Feb

19

How do you protect all your data?

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February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you’ve been shooting digital pictures for a while, you’ve no doubt considered how to keep all those precious memories safe.  There are a number of strategies that range in cost, convenience, and robustness.  Here are a few of them that might be worth looking into.

External hard drive: This is probably the simplest and most [...]

Feb

16

Should I use prime or zoom lenses?

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February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

A number of months ago, I decided to conduct a little experiment.  I left all the zoom lenses at home and ventured out with but one lens… my Canon EF 50mm f1.8.  This lens is amazingly inexpensive (~$75) but capable of taking very good images.  In addition to its price and quality, it’s also light, [...]

Feb

13

How do you get your images to be so sharp?

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February 13, 2008 | 8 Comments

Christian wants to know why the images that he produces from his Canon Rebel XT with a 50mm 1.4 are not as sharp as the images that I get out of my Canon 20D.  Is it the camera?  Is it the lens?  Or perhaps it’s technique, post processing, or the clean air here in San [...]

Feb

13

Answers to your questions!

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February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There are already plenty of sites out there that review cameras, talk about technique, and bring you the best deals on the latest and greatest equipment out there.  Thus, in order to bring incremental content to the blogosphere, this site will focus on answering your questions.  Some of what I offer will be based on [...]