Switching from Nikon to Olympus: Part 1 - Isn't Micro Four Thirds a Toy format?
Ok. It's time for drastic change. My gear is officially holding me back.
Tag: review
Books Read: 2018
Using my (now aged) Kindle, I do a fair bit of reading. For some reason, whenever I finish a book I put it into a folder on my Kindle named for the current year. These folders exist only on the Kindle...
Review: Nikon Coolscan V ED - Still Awesome!
First, as always, the story. Scroll down for my 'review'. As a film shooter I've been struggling a lot lately with getting my images converted to digital. I have tried two scanners, the Epson Perfecti...
Food, Inc. Is Worth a Trip
Most movies dealing with the business of food are jam packed with horrible images and generally scary content. They typically seem hell bent on scaring you and then the movie just ends. This was not t...
Music I'm listening to...
It's been pretty quiet around here on the blog lately which, as always, is an illustration of the inverse in my life. Work is busy, life is busy, plus it's fall here so I'm spending as much time looki...
Used Stuff from KEH.com
I ordered some used Nikon gear from KEH.com this week and I thought I'd mention how impressed with them I was. I should also mention that, of course, they nor anyone else is giving me anything for tal...
Real World iPhone thoughts...
I'm a geek with an iPhone living out in the boonies and I thought it would interesting to post my thoughts of iPhone use as a contrast to the big reviews posted by people in NYC and San Fransisco. Whe...
Apple Leopard Server: Two Weeks Later
So, it's been installed and running for two weeks. I think I made it pretty clear in the first review that it's good but not perfect, nothing is and over the past 14 days I've had a chance to really d...
Review: Apple's Leopard Server
As you may have read in my twitter feed, I have installed Mac OS X Leopard Server on a basically stock Mac Mini for my personal use. The Mini hosts email and webmail, calendars, directory services and...
Review: JBL Onstage II
When I ordered my 160GB Black iPod Classic I also ordered the JBL Onstage II desktop iPod speaker system. I can't think of another way to describe it. The feature set of the device is fairly benign, d...
Review: Nikon D300
Since I bought my Nikon D40 back about a year ago I've taken nearly 20,000 shots with it and could not be happier with the device. It does everything I had hoped it would and had a large enough featur...
My OLPC Laptop
I've spoken about the OLPC laptop before, Twice, in fact. Mine has finally arrived after much wasted time on Fedex's part. I still prefer UPS. Fedex was supposed to deliver the OLPC on Dec 20th, I did...
Update: Thecus N5200 - RAID Repair
Well, I have to admit: I am one lucky guy. I have been running a truly degraded RAID array since day one of my experience with the N5200. To get up to speed you may want to read my other post about th...
Review: Jinzora Media Jukebox
I'm always looking for better ways to access my media when I am away from the house. For a while I was using Microsoft's streaming server because I had free access to it through a company I was workin...
Review: iPod touch
Well, I bought one. I heard rumor Thursday night that there were showing up in some stores so come Friday morning like a little apple lemming I dashed down to the local and grabbed what they had. In a...
Review: 5th Generation iMac 20"
Yeah, I bought one. No story for why, no long explanation about it. I bought it because I needed a new desktop and I don't regret it. With the addition of this iMac I am 100% Mac now, my Macbook for p...
Review: 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor
Unfortunately, one of the few camera and photography shops near me is closing. On the bright side though they are selling off everything in the store, from neon lights and shelves to lenses and camera...
Review: Apple's New .Mac Service
As far as I can tell .Mac (Apple's Website describing the complete service) has been overhauled in a very big way and for the better. For a while now I've been aware of the .Mac service which was basi...
The Lens Hath Arrived
I'm an amateur photographer, which I'm sure is obvious. I'm a guy in my mid-twenties that 'discovered the joy of photography' only about a year ago. A few months back I bought my first DSLR, the Nikon...
Review: Honda Fit
Well, I've had 2007 Honda Fit Sport for about 4 months now and I've already put about 14,000 miles on it. Who knew I was doing so much driving. Overall I'm very happy with the car. The size is great,...