on November 14th, 2008

For some time, I have been reading different rumors about Canon on Dpreview.com and CanonRumors.com.  Recently, I have grown frustrated with the information presented - most particularly CanonRumors.  In fact, I cannot remember when they have actually gotten something right there - even things they mark as ‘done deal’ have turned out to be wrong [...]

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on November 6th, 2008

As many of you know, since selling my old 5D and waiting for my new 5D Mark II I have been without a camera.  This has given me the opportunity for reflection on my current status and goals with a lot of things.
For instance, as an aside I have finally figured out a routine for [...]

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on November 5th, 2008

While reflecting on the current state of my photography, I have come up with a new photography plan.  My end goal is quite high - to become a well known photographer.  From that goal I am currently quite distant, however in small steps I believe I can achieve this.
Therefore I have decided to name goals [...]

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on October 26th, 2008

Recently, one of my friends felt pity for my cameraless plight and let me borrow his 40D over the weekend so I could take pictures of my sons at two Halloween parties.
Coming from the 5D, the 40D is certainly a different camera.  I suspect that many people right now are trying to make up their [...]

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on October 24th, 2008

I suspect a great deal of this blog will already be known to many of you, but for those who are just starting out in photography you may want to know what the best ways to pick up used equipment are.  Also, some of this info may be helpful for those who have equipment they [...]

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on October 19th, 2008

As promised in my previous post, I have started my site where visitors are able to purchase prints of my top photos.  The location of the site is http://jcalev.smugmug.com and, as already mentioned, 60% of the profits from this site will go to charity - evenly divided between Doctors Without Borders, the World Wildlife Fund, [...]

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on October 8th, 2008

Well, I’ve sold my 5D.  For the next few weeks I’ll be without a camera, but then I will have the 5D Mark II.  This was one of my favorite pieces of electronic equipment I have owned and I have taken many great memories with it.  With hope I will have even better memories of [...]

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on October 7th, 2008

This weekend I decided to put my Canon 5D up for sale, so I naturally placed it on Craiglist.  We sell almost everything now on Craigslist, as Ebay isn’t worth the effort.  People are much cheaper on EBay and the few items I have tried to sell there didn’t sell.  I was in no huge [...]

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For those of you who have been living in a cave for the past several weeks, there is a new camera coming out that replaces the current Canon 5D.  Although the new camera introduces a number of improvements over the old one, a lot of people have been voicing strong concerns that the autofocus wasn’t [...]

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on September 17th, 2008

Well, Canon has finally announced the new 5D Mark II and my initial thoughts are of disappointed.  I had waited for this camera so long and all they did was release a 21MP full frame 50D.  While this camera is certainly a step up from the 5D, I’m not entirely sure that it’s worth the [...]

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