Category: Links

Khoa Tran has a great guest post talking about patience in photography to get a great shot, but also how a small camera system (like micro four-thirds, Fuji, or Leica) helps the more impatient people get the shot.

Good video in support of my philosophy that you shouldn’t waste money on a UV filter.

(Linked to the mobile site as the desktop version is Flash only for some idiotic reason I don’t care to know.)

Jeff Cable:

When I photographed the Summer Olympics in London, my deadline was shortened to 2 hours. That means that I would have to go through thousands of photos, pick the best, edit them and submit them to the team within a couple of hours.

Now, with the ever increasing immediacy of the Internet age, They want me posting images at each break. So that means that, when the buzzer sounds at the end of the first period of hockey, I have 14 minutes to download my photos (I shoot full RAW), go through them, edit, resize them and upload to Team USA.

Wow.

Patrick La Roque, while reviewing the drool worthy Fujifilm X-T1, had this excellent point to make about Fujifilm:

I had a girlfriend way back when who used to always leave one plate or utensil at the bottom of the sink when doing dishes, just for the sake of balance, of keeping the world just a teeny bit less than perfect. Sometimes I have to wonder if Fuji doesn’t embrace that same philosophy…

Shawn Blanc:

When reaching for an iPad around the house, I grab the mini. The mini goes with me when I’m traveling with my laptop. And I bring the mini when I don’t expect to need an iPad for anything but want to bring one anyway just in case.

That’s the iPad Air for me. I love the above passage, because it very clearly spells out how you know when something is the right device for you.

Dallas Sanders:

In 2008 I had a rare chance to take a bus trip from S. Korea to N. Korea. Here is what I wrote of that adventure

I’d love to take that bus ride.

Good review of the Olloclip — I haven’t had one since the iPhone 4. It was neat, but I never used it and it always accumulated too much pocket lint.

I think Stephen Hackett used my Olloclip more than I did.

I’ve got a pretty good system that works for me: keep the inbox empty by either putting tasks in task management apps, doing it, or delegating it.

Lopp’s system is a bit much for me, but I know about 10,000 people who could use this — and in doing so make my life easier.

This is quickly becoming my most favorite iOS app:

Reporter’s random prompts to answer a survey had made tracking the year a breeze and helped me to investigate questions that would have been impossible to answer using other methods.

Rachel La Corte:

Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to “join a growing national conversation about capital punishment.”

Legal weed? Check. Same-sex marriage? Check. No death penalty? Check. Lots of things being done in Washington state these days.

Chris Bowler’s thoughts on Writer Pro are largely mimicking mine right now. It’s good, I have faith in it, but it’s not wowing me right now.

Food to Fitness:

Whiskey is beneficial for preventing cancer. It is high in anti-oxidants which help in restricting the growth of cancer cells. Whiskey contains ellagic acid which is a natural phenol anti-oxidant.

Works for me…

Claire Cain Miller:

Thanks to Plus, Google knows about people’s friendships on Gmail, the places they go on maps and how they spend their time on the more than two million websites in Google’s ad network. And it is gathering this information even though relatively few people use Plus as their social network.

A fantastic, free, Lightroom plugin that analyzes the metadata of your photos like you are the NSA. See what aperture, focal length, shutter speed, and more that you use the most of. It’s pretty interesting to see the break down.

I tend to shoot around f/2 at 1/60th with a 35mm (full-frame equivalent) focal length.

I would have bet money that I shoot more with a 50mm at 1/100th than any other length. Wow. The aperture setting was as expected.

(I only analyzed my latest 6,600 images.)

Bruce Schneier on recent Snowden revelations:

As fascinating as the technology is, the critical policy question—and the one discussed extensively in the FirstLook article—is how reliable all this information is. While much of the NSA's capabilities to locate someone in the real world by their network activity piggy-backs on corporate surveillance capabilities, there's a critical difference: False positives are much more expensive. If Google or Facebook get a physical location wrong, they show someone an ad for a restaurant they're nowhere near. If the NSA gets a physical location wrong, they call a drone strike on innocent people.

This is a reaction to this post from Glenn Greenwald.