Interesting review of the surface pro by the penny arcade, who finds it a pretty good option for a content production use case, mainly because it has a proper digitizer. The more I read these, it’s interesting to note how people tend to talk about how surfaces don’t make good laptops, because of the kickstand […]
I’ll make this short and sweet. The X-E1 excels in some situations, but falls way short in others. Unfortunately, it falls short in many of the scenarios I need it to be good in. I’ll explain. As I imagine many parents do, I shoot a lot of photos of my kids. Kids run around. Kids […]
As I noted in my earlier post, the X-trans sensor in the Fuji X-series cameras seems to have amazing noise performance even at high ISO.. to a degree that seems unreasonable. Apparently, others have noticed the same thing, and a plausible explanation is that the camera is applying noise reduction when generating the RAW image […]
Still trying to decide whether an X-E1 is a worthwhile upgrade to the GH2. Clearly the video capabilities on the X-E1 are worse, but I’m really looking for the photo IQ, and here’s a pretty shocking example of what the difference could be. Below is a comparison of GH2, x-pro1 (which has the same sensor), […]
Random trick I learned about after all these years: if you use the Disk Management console in Windows 7 to reassign a drive letter for an external device, windows tries to give that device the same drive letter the next time you plug it in. Which makes it possible (unless you have a bajillion drives) […]
Comparing two usb network cards by copying files on my home network. TP-LINK WN-822N USB 802.11n 2×2 2.4ghz: 2 MB/s peak. Trendnet TEW-684UB USB 802.11n 3×3 dual-band @5ghz: 11MB/s peak. Pretty depressing to think I was living with the 2MB/s for so long. I guess is the silver lining in the recent flakiness I’ve been […]