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Linked List: April 30, 2007

Monday, 30 April 2007

Dave Girard Reviews Photoshop CS3 

High marks overall, and a good look at Photoshop’s major new features.

In case you’re curious, the benchmarks show Photoshop CS3 performing slightly better on Mac OS X than Windows XP on the same MacBook Pro.

Building a Digital SLR Camera System 

Philip Greenspun:

This article explains the different kinds of digital SLR cameras available, how to choose the right one for you, and what to do once you get it home from the shop. … This article shows you how to choose and buy the basic items first and the more expensive and hard-to-use components later.

Whenever anyone asks me for advice on buying a digital SLR camera, I point them to this article. Greenspun covers everything you need to know to get started. My only quibble is that he recommends the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens without mentioning that Canon makes a very comparable lens, a 28mm f/1.8. Both lenses cost about $400. The Sigma’s only advantage is that it’s a half-stop faster. The Canon is lighter (310g vs. 430g) and will also work with full-frame sensors.

I have the Canon 28mm f/1.8, and use it almost exclusively these days.

Coda: One Week Later 

Panic is using Amazon S3 to serve the Coda application download: 643 GB of bandwidth for $128.

Also worth noting: They’re using a .zip instead of .dmg for distribution.

Today Is the Last Day for Adobe Lightroom Discount Pricing 

Lightroom’s price jumps from $199 to $299 tomorrow, when Adobe’s introductory price expires. I’m ordering my copy at this moment. Update: Adobe’s web store crapped out on me while using Safari; worked much better with Camino.

TidBITS: ‘Coda Plays Web Developers a New Tune’ 

Joe Kissell on Coda:

It’s like buying your dream car, only to find out that the seats are kind of uncomfortable and there’s no heater. Coda comes so close to being great that its shortcomings are especially annoying. Having tried this way of working, I’m loath to return to having four apps open all the time - and yet I keep running into issues that irritate me almost enough to give it up.