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After considerable deliberation, I just ordered a photo scanner. I've done a lot of research and had narrowed my selection to models from Canon and Epson, with the Epson V600 winning out. I was prepared to spend $250.00 to $300.00 for a quality scanner, but I find there is a price gulf between "very good" scanners, which top out below $200.00, and the "great" scanners for which the low end is

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In the most recent "Pundit Showdown" on the Macworld podcast, Chris Breen answered a question about what Apple products should be "recycled" by saying that 5 iPod Shuffles should be mashed together and recycled into "a single iPod that would actually be useful." I listened to this through a mist of irony since this podcast was delivered into my ear canal via . . . you guessed it, a 4GB 3rd Gen.

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I fear I run the risk of sounding like all the iPad prognosticators I grow extremely tired of hearing, but I have a little more data on the upcoming 85mm f/1.4 lens from Sigma.I was really interested in actual dimensions and weight on this lens for better comparison "on paper" with comparable lenses by Nikon and Canon in terms of handling. In response to a post I made on another forum, I was

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I heard back today from Sigma on my information request about their upcoming 85mm f/1.4 lens. They told me that can't give more detailed information at this time on precise dimensions and weight of the lens, so I still can't do a direct comparison with the Nikon and Canon equivalents of this lens.However, they did burst my bubble somewhat by stating this lens will NOT be compatible with a

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Sigma, long a competitor in the pro-sumer zoom lens market, has also shown it is not afraid to mix it up in the higher-end lens market. For several years they have had well-reviewed versions of 70-200mm 2.8 and 24-70mm 2.8 lenses. They have also pushed into fixed-length (see this post on why I hate the term "prime" - except when it's used properly) lens markets with 300mm 2.8, 50mm 1.4 and others

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Our neighborhood is poorer as of yesterday with the passing of Shania, a lovely and charming Siberian Husky who shared her two bedroom, two bath, 1 1/2 garage home with my good friend (and best "man" at my wedding) Eileen Cantin.Eileen writes in an email giving us the news: "Shania was an ambassador in the neighborhood, and a quiet greeter to anyone who came for a visit. She was a sweet

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At the much-awaited September 9 Apple announcement, newly-minted organ donation cheerleader Steve Jobs and Apple surprised pretty much nobody by revving up the iPod line. The Nano muscles up in ways that will surely keep it at the top of the music player heap, and the Shuffle gets a right-sizing and pricing correction.While not the top of the line, the iPod Nano is the real flagship of the iPod

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I should probably start this entry by stating a few things that I am NOT. I am not an oracle or a psychic. I am not a Canon fanboy and am not in the Canon inner circle or connected with the company in any way. I am not a Canon evangelist or a Nikon detractor. (I have a spreadsheet calculating the cost/benefit of a switch to Nikon to prove that.)Recently, a mole at Best Buy revealed new UPC

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The world got a little bit quieter last weekend as verbally boisterous info-mercial pitchman Billy Mays succumbed to an apparent heart ailment. By all accounts, Mays was quite a nice guy (but then, few people get negative reviews after they pass away). That said, I can't personally say I will miss his yelling at me about Oxyclean or the Awesome Auger.It does kind of make me feel bad about the

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I'm posting an AppleScript I just wrote which I hope might be useful to some people who listen to podcasts in iTunes. Paste the script text shown below into a Script Editor window and save it as a compiled script in the iTunes Script folder. After you re-launch iTunes, you will be able to invoke it from your Script menu in iTunes. The purpose of the compiled script is to skip forward 30 seconds

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Here are two more HDR's from last Saturday night, this time of the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, part of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN. In the case of the photo above, I set the white balance on the camera to the Tungsten setting, although often I will set the white balance with a gray card based on whatever weird lighting is on the scene.Compare that with

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Last Saturday evening, my friend Ron Wise and I did a little exploring on the campus of IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapois) for some HDR opportunities. I actually had an assignment from the University for some general photos of a few select campus buildings and some sculpture art on extended loan from museums.One shot on my list was "East Gate/West Gate" a very large (

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-79476048192708920222009-06-25T08:48:00.003-04:002009-07-01T19:15:18.366-04:00

Steve Jobs, his razor stubble, and his black turtleneck will soon be returning to Apple's Cupertino Campus according to recent business news reports. That's not a surprise, as a late-June return date was announced at the time he went on his self-imposed hiatus. What IS a surprise is the he will be bringing with him a replacement liver.My first gut reaction is some squeamishness. Not at the

