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But in reading about at dpreview the camera I got to a bunch of mysterious features that I wonder whether to enable. Highlight Tone Priority and Auto Light Optimizer as well as L ISO. The short answer is that you should disable HTP and ALO and don’t go below ISO 100 and…

Well I’ve been depressed because the specs of the Nikon 800 at 36mp is so much better than the Canon 5D Mark III at 22MP. But I felt much better than reading the latest Popular Photography, although what it says disagrees with most of the internet sources. They claim the…

Unknown error keeps popping up across all my machines. This is a complaint that seems pretty common and there is a magic key incantation to help…This seems to do a complete delete of all the iTunes Match data, so hopeing that it helps!  Dear XXXXX,   Welcome to iTunes Store…

Somehow I found myself doing a wedding shoot. How unqualified can I be, but in doing this, I’ve discovered I need quite a few more special effects and so here is the search: Sepia and Black & White. A trick that many folks use that can make people look way…

OK, did a 360 panaroma view with Hugin. Pretty amazing quality. As a side note Photoshop has a JPG compressor. There are three entries, Standard, Standard optimized and progressive. Pick standard (optimized is actually higher compression apparently) for most compatibility, optimized makes slightly smaller ones. I’ve actually found the difference…

Well, I’ve been using DxO quite successfully now to process raw images to displayable JPG or to printable TIFs. But what if I want to use Photomatix to do HDR exposure combination. Does it make sense to run DxO first to get lense correction and so forth. Flickr groups say yes,…

I admit it, I was a nerd watching macrumors board cast a live blow by blow of the Apple keynote. Some things from the WWDC: Drool, drool, the new MacBook Pro with Retina (wow those product names are getting to be a handful). 768GB of flash plus 16GB of main…

I wish Calvin hadn’t introduced me to this game. So addicting. Anyway, you have to know a lot to play and at least this is not a twitch game like Call of Duty (sad that CoD has become that, it used to be so amazingly interesting as a World War…

Working at home today and amazed that despite the fact that i’ve used the Donotcall.gov site, I’m still getting robocalls. Tried to reregister there and I’m only allowed three phone numbers per email. So instead, it says, call 888-382-1222 and they will add you to list. Good luck!

Scheduledirect seems to be the source of inexpensive TV schedules and it does work well for a decent $25/year.