January 30, 2008: I’m at the airport in DC, wating for my flight to Las Vegas for PMA. I’m looking forward to so many things there, especially the chance to spend some quality time with Michael, who I don’t think I’ve hung out with in almost a year! Yikes.
Got a nice call last night from [...]

January 15, 2008: It’s just been announced by Apple and I want it - The Macbook Air.  At .76 inches at the thickest part, and just 0.16  at it’s skinniest, it’s thin enough to fit into an interoffice envelope. Yet it has a 13.3 inch LCD screen and full-sized keyboard.  It weighs a mere 3 pounds, [...]

January 8, 2007: Thanks to all of you who wrote in to say that episode 79 cut off early. Sorry!
I’ll figure out a way to get the rest of the audio out to you in the next day or two, so that everyone can, at the very least, enter the contest for a Shootsac.
Stay tuned!
Scott

December 27, 2007: In last week’s notes, I neglected to put a link to our contest photos. You can find them at our Phanfare site at http://dps.phanfare.com/2007, in the album titled “Spotlight on Giving.”
While you’re there, feel free to take a look at some of our past contest entries, too - there’s some pretty great stuff [...]

December 17 2007: I just happened to check the incoming links to our home page, and I found some really nice mentions of the show from some very kind listeners.
Thanks to the good people of Sightlines, Fotonomy and to Jennifer Elaine for the shoutouts! 
Scott

December 14, 2007: CNET likes to do deathmatches between two similar competing products, and this time they’ve pitted two popular DSLR’s against each other: Nikon’s D80 vs. Canon’s EOS Rebel XTi. 
Two judges rated both cameras in five categories. The result: The Nikon trounced the Canon with a score of 45 to 37.  Here’s CNET’s [...]

December 12, 2007: Listener Mike (thanks Mike!) wrote to let me know that on the latest episode I said that the Lensbabies contest ends on November 30th, 2007, which has already happened.  Mike wanted to know if I had made a mistake.
Of course I haven’t! Lensbabies are so cool, I’m assuming that those of you [...]

November 28, 2007:  After numerous reports of faulty focusing on their flagship EOS 1D Mark III DSLR, Canon concluded that the issue was related to a hardware malfunction in some units. To their credit, they instituted a free repair program for cameras affected by this malfunction.
Now, according to Canon, the latest firmware version for the [...]

November 15, 2007: The album of finalists for our latest photo contest - Creativity with a Creative Hand - are now posted at www.dps.phanfare.com.
It’s always harder to pick finalists than we anticipated, but we think the ones we’ve selected are great. But, then again, so were many of the other entries. Choosing is hard!
We’ll be [...]

November 2, 2007: On our last show, Canon USA’s technical guru Rudy Winston said the company was admitting focus problems with the EOS-1D Mark III and was planning on fixing them.
At the time, he didn’t know if the problem was limited to a certain batch of cameras and how Canon would make good. He said [...]