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Exposure Metering on Canon 350D

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

When you are shooting sports photos, the normal mode for the Canon 350D is pretty useless. It is by default set to according to the “tutorial”:http://creativekarma.com/ee.php/weblog/comments/exposure_modes_on_the_rebel_xt/

1. Program. which means it chooses the aperture and speed automatically. This is usually too slow for sports where you want it to be 1/500 second or faster to capture [...]

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Smaller than a dSLR recommendations

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

David asked me, OK, zooming back (no pun intended), if you want a smaller camera, what are the realy choices:

Canon or Panasonic point and shoot. If you just want a point and shoot like the Instamatic of old, then pretty much anything in the el cheapo 8MP range is going to work. Last year’s SD850 [...]

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iPhone 2.0.1?

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well now that things are out on the iPhone, the collection of bugs come. The most severe are crashing third party apps. Looks like you have to reinstall them, but eventually they stop working (emmory leak I bet). Same for the whole system, you have to turn off and reset (another memory leak)
AppleInsider | [...]

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