Are Consumer Camcorders Becoming Obsolete?
Now days you’d be hard pressed to find a point and shoot camera that doesn’t capture movies as well as pictures. A few years back, digital cameras started introducing the feature but only to a limited degree. Giving you a cool, but basically useless feature by not including sound, limiting the time you could record, and all had terrible video quality. Now, not only is video recording found on cell phones, point and shoot cameras, some high-end SLRs and even the iPod Nano, but all are even getting into the game of quality movie capture. Lets face it, products tend to not sell unless the “HD” logo is somewhere on it. Sure you could get a camcorder like the Flip Video Slide HD, which is a cool video camera by … Read entire article »
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Using the Internet Cloud to store your Pictures and Movies
The Google Chrome OS is betting many of the world’s computer users will let go of the internal hard drive security blanket and embrace the “Cloud”. Imagine that all of your photos, home movies, music, work and even financial information is all kept online. The “Cloud”, as it’s called, describes what a lot of us do already. Most of our time is spent on the net so why not save everything on the net. Now if my laptop is stolen, its not just the machine that was taken, it’s all of my information, my family photos, movies, financial docs, etc. that is also taken. However, if your computer was just the browser to interface with all of your content, all you lost was the laptop because all your files are … Read entire article »
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Olympus Stylus Tough-8010
If you’re an outdoor enthusiast looking for a new camera that can keep up with you no mater what the elements send your way, you may want to check out the Olympus Stylus Tough-8010. In four words, Waterproof, Shockproof, Freezeproof and Crushproof. Although it’s really “proof” with limitations, but to be fair, the limitations are generous. The Tough-8010 is water resistant down to 33ft, can withstand drops from up to 6.6ft, works in temperatures down to 14°F/-10°C and can withstand up to 220 pounds of pressure thanks to its metal body and reinforced LCD. By the way, yes, this camera does work under water for pictures as well as movies but the Tough-8010 doesn’t stop there. Tap Control is one of the coolest features on this camera and is … Read entire article »
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Canon Power Shot SX210 IS
This month Canon will release the new Power Shot SX210 IS replacing the SX200. The 210 places itself just under the very popular SX1 and SX20 Giving you many of the same powerful features but in a smaller more convenient size. However, this camera, unlike the others in the SX line up, will not only be a bit smaller but it will use it’s own rechargeable battery, freeing you up from AA’s. Other than that, there are a few things that stick out about this camera including HD video. Most cameras on the market now include video capture but unlike most cameras on the market this camera will capture in 16×9 HD with stereo sound and give you an HDMI output to boot, very nice. Also the 210 also uses … Read entire article »
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iPhoto ’09 Review and What I’d Like to See Updated.
Apple’s well known photo editing and management application called iPhoto has been around for some time now and it’s part of Apple’s iLife software suite. Along with its intuitively laid out management and edit tools iPhoto has a integrated feature that makes it convenient to order Prints, Cards, Books and Calendars. You can even have your orders sent to different addresses, which actually came in handy this year while we were traveling. Because of its integration with iPhoto’s well laid out themes and templates this system works out great especially for the books which are hardback and can include up to 100 pages. The books are our favorite thing to order and kid-you-not they really do look professional with the new iPhoto ’09 layout. All services have worked out great for … Read entire article »
Mac Mini hard drive Upgrade
Well I just finished upgrading my new Mac Mini by replacing the somewhat slow 160 GB 5200rpm HD that came with it to a much faster 320 GB 7200rpm Western Digital model. My old Mac Mini had this drive. So I spent last night doing a drive swap between the two computers. I will say upgrading the mac mini is not for the faint of heart. YouTube some tutorials of it if you’d like to find out why. However, after swapping out the drives It was very much plug and play. I just turned the new Mini back on and picked up where I left off. After I restore it, the old mini is going into the living room for Netflix and Hulu. We did this once before and … Read entire article »
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Anthony Marino
One guy, one camera and the nerve to think he knows what he's doing. Originally a Houston native, I’ve lived here in Austin, TX since 2001. I got into photography because my wife threatened me with prolonged nagging if I did not start using my creative talents in a productive / quit-wasting-money-on-your-hobby kind of way. So here you go, Hope you enjoy. Contact me at...
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