July 2011

Men About Town

It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.

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USRobotics USB 3.0 Card Reader

USRobotics has a new USB 3.0 all-in-one card reader, which gives you faster transfer speeds for all of the popular memory card formats. [click to continue…]

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Check out this cool video from Kyle Jones who stuck his iPhone 4 inside of his guitar.  His experiment resulted in an interesting rolling shutter effect on the guitar strings as he played.

[via PetaPixel via Gizmodo]

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LockCircle

The LockCircle billet aluminum camera body cap replaces the plastic body cap that comes with your DSLR.  The LockCircle folks say that it locks in place with a Swiss watch feel. [click to continue…]

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Sony NEX Deals

You can currently save $200 on the total kit price if you buy a Sony NEX camera with an 18-55mm kit lens and a 16mm f/2.8 lens at the same time.  B&H Photo has the details and available cameras listed here.

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StoryBoard Artist

One of the things I enjoy the most about working with video is preproduction. While it is certainly a very creative process, it’s also very analytical, which fits with the way my brain is wired.

Specifically, I really get into the storyboarding and previsualization process.  So when PowerProduction Software sent me an email about the release of its new StoryBoard Artist Version 5, I spent an hour or so digging around the company’s site and reading others’ reviews of the prior versions. [click to continue…]

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