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Canon PowerShot SX210 IS »
by Glen A. I think I’ll get straight to the point on this Canon PowerShot SX210 IS. For what you pay, there are lower cost alternatives out there that will get you what you want. There has been a concerted effort over the last few years to produce a camera that has the ease and [...]
Eye-Fi 4GB wireless SDHC card »
by Glen A. There’s a huge fascination with photos now. That’s not to say that they weren’t important before. Family photos, pictures of trips and friends, have always been big. However, with online storage and sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket, and now social sites like Facebook and MySpace, the number of photos being uploaded [...]
Nikon Coolpix S210 8.0 MP digital camera (plum) »
by Glen A. Because of my work, digital cameras are a necessity. You’ll find elsewhere on this site a review or two featuring the equipment I’ve bought over the last year or so. Before I started purchasing Digital SLRs, we had the point and click kind–compact, lightweight, with various settings if you were so inclined. [...]
Storm Jacket Camera Cover for SLRs »
By Glen A. With my investments in digital cameras, lenses and accessories, I needed someway to protect them in the rain. I tried taking plastic bread bags and other variations, but nothing quite did the trick. The plastic would rip in places where I didn’t want it to, and by the time it was all [...]
CameraBright X1-ER+ Extended Range Plus – Digital/Video Camera Light (Black) »
By Glen A. If you’ve been reading the other reviews in this camera accessories subcategory, you’ve probably discovered I’m on a quest of sorts–a quest to overcome lighting issues. The high school football field lights I or my son Trevor work under are not the brightest. They’ve been improved in the last year or so [...]
SanDisk 2GB Ultra II CompactFlash Card »
By Glen A. For much of my professional and personal photography, I’ve used variations of the jpeg resolution settings. Normally, I would go with a medium setting, trying to maximize pixel resolution while conserving space on the camera’s storage card. The days of 16 or 32MB is not all that distant, but with more and [...]
Gary Fong Lightsphere II Inverted Dome Flash Diffusion Pro Combo System »
By Glen A. Here’s proof that something that costs over a $100 and looks good on the website can then appear cheap when you get it home and open the box. I bought the Gary Fong Lightsphere II Inverted Dome Flash Diffusion Pro Combo System with the intent to handle a couple of problems. First, [...]
Bogen/Manfrotto 685B NeoTec Monopod Deluxe »
By Glen A. Prior to buying a digital SLR a couple years back, I had no experience or practical use for a monopod. I’d bought two or three different tripods before, but they were best for shooting from a stationary position, not constantly moving up and down and around the field. Then, I saw another [...]
Olympus SHV-01 High Voltage Flash Power Pack Set for Olympus FL-50 Flash »
By Glen A. After determining I wanted to purchase the Olympus FL-50 (see below), it came readily apparent after my experience with its cousin, the FL-36, that I was going to need a better power source than 4AA batteries. The issues I had with the FL-36 more or less had to do with its lack [...]
Olympus Digital FL-50 Flash »
By Glen A. The built-in flash on the Olympus DSLRs I’ve purchased aren’t much different than those on a point and shoot. They have a tendency to throw light to one side or the other of the subject, too, thus defeating their purpose. I really don’t like using a flash if I can avoid it, [...]
Sigma Zoom Normal-Telephoto 50-500mm f/4-6.3 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens for Olympus DSLRs »
By Glen A. I bought this lens to go with an Olympus E-510 I bought (see below). I had previously purchased a Zuiko 50-200mm ED, a mid-grade lens with a decent zoom. Thanks to the Olympus 4/3 system, zoom lengths double (so the lens is the equivalent of a 100-400mm zoom on a conventional SLR). [...]
Olympus E-510 10.0 MP DSLR »
By Glen A. I got hooked on Olympus digital cameras a while back, and have never really tried anything else. It took a while though to upgrade to a digital SLR, which I did some months after the E-300 came out. Having found it to be a good camera for what I wanted (sports photos [...]