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Obama's presidential portrait first to use digital camera |
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Written by Jon Worrel
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:50 |
Another presidential first
Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House
photographer, announced that Barack Obama will be the first U.S. president to
have had an official presidential portrait taken with a digital camera.
Since the image is digital, the EXIF data can also be
seen. According to the information, the portrait was taken with a
Canon EOS 5D Mark II on January 13, 2009 at 5:38pm. The lens used
was 105mm stopped to F/10 at a 1/125 exposure, with an ISO setting of
100.
No flash was used, although lens flare may have been
preferred according to some. Even so, we approve the quality of
the new White House photographer's work.
The picture can be viewed and downloaded here.
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