All Entries Tagged With: "Hardware"
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Laptop Line
Apple has announced significant performance updates to its professional-grade MacBook Pro laptops. The 13-, 15-, and 17-inch MacBook Pros all received performance updates to varying degrees.
Read this article for an overview of the updates, as well as links to detailed reviews and specifications for each of the three main MacBook Pro models.
Black Friday Specials from Amazon, B&H, Acronis, etc.
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Firewire Connectors: A Profusion of Plugs
What to do if you have a Firewire 400 drive and need to connect it to a Mac that only has a Firewire 800 port? Or, say you have a Firewire 400 6-pin full size plug but need to connect to a PC laptop’s mini Firewire port?
Answer: Get the right cable or plug adapter!
Recommended External Hard Drives– Updated
Update: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and external hard drives are a perfect match for the serious digital photographer. Thanks to the low price of high-quality external hard disks, we now have an inexpensive way to store thousands of digital images and to make redundant backup copies of our precious work. I’ve completely re-written this post on which external hard disks I trust for both my main photo storage drive and for my backup drive. Check out the new recommendations….
Computer For Digital Photography Recommendations: Spring 2009
Feeling the need for a new computer? Today, I am throwing my full support behind the Mac. I am convinced that there are significant stability and usability advantages to the Mac system for the serious digital photographer who is not already a Windows IT expert.
Archives and Backup Copies
Most digital photographers are not taking the time to properly protect their precious digital images. As a professional photographer, the idea of losing a single important image scares me, but losing everything that I have ever shot because my computer crashes horrifies me. Ask yourself, “What would I lose if my computer died right now?”
Let me say this to you in bold for maximum impact: If you have neglected to prepare for total system failure, then you should expect to lose everything when disaster inevitably strikes.
David’s Holiday Gift Guide for Digital Photographers
I set out to write a simple holiday gift guide like the one that my buddy Scott Rouse posted recently. I started out trying to make a list of goodies that any serious digital photographer might want, but my own desires kept creeping in.
Without further ado, here’s my own personal holiday wish list.
Scott’s Photographer Holiday Gift Guide
Now that the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday have calmed a bit, I wanted to throw up a quick post with my list of what every photographer needs for Christmas or Hanukkah or Festivus (my holiday of choice) or for no reason whatsoever. Well, maybe not every photographer, but I sure wouldn’t return any of these gifts if I found them under my tree this year!
Read on to find out.
Using a Tablet with Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is already a very efficient software program. It has greatly increased my productivity, especially when dealing with large numbers of images from a single shoot. One of the ways to increase this productivity is through the use of a tablet.
In this article, we’ll review some of the popular Wacom tablet models and talk about some tips and tricks for using a tablet in Lightroom.
My favorite tablet for the job is the Wacom Intuos 6×8. Read on for more information.
