Why didn’t anyone tell me…

The lens is back, and it’s good as new. First of all, this is why I bought a Nikon camera and lens instead of a Sony or other “consumer grade” plastic shell camera. When I had originally bought a Sony DSC-D700 at its original abominable price, it was a wonder. It was fun! But it [...]

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I was posting pictures of my mom coming for vacation and had a couple pictures that were looking quite flat. I know a few things about color management and I’ve been slowly giving up on Safari, switching in Firefox for most of its duties. Well, I saw the red flowers from the Schulz Museum and [...]

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My mom is in town, which means I’m spending a good deal of time behind the camera for family related pics. I noticed a couple things about the images I took over the last two day-trips that people might find amusing. 1. I take a lot more pictures (by volume). More than I expected to [...]

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Going back through the Jeeves books, and I seem to always pick the wrong order. I should find a list that gets them right so I can appreciate the reappearing characters.

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I’m flattered to say (whether I should be or not) that I was accepted into the Photoshelter Collection, which is their premium stock collection from people mainly more able than me. I like my photographs, which those of you that know me well will understand, and I’m excited that maybe this will give me another [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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