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I've stumbled across a few references recently on the web about ways to attach gels to portable flash. Most of the methods discussed are rather rough, referring to rubber bands or gaffer tape. It thought I'd share a way I've found to easily and securely attach gels to my Vivitar units.This simple, easy, and cheap method comes courtesy of plastic name tag holders. These are readily available at

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Sarah Palin, continuing her dogged attempt to stretch her fifteen minutes of fame into 2012, last week expressed outrage at a joke made by David Letterman. Letterman had unleashed a quip implying that, during a Yankees game attended by members of the Palin family, Palin's daughter had been impregnated by New York third-sacker Alex Rodriguez.In my opinion, the biggest problem with that joke,

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The Republican Party is in serious trouble, therefore we are ALL in serious trouble.I gave very serious consideration to voting for John McCain in '08 (compared to having given no serious consideration AT ALL to George W. Bush in '00 and '04). I did this mainly on the grounds that I thought a heavily Democratic congress needed the counterbalance of a Republican in the White House. But as the

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If you read my last post, you know I'm in the midst of a "Mission to banish AA's." Experimentation is ongoing, and results will be reported in a day or two. I've already gotten a result that surprised me with the AA Alkalines that is causing me to reconsider my testing method.In the meantime, a question that might rightly enter the mind of a reader would be, "Why do you use the old Vivitar 283

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I truly HATE AA batteries.I frikkin' hate them with a PASSION.The treehugger in me hates them because I have to collect them in a milk jug and unload them for proper disposal at a special recycling event that only happens twice a month in these parts.I hate them because they cost money. And any and all cost savings are vital in this economy.And most importantly, as a professional photographer, I

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Let me put one thing out right in front. I could not care less about beauty pageants. I was briefly interested earlier this year when a student at the local University of Indianapolis, who by all accounts is a fine young lady, was named Miss America, but I moved on to other things pretty quickly.In spite of my professed apathy, I could not help but be fascinated, in a gory-car-wreck sort of way,

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Recently, while poking around the iTunes Music Store, I was reminded of something best forgotten. So I thought I would remind you of it as well.The Sci Fi channel "re-imagining" of the series "Battlestar Galactica" just had its finale last week. The just-ended series was of course a remake of a series from 1978, which was at it's core an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of "Star Wars," the

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-3208603328373589802009-03-12T23:36:00.006-04:002009-03-25T10:47:50.776-04:00

I may owe Apple a bit of a mea culpa for yesterday's post. I still think the inline controls that require OEM head phones or the purchase of new (and not yet available) third party headphones with built-in controls is a dumb piece of design. But I may have been wrong about the lack of fast-forward/rewind.I just found this Apple tech article, which was posted yesterday and says, in part, "When

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-9786489955751320982009-03-11T23:50:00.018-04:002009-03-25T10:47:34.067-04:00

A while back I opined that Apple shareholders should sit tight and relax even though Steve Jobs has "gone fishin'" until sometime this summer. Apple has a deep bench, I said. Don't worry. Be happy. Things are in good hands.But then I took a look a the new iPod Shuffle.I'm a big fan of the shuffle. I actually have three of the original "Wrigley's Spearmint" shuffles from a few years back. I've

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-18138924503472180182009-02-24T11:54:00.005-05:002009-06-25T19:54:46.316-04:00

I try to keep my impulses to correct other people's grammar and diction on a pretty tight leash, but there are two words in the photography world that I hear misused a LOT. And it bugs me.Sorry, but I am about to vent."STROBE" - Arguably the best photo lighting blog on the 'net is the STROBIST blog. I'm not knocking anything about this blog. At all.Except the name bugs me.The Strobist has a built

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If you are in roughly the same age bracket as me (mid-forty-ish), "Land of the Lost" was probably part of your Saturday mornings as a kid. This 30-minute show hit the airwaves when I was about 9. This is the age when cartoons start to become a yawn, and in the early 70's, Saturday morning "kidvid" started an awkward transition into more live action shows. To throw out a few titles, "Run, Joe, Run

