Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

A Few Days With the Epson 1400

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I got my Epson 1400 on Monday, so I've had a few days to play with it. Here are my initial impressions. It's big. No, I mean it's menacingly huge. That's no moon... okay, I'll stop now. It's large enough to create problems about "Where do I put this... thing?" The extendable ...

The Squeaky Feed Roller Gets the Grease

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Straying ever further from the main point of this blog, I recently had to delve into the world of printers for the first time in a long time. My 14-year-old HP LaserJet 5 scares me with a foul odor and even fouler-looking pages now, and my 8-year-old HP DeskJet 940c ...

Shooting with the Bard

Friday, August 7th, 2009

No, I didn't go hunting with Mr. Shakespeare. This is about going out and taking pictures with my Bard camera bag by F-stop. It's one thing to use a bag to carry stuff around with, but it's something entirely different to go out in the field and use it as a ...

F-stop Bard is in the House

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

My Bard arrived from F-stop yesterday, and it is a very spiffy bag. It came with a free F-stop Sporty camera strap (a $20 value). Thanks for the strap! I already have a very comfortable camera strap made out of some kind of soft, squishy stuff that I wouldn't part ...

Waiting on the Bard

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

For the two or three of you wondering why I haven't said anything about the F-stop Bard yet, that's because it still hasn't arrived. I ordered it on July 2nd, and didn't actually get a message from F-stop saying that the order had been filled until the 7th. When I ...

Camera Bag Hunting

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I've been hunting for a new camera bag. Specifically, I'm looking for a camera bag that doesn't scream, "Hey, I'm a CAMERA bag, full of expensive CAMERAS and equipment you just might want to steal!" I also don't want the bag to scream, "Hey, this guy has a CAMERA. He could ...