If you find a good camera deal online then know some of these pitfalls. The digital SLR camera deals that are too good to be true work like this. First of all they are going to sell you a Non-USA model of camera. This is not so bad but Nikon or Canon USA will not repair it under warranty. So if you choose this route then do get a third party warranty. I personally like SquareTrade Ok but we are not done yet. These “gray market” dealers will only be selling you the body alone. They will pull out the battery, the charger, and even the camera strap. They then will try to sell you these back at a very high price. The good news is you can buy them off of ebay for much less. If you tell them this then they most likely will tell you the camera is not in stock and not complete the sale. Also be carefull of buying from a place that does not show you their address and phone number. I have heard of people getting burned from filling out an order form online and having their card charged and never recieve a camera.
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 18:39
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I was all excited about having the new version of adobe bridge running on my machine. I enjoyed the last version quite a bit. However it was running painfully slow. I tried changing the cache and some other setting to no avail. I have the latest update from adobe. So I did some research and found a single reference to someone with my same problem. It turns out if you have two monitors Bridge requires that each one have 64meg of Vram available. Well I am still running a dual G5 with the ATI 9600 video card and it has 64meg total V-ram. They mentioned you could run in thousands of colors mode or go into the preference and turn on software acceleration.
Wednesday, 02 July 2008 02:42
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I have had an amazingly fun time shooting and building these Panoramic Photos. I use my Nikon D200 with a Nikkor 10.5mm lens and shoot 10 HDR, high dynamic range, photos of a scene. I have shot both interior and exterior locations. I have a special nodal point tripod head that rotates the camera directly over the center of the tripod. I also take a shot directly up and one directly down. I then take these shots and blend them in a program called Brackateer that makes the HDR file from my three RAW files of each angle. I then take the HDR files into a program called PTGui.
PtGui will align and build the equirectangular image and form it into a