Well, it’s been about three months with this Lumix GF1, and I figured I’d take a moment and spill some thoughts on this micro four thirds camera. In brief: I really like it and recommend it emphatically. With the release of the newer GF2 that has touchscreen focus control there’s been some grumbling that this [...]

On Saturday, Tom and I went to Hive13, a hackerspace here in Cincinnati, for a Bending Workshop. Many different skill levels were represented, with me at the noob end of the spectrum having never used a soldering iron before. We made these Bending Buddies (pictured complete below) that allow you to patch and probe circuits for sounds. Tom [...]

For Christmas I was super duper lucky to get this new shooting rig: a Panasonic Lumix GF1 (with 20mm f/1.7 lens). It has a lot in common with the Canon 5D Mark II I’ve been using the past few years, but it’s a fraction of the size. I’ve been using it about a week now, [...]

I spent Friday night playing with the new Photoshop CS5 because the trial was released that afternoon and this application is the place where I spend the most time. I love Photoshop, even though I wish the interface would evolve more. In fact, I wrote about this very topic four years ago and I’m surprised [...]