Category Archives: Gear

Shoot Sac – reviewed

Bleck. What a bad camera bag concept. In addition to being extremely uncomfortable (it has no padding for the shoulder) it is VERY expensive (more than $200). I tried out Jessica Clair’s camera bag, the Shoot Sac, a couple of times over the last few months and have been very disappointed. I’ve only taken mine...

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Nikon vs Canon

I read an amazing blog post at Photo Business News about the new Nikon D3 vs Canon 1ds Mark III. I’ve been a loyal Canon user since I started taking pictures 10 years ago. I regularly upgrade my equipment and until now Canon has been the best option for top of the line gear –...

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Equipment Failure x 4!!!

I must preface this post by saying this was an AMAZING wedding and Paul and Gloria are so clearly in love in make my heart sing. The photos are wonderful and only the assistants and I knew things were falling apart. Things started going wrong before the wedding. My 50mm 1.2 would not auto focus....

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Auto Focus

Confession. I like to manually focus. I manually focus about 75% of the time and the other 25% I use a selected auto focus point. For kicks I’m going to spend a few days using the built in all zone auto focus setting on my camera. I’ll report back on how it goes. So far...

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Canon Mark 1d Mark III

I’ve been shooting with this camera for about a month so it seems like a good time to critique it. Overall I’m not impressed. At $4500 I expected unicorns and ferries. What I got was a camera that is slow to focus and does not have a full frame sensor. This camera weighs more than...

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