Archive for the 'Equipment notes' Category

Overdue dust cleaning!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

My procrastination in cleaning my camera’s sensor finally gave me a kick in the pants with some soft focus iris images I did recently.  Check out the thumbnail.   These are all the dust spots I needed to clean up in Lightroom.  I thought slides were bad!    Dust really starts to show when you do images […]

Ducks and backups

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The ol’ saying of making sure your ducks are in a row couldn’t ring truer when it comes to backing up your computer. As I wrote about in my previous post, my PC decided it wasn’t going to boot on me a few weeks back. After messing around and not getting […]

The Mac wait

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

In a previous posting about a month ago, I wrote how I was considering a switch to Mac. I have been a PC user for pretty much my entire computing life, except for perhaps my original computer classes in high school where we worked on Apple IIe’s. (Is that dating myself or […]

Contemplating switch to Mac

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

My computer is really starting to show its age and for awhile now I have been thinking about what its replacement should be. That also has me thinking about Macs and making a change. I have been working with PCs for 20 years+, so it is a bit daunting to think […]

$1,375 per gallon

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

What is it? Liquid nitrogen? Molten gold? Gas prices in 2425? Special medicine? How about liquid uranium? What could be so expensive? And worse yet, what company that sells you such a precious commodity would also make you dump a good portion of it right down the drain? This […]