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Posts Tagged ‘cameras’

Broken D300 Compact Flash Release Switch

In Photography on 1 September 2011 tagged cameras, equipment, gear, nikon, Photography, support with 3 comments

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

In Photography on 3 June 2011 tagged cameras, gear, lenses, Photography, Technology with 4 comments

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 [...]

Go Bag!

In Photography on 6 January 2008 tagged cameras, domke, gear, go-bag, lenses, Photography with no comments

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 [...]