I recently posted about our backup strategy to ensure we had fast access in the event of a restore as well as protection in the event of a catastrophic loss. In that diagram, we use a 2011 MacBook Pro to backup data from our RAIDs up to Backblaze. That works very well except for the …
Our Backup Strategy
We have a lot of data, photos and videos mostly. I've got 60,000 images from my DSLRs, mostly RAW, going back to about 2006 and taking up around 1.4 TB of space. Outside of that we have all of our regular photos and videos from our phones and old-school digital cameras. That adds 62,000 more …
M2 MacBook Pro Performance Tests
I’m very meticulous when investing in new hardware and do a lot of research prior to purchasing. Once I buy something I like to understand the improvement in practical terms. I usually run performance benchmarks, but this time I went further with more tests and some graphs. These aren’t the fairest comparisons since the two …
My New MacBook Pro
I’ve had my MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks and it’s working out very well. My MacBook Air has served me very well for the last two years, but it's time to upgrade to something with more memory, storage, and processing power. Upgrades This new Mac was an opportunity to increase performance, but also …
I Predicted the Future of Cameras
The year was 2011. My camera was a crop sensor Canon EOS 7D. Upgrading to a different camera was still years away (4.5 to be exact). Still, I drafted an article about the features I'd like to see in my next camera, whenever that was going to happen. This was when the 36 MP Nikon …
A Winter Wonderland
I typically don't take many photos during the winter. It's cold, things are pretty dead outside, and I tend not to travel to places looking for photo opportunities. We were fortunate recently to have a ton of snow that stuck on the trees for days, turning our usually barren landscape into a winter wonderland. I …
Ordered My M2 MacBook Pro
Apple updated the MacBook Pro for the M2-series today. The updates were mostly a spec-bump as widely rumored, and that is fine with me. An M1-series MacBook Pro would provide what I need, but I've been waiting a bit since the M2 version was so close. In general, not much has changed. The form factors, …
2022 Best Photos
It's a new year and I think it's an appropriate time to reflect on my favorite photos from the last year. In 2022 I acquired two mirrorless cameras, sold one, bought decade-old DSLR, rented a Canon, adapted lenses, took a ton of action shots, adjusted my Lightroom workflow, waxed and waned about mirrorless and my …
My Canon R5 Experience
I rented a Canon R5 from LensRentals for a week so that I could try out a 45 MP mirrorless camera with a high continuous shooting speed and great autofocus. The R5 is a $3,900 camera that directly competes with Nikon's Z7 II and Sony's A7R, but has capabilities similar to the Z9 and A1. …
Lighting the Lego Titanic
Last Christmas... I assembled the 9,000 piece Lego Titanic. It hung out in my closet for half a year while we found a suitable stand and case to put it on. Since then it's been in the dining room looking great in the daytime, but just so... dark in the evenings. It was time to …
Relatively Ambitious 