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Continue reading →: Free Photo Storage
“About”:http://freebies.about.com/cs/digphotostorage/ and also google:”photo storage”.The gold old days of the web are back, now there are literally dozens of sites that will let you store your photos for free on the web and the amount of storage is unbelievable. About has a good list to start with, but here are…
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Continue reading →: Photo Histogram
!>http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/images/thumbnails/histogram.gif! “Photoblog”:http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/tips/histogram_tips.php. These things appear everywhere, but what are they exactly. Photoblog has a good definition cribbed Photoxels: bq. The histogram is simply a graph that allows you to judge the brightness of an image. You can think of the area under the graph as comprising all the pixels in…
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Continue reading →: Canon i9900 Gamut
With all this discussion of gamuts, I wonder how you should actually print to my trusty Canon i9900. The results are pretty interesting: * With the very best paper, the Canon Pro Glossy, sRGB is really too small, it can print way beyond it * Even with Adobe RGB gamut,…
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Continue reading →: Canon Digital Rebel XT Gamut
For grins, Dry Creek Photo also has gamut information on the sensors in Canon cameras. They don’t have the 5D, but they do have the 1Ds Mark II and the Canon 20D. The Canon 20D is the same sensor as the digital rebel and running this shows that it is…
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Continue reading →: Spyder2Pro Updates
“ColorVision”:http://secure.colorvision.com/sup_dl-upgrades.shtml I’ve been using the Spyder2Pro for a while now and didn’t realize that they had updated the calibration software. Makes me wish I had got PrintFix as well to do printer calibration. Oh well, always more to do.
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Continue reading →: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400: Long-term Review
Shutterbug: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. Two years ago, I bought the then brand new 5400. It had a resolution advantage then over the Nikon 4000 and since then the technology has plateaued. Most film has about 4000 dpi and I’ve actually found that for most photos, 2700 dpi is…
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Continue reading →: Magazine Subscriptions
So how much on the Internet can you save if you want to subscribe to a magazine. Here’s one journey (and test) to get the lowest price on _The Atlantic_ * “eHow”:http://www.ehow.com/how_109077_deal-magazine-subscription.html recommends going to the publishers site directly. For the “Atlantic”:https://ssl.theatlantic.com/sub/17580/IPC0506H, this is $2.45 per copy or $24.50. They…
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Continue reading →: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB
Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive (Seagate-ST3750640AS) – PriceGrabber.com. Just installed this on our server. Wow, it is amazing density. Also, the prices are dropping. Last week it was $477 and this week it is $439. Expensive, but it is hard to get that much density in any one drive.
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Continue reading →: Nexus 120mm Real Silent Case Fan
Nexus 120mm Real Silent Case Fan. Well, the temperatures for the hard disks in our main server seem high, so the price of these really great Nexus fans has fallen from $16 to just $12.50, so time to get a bunch. Nexus does it again with the quietest 120mm case…
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