Tomás Hernández

Samsung’s TL240 Point-And-Shoot Is Small and Sleek [Review]

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Sleek design, Samsung uses Hydro-forming. Just like a $200,000 Italian sports car.

I’d heard mixed reviews about Samsung’s new 14.2 megapixel TL240 point-and-shoot camera. One friend told me it was slow. You know, the dreaded shutter delay? Depress the shutter and two weeks later it fires off.

Expectation is a mighty powerful sense. I hate going to movies that are highly recommended. I tend to expect too much, and in most cases the movie never lives up to my expectations. That is why my brother always recommends movies to me by saying, “It was a piece of CRAP, don’t miss it.”

But when it comes to the TL240, my lowered-expectations didn’t pan out. This is a nifty little camera that takes good pictures. It has a nice big touchscreen, and some suprisingly-useful shooting modes like “blink,” which is perfect for shooting relatives who always have their eyes closed.

Olympus PEN E-PL1 Camera Is Almost Perfect [Review]

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Just point and shoot as fast as possible, or you might miss the moment. This is the mantra of most digital camera owners. Set the camera on auto exposure, auto focus, auto everything – and expect the camera to figure everything out instantly and also provide you with museum quality photos. All this expectation and I want it to fit in my shirt pocket.

It is what American consumers have grown to expect. If, on the other hand, you want a choice of interchangeable lenses, manual control and professional results you have to spend an arm and a leg for one of the many pro SLR cameras on the market. Do you want to spend $1,300 and up on a body and another $500 or more for a decent lens? How about the bulk and weight of a pro system? Who wants to carry all that stuff around? Trust me, it won’t fit in your pocket.

Enter the new Olympus PEN E-PL1 interchangeable lens micro 4/3. Retailing for about $525 (MSRP is $599), the E-PL1 has a 4/3 inch 12.3-megapixel high-speed Live MOS sensor and TruePic V image-processing engine; this little camera can also do 720p HD videos. It has built-in image stabilization (IS), a Live Guide user interface, HDMI output, ISO sensitivity ranges from 100 to 3200, TTL-AUTO and Super FP flash, and wireless remote control flash. It may not fit in your pocket, but you won’t need a pack of horses to transport it.

How To: Hot Rod Your Mac Pro Into An HD-Editing Beast

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Convert your mild-mannered Mac Pro into a hard drive speed demon.  Stuff it with drives fast enough to work with full-quality, uncompressed video. Get more than 300 MB/s on your internal drives! It’s so easy even I can do it!

I’ve been working in video production for the last 20+ years. When you’re working with video you need as much storage space as you can afford. You need a badass computer with big fat hard drives that scream.

You think you might wanna Hot Rod your Mac Pro?  This easy, step-by-step guide will show you how.