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HDR photography
21 Sep 2007Last year in November, Cassie and I visited Bandelier National Monument (funny story, the native Americans were called Anasazi for many years, turns out this was a derogatory term used by other tribes, dirt people, they now refer to themselves as the Pueblo Indians) while we went to Santa Fe, NM. There I encountered a [...]
Ordered Canon Rebel XTi
4 Sep 2006As I suspected, Canon is bringing its 10 Megapixel CMOS sensor to the Digital Rebel line . I preordered mine from Amazon .
Despite the many rebates Canon has been offering in the past couple of months (down to $500 for the Rebel XT body-only), I could not bring myself to buy an SLR to move [...]
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New SD550 digital camera
16 Sep 2005I just bought the Canon SD550, after reading a review on dpreview of it’s predecessor, the SD500. It’s a very nice camera, and very quick. I’ve not taken any spectacular photos yet (little disappointed), and I’ve invested in some faster SD memory to keep up with this speedy camera.
Pros:
- 7.1 megapixel
- very large LCD display
Cons:
- [...]
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David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.
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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
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From Highrise to Haystack by Sylviane Duval
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