Porter's Camera has been serving eastern Iowa for over 90 years, starting on College Hill in Cedar Falls Iowa. Today Porter's has stores in Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids and a nationally distributed catalog of photo equipment and supplies.
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- Founded:
- 1914
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging Screen shots from our new website. Porter's new website will be online soon!
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New
product review - Two new Promaster carbon fiber tripods fresh off the
delivery truck. Both weigh in at less than 2 1/2 pounds and sell for
far less than any competitor. Rated to support up to 13 pounds!
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Not too long ago I did a series of blog entries on carbon fiber tripods. (You can find the text of these entries by using the calendar and looking from June 6th through the 10th.) At the end I concluded that the Vanguard Alta + 254 CT was my preferred choice. ...
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging Part 2 today on Choosing a Studio Light Set for the Novice. Flash lighting plus suggestions in today's article.
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Studio Flash Lighting resembles a camera mounted flash on steroids. The concept is the same; the camera triggers a burst of light from the flash units in synch with the camera’s shutter. Flash Lighting ...
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging Advice on choosing the right studio lights for the beginner. Today is part 1, Constant Lighting, tomorrow Pt. 2 Flash Lighting.
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Interest in studio lighting has risen hand in hand with the explosive growth of digital SLR cameras. More family photographers today have moved into the ranks of avid or hobbyist photographers than at any time in the last 20 years. ...
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Holiday photo greeting card tips and advice for the family photographer.
Don't overthink it, just shoot it! Folks want to see your smiling
faces, they don't care too much about posing. Fun, creative and less
expensive than a Hallmark card...
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Usually seasonal articles like this begin “It’s that time of year again!” But I won’t do that to you. I think that everyone is aware that Thanksgiving is two weeks away. You were aware of that, right? ...
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Coming
soon! An all new, built from the ground up, Porter's website! Easier to
use, better functions, cool new membership features and a lot more.
Follow the link to read the blog entry and learn about the release date.
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Just like any growing business, eventually you outgrow your digs. That’s what has happened to us at www.porters.com. Our current web platform has become too restrictive and it just can’t keep up with the speed of change in our industry, so we’re building a new home from scratch.
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Canon
has announced their latest firmware update for the EOS 7D. This update
resolves the latent image issue announced in the service notice dated
10/27/09.
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Canon has released its latest firmware update for the EOS 7D. The update eliminates the latent image problem mentioned in the service notice dated 10/27/09. This is firmware V1.1.0 and can be applied to cameras with firmware 1.0.9.
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging Porter's is branching out with a new blog. "The Family Photographer" launches today!
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Do you know what the most common question is that we get from compact camera owners? “Why did you cut the top off of all the heads in my pictures?” So I thought I’d take a stab at explaining aspect ratios by doing it with pictures rather than numbers. ...
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Check out the review on this fun new lens: The Rokinon 8mm f3.5
fisheye. Comes in Nikon and Canon mounts and it sells for under $300. Be prepared for manual everything, but learning is easy and the results are images from a wonderfully distorted world!
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Our buyer brought a new lens to my attention with the recommendation that we put it in stock. This isn’t unusual, it’s what he is supposed to do – find stuff and buy it. However I wasn’t ...
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging The Stuff You Need Pt. 2 - the list is completed today on Porter's Blog. Take a look, is your kit as complete as it should be?
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At the end of last week we posted the front half of this list. Part 1 featured the first six items on our list: camera bag, neck strap, cleaning kit, memory cards, memory card wallet and spare batteries. ...
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging The Stuff You Need. A list of the items every camera owner should have. Part one today!
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Each year at about this time we start to get inquiries from our most recent new camera owners. What they want to know is “What do I need next?” Some of them are looking for gift ideas, others want to be prepared for the Holidays and picture taking. ...
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging RAW confuses a lot of beginning DSLR photographers. Practical entry-level info, opinion and advice in today's Blog entry
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Talk about a galvanizing topic! Among photographers from hobbyist level through professionals the debate about shooting in RAW or JPG format occupies a lot of space on photography bulletin boards. Everyone seems to have an opinion on what is ‘proper’ or ‘professional’.
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging 10 things to do with a dead camera. Can you think of other ideas? Add them as comments to the blog!
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10) While standing in a small crowd of strangers on a pier or bridge heave it into the water. Grin a little and say “So much for THAT photographic evidence…”
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Canon announced both the G11 and the S90 mid-August. They share the
same image chip, the same processor and many of the same features. So
which is the right choice?
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After Canon Announced their new G11 and S90 models mid-August we were intrigued. On first blush they looked like two cameras with the same ‘insides’ aimed at two different markets.
Porter's Digital Cameras and Imaging Fifty isn't the new forty, fifty is the new eighty! New to DSLR's? Explore inexpensive creativity beyond your kit zoom lens!
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Fifty isn’t the new forty, fifty is the new eighty. Fifty is alsoinexpensive, compact, fast and prime. Of course this is another article about 50mm lenses, it’s a photo blog.
