The picture quality is great, but the new format has come with a cornucopia of downsides. Here are a few: Got off to a bad start with the format war with Toshiba. Customers hate format wars as much as manufacturers. Nobody wants to be stuck with a Betamax. Uncertainty means that wallets stay in customers’… [Read More]
Technology hall of shame
Technology hall of shame Photography is a technical art, and the technology of photography has undergone immense change throughout its nearly 200 year history. The pace has never been more rapid than at present. As anybody who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention for the last 10 to 20 years knows, the tsunami of… [Read More]
Printers, revisited
Printers, revisited Usually, we do a holiday newsletter, for which I am the designer, editor, and printer. This year, Betty suggested that I take one of my composite photographs and put it on the front of a more conventional card. I was flattered. It wasn’t easy to find a picture appropriate to a greeting card… [Read More]
Selling prints by the square inch
Selling prints by the square inch As I grow older, rather than becoming more set in my photographic ways, I seem to be developing an urge to kick over the apple cart. I’ve already written about displaying works without overmats. The reaction to my doing that has been highly bimodal. Many people don’t notice. Of… [Read More]
iOS 4.2 on the iPad
iOS 4.2 on the iPad Heat seeker that I am, I upgraded the OS on my iPad to 4.2 today. I wasn’t hard over enough to try out the OS before Apple said it was ready, but I couldn’t wait to jump on the bandwagon. There were a few unsettling moments during the upgrade. The… [Read More]
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