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Beachtek mic adapter for camcorders

Many thanks to Alex Lindsay for turning me on to the Beachtek mic adaptor. This little, ingenious gadget allows you to connect professional XLR microphones to a standard camcorder, as long as it has an 1/8″ mic input available. I recently purchased a Canon HF 100 high def camcorder to shoot some interviews and video [...]
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Scott Bourne’s new photo site: ScottCritiques.com

Scott Bourne, the well known photographer from the TWiP podcast, has a new photography site called ScottCritiques.com. He offers critiques of users’ photos and tips for how to improve them. Looks like it’s going to be an interesting site, so check it out and see what you think.
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Pictures of the Port of Long Beach

I just posted a new set of photos on Flickr. They were taken yesterday during a boat tour of the Port of Long Beach. The sky added a great dramatic element, as it was dark and overcast during the tour.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nacuff/
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CVS Videocamera Hack Update

Here’s an update to what has proved to be one of the most popular items on the blog: my CVS Camera Hack post. I posted that almost exactly one year ago and I thought I’d do a quick update after actually using the camera in real life for a while. First of all, the landscape [...]
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Photokina’s almost here

The every-other-year giant photography convention Photokina is almost here. For all the gear-head photographers out there this is a great time to watch for new product announcements and start drooling over new stuff. I’m particularly interested to see what Nikon and Canon are releasing in the prosumer DSLR space, plus mid-range HD camcorder technology. Just [...]
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