The best travel daypack for Photographers. The Tom Bihn Synapse a review.

Wow this post has been getting a lot of hits so I thought I would expand my review and update it as time allows. Old meets new the Tom Bihn Synapse backpack at work. My search has finally ended. I have a huge collection of day packs which I use both day to day and [...]

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P.Lynn Miller revists the Nokton 1.1 50mm Lens 1 year later…

And discovers it takes time to form a long term relationship… This is a story about a man, a lens, and photography that we can all learn something from. P.Lynn Miller writes: The announcement of the Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f1.1 was one the most exciting moments in my photographic memory. I had been actively pursuing [...]

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Soapnuts as a detergent replacement. A review.

Never heard of Soapnuts? Well neither had I until the last issue of New Internationalist magazine arrived. Featured in the flyer with the magazine were these Soapnuts sold as an organic replacement for laundry detergent. They made all kinds of claims about these things and I must admit I was skeptical, but I went ahead [...]

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Movie Review ” The Cove”

This weekend we watched the ” The Cove”, I honestly rented it thinking it was a thriller of some type… but it turned out to be a documentary about the secret cove in Japan where each year 23000 dolphins are killed and sold as whale meat to the unsuspecting public! This is hands down not [...]

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Shopping for a new monitor on a budget? Forget the Nec and Ezio or Apple!

I was looking for a new monitor for home and I did a lot of research into the topic before buying. I wanted a monitor that would be good for gaming ( ok I’m a WOW addict) and for photographic work… and midsized, without breaking the bank. Sure companies like NEC and EIZO produce the [...]

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Bessa III review by Ed Dale

Mainline Customer and recent Bessa III purchaser is so delighted with his camera that he has sent through this personal hands on review. Ed writes: Is this camera worth the expense?. Does it take a good photo? Does it work? Does it make sense? The Short Review – This camera is superb. But I suspect [...]

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Film Review. Altiplano by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth.

Breathtaking, expansive and emotional. Altiplano is a film set in the Peruvian Andes that really portrays the region as it is. This is not a Peru that the tourist sees. It is a film that covers in a way too many topics about Peru that many will be lost on the viewer and most reviewers [...]

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