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Linkdump for January 16th

by Rob Friesel

Coffee reduces Alzheimer’s risk: study via /.: Best news ever? *bzzz*bzzz*bzzz* (tagged: coffee news health science ) Circuit City fails to be wanted, will now be liquidated via Engadget – this is what happens when your recovery strategy includes firing your best retail employees and replacing them with greenhorns who, while paid out at â…“-½ […]

6 months of DSLR action

by Rob Friesel

Six months ago, the F_D crew took the plunge and entered the realm of DSLR photography.  We have certainly had no regrets.  The Canon XTi is a great camera that produces some great pictures; certainly it has raised the bar over our older SD630 1.  This is not (of course) to suggest that the camera […]

Aperture

by Rob Friesel

Taking the Aperture plunge… After about four years and approximately nine thousand digital images collected, processed, managed, and shared via iPhoto, we’ve more/less out-grown it around this house.  Yes: this coincides in large part with the DSLR upgrade and the desire to shoot RAW but iPhoto just didn’t seem to be cutting it for us. […]

DSLR shopping

by Rob Friesel

Over the past couple weeks and months 1 I have reached that stage and am now laboring over the decision to upgrade to a DSLR camera.  It’s mostly (as a I admitted to one friend) “lens lust” but there’s also an amateur artistic element to it.  I’m looking for some more control over the pictures (i.e., […]

hugin notes

by Rob Friesel

Spent about an hour messing around with hugin again tonight. The last couple of panoramics I have stitched together in PhotoStitch have been … disappointing. It mostly has to do with the seams; no matter what I try, there appears to be too much “vignetting” going on at those seams. The tripod has not really […]