Archive for the 'Photography Tips' Category

Backing Up Your Photos – Try SyncToy

If you’re like me, you have an abundance of digital photos filling up hard drives… many hard drives.   There are several different ways photographers are dealing with this.   The issue is not just data storage.   For all the data that you store, you also need to back up that data.  (If you’re [...]

Other Brand Lenses and Warranty Implications

I’ve run across an interesting dilemma: Whether to use lenses that are not of the same brand as my DSLR camera body.   I was recently told by a Canon rep that if I use a non-Canon lens (such as a Tamron, Sigma, etc.) on a Canon body, this voids my warranty.   In my [...]

Looking Through Your Eyepiece Can Change the Exposure?

I’ve been into photography for a long time, but it seems I am always learning something new.   What I learned today though, actually surpised me.   (How can it be that I never knew this?)  What I learned was that my DSLR can actually have its light metering system completely fooled by light entering through [...]