberg : Northern Black Forest : Region Karlsruhe : Freudenstadt County : commune Baiersbronn, is a lovely area within the Black Forest with plenty of vacation opportunities both in winter and summer. The entire commune ... http://www.touristprofile.com/visited/baiersbronn-im-schwarzwald/ I'm a fan and regular watcher of short films on TED.com and just happen to stumble upon this little piece of work and presentation by Edward Burtynsky about the landscape of oil, photographing it and the energy crisis. As it involves photography and our world and it's future I simply ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography/photographing-the-landscape-of-oil/ Friend of mine and photography passionate showed me a nice short film trailer today. The film is called "Betrayed" and is shot with Canon's 5D Mark II Digital SLR camera. On his blog, photographer Robert Caplin, who did the cinematography for the film, says: I'm very excited to announce the launch ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography/betrayed-the-short-film-shot-with-the-5d-mark-ii-trailer/ One of the companies I am a fan of on Facebook posted a link to this very nice mostly Photographic article and I liked it so much that I have to share. It is called "At Work", it's Part II, and comes from The Boston Globe. Ok at this point ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography/people-at-work/ Like most people I am fascinated by the amazing images the high tech telescopes take, the abundance of colour and the mystery of those far away places which many of these images transmit. But it turns out that you do not need such a big investment or an organisation the ... http://www.touristprofile.com/photography/astrophotography/