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More on the Eye-Fi / iPad / ShutterSnitchlove triangle

My previous post and video about using an iPad with an Eye-Fi wireless card and the ShutterSnitch viewing app have drawn some interest, including this email from a reader: Thank you for your interesting and very well produced video on the Eye-Fi card, iPad and mobile wireless router. As a Remedial Physiologist I often take [...]

Eye-Fi, iPad & ShutterSnitch: a great team in the field

A while back, photoblogopunditographer Thom Hogan asked a sensible question: It’s easy to shoot a photo and email it with a $299 smartphone, so why is it so hard with an $8,000 Nikon D3x? Hogan argues that the camera needs to be redefined to achieve photo/communication convergence. He thinks that’s coming soon. Guess what? I know [...]

Geekfest! Build a remote release for Panasonic G1

The Panasonic Lumix G1 is a compact Micro Four Thirds camera that takes excellent pictures and accepts a wide range of lenses. I use mine a lot — but, being cheap, I’d like to get even more use out of it. For example, I’d like to be able to fire the shutter by remote control. [...]

Briefly: Snow Leopard update heals remote apps

Readers of my previous No-Cost Remote Shooting for Nikon on Mac post may be glad to know that the two excellent “donationware” applications I highlighted — Sofortbild and Studio Tether — are again playing nicely. In a previous update to that post, I had noted that both applications apparently had been “broken” by my update to [...]

Can o’ worms: Why is ‘AF microadjustment’ suddenly MY job?

It used to be that camera makers were responsible for manufacturing SLR bodies and lenses so they’d focus accurately. Now, with more DSLRs offering an “AF microadjustment” feature, it seems that they’re sticking us with the job. Why? That’s a question I asked after Photocrati’s P.K. Burian posted a brief tutorial on using the “AF [...]

Dishing an old formula

Note: I must be going soft — here’s another non-snarky, instructionally-minded post! A few times a year I get a chance to do staged, “studio-type” promotional photos for local dance companies, like this one: For these sessions, I generally set up my lighting according to a fairly well-defined formula. It’s not that I like being [...]