Ifølge Canon Rumors, bliver EOS 7D det næste kamera fra Canon.

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• 18 megapixel
• APS-C (1.6 crop faktor)
• 8 FPS
• Fuld HD Video

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I got this book – Light & Lighting by Michael Freeman, along with Closer by Søren Solkær Starbird and Little People in the City by Slinkachu (Reviewed at a later point). And it is a technical and creative view of lighting and how to use it.

Its basically covering the full spectrum of light, and how the camera measures it, explained along with advice on achieving color accuracy.

This book answers some of these questions:

- How does light work, both inside and outside the digital camera?
- What do you need to know about sensitivity, color temperature and exposure?

This book enables you to understand the capabilities of your digital camera and the theory of light, and it helps you to put theory into practice and to shoot like a professional. Through informative, succinct text and breathtaking images, you’ll learn how best to work with light, whether it’s the sun streaming through a window, the glow of a neon sign, or the warm and fragile light of a burning candle.

Michael Freeman, the author of more than 20 books on various aspects of photography, now helps digital photographers see (and understand) the light Because good lighting is key to a picture’s success, it’s a topic of interest to anyone who picks up a digital camera…and Freeman’s comprehensive manual gives readers an essential toolbox of techniques and creative ideas. Find out how to create and manipulate lighting scenarios for professional-looking photos. Examine the many varieties of natural light, from blazing sunlight to gentle twilight, as well as incandescent and fluorescent lights. Make the most of your camera’s flash and lighting equipment, including diffusers, shades, and reflectors.

From shooting techniques to imaging tricks, this provides photographers with a solid groundwork for producing top-quality pictures.

The book is excellent written with lots of example images and descriptions of the different lighting setups, its a good starter book when learning about light and how to use light to your advantage.

A while back I wrote about remembering to backup, and since that post I have optimized my daily and weekly backup routines.

When importing my images to Lightroom from my memorycard, I always select to backup to a secondary destination (on my server). And I never postpone the weekly Lightroom backup, even though it might take a few extra minutes to start up. I acknowledge that backing up all the modifications I’ve made are actually a good thing. While writing this, I considered changing to daily backups, but weekly is okay for my work since all my pictures (24000+) are in a single catalog and take about 500MB of space for every backup.

I also have an external harddrive, where I do weekly backups using Microsofts SyncToy, and mails are placed on my server running mirrored disks, obtained by IMAP – So in the event that my workstation crashes, no mails nor documents are lost.

I have also been looking for an online backup solution for some time, but here in Denmark I only found one – KeepIt Unlimited and KeepIt Pro, Unlimited for workstations and Pro for servers. With the pro you have to pay per GB of data being backed up.

KeepIt Unlimited costs 468DKK (90$/63€) and if I wanted KeepIt Pro to backup my 250GB in the basement it would cost 3348DKK (642$/450€), so for the total price of 3816DKK (you do the math for USD/EUR) both my workstation and my server would be secure.

However, while reading LIGHTING ESSENTIALS For Photographers by Don Giannatti I saw he refered a product called Carbonite, and I had to try it out. First on my Workstation – It performed great, I could select the folders or files I wanted to backup directly in the Explorer, and it didn’t hog my bandwidth. Then I installed it on my server, just to see if I would get any limitations. But hey presto – No limits.

And best of all, the price. One year is 54.95$ and two years are 99.95$, thats 287/521DKK or 39/70€. So for my setup, 1042DKK/200$/140€ to backup both my server and my workstation for two years. Had I chosen KeepIt and their Pro product for my server it would’ve cost me 7632DKK/1463$/1025€

Now I had a working online backup solution for my server, something I’ve been looking for for a couple of years. And after testing Carbonite for less than 24 hours on my server, I purchased it.

You can test the software for 15 days for free, you don’t even have to register your credit card. And if you decide to purchase it before the 15 days are over, those days will be appended to your registration period.

As an added bonus, I can actually access my files remotely using the Remote Access menu in my browser. Its not recommended to retrive entire directories. But in a tight spot where you need a specific file, you can access it anywhere in the world.

I rate the Carbonite service 10 out of 10! Apparently it works on Macs as well, don’t think it works on Linux.

In case you actually find this product great, and are signing up – Please let me know (in the comments), and I’ll send you a Refer-A-Friend invitation, giving me 3 free months of Carbonite.

Last Thursday the final episode of Nikon DTown TV was released, but fear not the guys will be back with another show in a few weeks. And this time it seems to be all about photography and gear, not just Nikon stuff.

The DTown TV show contains a lot of tips for Nikon DSLR cameras, and several of the customizations to my Nikon D700 have been tips I’ve gotten by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski.

Stop by their show and get your own tips.

A great song and the entire video was shot using digital cameras, I recommend that you go to directly to Vimeo to view it in fullscreen HD.

The video was shot using a Canon 5D MkII, a Panasonic Lumix GH1 and a Red One.