Dealing with Storage, What to do with Panos?
So this is a little different than my usual M.O., I have a question for my fellow photographers, not a guide or tip or review. So here it goes. To put it simply, I’m running out of storage space. The 2011 Thailand flooding, and the global hard drive shortage that followed has priced storage in […]
Profiling Photoshop Scratch Disk Performance: Stitching a 45MP Panorama
I’m taking a quick break from the strictly photographic stuff for a moment to look at a computer issue that’s near and dear to our hearts, Photoshop performance. One “optimization” I see trotted out a lot when people ask about Photoshop performance is to move the scratch disk to another drive; worse yet, make a […]
Thermaltake BlacX SATA Docking Station Review
Not camera gear but potentially useful for photographers, the Thermaltake BlacX SATA hard drive dock makes backups easier, smaller, and slightly cheaper.
Finally Some Piece of Mind
I’m not <insert big name photographer here>, I don’t have the luxury of investing massive amounts of cash into protecting my digital photography. For the last 4 years or so I’ve relied on a 3-disk RAID 5 array to safeguard my data. Yes, I know RAID isn’t a backup nor will it protect me against […]
Photokina Wrapup, Late but not Lost
Photokina wrapped up last week, and I have been trying to following along on the news as best I can. The big news to me was that there wasn’t an awful lot of news, outside of the cameras and lenses I’ve posted about previously. There were a lot of rumors about a new 70-200 VR […]