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Category Archives: Technology onOne Software currently has a sale available on Perfect Photo Suite 6.1. You will be able to purchase the software during this limited time offer for $199.95 (normally $299.95). That’s a whopping 33% savings!  Travel Photographer Richard Davis takes up the recent discussions on the imminent demise of the DLSR and wonders about what changes are also coming in the way we view and interact with images. The 3rd generation digital cameras will not only replace DSLRs, but also allow new ways of consuming photographs. 
Any thoughts on the photographer that hasnt invested in all that kit yet? One side says stick with dslrs while still very exspensive also tried and true. I also feel like its a transitional period and the 3rd gen are not matured but enough to question going beyond my d7000. Love this topic! 
It’s a very interesting topic. Trey Ratcliff said he was done with buying new DSLRs last year, then turned around and bought a D800 as soon as they became available. In the end, I think it can only be a personal choice. As I get older my gear gets heavier so I’m looking for a higher ISO rating that will allow me to dump my f/2.8s for f/4s as Syl Arena did last year. I think there’s still a few years left in the DSLR cycle before mirrorless versions really start to take over. In part that’s because people have made such a large investment in lenses for those DLSRs that all will just be sunk if there are no DSLR’s to put them on. Most of us can’t simply replace our entire kit in one fell swoop. I still recall (vaguely) the pain of switching over from Canon’s FD lenses to EF lenses. When I bought my first EOS I had to shell out not only for the camera body but for a suite of lenses as well. That’s what I would face to switch to Nikon or go mirrorless on Canon so I know my next camera body will be that of another Canon DSLR model.  On October 19, 2011, Ren Ng and his team at Lytro ushered in a new era in photography with the introduction of the Lytro Light Field Camera. What’s so revolutionary? The fact that you can refocus the picture AFTER you’ve taken it. If you visit the Picture Gallery page on the Lytro website you can… 
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[...] what if we go a step further? Readers of my blog will remember my recent post on the Lytro light field camera. Elsewhere we read of flexible displays, displays that are as thin as a piece of card. So where [...]  After some false starts I’ve re-commenced scanning my Mother’s old Kodachrome slides – images taken in the 60′s and 70′s with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera that I previously blogged about here. In between I’ve had numerous hardware and software issues with my PC, most recently a boot sector virus that prompted me to through…  Back on December 19 of last year I was lamenting the changes in iPad iOS 4.2 that lowered the power to the power to the iPad 30-pin connector resulting in an inability to download CF cards to the iPad through a card reader. The reduction in power from 100 mA to 20 mA meant that… 
Thanks a mint for this post, it’ll be very useful on my travels! Now it’s off to Amazon… 
I will immediately seize your rss as I can not to find your email subscription hyperlink or e-newsletter service. Do you have any? Please let me recognize so that I may just subscribe. Thanks.  Hey iPad Camera Connection Kit Users – been seeing this screen lately? I wrote in an earlier post back in May of my experiences uploading images from a CF card via the USB connector in the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. The card reader I was using at the time was an old USB 1.1… 
Well, I reached this article for the same issue. But honestly, the most interesting part is your tweet, which i accidentally read while reading this article! 1 more thing, if I am going to use the camera USB cable all the time, would that really work without a problem with the iPad? using canon 7D, or sometimes Sony alpha200 ?
Hi Albert, I just got back from Florida, read your comment, and did some investigating. I’ll blog the results of that later in the week but it seems that my success is due to my card reader (see the Gear section in my Bookstore (http://astore.amazon.com/richarddavisp-20) This reader, alone among all my CF car readers, will read a CF card to my iPad running iOS Version 4.3 (8F190). What’s more intriguing is that this card reader will also allow an series one iPad running iOS 4.2.1 (8C148) to read photos off a CF card. Also now, both the above iOS versions will read SD cards. If you connect your 7D via a USB cable from the micro-USB on the camera to a standard USB on the iPad camera connector kit USB connector, turn the camera on and plug the camera connector into the iPad port, then the iPad will be read the images off the card. In this scenario, the power for the transfer is being provided by the 7D, not the iPad. 
I am also having the same problems trying to copy some home videos to my iPad. I get the “requires too much power” message. I originally purchased the card connection device via eBay and couldn’t transfer, then was told to get the proper Apple connection devices for the SD card and the USB connections, which I did, and they still don’t work. With my LAY brain on these things,,…..how do I get the videos to the iPad? I tried copying one jpg picture and got the same message so it wasn’t necessarily the size that was too much. I am at a loss how to achieve this. If anyone can help me further I would love to hear from you. I have the origianl iPad with version 4.2 and know/knew nothing about the power outlet and 30 pin xxxxxxx – its all double dutch to me. Vicki
Hi Vicki, If you’re still getting the “requires too much power” error with the apple SD card reader then I think the only safe way out is to connect the USB connector to your iPad and then use a USB cable to connect your camera to the apple USB connector and use the power of the camera to push the file to the iPad rather than relying on the power of the iPad to pull the file in from the card. Does this make sense to you? Only downside is that while the camera is connected to your iPad you can’t really use it to take more pictures/videos.
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[...] Cannot Use Device – The connected USB device requires too much power. this is the problem I have…. I'm not the only one. [...]  Once again I’m traveling and once again I’m relying on my iPad. Following a conversation with David Ziser I purchased a Delkin Devices card reader to transfer files from my camera to my iPad. When I used it a week ago I got a good transfer rate transferring images from my CF card. Today, with… So following on from my travel woes I decided to download the WordPress app for iPad yesterday but that just led to more issues for me. I don’t know why but my iPad takes forever to back up. Do these things just have a lousy data transfer rate or does mine have a problem? I… I recently took my family back to England to visit family and decided to travel iPad only. I left my Epson PS5000 and laptop behind and my bag was certainly lighter. I felt that the AT&T international plan was a bit pricey but checking my US usage I found I wasn’t really using that much… |
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