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An Update to the 20D

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Canon has announced the upgrade to the EOS 20D – the 30D, of course. canon-eos-30d-tm.jpgComprehensive coverage available here at DPReview.com. After several years of life, the Canon EOS 20D will soon be replaced by this new model, the most notable new feature being a larger(2.5"), wider viewing angle LCD display. Most other aspects appear similar, although the new version does feature a more robust estimated shutter life (100k exposures). It also adds spot metering (a godsend for those Zone officiant’s). It uses the same 5fps, 8.2 megapixel sensor of it’s predecessor. While it’s no 5D (what I really want), it does sound like it’s a nice step up from my current version, the 10D.  And the list price of $1399 certainly is easier to swallow than the $3k for the big-bad-full-frame-5D.  There’s some other good info here and here.

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iPhoto ‘06

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Forget about Aperture’s ‘beta release’ – it’s all about iLife ’06! I installed the yearly update late last week, and good lord does it rock. The improvements to iPhoto alone are worth the price of admission.

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My iPhoto’05 library was over 28k images. So I was surprised to hear various reports that the ’06 installment increased capacity from 25k to 250k. Hmmm – perhaps that’s why my old install was so sluggish – but never any errors or warnings about the size of ye olde library. Anyway, the new version is blazingly fast – like WOW!

It also upgrades handling of RAW images. In iPhoto5, your edits to RAW images were to a JPEG version. You could also edit in an external editor, but you were still working with the JPEG version. 2006’s version enhances this by letting you open the actual RAW file in the external editor. It doesn’t automagically import the RAW edits back to iPhoto (though I wish it would), but you can fairly easily re-import the edited RAW version.

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SURPRISE!

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Lisa is such a sneaky devil. She organized a fabulous 40th brithday surprise party last weekend for my childhood friend Jan. The weekend before, a small group of us had gathered for an outing at her fave Atlanta restaurant – Savage Pizza (margherita on whole wheat, ‘natch) – as an excellent decoy to the *real* big event. While Jan may have been slightly suspicious with all the cleaning going on in the house, she was blown away by the assembled crowd of 40+ friends and family when she walked in. Enjoy the gallery here. But no, I have not posted the photo of Jan and I at our senior prom. Putting that on the web just doesn’t seem like a good idea….

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Don’t ‘diss a blogger

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Thomas Hawk documents his experience with a Brooklyn discount photo store (PriceRitePhoto.com) as he tried to purchase a new Canon EOS 5D. Like all the lore suggests, the price was just too good to be true, and the retailer threatened Mr. Hawk after learning that he was going to blog his experience after the seller refused to fulfill the deal unless he purchased all sorts of high-markup accessories. Long story short – Yahoo! Shopping delisted the company, Digg.com users nearly took the company’s server down, and they ended up being pulled from most of the major comparison shopping sites following the brouhaha. I’ve experienced this on occasion before myself, though not quite to this degree. Seller beware!

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