By Peter Phun, on July 28th, 2010%
Two posts back, I mentioned Eye-Fi as a possible solution for digital photographers who have a “wait problem.”
It is inevitable, we get so used to the immediate nature of digital photography.
I’m sure I’m not alone.
As soon as we are done taking pictures, we’d like for those images to get to our computers ready to edit by the time we sit down.
Not everyone using a digital camera wants to edit their pictures.
Some may just want to shoot, upload to an online sharing website.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Continue reading Eye-Fi Review
By Peter Phun, on July 16th, 2010%
36 exposures only–You’ve got to make them all count, right? It’s been at least 12 years maybe more since I loaded my Nikon F3.
I can’t picture myself loading film into a camera, finding inspiration and going out to capture images worthy of printing in a traditional darkroom these days.
The convenience and immediacy of digital photography has a way of doing that.
I’m actually getting worse. Now, not only am I lazy, I’m also impatient.
Finding my card reader, taking the memory card out of my camera is even too taking too long.
Previously, if seeing my pictures almost instantly after I take them was sufficient, now I want them to appear on my computer as well. Continue reading Is digital photography making me lazy?
By Peter Phun, on September 13th, 2009%
The Phuns did their part to stimulate the economy.
My favorite Fedex courier pulled up this morning to deliver our our 24″ iMac.
And it is was about time too.
I was getting a little tired of being asked, “Where is the computer, Dad?”
Continue reading Doing my bit to stimulate the economy
By Peter Phun, on April 9th, 2009%
A couple posts back I mentioned how my hard drives were filling up fast.
So who’s responsible for chewing up that all that capacity?
One of my students is shooting with a Canon 5D Mark II. Luckily I don’t think he’s set his camera to shoot at Large jpeg settings.
Another who uses the Nikon D300 sends files of 7.4 MB each.
I’ve since added a 1TB hard drive in the final bay of my MacPro.
I also bought a cheapie dock from BlacX. It’s nothing fancy really. Just a way to connect the drive I removed for use via USB 2.0.
I haven’t added a eSATA controller card for the PCI-Express slot. When that happens, I’ll of course be using the much faster eSATA connector.
Modern day computer users all develop a “wait problem” sooner or later. Some even develop the other kind of weight problem too.
Continue reading Adding storage capacity to your computer
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