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Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 Flash – Watch Hands On Video Review

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 Flash – Watch Hands On Video Review

Well it’s that time of the year again, monsoon rains in California, massive snow storms on the East coast, rain/sleet/snow at the Olympics, a lousy time to be outdoors, but a great time to take photos. However, in order to take those great photos, you’ll need to properly protect your camera gear. In this hands on ... read more

February 16, 2010 in Reviews by John Omvik 1 comment

Apple Releases Gallery App For iPhone – Gimmick Or Powerful Tool For Photographers?

Apple Releases Gallery App For iPhone – Gimmick Or Powerful Tool For Photographers?

From the “Better late than never” department comes news that Apple has finally released an app that provides true integration between the iPhone and Apples MobileMe service. I’ve had a chance to take it for a spin, and while I already know it will be one of my key apps (moved it to my home ... read more

January 15, 2010 in Reviews by John Omvik 1 comment

Adorama Hands-on With the Leica S2

Adorama Hands-on With the Leica S2

Adorama (the camera giant in NYC) has a great video hands-on available on the Leica S2. This major digital body from Leica has garnered much attention, but with its stratospheric price, not a lot of people have had a chance to play with one. If you’re thinking of spending $23,000 on a new camera body (or ... read more

January 3, 2010 in Reviews by David Schloss 0 comments

Blown Away By Canon 7D Video

Blown Away By Canon 7D Video

We’ve spent the last few weeks carrying a Canon EOS 7D around with us while shooting some events and have been really blown away by the video quality. Last year we did some shoots with a full-blown Canon prosumer camcorder, the top tape-based HD model before moving into interchangeable-lens systems and the 7D easily exceeds ... read more

December 31, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 0 comments

Disco – Disc Burning Done The Right Way

Disco – Disc Burning Done The Right Way

Burning DVDs can sometimes seem like one of the foremost occupations of the digital photographer. Especially frustrating to me is that the majority of DVD burning tools on the market don’t allow for spanning, which is the automatic creation of DVDs where a set of images (or data) is split across multiple discs automatically. ... read more

December 18, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 3 comments

Hands On – WD My Book Studio 2TB External Hard Drive

Hands On – WD My Book Studio 2TB External Hard Drive

Did you ever wish you could just look at a hard drive and see what is on it, or how much free space is still available? Well Western Digital (WD) has now added intelligent display technology to it’s My Book Studio line of external hard drives designed for the Mac. I had the opportunity to ... read more

November 30, 2009 in Reviews by John Omvik 2 comments

Reviews Come In on GF1

Reviews Come In on GF1

The Panasonic GF1 is the company’s foray in to the Micro-Four-Thirds market and it’s quite a hot camera. Akihabra News has a review up with sample images from the camera. This is one of their sample images, and they’ve got the full-res downloads of all their shots available.We’re impressed with the sharpness of it (as ... read more

November 21, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 0 comments

Nikon D3S Sample Videos Available for Premium Members

Nikon D3S Sample Videos Available for Premium Members

We’ve got a number of high-ISO sample images from the new Nikon D3S camera that are available for Mac Create Premium members to download. This zip file contains six quick, uncompressed AVI files right from the Nikon D3S. Here’s our sample video for non-pro members. Keep in mind that this file is processed on Videopress, while ... read more

October 22, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 0 comments

More Nikon D3S Sample Images

More Nikon D3S Sample Images

Here are some more sample images from the NIkon D3S, shot as part of our multi-hour hands-on test with Nikon at the Big Apple Circus, as a follow up to our first post with the camera. Obviously we focused mostly on the low-light high-ISO capabilities of the camera, but also shot a lot of images ... read more

October 21, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 2 comments

Nikon D3S Sample Images and Video Samples

Nikon D3S Sample Images and Video Samples

We had hours to use the Nikon D3S at a special press event under the big tent of the Big Apple Circus. Turns out a low-light dress rehearsal is the perfect place to test high-ISO shots. This review includes sample photos and videos. read more

October 21, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss 2 comments