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Continue reading →: Noise Ninja and COBA
COBA members will be getting a treat tomorrow during the March, 2005, meeting. As a followup to our noise reduction presentation from last year, I’ve secured a volume discount on the highly-rated and popular Noise Ninja. I’ve used a number of noise reduction products in the past, and Noise Ninja…
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Continue reading →: March 2005 COBA Announcement
Apologies for getting the meeting announcement for next week’s COBA meeting out so late! I’ve been swamped by work, and I’m dreading the 9th — it’ll be my 30th birthday! The March 2005 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area user group will be held on Wednesday, March…
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Continue reading →: Yoda/Tatooine/Flintstones House
The Wave Magazine has an article on that funky looking house along Highway 280 that I’ve always dubbed as the Tatooine house. Rae calls it the Yoda house, and Wave Magazine labels it as the Flintstones house. The article is a good read for anyone who’s ever passed by that…
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Continue reading →: EF Lens Work III
EF Lens Work III: The Eyes of EOS details the history and technology behind Canon’s EF lenses. Suitable for displaying on your coffee table, the book begins with several large, double-page spread images to whet your appetite and encourage you to clear out your checking account.
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Continue reading →: Canon EF Lenses
I’ve been wondering lately what would it be like to own Canon’s entire lens collection for the EOS camera system? In any given photography situation, there’s at least one ideal lens for the job. Most photographers, however, don’t have Canon’s entire arsenal at their disposal — usually, they pull out…
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Continue reading →: iPod photo Connector
New iPods were released today. The iPod mini lineup was updated with new colors, longer battery life, and 4/6GB storage capacity. The iPod photo lineup now consists of 30GB and 60GB models. Most notable is the optional $29 iPod photo Connector. Apparently, this will allow direct image transfer from a…
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Continue reading →: Einstein at SNUG
We had a small group at the Stanford Newton User Group meeting tonight, with only Flash, Peter, Dave, and myself in attendance. I demoed the impressive Einstein Newton Emulator on my G4 PowerBook. Paul has been doing some optimizations on the emulator and has it running a bit faster than…
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Continue reading →: Weekend Wedding Photo Notes
Rae and I shot my cousin’s wedding this past weekend. We had a full schedule of shooting in multiple locations: Redwood Shores, Los Altos, and San Jose. On one hand, family weddings are good because you know pretty much everybody attending. On the other [photography] hand, they can be bad…
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Continue reading →: Server Down
If anybody tried to visit this site in the past 2 hours, you no doubt noticed it’s been down. Apparently, one of the co-location routers bit the dust. What’s this I hear about 99.5% uptime?!? Thanks for your patience during this downtime.






