Entries by Frank Doorhof

That setting that drives you nuts during the calibration process on Mac (and windows)

Even with easy software it’s sometimes easy to get an error that… well you can’t fix.
You checked everything, and although you know your brand new monitor should really be perfect, it’s far from.
Or maybe you don’t know how to read the rapports and just wonder why there is so much fuzz about professional monitors.

Never the black screen again when using strobes

“This camera is unusable for studio use, that’s insane for such an expensive camera…. etc”
Countless of these kind of bashing cameras can be found online, especially when the EVF in a camera was not as widely used as now.

So what’s going on here.
In the older cameras we used the sensor only as a replacement for film.
The image was still split to a part where you see the image, focus is done etc. and a part where it’s hitting the sensor.
With the mirrorless cameras everything changed.
First of all we could get super accurate focus (well not at first, it was terrible at times) because you literally focus on the sensor, but we could now also use the viewfinder in a completely new way.

Adding more storage to your MacBook Pro (or other laptops) and what to look out for

Although I feel that the MacBookPro’s at the moment give the best bang for the buck, there is one thing that is incredibly expensive when upgrading, and that’s internal storage. My photos and videos are all stored on 2 synology NAS systems but when working on several video projects, music recording etc. the internal drive is even with 1TB a “bit” on the small side. But upgrading is in my opinion way to expensive, so I was looking for a great solution.