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There was some chatter on the Paul C. Buff forums recently that PocketWizard would make a big announcement soon. Like I usually do when I hear such a thing, I religiously checked their website for several days and when I keep seeing same old same old day after day, I gave up checking one or two days before "THE EVENT." (Seriously, I must have pinged the Canon website for 60 consecutive days, but

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-10822998331563959362009-02-16T07:55:00.014-05:002009-02-19T09:27:16.833-05:00

I've been an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography enthusiast for about a year now. Having now done hundreds, or may be even thousands, of bracketed exposure sets, I'm always on the lookout for ways to reduce the tedium of this exercise. Auto-exposure bracketing would seem to be the answer, but, if this post can be seen as an open letter to Canon, Inc., I would have to begin it thusly:"Dear Canon,

Brian Drummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543331707613833344noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-67066494328300691452009-02-16T07:42:00.006-05:002009-02-19T09:26:55.507-05:00

My wife, Diane, and I made up our own quotable yesterday as we were driving around."He who hesitates . . . screws the person waiting behind him at the traffic light."

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The recent testimony before congress, or should I say deliberate NON-testimony (taking the fifth), of executives of the Peanut Corporation of America brought to my mind a line from the movie "Silverado." "We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."We seem to have a tradition of relative wrist slaps for corporate "white collar" criminals in this country. I hope these

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We had a refresher coat of snow yesterday, so I thought I'd get an early start to try to take advantage of it for some photography. Seems I didn't quite start early enough. It was amazing how backed up traffic can get even at 6:40 AM. The route I can usually drive with only two or three stops today made me wait through at least 7 extra stop light cycles, costing me a good 10 minutes. It would

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-36342610055506069162009-01-29T21:17:00.001-05:002010-03-19T23:43:15.500-04:00

bo•nus |ˈbōnəs|noun• a payment or gift added to what is usual or expected____________________________________________________Where can I sign up for some night classes in failure? There seems to be big money in it these days. Maybe I've been on the wrong career path all this time.As a skill, failure is versatile. It's not just a career choice. It's a way of life and can be adapted to almost any

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-45741712686001587382009-01-28T23:53:00.007-05:002009-01-29T07:25:09.873-05:00

All winter, I've been hoping for a pretty snow to allow me to take some landscape and architectural photos around Indianapolis. So far, all we've had is a couple of instances of lame snowfall that had turned to brown slush before I could get out to shoot.Finally, today, 12 frikkin' inches. It's good lookin' snow. . .if you can get out of your driveway to shoot it. Below, my lovely wife Diane

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-20302126774306894852009-01-28T19:49:00.002-05:002009-01-29T07:35:14.135-05:00

I can't say enough about Disk Warrior. On the surface of it, it seems like a pretty simple tool, and one might find it easy to dismiss it by saying to oneself, "Hey, this thing costs me a hard earned Benjamin, and it pretty much only does one thing, rebuild disk directories." Maybe. But it only took about the second time a borrowed Disk Warrior CD saved my tuckus for me to echo the words of Will

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-55325163677298037662009-01-27T20:12:00.001-05:002009-02-04T18:38:06.963-05:00

"Darling, Everybody's broke these days. Or if they're not, they pretend to be."A line from "Double Harness", a 1933 (depression era) film that is all too relevant today.

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If Apple shareholders take the attitude summarized in the title of this post, I think they are not only missing the boat, they're also completely missing the pier.Much breathless speculation has been seen and heard in all manner of tech and financial media as tea leaves are read in the light of Steve Jobs' announcement that he is taking a voluntary hiatus as the guru of Apple, Inc. And according

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-63711926405179607812009-01-23T19:57:00.001-05:002009-01-25T11:26:55.149-05:00

I like to log for myself and share with others when I hear good quotes. Here are two I've come across in the last week or so:The first one is a bit of a a paraphrase, and I wish I could be more specific on the source, but I'm 99% sure it was referenced by someone in a podcast I listened to recently. I just can't remember which one."An optimist is one who believes we live in the best of all

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-51541637546796432802009-01-21T21:42:00.001-05:002009-02-18T17:39:07.910-05:00

. . .fill in your favorite cliche´ here.I only watched about an hour and a half of television on January 20, 2009. Well, two and a half hours if you count the last half of the interestingly-timed presentation of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" on Turner Classic Movies. (I was in the room but only half watching as I have seen it at least twice before.)The 90 minutes or so that I purposely viewed

