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The iPhone as Light Meter

Use your iPhone as a light Meter?   Yes!     Well, here is a cool app. The Pocket Light Meter by Nuwaste Studios turns your iphone into a light meter. Now I know there are many photographers who believe you no longer need one and some have worked out a workflow that avoids its [...]

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Apple Disaster – and the Recovery

Apple Disaster Sometimes good things can come from bad events Well, the unthinkable has happened. My 6-week old Apple system has suffered a catastrophic failure, but the situation is a combination of bad news and good news. First, the bad news, the failure was sudden and without warning or error message. It simply stopped working [...]

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How the Apple Turns

How the Apple Turns My mac adventure continues, with lots of good news. As you might have read in a previous post, I’ve recently migrated from widows to Mac. The process if almost complete and my old windows machine has been powered down and retired. It’s been an interesting experience, I have been sharing here [...]

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Apple demands their phone back

Apple demands their phone back Interesting twist in the iPhone 4G saga, as reported in my previous post.  It looks like there may be some strength behind the view that this is a prototype of the iPhone 4G. PC World is reporting that Apple has demanded the phone back from Gizmondo. The PC world article [...]

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Take a Tablet and Call me in the morning

Now, if you’re like me, you’ve heard of tablets and how handy they are to use with photoshop. If you’re also like me, you’ve been doing just fine with a mouse and involved in too many other things to learn a new technology unless it’s critical. When I was at Imaging USA in Florida earlier [...]

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Protecting Your Assets

Well, I try to update this blog on a weekly basis, but life sometimes gets in the way and it’s been several weeks since the last update. Nonetheless, I thought I would share some advice for the photographers out there who may be reading. One of the biggest challenges of modern photography is protecting your [...]

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Lightroom

I’ve recently purchased Lightroom and I am impressed. I’ve avoided this product in the past for various reasons. During it’s year long beta period, I was too busy with other projects. When it sent on sale, I was reluctant to spend the money ($299 USD) or, more importantly, take the time to learn a new [...]

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