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Its amazing how quickly you can use storage. We have our star windows machines in a 2x250GB soft raid. But the new drives allow more questions. Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech like. There is going to be a sea change shortly as SSD moves to PCI Express and we could even…

Its amazing how quickly you can use storage. We have our star windows machines in a 2x250GB soft raid. But the new drives allow more questions

Well spent a weekend using these are some quick thoughts: The Sony RX100 is actually a spectacular camera. It is much smaller than the smallest of these and its photo quality at wide angle is comparable to these in good light. And it is definitely nice to have a zoom.…

Back to school time. Time to figure out a daypack that works not just for school but also can do double duty as a hiking pack. I would get the osprey talon 22. In fact I kind of want one. A little heavy but perfect for big loads like school…

Nothing like using lensrentals.com and actually using all three cameras for a weekend. Really eye opening. Here are the quick notes and some test summaries. As an aside, I like to look at four review sets: Handling. Ming Thein and others who use the camers professionally Sensors. the specifications at…

And here is Ming’s view of Ricoh’s quirks and other notes… Unique to Ricoh is the snap focus mode, where the lens will default to a certain distance setting if the shutter is jabbed straight down past the intermediate position and the camera isn’t given time to find focus.  …

Been spending a lot of time on composition lately (even reading!). Some good advice now that I’ve been shooting wide alot…   If you know how you want the composition of your frame to appear – specifically, the relative prominence of subjects and other supporting elements – then you’ll know…

Well,  here are some things I didn’t know: Mileage Plus Shopping If you go to the Mileageplusshopping.com, you can register up to five credit cards (it doesn’t have to be just a United card), then if you click through that site, you get to double dip by getting additional miles…

Now that we’ve had such fun with the Sony RX100, it’s time to think again about cameras. I was literally blown away by the quality of the RX100. It is to be sure a pretty amazing pocket camera and in good light has great resolution (F/3.2, ISO 125, 10.2mm focal…

OK, don’t really know where to put this, but socks are so key: Wrightsock Coolmesh II. These are great for short hikes and super comfortable. $8 from Amazon. Smartwool Outdoor PhD Medium. Top rated by Outdoorgearlab, but nearly impossible to find at the end of the season. Large fits 9-11…