- MAKE: Blog: 4 floor advanced engineering demolition toy set. This appears to be sold out, site is hammered. Way cool
- Kindle 2. Love my existing Kindle, still.
- Addonics NAS adapter. World’s smallest NAS. Probably has perf and reliability to match, but still cool.
- Sony VAIO CP1 picture frame — feature packed but hardly available and expensive.
Tag Archive for Photography
Stuff I Won't Get For Christmas
Mostly because it is not available yet:
Stuff I Want But Don't Need — grab bag
- Clickjacking. Pretty ugly form of attack.
- Self-powered wireless light switches. Pretty cool, instead of running line voltage to every lightswitch, they harness ambient power and send wireless signals to outlets. Now if you just combine this with…
- …Dirt-powered lamps! Or bacteria powered lamps. Way cool
- Rich’s guide to your basic canon lens set, if you are willing to spend $4-5K on lenses
- Charging station designs to hide cables. Hate dangling cables.
- Combo phone/keyfob. Damn I wish this problem would get solved for real.
- Probably too little too late, but a nice home phone base station with web/wifi functionality.
Canon 5D Mark II preorders
Canon 5D Mark II | Tongfamily.com. — apparently already sold out at some sites.
Rich's quick summary of all the cameras you want
Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds | Tongfamily.com. These all look awesome.
Digital SLRs this fall — Canon, RED???
Excited about updating my body. Rich is excited about the new Canon 50D – Woohoo Canon 50D at 15MP and its own 18-200 super zoom | Tongfamily.com
And then the 5d Mark II is supposed to be coming out.
Now it looks like maybe RED is going to try to turn the market on its ear? Wow. Good time to be a customer.
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Photo Stuff
- onOne Software – Developers of Award Winning Plug-Ins for Adobe Photoshop. Need to try out.
- Phantasmagoria — free effects software to try out
- Rich explains F/Stops to me again. Goofy.
- Sony CP1 Canvas picture frame. Looks cool, doesn’t seem to really exist yet.
Rich is just a font of tips and information
- Slideshows on the Mac | Tongfamily.com — his guide to all the slideshow options on the mac.
- What to use in place of DxO
- Time capsules running hot and what to do about
- How to remote boot a Mac from a windows machine
Home media server
Now that I have a PS3 I want to serve up photos etc to it. Trying to decide between all the choices out there:
- Google’s new media server
- Free Media Player Streams iTunes, Syncs Content, Converts Video for iPod, PSP and Xbox 360 – SimpleCenter
- WMP 11 of course
- One man’s guide to all the choices out there
- Eyeconnect seems to be liked on the Mac
- or Mediatomb
I have a TON of photos and I need something that will perform well, not clear which of these is the way to go. Time to start experimenting I gues
Rich's photo tools recos
Photo Tools: FDR Tool, PortraitProfessional, Lumapix, Digi-labs | Tongfamily.com — lots of great tips here. I am currently using Aperture and Noise Ninja, with an occasional dip in Adobe Elements — I can’t bring myself to spring for Photoshop but may this fall when I have access to academic pricing. For a self-proclaimed Mac convert, Rich sure uses a lot of Windows software…
Adding your own pictures to the Kindle Screensaver
Not So FAQs » Blog Archive » Adding your own pictures to the Kindle Screensaver — Cool, Ty pointed me towards this. The limited gray scale of the Kindle makes most photos look weak but still fun to play with
Basic primer on white balance
Basic 1 minute primer on correcting white balance — all phrased in photoshop-ese but works the same in any other tool. Most of my photos this spring are outdoors but still useful.
Software notes — bloatware alternatives
- Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software — i didn’t know about cdburnerxp
- Rsyncx on the mac — potential beyondcompare alternative
- Passpack password manager. I am not ready to give some service all my credentials but man do i need this
- Noiseware — I like this app, hugely helpful on my basketball gym shots
- firmware replacement for canon cameras — huh.
Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Outdoors Edition
- Coghlan’s – Product Display — mini lantern and clipon headlamp. I’d actually use the headlamp
- Easyroaster. Cool but I don’t really like hotdogs or smores.
- Yaktrax traction control. I rarely try to hike on snow.
- Mini Tissues. Just because I like the rehydration aspect.
- Lightweight drybags. Maybe I should just pay Brett to outfit me.
- Carbon fiber tripods. These claim to be lightweight but is this really the lightest possible?
Rich likes Zenphoto
Fotki vs. Zenphoto vs. Nextgen Gallery | Tongfamily.com — rich is recommending zenphoto. I need a solution and this could be it
You Suck at Photoshop
My Damn Channel » You Suck at Photoshop » You Suck at Photoshop #9 — this entire series is awesome. and helpful.
Canon 5D Mark II
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Fixing Noise in ISO 1600 Pictures
Imagenomic – Imagination at Shutter Speed — free and pro versions of noise filtering software — standalone and plugin version. seems to do a great job, has a depth of features that I haven’t begun to tap. I paid for the pro version so I could get the batch feature, I have a couple thousand pictures from bball season taken in gyms with crappy lighting.
Kinesis camera bags
Kinesis Photo Gear homepage [Built for People -- On the Move]â„¢ – recommended to me by my smart photo friends
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Watching AVCHD on TV
I’m trying to figure out the best way to watch AVCHD movies on the family room TV. I’m not excited about installing a media center pc or appletv. this little box might be useful — Consumer Camcorders – High Definition Camcorders – DVD Camcorders – Single Chip CCD Digital Camcorders – Digital Camcorder – DW100- Canon USA Consumer Products
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Importing AVCHD files into iMovie
Did this for the first time last night. Movies look great on the mac but the import process is dog slow, basically happening at something close to regular playback speeds.
This software may be worth trying — iMovie & iDVD Visual QuickStart Guide: Import AVCHD Later with Voltaic