Tuesday, September 12, 2006
new toys
Yesterday I recieved a package in the mail with the infamous little arrow on the side that can only come from amazon.com. I ordered my very own Nikon SB 600 which I have barely had time to open.
Okay, so I opened it when I got home after midnight last night, knowing full well that I had work at 8am this morning. A few dozen or so shots later, I figured out how to use Nikon's TTL metering, set up the SB 600 as a remote slave flash (which is SO cool!), as well as press just about every other button on the back of the unit. I can't wait to actually set up some decent studio shots and post them!
On the Apple side of things, I'm pretty disappointed at their "special event" today. I mean, yeah, cool new nano-pods in pretty colors, brighter screens on the video-pods, and eager anticipation for the set-top unit coming in January, but... I guess I was expecting more. I was really hoping for some new revolutionary iPod like everyone else in the applesphere (damn these words!), or at lease the core 2 duo macbook pros. Actually, no, I'm glad I still have the fastest laptop on the Apple lineup :) And honestly, who wasn't expecting a video store? Bah. $9.99 my ass.
I'm really stoked about iTunes 7 automatically downloading album art and integrating coverflow as well (although it still doesn't do fullscreen. hm.) But it's ... oh, I don't know what I was expecting, but somthing more I guess.
Back to work.
) because I don't want them to have my CC# just yet...