The Acratech leveling base is designed to make leveling the top of your tripod extremely easy and quick. The base has a ball and socket mechanism so that you can tilt it several degrees in any direction to compensate for uneven ground without having to make minute adjustments to the tripod legs. You might be wondering why you would need a leveling base, especially if you are using a ballhead where you can quickly point the camera in any direction. The main reason is that you may need to pan your ...
Archives for April 2011
Digital Photo Storage While Traveling
If you shoot digitally in RAW format, the amount of memory taken by your pictures can quickly add up with today's high resolution cameras. The RAW files on my full-frame Canon 5D II (21MP) take up about 30 megabytes of memory each which means that a normal day's worth of shooting for me (a few hundred pictures) will require perhaps 5-10 GB of storage. Sports, wildlife and action photographers can easily take several thousand pictures in a day. On long trips, especially in the wilderness or in developing ...
Printing Costs for the HP Designjet Z3200
Since acquiring my HP printer over a year ago, I've made hundreds of prints and gone through multiple rolls of paper. This gives me a pretty big data set on which to compute my actual printing costs and the numbers work out to approximately $1.76 per square foot. This cost can be broken down into ink, print heads, and paper as follows: Ink $0.83 / sq. ft. Print heads $0.05 / sq. ft. Paper $0.88 / sq. ft. Total $1.76 / sq. ft. These numbers are based on the following assumptions Ink ...