Inexpensive underwater case for Canon 7D

We have pointed out some cool underwater cases/housing for your Canon 7D DSLR in another post. But this new offering by Aquapac intrigues us and we will be looking at it in a few weeks to see if it actually works!

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Review: What external hard drive to purchase for my camera?

There's a plethora of different options for external hard drives out there. But we're only going to recommend one today. So we searched the web for the most up to date, USB-powered, slimmest, cheapest, and most reliable external hard drive to purchase. The winner? The Western Digital My Passport Essential 1TB drive.

Pricing we looked at from Amazon.com on 7/31/2011:

Hewlett Packard HP Portable 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 External Hard Drive ($125)

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive ($89)

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB USB 3.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive ($91)

Reliability? Backed by 2 years warranty. Speed? Uses USB3.0 5gbit/sec connection -- if your computer supports it. On a regular test between our UDMA card reader and slow CF card, it was kicking in 12Mb/s transfer from the CF card to the USB 2.0 connected drive.

Here's some other pictures that we took to show you this awesome 1TB hard drive, thin as a sharpee!

We will probably update this page next year with hard drives that have bigger sizes! Who knows is 2TB self-powered external drives coming to the market soon? Let's see if Western Digital wins again.

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Microsoft codec update -- supports viewing Canon RAW files natively!

Microsoft recently released Microsoft Camera Codec Pack for Windows 7 and Vista. This codec update allows your Windows operating system to natively view RAW files as thumbnails. This is helpful because you no longer need to install non-Microsoft codecs, or have to run third-party applications just to view RAW files.

Here is the link to the update:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

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Motorized Sliders and Time Lapses

We've been very impressed lately with some of the motorized sliders (and cool timelapses out of it).

Here's a quick video of a motorized slider on YouTube:





While this isn't motorized, there is a fairly cheap slider available at Amazon:





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