• battlefield-13a_01battlefield-13a_02

  • Obama's official portrait shot with 5D mk II

    Devin Coldewey

    Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he’d like you to read: The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge | Generation i | Surveillant Society | Choose Two | Frame Wars | The User’s Manifesto | Our Great Sin His personal website is coldewey.cc. → Learn More

    Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

    officialportraitThe first ever Presidential portrait shot with a digital camera is up and it looks great. From the metadata we can see that it was shot by Pete Souza on a 5D mk II at f/10, at 105mm. They probably were using this lens, which is a great zoom for sitting portraits, but costs 1500 ducats. Somehow doubt they cut corners for projects like this.

    Focus is good, bokeh is smooth, and the Prez-elect is lookin’ good. High fives all around. Don’t like that tie, though.

    [via Engadget]

    blog comments powered by Disqus