Tongfamily Website http://www.tongfamily.com Tips, Tricks and Traps from the Tong's Sun, 26 May 2013 02:00:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Wow YouTube artists http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/wow-youtube-artists/ http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/wow-youtube-artists/#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 02:00:19 +0000 rich http://www.tongfamily.com/?p=8640 Spent the afternoon listening to Asian YouTube artists. Wow I’m impressed. Jwcfree for acoustic guitar Musicneversleeps aka Jason Chen Lilcdawg Kina grannis. Sharon Kwan Claracmusic David choi It’s like Xmas in YouTube land. No auto tune. Real production values. Love … Continue reading →

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]]> http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/wow-canon-5d3-enabled-for-raw-movies/feed/ 0 DxO Lens Softness, ACR deblur and hope for the future smart deblur using deconvolution… http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/dxo-lens-softness/ http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/dxo-lens-softness/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 23:07:49 +0000 rich http://www.tongfamily.com/?p=8621 I’m one of those outliers who use DxO instead of Adobe Lightroom and one of the reasons has been the way they automatically correct lens imperfections because they test each camera body and each lense. For instance, they say they … Continue reading →

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]]> http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/sony-to-go-mirrorless-for-a-mount-and-e-mount/feed/ 0 Roger of Lensrental.com tries to figure out what dSLR to buy http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/roger-of-lensrental-com-tries-to-figure-out-what-dslr-to-buy/ http://www.tongfamily.com/2013/05/roger-of-lensrental-com-tries-to-figure-out-what-dslr-to-buy/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:22 +0000 rich http://www.tongfamily.com/?p=8619 A great analysis by Roger over at Lensrental.com trying to decide what dSLR to buy. Inreresting thing was to compare Nikon D800 and Canon 5D Mark III at 24-70. The new Canon 24-70 II is amazingly sharp and of course … Continue reading →

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