Monthly Archives: February 2005

EF Lens Work III

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Adam Tow

EF Lens Work III: The Eyes of EOS details the history and technology behind Canon’s EF lenses. Suitable for displaying on your coffee table, the book begins with several large, double-page spread images to whet your appetite and encourage you … Continue reading →

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Canon EF Lenses

Posted on February 24, 2005 by Adam Tow

I’ve been wondering lately what would it be like to own Canon’s entire lens collection for the EOS camera system? In any given photography situation, there’s at least one ideal lens for the job. Most photographers, however, don’t have Canon’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings, Photography | 29 Comments

iPod photo Connector

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Adam Tow

New iPods were released today. The iPod mini lineup was updated with new colors, longer battery life, and 4/6GB storage capacity. The iPod photo lineup now consists of 30GB and 60GB models. Most notable is the optional $29 iPod photo … Continue reading →

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Einstein at SNUG

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Adam Tow

We had a small group at the Stanford Newton User Group meeting tonight, with only Flash, Peter, Dave, and myself in attendance. I demoed the impressive Einstein Newton Emulator on my G4 PowerBook. Paul has been doing some optimizations on … Continue reading →

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Weekend Wedding Photo Notes

Posted on February 16, 2005 by Adam Tow

Rae and I shot my cousin’s wedding this past weekend. We had a full schedule of shooting in multiple locations: Redwood Shores, Los Altos, and San Jose. On one hand, family weddings are good because you know pretty much everybody … Continue reading →

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Server Down

Posted on February 16, 2005 by Adam Tow

If anybody tried to visit this site in the past 2 hours, you no doubt noticed it’s been down. Apparently, one of the co-location routers bit the dust. What’s this I hear about 99.5% uptime?!? Thanks for your patience during … Continue reading →

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Protected: Lisa and Chris

Posted on February 16, 2005 by Adam Tow

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Quicksilver meets the Mac mini

Posted on February 10, 2005 by Adam Tow

At the COBA meeting last night, Harold brought his Mac mini to help with the monitor profiling presentation. Similarly, I transported my Quicksilver PowerMac and my 17″ Studio Display. A quick glance might lead one to think that the PowerMac … Continue reading →

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Monitor and Printer Profiling

Posted on February 10, 2005 by Adam Tow

Monitor and Printer Profiling — closing the color management loop — was the feature presentation during the February 9, 2005, COBA meeting. I’ve been wanting to get my 17″ Studio Display and my 12″ PowerBook monitors profiled correctly for quite … Continue reading →

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Einstein

Posted on February 8, 2005 by Adam Tow

It was said that it couldn’t be done. Well boys and girls, it’s here! Actually, Einstein has been around publicly for over a month, and I didn’t even realize it! The Einstein Emulator (DR2) emulates an Apple Newton MessagePad 2×00 … Continue reading →

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