Why didn’t anyone tell me…

My 18-200mm vr lens won’t autofocus, a new experience for me. I think this is my first genuine equipment failure. I’m almost excited to send it off and have it adjusted, mainly so I can sell it with the “just back from Nikon” label.

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I have an Infrant ReadyNAS x600 or whatever they were back in those days, and it’s a rock solid little network server. I also run lots of differing Macs and PCs in the house. My backup solution up until Leopard was to take complete disk images. Since SuperDuper is still a week out of releasing [...]

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I was actually writing this up for the photo mailing list at work, but thought it might be interesting to others here.
I have the 18-200 f/4.blah DX VR Nikkor, and while it’s a great one-lens-all-day lens, the images themselves are disappointing to me, requiring a trip through PTLens (or lensfix) to correct out the curves [...]

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Wordpress needed a little dumbing down but now I can blog from the phone. Now nobody is safe!

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As you can see, I use Aperture quite a bit. As with anything you use on a regular basis, you learn its ins and outs and start thinking about how you’d like it to be better.

“Vacuuming” the database made Aperture many orders of magnitude faster. I was honestly shocked when I realized how slow it [...]

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One of my photography related hobbies is the creation of panoramas. These are composed of many normal pictures rolled into one flattened picture, which can then be turned into something else like a QTVR or whatever you want. But when you take 7 pictures as RAW and then convert and stitch them into their largest [...]

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I’m doing more negative tagging within Aperture, this time it’s for my pre-digital days. The quality varies greatly from project to project, some being bad JPG scans of prints for which I have no negatives, some being medium format scans from a Nikon CoolScan 8000 (which I highly suggest), some being 35mm scans from either [...]

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So I finally got the tagging completed, the rating completed, and the database of 32,000 some finished images (after I pulled out all the QTVR source files and duplicates) is ready to do something with it. What to do, what to do.
The first thing that came to mind was to post these things online. So [...]

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Well, I’ve done it. All the images are tagged, rated, captioned, and ready for export. What a mess. For the (probably nobody) listening, this has been an immense effort, and I’m glad I don’t have to do it ever again. The topic of creating books or web pages for these images is a whole other [...]

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Aperture is clearly designed well around the digital photographer. There’s always room for improvement, but I became so accustomed to the workflow and environment that I decided to use it to organize my digital conversions of 35mm negatives.
Here’s what attracted me to the idea:

Easy keywording. I just like the way it’s done in Aperture.
Easy to [...]

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