2010 July | The Colorblind Photographer

SD cards are becoming more discombobulated: UHS-I and WORM

It seems like every couple years some new standard has to come out to fix some shortcoming with SD cards and the result is more gobbledygook being added to the card names. As you can see in the image at the right (shamelessly borrowed from the SD Association site) in addition to the three size formats they’ve had (miniSD is effectively dead thankfully) there are three classes according to the capacity you desire. [...]

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Update on affiliate merchants: now affiliated with Amazon

I have a terrible habit of not doing or saying anything regarding the affiliate programs that I am a member of. I’ve been running this site for fun, I don’t put a monetary value on the time I spend keeping it running and creating new content for it. Sadly I can’t get a discount on hosting just because of that, so the affiliate programs help offset recurring and future expenses. [...]

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Enjoying the moment

As I sat back with my group of friends on the grass at Niagara Falls watching the fireworks last night, I was glad I had left the camera & tripod in the trunk. Before beginning the trip for the day I had thought how it would be a neat location to shoot fireworks and get the crowd in the foreground. When I was standing behind my car faced with the decision of whether to drag the equipment with me on the long walk to where we finally sat down, I decided against it. It was a hot day, it had been a long day and it got even more humid the closer we got to the mist from the falls. [...]

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Log in with Facebook, Flickr, Google, Twitter and more

Since yesterday I’ve been doing a little tweaking on the site. There’s a new Facebook like button on each post which you can find at the bottom of the post. It’s also on the home page list of posts in the info bar below each post listing. [...]

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