Mike Davidson of mikeindustries.com and the wonderful NewsVine has posted an awesome article on the basics of getting started in your DSLR hobby/obsession. He covers a bevy of topics including lens speed, storage, megapixels, filters and tons more. The article is great, so great in fact that I wish I had written it 
Great work Mike!
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RSSTurbocharge Photoshop Performance
The Online Photographer put together a great piece on using an external hard drive to speed up Photoshop performance.. basically utilizing it the external as your scratch disk. I’ll definitely be trying this. To see how you can turbocharge your Photoshop, click here.
It Really is All About the Glass
From OnTakingPictures via Thomas Hawk, photographer Bill Wadman goes into why he would take a quality lens and cheap camera over expensive camera and cheapie lens in any situation. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve had this conversation with people when they ask me for advice on what camera or lens to buy.
He is pretty much spot on with everything he is saying and this quote about says it all: “I saw a girl with a high-end Gitzo tripod, 5D body, and some crappy consumer level zoom lens on the front. Honestly, I almost pushed her over the edge.” …as you should have! Check it out here.
Awesome info for Canon Point and Shoot Owners
Found from our friends over at Digg, there’s an excellent post at Lifehacker that you really, really want to read if you own a Canon point an shoot. I won’t spoil everything, but the short of it is that there’s free, non-volatile, hacked firmware that can add tons and tons of useful features (RAW shooting, to top the list) to your kit. You really want to read this. Like now.
More Canon 5d Mark II Rumors
Via Photography Bay, it seems Canon’s German site posted some information for a short period of time, and though its in German, looks like 16 MP and due in June. We’ve been expecting an announcement around April 22nd or 24th from other rumors. More details as we get them. Check out the story and more screenshots here.
Update: Obviously nothing happened on either the 22nd or 24th… I’m not at all happy about it… I want my 5D Mark II dammit! We will of course keep you updated with any new developments.
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