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Continue reading →: More on surveillance cameras
So I got a Foswell PTZ camera to try for $130 or so from Amazon will report on that. The IZon is working just oK, it needs something for low light is the main issue. But up at the $600 range are some pretty interesting products particularly those that are…
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Continue reading →: iPad and iPhone Gizmos
Monoprice finally has in stock the new iPhone lightening connectors. For about half the price $11 of the Apple variety. I’ve tried the el cheapo $5 ones and it broke in a day. See these items: Mini-B, micro-B and 30-pin iPhone cable. Wow has a little connector so you don’t…
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Continue reading →: Canon 5d2 settings
I keep forgetting settings but for my canon 5d2, I shoot in raw to get the extra two stops of dynamic range. This means that automatic light optimization I leave off since it doesn’t affect raw highlight tone priority shoots at a lower iso by on stop and then brightens…
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Continue reading →: Upcoming cameras
My canon 5d2 died today. Sad. Too much rain during a shoot. Reminds me that I have to figure out weather protection for cameras. Still it has served loyally. Hopefully a simple repair. But means the urgency to get a backup camera has never been bigger. So onto figuring what…
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Continue reading →: Camera buying guide (updated)
Well it is getting close to buying a camera with the goal of getting to 90% of the image quality of a 5d2 while being ultralight and shooting In continuous AF for HD video. Here are the choices in order…along with the limitations. We need to study the else availability…
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Continue reading →: Auto brightness
Apple has been much maligned but I don’t know it is a pretty cool customer service company. At 5pm, we discover the trackpad doesn’t work on a MacBook. Fire up the apple store app on the iPhone and make a 730pm appointment. It’s a four year old Mac so out…
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Continue reading →: Bulk delete spam users
Our marketing playbook has 2,000 spam users. Added before we put captcha on. And the system still allows 2-3 users a day who are breaking through captcha (so I turned off new user adds) and I need to get rid of everyone. Here’s how…but becareful because if you set it…
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Continue reading →: Focus stacking
Now that I’ve been doing a lot more processing of digital photos, it is pretty apparent that the ability to take a zillion photos at once is really changing getting around the dynamic range and optical limitations. Here are some of the tricks that you can do with your computer,…
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Continue reading →: Another boost for micro-4/3 from Blackmagic and best compact camera
Wow cool, Blackmagic is doing a pocket cinema camera that will shoot raw 1080p with a micro 4/3 (actually it is a super 16 imaging area 12.5×7.4mm). It is $995. That means it is capturing 220Mbps. Pretty amazing. A big boost for micro-4/3 is a nice video camera. Technically compared…
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Continue reading →: Maximizing your social networking pints
I’ve been futzing with social networks for a while. After all if they’ve got score like Waze, Yelp, or Foodspotting or follower counts like twitter, Facebook or Instagram, might as well be good at it 🙂 Like frequent flyer points (I love thepointsguy.com!) I’m sure there are optimizes but lately…
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