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Nikon D700
“Nikon”:http://dcviews.com/press/Nikon-D700.htm just introduced a full frame camera that is 12MP and will really put heavy pressure on the Canon 5D. Just like the Nikon 300D really trounces the Canon EOS-40D by being fast, so the D700 is going to put pressure on Canon. Oh why did I go with Canon lenses???
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Canon XT 350D Parameter settings and correct ISO settings
I’ve had this camera for two years now and am still finding a new thing or two. One thing to watch out for is the Parameter settings. These are like Picture Styles in the newer Canon XTi (400D) and XSi (450D) Canon Digital Rebel XT review EOS-350D There are 2 pre-set parameter sets with Parameter…
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No Compact Camera for a prosumer? GX200, DP1, G9, SD950 compared
Well, been looking for a high end compact camera. When I was on film, used a Yashica which was compact, but had a great fixed focus lense and excellent quality. There really isn’t a good answer yet for digital. What do you need for a prosumer that is different from a point-and-shoot. Well, the ideal…
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Yellowstone Tours
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Bluray has won, now what?
I’ve paid no attention to home theaters for the last four years (really!) because there has been a major format war between HD DVD and Blu Ray and more over I can’t imagine throwing away the gigantic 200 kg 72″ rear projection TV monster I have, but with HD DVD dying this February and so…
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Music Galore
Spent a day thinking about nothing but music in the US. Strange to just have a meeting about music in China and then go directly to the US. Interesting sites: * “lala.com”:http://lala.com. Spirit of full disclosure we are investors, but what the heck kind of cool * “nutsie.com”:http://nutsie.com. Ditto * “Pandora”:http://pandora.com. I haven’t played with…
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iPhone 2.0 to ship this Friday
Now I just wish I could actually find my iPhone. I can’t figure out where it went 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence Cupertino “sources†report that it’s “highly probable†the iPhone 2.0 Gold Master will ship this Friday, two weeks before the iPhone 3G ships and just close enough to the end of…
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Cool sites
Have yet another backlog of sites. The “Time”:http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/1,28804,1809858_1809957,00.html list is pretty good: GasBuddy has real time prices from the community. Save a few bucks! TripKick since TripAdvisor isn’t good enough. It tells you which floor to stay on 🙂 AfriGadget are simple things that can work in the developing world PopSugar shows I’m a bad…
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Using Raw, DxO and Photomatix together
Well, as I’ve been using various programs, it is pretty clear that you have to be pretty careful about using the different programs. Some things you want to do earlier and some later. For instance, you probably want to sharpen last as this really changes the bits. “Larry Gerbrandt”:http://photos.larrygerbrandt.com/2007/07/24/hello-world/ has some recommendations on workflow that…
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Where is Matt?
Kind of amazing, this guy travelled around the world twice doing the same dance in different places (hat tip to the fake “Steve Ballmer”:http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-just-liked-this.html) for this rocking good video. I mainly love the soundtrack. What a great job and what a great adventure. 14 months of travel, 42 countries at “Where the Hell is Matt?”:http://wherethehellismatt.com…
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Snow Leopard to support Exchange natively
This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year! AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into…
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Lost Sunglasses
I’ve been using beatup sunglasses for a few years now, but I’ve always wanted to get another set of “Oakley M Frame”:http://www.sunglasses-int.com/09-130.html or whatever is the coolest set these days. I still have a bunch of the blades and somehow lost my bright yellow ones. These are $110 now, so a little bit less than…
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Photo Tools: FDR Tool, PortraitProfessional, Lumapix, Digi-labs
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Sxipper really works
I’ve used Roboform, I used to have some notes in EXchange for all my passwords (bad I know), but these are always getting blown away as I reinstall time and time again. My eight year list of passwords and account vanished on one unfortunate sync of Exchange (note to self, it is possible to lose…
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Climate: Voltaic Solar Bags, LEED Platinum and solutions
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DVD Backup
Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these…
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Which RAW converter to use? DxO 5.1?
I’ve been using DxO v4.5 with good results but the problem is that DxO 5.0 remains quite unstable. In a side-by-side comparison, Lightroom came off as the most decent, but it doesn’t have distortion correction. Almost means I have to stick with Canon’s own DPP which has distortion correction. Apparently DxO 5.1 is now out…
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Starbucks and AT&T offer up
After much confusion at the store level, it look slike here is what is happening, if you use a Starbucks card in the last 30 days, you can use AT&T Wifi at Starbucks for two hours. When you sign in, you create an AT&T login. Of course, I already have one, but there doesn’t appear…
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Great chocolates
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Single Malt Scotch
Read a good review of scotch on some plane somewhere. Made me curious. Of course “Whiskymag.com”:http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/award/ is filled with data. For instance telling you that Single Malt Scotch is really whisky from scotland that is from a single source. There’s a good “Award”:http://www.whiskymag.com/whisky/award/ list up there. Some of the great names are: * Highland Park…
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Epson Stylus Pro 4880 and 7880
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Chrestomanci
Another book recommendation by John. This is a series about multiple alternative worlds. Chrestomanci – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Chrestomanci is the title of a powerful enchanter with the responsibility of regulating magic usage in a set of parallel universes including our own world. The Chrestomancis are unique in that they have nine lives.…
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Next Full Frame Cameras: Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D700 and Sony too
With Nikon’s strong product line and the D60 and D300 and Canon needs to reply (and those of us with Canon lenses are praying). Nikon has doubled its market share in the last two years, so Canon is really in an interesting position (read, they don’t have products to defend share). “Canonrumors.com”:http://canonrumors.com provides those of…
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Compact Cameras
For years I’ve used the Fuji Finepix F10 which took really great pictures with 5Mpixels but most importantly was fast enough to take ISO 400 photos. That camera still works really well but is not pretty big. Ideally you want a shirt pocket camera that: * 8MP sensor and lense quality so you can get…