welcome to 2008
This is the traditional ‘first’ post of the year, you know the ones where we all discuss our plans for the coming year.
Looking back at 2007
On a personal level 2007 has been a bit of a mixed up year, full of ups and downs with the odd twist.
The highlight of the year without doubt had to be tv birth of by neice Francessa but that did not happen until July so lets back track a bit.
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Canon 40D Is On The Way
In the last 24 hours or so details of Canon's replacement for the 30D has been unveiled.It started with Amazon 'accidentally' putting the page live of their site, then counter details were released across the tubes. I for one use Digital Photography Review as my source of all things Photography ... -
HDR or Bust
Busting a move through my RSS feeds led me over to Michael's site and his recent post about the use; or rather miss-use of HDR. If in doubt about HDR try here, but it is essentially a method to capture a better picture using a higher dynamic range of colours; hence ... -
Flickr Uploader
On a quiet Sunday morning I was going through my photo library and uploading the ones that got left behind only to find that Flickr Uploader has been updated. Version 2.3 is now a universal binary and among other things offers growl support. There is also the ability to rate the ...
Camera Upgrade
I have upgraded my Canon 300D to a 30D.
The other week end in France my existing Canon camera; a 300D (Digital Rebel) started having a bit of a flip out. It would not focus and the shutter was not firing.
To which I started looking around at an upgrade, just in case the worse ever happened. The options on the table was obviously a Canon, I have a few Canon AF lenses now, but what body; the new kid on the block is the 400D. But then we have the older 30D.
What one should I choose?
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