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May 11, 2008

planning purchases

This is a bit of a follow up to Geof's Friday post.


It always amazes me how one purchase drives another.

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Take my latest camera the Canon EOS 1ds Mark III. It is a great camera. 21 megapixels. It captures a huge amount of information so I knew I was going to have to upgrade the hard drives in my RAID to 1 TB drives. And I knew that I'd need to carry more than two 8 GB compact flash cards as they fill up pretty fast now. Also the hard drives that I carry in the field to download pictures on would need to be upgraded.

What I didn't count on was a new version of photoshop so that I could convert the new cr2 files or worse yet, my old G5 desktop is starting to seem a little slow running through the bigger files. I was hoping to get another 6 months out of it but now maybe not...


It is though, an astounding camera. Would anyone like to hear a review? Happy to do it if there is interest.

-Stephen Alvarez

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Hey Stephen,
I'd like to hear what you have to say about the 1D MKIII. I'm a Nikon guy dreaming about the D3 - so, I'd like to know what the competition is offering :p

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