Until about two years ago, I’d been using USB2 drive docks for off-site backup. When USB3 came out, I switched over to the USB3 docks. Then my problems began. The docks would randomly make drives unreadable, and occasionally, even unfindable by the Windows Disk Administrator. They would stop in the middle of writes for no… [Read More]
Archives for February 2017
A retrospective gear list – lighting
I’ve been tracing relationships with my cast-off cameras in the last two posts. Today I’ll continue the stroll down memory lane, but with lighting equipment. I’ll include gear I still own this time. First off, I don’t set up artificial light much. It’s usually sufficient – and a heck of a lot faster and easier… [Read More]
A retrospective gear list – digital era
This is a continuation of an annotated list of cameras that I have used, for capturing images, but which I have abandoned for shinier toys tools. The previous post talked about film cameras, and this one is devoted to digital ones. I got started in digital editing and output at the beginning of the 1990s. At… [Read More]
A retrospective gear list — film era
A reader has asked me a couple of times about my “gear list”. It is long and in a constant state of flux, and I’m not much interested in enumerating it. However, it may interest some of you to know some of the equipment in my past. That interests me much more, as it is… [Read More]
Good enough, revisited
Roger Cicala of LensRentals has posted some test results on zoom vs prime lenses. It turns out that, in general, zooms are not as good as primes. Is anybody surprised? Apparently so. There has been some Chicken Little conversations on the web in response. I don’t see what the fuss is about. Yes, zoom lenses have… [Read More]