May, 2010

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Again…!?!?

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Really? Come on...

I cannot believe I have lost….temporarily misplaced ANOTHER pair of sunglasses. I’m really glad I didn’t spend a couple hundred dollars on Oakleys or something. I think this makes the 6th pair of sunglasses in about a year and a half time span.

Ridiculous.

That makes about $88 in Wal-Mart sunglasses. The first three were Berkley fishing sunglasses, the fourth was some pair I bought online, the fifth was a pair of Foster Grant Iron Man’s from Wal-Mart, I just bought a similar pair at Wal-Mart today.

I am really not sure how I misplace these things, they are not overly small, but I guess they can just hide well or something.

I know if Derrick reads this, he will probably just shake his head. I really hope I find my old pair and keep a hold of this new pair, I really like them. Pictures of the new shades:

Aside from buying yet another pair of sunglasses, it was a good day out in the Corvette. She is all filled up with 93 octane and prepped for the trip to Kentucky on the 18th.

Well…another thing kind of irked me off a bit…Wal-Mart did not have my body wash. I am very partial to Old Spice products, and I like the Swagger smell and there was no Swagger Body Wash. I smelled all the other Old Spice scents and nothing came close. I settled for some Suave for men stuff. *sigh*

Well until next time folks,

-DH

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Ravelli APGL13 Tripod Review

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I recently started looking for a tripod and I found the Ravelli APGL13.

Here is my review that I posted on Amazon.com.

I purchased this off of the previous and only review. I was a bit concerned at doing this, but I took a chance.

This is my first tripod and I am very pleased so far. I have a Canon Rebel XSi with a Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens, so I was concerned with sturdiness. I really did not want to spend 100s of dollars on a name brand tripod, because it just was not feasible for me, but again I wanted something that I felt could hold the gear that I have.

With shipping the price was $55 and some change and for the price I think it is very good. It definitely has some weight to it, it is not what you get for $20 at BestBuy or Wal-Mart this appears solid.

The carrying case is nice to have, there is nothing overly appealing about it looks wise, but it does hold the tripod and the 3 grips.

It is roughly 30 inches long and 5 inches wide when it is in store mode. It stands 56 inches tall when all the legs are extended out (note; this is when the legs are locked at their first lock position, you can spread the legs out farther, but this is the setting that is lock position 1). It will extend all the way up to 67 inches. One thing I especially like is the that tabs to extend the legs are metal and not plastic.

Even at full extension and with the gear mentioned above this tripod seem sturdy on solid ground. With that, I probably would not test using it at full extension all the time. I have not had the opportunity to test this out on un-even surfaces, but when I do, I will update this review.

All in all, I am very satisfied with tripod. I think it will do well for what I use and the gear I have, and I would not hesitate to put a bit heavier gear on it either. For $55 and some change shipped to my door, I think it is well bought.

If you are a budget DSLR photographer like myself and cannot shell out $100s of dollars on a tripod, give this one a shot. I would have given it 5 stars, but there were no instructions included (which probably is not a big deal) but would have helped me getting the grips set up and how to move all the pan heads, otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.

More images on the Amazon page if you go to customer images. Once the rest of my gear gets in, I will do a blog post on that.

Thanks

-DH

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Is there anyone out there?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Is there anybody out there?

Heh, I kind of forgot about this place, but it is still here. I guess that is because I have the hosting automatically paid every month on my credit card.

Honestly, there really has not been a lot going on since my February post.  I finally finished this semester of school…it was a rough one for sure, definitely not “fridge worthy.” Just have to move on and do better next go around.

As far as the summer goes, I would like to find a job/internship. I may have something lined up, but that may no develop until the end of this month, we will have see.

In the meantime my dad and I have a wonderful mini-vacation planned. Well hopefully it works out as well as I have it planned in my head.

We are heading to Kentucky to do the Bourbon Trail and do the NCM Xperience. We will leave eeeeeeeeeeeearly on the 18th and return sometime after the 22nd.

I’ll have my Canon Rebel XSi with me and I’m sure I will take a ton of pictures.

Speaking of pictures, my interest in photography has taken a huge leap and I just invested another $400 in camera equipment. One aspect I am trying to improve (to no avail currently) is post processing. As I really do not have the money to buy a high dollar program such as Photoshop, I downloaded Gimp. It seems to be a very powerful free program. I am still working my way around the basics, but am software challenged.

I think that will be all for now, I hope to get back my couple regular readers and maybe a few more too.

Until next time,

-DH

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