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-4174398697792067962009-01-13T12:59:00.005-05:002009-01-24T18:33:28.917-05:00

Thus far, I've said "pass" on the iPhone and iPod Touch. While they both appear to kick major boot-TAY as a portable music, video, and game platform, I have been waiting for the ability to actually do something productive on one. Top of my list would be the ability to edit a spreadsheet. "On the go" notation of metadata text via pen and paper is one of the main ways I keep post-shooting keyword

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-27156370660330539092009-01-12T08:15:00.010-05:002009-01-24T18:25:59.341-05:00

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Mid-read review: The back cover blurb of this book caught my attention with it's references to a future near-apocalypse resulting from "economic and environmental neglect." Let's see, looking at our contemporary situation. . . Got environmental neglect? Check. Got economic neglect? Double check. It is even more intriguing that this book, a science

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-15194908550003955802009-01-08T10:04:00.011-05:002009-01-24T18:26:07.381-05:00

I have on more than one occasion ragged on my friend and occasional shooting buddy Ron Wise to "pour yourself a seasonally appropriate beverage, ensconce your pooper in a comfy easy chair, and READ YOUR DAMN MANUAL!!"  We'll be out shooting something and he'll be fiddling with menus trying to do this or that and I show him the easy way to get there. This sometimes results in a V8-style forehead

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-61777818518400770932008-07-31T23:13:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:26:23.113-05:00

. . .my roommate, Al.Alphonso Meldelsohn is the other member of the "media" on the Samaritan's Feet trip and shares room 606 with me here at the Raddison here in Lima, Peru. I'm the still photo guy, he's the video guy. I often click (no pun) with other members of the photo profession, but Al is one of those rare individuals with whom I share commonalities that can have us yacking away until it's

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-89268356134746837292008-07-30T09:39:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:26:39.130-05:00

This won't come as any surprise to anybody who really knows me, and certainly not to my dogs Amos and Sadie, but I am a huge dog lover. And just as Lima, Peru is a whole new world for visiting people, it is also a completely different lifestyle for dogs, especially in the very poor areas.I have only seen a very few instances of what we Americans typically think of as the human/canine experience.

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-76267590621052667282008-07-28T00:40:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:26:56.828-05:00

The Samaritan's Feet group visited the village of  Pachacutec on Saturday, July 26. Hundreds of thousands of people exist (it's hard to call it "living") on what resembles a mountain of poverty. 300 pairs of shoes were distributed by Samaritan's Feet Mission staff, IUPUI Men's Basketball Coach Ron Hunter, and members of his coaching staff and team.Photos in the slide show below show the living

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-44786531591168993152008-07-27T19:46:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:27:10.273-05:00

"Got anything to eat?""You guys go on ahead. I'll watch the bus."

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-47515000943968378172008-07-27T19:22:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:27:21.591-05:00

I've got one thing to say: "Quit yer bitchin' America!"To be fair, I have yet to determine if this is the price per gallon, imperial gallon, or liters. Also, one must factor in that one US dollar is worth 2.5 of the unit of the currency here in Lima, Peru.Is this a glimpse into the future for the US?

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-53151056099693957742008-07-26T07:50:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:27:30.091-05:00

So, here I am thousands of miles away from home on a trip that could not really have a more Christian theme. What did I bring along for some light reading on the flight?"Damnation Alley" a 1969 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny. It was made into an  extremely high-quality movie in 1977, as can be seen from this cerebral quote spoken by George "I love it when a plan comes

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-30739597809557393202008-07-25T21:37:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:27:37.260-05:00

OK. I'm just going to come out and say it. Air travel sucks. You're not a passenger. You're cargo. I had naively thought that a flight to Peru would have some empty seats on it so I could spread out a bit and get a little sleep on this overnight flight.Bull. Packed to the gills. It was even overbooked, so there was some bumping going on. Just to make it more fun, there was some kind of warning

Brian Drummnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132975836821134855.post-66379447468180073082008-07-22T20:05:00.000-04:002009-01-24T18:27:46.321-05:00

Here's the obligatory, "I'm new to blogging and this is my first post" post.Men of great wisdom and coarse social graces have opined, "An opinion is like an @$$hole. Everybody's got one." The same might be said of blogs. Seems like, these days, everybody's got one, whether they have anything of substance to say or not.I've resisted blogging because I try to keep myself disabused of any notion

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