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Lumix GX1: 14mm Street Shooter

Earlier this month I waxed enthusiastic about my latest toy, the adorably-named Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read Peter Thomsons’ review of the 14mm F2.5 pancake lens in his London Street Photography blog. I highly recommend it and the linked reviews from that article, they’re all excellent. I’ve been a [...]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1

Awhile back I posted about the Lumix GF2 and promised I’d write a post about some hacks I was hoping to find. Well, short of the little popup-flash bounce trick, those hacks never really materialized for me. The GF2 served me well. It’s a great little travel camera, but the lack of dedicated hardware controls [...]

Broken D300 Compact Flash Release Switch

This week I experienced what might be considered a “catastrophic failure” of the CF card release switch on my Nikon D300. It broke right off! I’d had the card out to offload some photos, went back to my camera, put the card in, closed the hatch and noticed a little black bit of plastic hit [...]

Panasonic Lumix GF2

I’ve wanted a capable, smaller camera for a long time. I’ve been consistently disappointed with point-and-shoot class cameras. I’ve used a Nikon CoolPix P5000 that I was never very happy with. Good people have extolled the virtues of the Canon S90, but it never really appealed to me despite having pretty decent performance. None of [...]

iPhone Photography

Great tips and a couple of App recommendations from Phil Coffman on taking great pictures with your iPhone. At a minimum, you should get yourself Mill Color and Adobe Photoshop Mobile. (iTunes links) Phil Coffman – Art Director + Photographer » iPhone Photography.

vascular system

It was foggy in Ottawa today due to some unseasonably warm weather. I took a spin out to the experimental farm and took a few pictures while on an errand run. This one turned out kind of interesting.

Go Bag!

Awhile back, Lifehacker did a piece on people’s “go bags“. Well, I keep a couple of them, one for my laptop (and other stuff) and one for photography. A couple of years ago I got a Domke F-3X which is a fantastic camera bag, though it’s gotten pretty cramped since I’ve added a few lenses [...]

Gopher Butt

This is a test entry using Adobe Contribute. A fairly crazy bit of software for blogging in wysiwyg. For added impact, here is a picture of a gopher butt. At least, I think this is a gopher. It’s a small brown animal I saw eating grass near Hog’s Back behind Carleton. It could be a [...]

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