Archive for the ‘Review’ Category

Everything At Once and More

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

SimpleViewer 2

SimpleViewer 2 has been released and I will have an update of my SimpleViewer SWFAddress code shortly. Most of the code is done – I just have to do some testing. You can check out a preview example here. Update: the post has is up here.

Borrowlenses.com

I recently rented a lens from Borrowlenses.com and over all it was a good experience, but there were a few issues. They have strict address requirements, which in some ways are understandable based on the value of the gear. This does however limit shipping to basically your business or home via FedEx with a signature requirement, no hotels and no P.O. Boxes. The other issue was that the lens was sent to me very dirty, good thing Photoshop can fix it, but still would be nice if had been cleaned before it was sent.
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The Strobist Lighting Seminar DVD

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The Strobist Lighting Seminar DVD is a set of 8 DVDs by David Hobby, released about a year ago in May of 2008. Essentially it consists of one DVD on equipment, 4 DVDs of a taping of his Strobist lighting seminar and 3 DVDs of example shoots. His method of lighting is quick and dirty, done with Speedlight flashes often in nontraditional ways.

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