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Entries from July 2009

How I Shot This: Sports Illustrated Portrait

July 28th, 2009 · 7 Comments

In February of 2009, I had my first image published in Sports Illustrated.  It provides a great lesson in location lighting with Nikon Advanced Wireless Lighting.

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Tags: basketball · flash · Speedlights

Gear for Sale

July 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

It’s time to divest the equipment closet of a few items in preparation for the fall sports season (already!) and new gear acquisitions.  Look for pics and detailed descriptions of these and other items very soon: Nikon D300 – $1,200 Nikon 18-105 VR – $300 Nikon 55-200 VR: $200 Nikon 50/f1.4 AF-S: $425 Sigma 30/f1.4 [...]

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Tags: Cameras · Deals · lenses

Transcend develops 600x-rated CF Card

July 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Transcend has announced a new UDMA-enabled CompactFlash card rated at 600x speed, available in 8GB and 16GB sizes.  No word yet on pricing or availability (the cards are not in stock on Transcend’s site or anywhere else I can find, though I did encounter one person who Sweden who claims to have one). Meanwhile, Pretec [...]

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Tags: Compact Flash