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Continue reading â: Sony Digital Binoculars DEV-50
Wow, Sony is basically using its electronic viewfinder technology to make $2K high tech binoculars (see Popphoto). It uses two 1/3.91″ (about a quarter ince) CMOS sensors that are 5 megapixels and beams them to a pair of OLED screens or you can capture the video as well. Plus compared…
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Continue reading â: Sigma 35mm F/1.4
Scott also mentioned that the new glass coming out was getting much better because the sensors (see the post below) are getting great. Well, the first reviews of the Sigma 35mm F/1.4 DG HSM are truly amazing at $900 vs $2K for the Canon equivalent… The Sigma 35mm f/1.4 is…
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Continue reading â: Camera buying addendum
Thanks so much to my buddies, Bob, Scott and John. We’ve all been buying and looking at various mirrorless systems and my buddies have neatly split into three camps. NEX (Scott), Fuji (Bob) and Samsung (John). So what is a geek to think? Well the main issue is how good…
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Continue reading â: Linux notebook
Linux laptops. There is a dedicated site that helps you get Linux running on a laptop. Ludwig uses the ASUS Zenbook UX31XA although the later one looks like the UX32VD. Here are the choices by a quick skim for ultrabooks notebookcheck.net. Looking at this, they rated the Macbook Air 13…
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Continue reading â: 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 â: 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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Canon 5d2 settings
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Continue reading â: Canon 5d2 settingsI 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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Upcoming cameras
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Continue reading â: Upcoming camerasMy 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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Camera buying guide (updated)
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Continue reading â: 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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Auto brightness
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Continue reading â: Auto brightnessApple 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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