http://www.pshizzy.com Tips, Tricks, and Articles on Photography Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:31:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A buddy of mine clued me in on this a few days ago. ThinkTank Photo, maker of photography bags and accessories, has started an affiliate program. Here’s the deal: Purchase anything from their site over $50 using an affiliate and you will get a free bag (note the image) with ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/12/get-a-free-thinktank-bag-with-purchase/ Tomorrow, November 18th, starting at 6am PST, you can get a free copy of Zonealarm 2009 Pro for free. Lifehacker, a favorite site of mine, has more info. As soon as the link is available, I will edit this post and include the direct link. For now, check out the ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/11/free-stuff-zonealarm-2009-pro-tomorrow-only/ Another quick update for everyone. I got this note in my email from the folks at Adorama. Their online print shop, AdoramaPix, is offering 16x20 prints for 4.95. This is a great deal, and it gets even better. They offer this price for metallic prints as well. By comparison, MPix ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/10/the-big-print-giveth/ First, Instant JPEG from RAW has been updated to version 1.1. Added support for new cameras (50D, anyone?) and some bugfixes make it a worthy update. Click on the image to head on over to their site. Next up, I thought I'd test out a photo gallery. Photoshelter has recently updated ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/10/quick-update/ One of the most common sources of frustration I have on a regular basis is that of filesharing. That's because while everyone has the internet, how we have it and how we use it is so unique to each of us, that we often end up with a few incompatibilities. Let's ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/10/i-like-big-bytes-and-i-cannot-lie/ When you preview a RAW image taken on your camera, most often what you're doing is reviewing a low resolution JPEG rendering from that RAW data. Some applications offer ways to extract these jpegs. Canon's own Zoombrowser allows this, as does Photo Mechanic. It's not a big deal to open ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/10/instant-jpeg-from-raw/ I'm not old school or anything, in fact I'm only 30, but for some reason, whenever I see boxing, I just think it needs to be done in black and white. I'd actually really like to break out this RZ67 I have and get some frames with it. But, for ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/09/boxing-in-black-and-white/ The moon is now full. Canon had a teaser site, with the moon slowly revealing a new camera body. Rumors and speculation all talked about it being the new 5D II (or 7D, or fabled 3D). Well, the moon is now full and the 5D II has been revealed. In this ... http://www.pshizzy.com/2008/09/canon-5d-ii-roundup-of-links/