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Leica IIIa, 1938

Gear

Free Dxo FilmPack 3

Free DxO FilmPack 3, Limited Time

August 1, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have learned today on PetaPixel.com that DxO is giving free licenses to DxO FilmPack 3 until August 15. If you want to …

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Canon G1X Mark II

Working With a Canon G1X Mark II

July 31, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

A few years ago I purchased a Canon G1X, a large sensor compact camera. I was very pleased with its image quality and …

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Zoner Photo Studio

Free Software for Photographers

May 16, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

Fair warning: I found out that getting off the Zoner Photo mailing list to be a royal pain and that they shared my …

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pectrum Distribution of Light Sources

Use Your Passport: Create Camera & Light Profiles

May 5, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

(Fair warning, long post but worth every word you read!) Your ColorChecker Passport I mean. I think a lot of …

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Internet Explorer

Avoid Using Internet Explorer

April 28, 2014 by A. Cemal Ekin

A new threat has been discovered that makes Internet Explorer users vulnerable. Microsoft acknowledged the problem and …

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Creative Censor (CC)

September 13, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been using various versions of Photoshop and other products in Adobe’s Creative Suite, beginning with the …

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Free Cloud Storage, Big!

August 12, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Cloud storage seems to be the new frontier, there are quite a few alternatives. Most start you at a small capacity for …

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X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

ColorChecker Passport Problem

July 23, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

And a fix! Read on… I have been using my ColorChecker Passport for quite a while and until now the software has …

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Canon EOS M with 18-55mm Zoom Lens

Canon EOS-M

July 20, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been following the prices of Canon EOS-M to see if it would go down to an irresistible point for me. So far, the …

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Useful Gear

Useful Gear, Software and Hardware

May 24, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have not written about some software or hardware in quite some time. I have a few good pieces of information to share …

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Watch out for great deals

PopPhoto, Why?

May 17, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

I have been a subscriber of Popular Photography for years. Every time when the expiration date nears they start sending …

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PayPal

PayPal Came Through

May 13, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Well, in a roundabout way, and there is a valuable piece of information at the end! I had had a bad experience with a …

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Captive Consumer

Creative Cloud or Captive Consumer?

May 8, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Adobe has just announced their new software delivery paradigm. A stand-alone program will no longer available in their …

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PayPal

Avoid Poor Vendors

May 1, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

There used to be a cartoon in the early days of the Internet in which two dogs are talking where one says “On the …

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NextGEN File Size Bloat

NextGEN Bloat

April 22, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Update: See note at the end, that’s good news; kind of. I have been a fan of NextGEN Gallery, a plugin to …

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Free Adobe CS2

Adobe Creative Suite

January 7, 2013 by A. Cemal Ekin

Addendum Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, including Acrobat 7, because of a technical issue. …

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offOne Update

offOne Update

November 27, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

A few days ago I wrote about an unpleasant experience with a software company, onOne, and I referred to them as …

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offOne

offOne

November 21, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

Some companies succeed despite themselves. They do not respond to customer or even partner requests for assistance and …

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Long shutter speed, multiple stroboscopic flash

Multiple Images on One Frame

March 3, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

In the previous post, I presented a method of creating multiple image composites by photographing a number of frames and …

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MagCloud Update

August 8, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

A while back I wrote a two-part article (Part 1, Part 2) about a recommended workflow for publishing with MagCloud which …

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Control Canon cameras with an Android device

Remote Control Canon DSLR with Android Devices

August 6, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Back in February 2010, when they introduced the first iPad, I wrote a wishful post and speculated on a killer …

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A Resource For Photographers

June 26, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

NAPP, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals has been around for quite some time now. Its founder Scott …

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LR/Mogrify 2

Photoshop Lightroom Resources

May 22, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photoshop Lightroom has become a very powerful, almost indispensable tool in photographers’ workflow; and for good …

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A New Lens

May 21, 2011 by A. Cemal Ekin

Photographers love lenses, I am no exception. I have a decent collection of lenses that I use on different occasions. …

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