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Absent Moon

I went out to the west side of Carnegie Lake and set up my tripod. I used the [Star Walk] app to find just the right spot to position my tripod and my camera. I waited about an hour – moonrise was 7:48 PM – before calling it quits. The sky was simply too cloudy.…

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March 22, 2011 - Remember ...

I shoot so often with my 35mm f/1.8 DX Nikkor (52mm FX equivalent) that I had forgotten that I had another lens. While using Flipboard to flip through the Flickr stream of my contacts ( and aptly named app - oh oh, the puns are flowing ) I suddenly realised I had not done any macro shots in a while. I don't have a dedicated macro lens but I do have a Nikkor 18-55mm VR lens that I bought to…

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Where are we headed?

Photo Mar 09, 12 10 47 PM

At last night's Princeton Macintosh Users' Group (PMUG) general meeting, our President, Alan Fox, asked the membership to think about the "post-PC" era and what that means for our group. Alan noted that a newer generation of users are coming into the Apple family, not through their love of the Macintosh, but from their experience with Apple's mobile products – the iPhone and the iPad.  Alan believes that our group needs a name change; that we need to drop the…

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From 123Macmini.com - News - iPhone Roundup

123Macmini.com - News - iPhone Roundup iPhone Roundup Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 4:25 PM EST Posted by: Charles We have been taking it a bit easy on the iPhone news, but I thought it would be a good idea to post a roundup after it launched. Here are some of the best reviews, picture galleries and videos that have been posted on the net over the last few days:…

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