New D300!!

Well I finally buckled, I now have a shiny new D300. On the same visit to the evil lair of Jessops; Bridge Street; I obtained a Lowepro Slingshot 200 camera bag (the original reason for visiting J’s evil lair)…

On the plus side, I managed to find 8Gb compact flash cards for only £17.99 from mymemory.co.uk, which I thought was a really good deal

First impressions are that the D300 is  much better than my D40. I’ll keep the D40 though, because it’s less memory hungry and actually faster to use, for when a quick shot is required. What the D300 does in extra functions, the D40 makes up for in useability and speed! The clincher for the D300 was the industry leading (at my price range!) autofocus, the autofocus on the D40 had let me down a couple of times (check the lizard at the top’s eyes)…..

All in all, one very happy camper! Off to Barcelona next week to stretch the D40’s legs

To all OS X users that can’t see the D300 when plugged in the usb slot, you have to go into the ‘SETUP MENU’ and change the usb mode to Mass Storage Device, then the camera will show up in finder as normal

OS X Screen Capture!

Some apple keyboard users may have noticed the lack of a “Print Screen” key..  Never fear, there is a print screen function in OS X, and it’s far superior to the Windows version! (this tip comes from This Great Source)

 CMD + Shift + 3
This will take a screenshot of your entire screen.  - Saved to Desktop PDF

CMD + Shift + 4
This will bring up a selection tool so you can make a rectangular screenshot of a certain area.  - Saved to Desktop PDF

CMD + Shift + 4 + Space Bar
This will turn your cursor into a tiny camera. Use this camera to take a picture of the Dock, a menu, or a window and it will crop the background automatically for the resulting image.  - Saved to Desktop PDF

Note: If you hold down the Control key during and of the above commands the image gets copied to your clipboard, ready to paste, rather than creating a PDF on your desktop.

New Site Design

Well, it’s happened; I’ve given up on the time consuming idea of writing my own website CMS and gone with Wordpress blogging software to complement my Picasa php software.

The new site is going to remain fairly static on the presentation front, but because the CMS is all handled with easy off-the-shelf apps, the content (photos!) will be updated regularly!

To access the photos, click on the album links on the right…. >