May 9th, 2010 by Calvin Jung
I’ll never get the 5d mkii if I don’t keep my eyes on the target.
I’ve been looking for a watch with a white or silver and dial leather band, and came across this Hugo Boss chronograph.
It was an impulse buy, which explains why I didn’t keep it long. Purchased it on Friday and returned today. I just wasn’t completely satisfied with it.
But I didn’t go home empty handed! I found this beautifully simple yet elegant Tissot Classic Dream and instantly fell in love. My Tissot PRC-200 has never lost time and I receive compliments on it all the time, so I had no issues picking up another Tissot.
Now…must keep my eyes on the target. 5d mkii, here I come!
May 7th, 2010 by Calvin Jung
Had a thought today . . . there’s the carrot and the stick. Maybe I’ll offer AZ customers a little discount or gift card temporally just to make a point? As a patriotic American, CA politicians that make these moves make me want to puke. Californians – if you care, say so in November or move like I did if you want pride back in your country.
I don’t even know what to say to this.
If some people here don’t like my support for Fox and our history and constitution and brutal truth, I recommend consideration of non American manufacturers.
You’re running a business here, Paul. You’re not a politician (be thankful for that). Again, more non-sense. If I boycotted every company that doesn’t share similar political beliefs, you can bet I’d be SOL. I’m buying your product because I believe in it, not because I believe in, share, or support your political views. That is a non-factor.
May 5th, 2010 by Calvin Jung
Nothing is official yet. And I’m sure it won’t be permanent. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, what does this mean for my Einstein order? >:[
May 05, 2010 1:57 pm
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Regarding my customers in California: If you support your state’s attacks and attempted boycott of Arizona for enforcing legitimate federal immigration laws and trying to do something about the damage being done to my country by lack of federal action regarding illegal immigrants and the vicious crimes many of them commit, I will take a leadership role and boycott sales of my products to California.
This is not directed to any race or to legal immigrants or to customers who believe in uniting the US instead of dividing it.
If California insists on destroying itself and looking to the rest of the states to bail them out from their ridiculous political correctness the reasonable and responsible states will resist in no uncertain terms.
I don’t like injecting this into a forum like this but won’t be a part of this. To my valued and reasonable CA customers I offer my sympathy for what your “leaders” are putting you and the rest of America through.
BTW, I was born in Hollywood Hospital and grew up in a legal Mexican American community and have many Latino friends, then endured the state for 35 years in the music industry before I moved my operations to Tennessee. I still have many close friends in CA so I am certainly not condemning CA residents.
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May 1st, 2010 by Calvin Jung
My roommate is an executive officer of SDSU’s Associated Engineering Student Council (AESC) and asked me to shoot their awards ceremony tonight. They all came out pretty much the same, just with different people. So I’ll only post the one of my roomie.
Had an X1600 in the giant softbox camera right and a 580ex through an umbrella for fill camera left.
April 29th, 2010 by Calvin Jung
Big thanks to my friend Anh for picking up this AlienBees B1600 for me. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m returning my White Lightning X1600 next week for an Einstein 640. But the Einstein won’t be here for at least 3 months (it’s on back order). I couldn’t imagine going that long without a studio flash, so I searched high and low on Craigslist and found an awesome deal on this B1600. $280 for the B1600 and carrying case – a savings of $105.88! I see B1600s sell for $320 regularly on POTN, so I had to jump on this when I saw it.
I really prefer the “finger” release levers on the AlienBee over the White Lightning. There are two on the AlienBee as opposed to the one on the White Lightning.
AlienBee
White Lightning
The AlienBee is significantly shorter than the White Lightning. To me, the length of the White Lightning is more aesthetically pleasing, but the AlienBee is more practical in that it takes up less space in storage.
The White Lightning body is solid aluminum while the AlienBee shell is Lexan (polycarbonate). That makes the White Lightning physically tougher, but in practice, it actually takes quite a serious whack to break the Lexan. However, I do prefer the feel of White Lightning body as it just feels more substantial.
The stand mount of the White Lightning is cast and machined aluminum while the mount of the AlienBee is polycarbonate.
The White Lightning comes with a 250 watt modeling lamp and the AlienBee a 150 watt. The modeling lamp on the White Lightning can be adjusted separately from the flash or track directly with the flash. The AlienBee modeling lamp can only track directly with the flash.
More importantly, the X1600 has a 1/4 power mode and 7-stops of adjustment. The B1600, on the other hand, is limited to 5-stops and lacks a 1/4 power mode. The significance of the 1/4 mode on the X1600 is that it essentially becomes a B400 – important if you’re shooting indoors and you don’t need all the power a 1600 has to offer.
April 29th, 2010 by Calvin Jung
Pictures are courtesy of Dave F. (tetrode on POTN).
^^^According to Dave, the CSXCV transceivers came with bent pins straight out of the box. Poor design by PCB.
The pictures can be found in the original post on POTN here.