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The Perfect Compact Digital Camera

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Like many other advanced amateur photographers I’ve been yearning for the perfect compact digital camera. I do have my Canon 30D which shoots excellent images, along with a bunch of heavy and relatively expensive lenses but obviously I can’t carry all that in my pocket at all times. Besides, there are times when I simply [...]

What Will 2008 Bring?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Like most enthusiast photographers, I am expecting 2008 to put some new technologies into our hands. Here’s a bunch of rumors about potential new digital cameras coming out in 2008 that I’ve collected from the web. They also happen to be cameras that I’m eagerly anticipating, not because I want to own them any time [...]

Photo Equipment Reviews Rating System

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Starting with my last review on the Lowepro SlingShot 200 AW camera backpack, I have inaugurated a new rating system for my photo equipment reviews. Ratings will sit on a scale from 1.0 to 10.0. I won’t grade anything lower than 1.0. If I ever come across something so bad and vile as to merit [...]

eBay Remotes Quirks

Friday, April 27th, 2007

The weirdest thing just happened. Well, I’d been warned that these eBay remotes might act up but as far as I knew, they only misbehaved with a couple of strobes, namely Canon’s 430EX and I believe the 580 (not sure about that). Tonight I had a photo session in mind and I shot a bunch [...]

Tutorial: Using an eBay Wireless Trigger on a Sigma 500DG Super Flash

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Man, am I excited! It’s the kind of excitement I get when I feel that I’ve just struck a bargain. And indeed it seems I have. For a while now I’ve been fascinated by the articles on Strobist and after reading everything that I could about the subject of lighting with the help of off-camera [...]