» Archive for September, 2012
17Sep Mecury playback engine GTX 670 v.s. GTX 285 speed test
Just made it back from Boston on Saturday night and had a little bit of time to run some rendering speed tests on the GTX 670 and the GTX 285 with CS6 (finally made the upgrade). I used two timelines, the first I’ll call the “Easy timeline” which is composed of a 2 minute and 42 second […]
06Sep OCZ 512GB Agility 4 SSD Amazon Sale
If you want an old laptop or desktop to feel like a new machine an SSD drive will probably be the most noticeable upgrade you can make. The price per GB of SSD drives keeps dropping and now Amazon has the OCZ 512GB Agility 4 SSD on sale for $299. That’s about 58 cents a GB. I jumped […]
05Sep V-Control USB Focus controller Video Review
The V-Control USB focus controller has finally started to show up on ebay. At less then half the price of other focus controllers ($185) it offers a number of improvements over other models on the market. Things like the half press record/focus button, a digital display of the step settings, easy adjustment for send speed, and […]
04Sep Cheaper Nexus 7 mount option for your DSLR RIG
The RAM mount adapter works as a secure way to mount the Nexus 7 tablet, but by the time you add all of the additional parts the price ends up being around $40. If you don’t need a mounting option that’s as rugged and want to save some money this tablet grip on ebay is only about $11. The get […]
03Sep Declicking a Rokinon/Samyang 35mm 1.4 lens
If you have the Rokinon/Samyang 35mm f1.4 lens, an easy upgrade is to “Declick” the aperture ring. Youtube member c2thew does a pretty good job in this video of walking you through the process. It isn’t very hard to do and gives you the ability to have smooth aperture transitions. By Declicking the lens you basically have a Samyang 35mm […]
01Sep Battery testing.
For battery testing we have the Sanyo Eneloop XX 2500mAh (thanks Alek), the Eneloop 2000mAh, the Powerex 2700mAh, and just for the heck of it a cheap ($8) set of Energizer 2000mAh batteries from the local store. The plan for testing is to charge each set of batteries fresh and put them in a speedlite. Then set […]
