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The Short Version I ran the Insta360 x5’s Starlapse mode overnight on a camping trip in Oregon. I didn’t have a cell signal, so I couldn’t read up on it–I just set it and went to bed. The built-in star…
These days, my iPhone is the easiest camera for me to carry around. And the video quality keeps getting better and better. But what if I get a call? Or need to look something up while filming? The phone is…
I’ve had the A7R III for two and a half years now, and I’m still learning things. I shot Canon for over 25 years, so learning Sony’s menu system alone took a fair amount of time. Granted, I don’t like…
History I got my first MacBook from work around 2007. A 17″ MacBook Pro. It was the greatest machine I’d ever used at that point. I used it for video and photo editing, and it got hot. Like, burn the…
Back in 2005 or so, I was doing a lot of photography at the company I worked for. Events, locations, products–you name it, i shot it. I stored all those photos on an external USB drive plugged into a Linux…
I first drafted this article in October of 2019. Since then, I’ve formed some new opinions, so I’ll leave the original text, and add my thoughts from today, some 21 months later. Let’s start with a little history My first…
My old Plantronic Back Beat Pros bit the dust, so I picked up a new pair of headphones. Those BackBeat Pros were some of the best headphones I’ve ever owned. I bought them back in 2015, and they got me…
I’ve always been a fan of constant lighting. Now that we can get LED light panels with adjustable color temperatures, I like it even more. I’ve been looking for some inexpensive LED panels for awhile, and of course Neewer came…
Apparently I never wrote about switching from Canon to Sony?! Let’s fix that. I got my first Canon back in 1988. It was an AE-1 and I loved it. I shot through rolls and rolls of film. I took a…