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D7000 Unboxing

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/ October 15, 2010 / Leave a comment

Seems BestBuy had a few for sale before they were supposed to. This lucky bugger did us a favor and posted an unboxing video Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 3.0 Inch LCD (Body Only) How does the D7000 stack up against the 60D, T2i and 7D?
How to get silky smooth water

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/ October 14, 2010 / Leave a comment

Ingredients for silky smooth water- A tripod or some other way to steady your camera. You cannot handhold for the long shutter exposures needed. A camera with manual control – does not need to be a DSLR, as long as you can set a long-ish shutter length A circular polarizing...
Sample D3100 Continuous AutoFocus

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/ September 29, 2010 / Leave a comment

Nikon made a big deal about their new D3100 being the first DSLR to continuously AF during filming. Based on the samples I have seen so far I am less impressed. This tech is in their new D7000 too and if you read the notes from Chase Jarvis and other’s...
Unboxing & Examples: Gary Fong Collapsible Lightsphere

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/ September 25, 2010 / Leave a comment

An unboxing with example shots showing the effect of bare flash vs the Gary Fong Collapsible Lightsphere Gary Fong GFLSC01 LightSphere Collapsible Diffuser
Shooting Video with DSLRS is hard

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/ September 20, 2010 / Leave a comment

I am writing this post as a caution to point and shoot users who are accustomed to easy to use video mode on their little cameras and who are thinking about moving up to a DSLR and using that DSLR to take video. This cautionary tale is especially important if...
All About the Lenses (Simplified Comparisons)

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/ September 13, 2010 / 1 Comment

Lenses discussed in the video Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS SLR Lens Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC SLD ELD Aspherical Macro Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Canon EF...
The Ipod Touch Stinks. . .

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/ September 7, 2010 / Leave a comment

As a point and shoot camera. Now I will be one of the first to tell you that the Mega Pixel race is dead and all current P&S cameras provide plenty of MPs and I really don’t want you picking one camera over another because it has 2 more MP....