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Tag: photo-gear

The new f/2.8 telephoto zoom in the bag

Looking down the throat of the monster I’m preparing to take a group of photographers on LuminOdyssey‘s 2013 Botswana trip, and for the first time in a while I’ll be taking a significant new lens: the Sigma 120-300mm/2.8 OS “Sports” telephoto zoom. Over the last few weeks I’ve been preparing …

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David Burren June 24, 2013 March 5, 2016 120-300mm, Africa, photo-gear

Depth-of-field with telephotos

I’m still working through material from last month’s trip to Lord Howe Island. Here’s one example, a Red-tailed Tropicbird (a species which took up a lot of my time and let me refresh my birds-in-flight skills). This photo was taken in mid-afternoon light near the top of some sea-cliffs (200m …

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David Burren June 7, 2013 March 5, 2016 5DIII, Lord Howe, photo-gear

Computer upgrades: SSDs make your computer run hotter

It’s true! I’ve now installed SSD drives in many laptop computers, and they’ve all got hotter and noisier. Don’t believe the hype that SSDs are quieter/cooler than normal hard drives. Ok strictly speaking that’s true, but the real world is never that simple… SSDs (Solid State Drive) are wonderful replacements …

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David Burren October 25, 2012 March 5, 2016 Lightroom, photo-gear, storage

Macro lenses for photographing "the tiny world"

Recently I’ve been asked by several camera-club members and several of my students independently for advice on selecting macro lenses for use with Canon SLRs. So to avoid having to repeat myself again (intentionally tautological) I figured I’d lay out some of the answers here. This is another of the …

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David Burren October 22, 2012 March 5, 2016 photo-gear

Setting the time on Canon cameras

With the recent end of Daylight Savings time here, I took the opportunity to check the time in all my devices and get them set as accurately as possible. As I noted in my Daylight Savings again! post, for a long time I’ve used Canon’s EOS Utility to set the …

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David Burren April 4, 2012 March 5, 2016 7D, date/time, metadata, photo-gear

One big memory card, or multiples?

Some photographers prefer to use many “small” memory cards in their cameras (“small” these days is probably 4 GB!) whereas some photographers are happier using cards as large as they can afford. There are many reasons for each approach, some of which should be obvious to everyone and some of …

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David Burren April 3, 2012 March 5, 2016 Antarctica, backups, photo-gear, storage, workflow

A new photo printer for my office

R800: not the new printer For years I’ve had an Epson R800 A4 printer in my office. This 8-ink pigment printer has been great at producing high-quality images (with a few limitations). I’ve printed a few 20cm-high panoramas using the roll paper attachment, and occasionally printed batches of DVDs and …

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David Burren December 14, 2011 March 5, 2016 Lightroom, photo-gear
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