It looks like Canon is filing a patent to do some “good” in camera HDR in the near future and they have redone the way HDR is done in order to do this on-the-fly. Typically, High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is done by post-processing a few different exposures onto a single image. Canon [...]
We had a chance to sit down with Billy Reid regarding video creation, how to make them viral and who is staying ahead of the curve. Aparently, Doritos is a company that gets it. At the very least, it appears that someone at Doritos has teens that watch Youtube. Doritos has [...]
Product: SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card
Provided By: SanDisk
Price: Find Lowest Price Online
Introduction:
CompactFlash cards are not very popular anymore as Secure Digital cards are typically much cheaper. That being said, pro-sumer Digital SLR cameras as well as full Professional SLR cameras use CompactFlash as it seems to be more reliable and is certainly faster [...]
This evening (Sunday, September 13) marks episode #8 of Weekly Tech Update and tonight we will be having Daniel Guenter on the show. He is a computer programmer, runs a cool programming blog – slagd.com and is actually my web host. Tonight we will be talking about Microsoft’s Open Source Initiative, PS3 Sales and 24 [...]
Over the past few weeks and even months, I’ve spent a fair bit of time at a couple of stores. It’s not that I need a bunch of stuff, it’s just that the customer service and knowledgable people at these places are absolutely fantastic. The first place that I started to hang out as I [...]
Last Tuesday we launched WeeklyTechUpdate over at BCCHardware.com and tonight we record Episode #2. Tonight we will have Jason Schneider live in Studio here at the BCCHardware HQ, and may have a call-in from Daniel Guenter – Programmer over at SLAGD.
If Daniel is unable to make it tonight, we will be hosting a live stream [...]
Product: Joby Ballhead
Provided By: Joby
Price: $44.95 MSRP
Introduction:
Today I’m taking a look at a bit of a different product here at BenHeide.com. Usually, we work more with computer and consumer electronics, but we are heading down the road with our SLR today and looking at the Joby Ballhead. A ballhead is an attachment that interfaces between [...]
With spring here in Alberta comes a lot of outside activity and no more playing video games – especially for the kids. We have a lot of fun in the downtime going to the little stream that flows past our place and having fun throwing rocks in the water. I don’t care what generation you [...]
If you’ve got a nice camera – or any camera for that matter, you may wonder how many times you can pull out the card and plug it into your computer without wearing things out. Quite a while ago I picked up an Eye-Fi card to accompany me on a trip. This card doesn’t have [...]
I just finished up a bit of an interesting interview, shop tour and Q&A session with Geoff Lyon of CoolIT Systems in Calgary Alberta. They touched a few of their current products, where they’ve come from and even dropped a few hints regarding what we can expect from them in the future. We’ve chopped the [...]
