It’s here! It has no visible cracks!
Just received my brand new iMac 27 Quad-Core i7 – yay! I haven’t plugged it in yet, which is completely out of character for me. I’m usually like a kid at Christmas with this stuff. But the poor thing is freezing cold and I figured it might be a good idea to let it warm [...]
new iMacs: the machine I was waiting for
Quick reaction: I’m an iMac guy. I know I should be Mac Pro given what I do but I’ve always been a sucker for design and the combo of 24in iMac with an added 20in screen for less than the price of a Mac Pro well… it’s hard to resist. Add ultra-silent operation to the [...]
epson r2880 and snow leopard: sweating bullets
I just spent a good 30 minutes sweating bullets upon discovering the new 10.6 compatible driver for my Epson R2880 printer was seriously crippled. Turns out that my installation of Snow Leopard had not included Rosetta, even though I had specified it through the custom install options. After reading a forum thread mentioning the problem [...]
snow leopard and aperture – a quick glance UPDATED
UPDATE: I’m having serious printing problems with my Epson R2880: when trying to print from Aperture (2.1.4) any paper I choose is apparently stuck at roll paper, giving a wrong source error when it reaches the printer. I now have to hit preview, select the correct page setup and profile and print from there. So [...]
that multiple exposures thingy
I’ve said it before: Zack Arias’s blog is a must-read for me. I love his pictures and I love how much he shares with the community. This week he posted a series he shot with the band Living Things where he used the Multiple Exposure mode on his D3 which also happens to be available [...]
Softlighter
I was in Boston for the Easter weekend and picked up the Photek 46′ Softlighter II. It’s an umbrella that doubles as a softbox. I had to hack together a Manfrotto clamp, light stand and flash bracket to get my SB-900 to line-up with the unit correctly (when mounting the flash on the bracket it [...]
