My name is Fuad Kamal (@flexronin) , and while most of the time I’m a mobile developer and technical writer, I also shoot a number of tech conferences. As I was packing for 360iDev I thought it might be fun to do a ‘What’s in my bag’ post. Everything is stuffed into my Booq backpack. […]
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What I’m reading this week…
A quick list of what I’m reading this week: The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms v1.8 by Philip Morgan Just F#*!ING Ship by Amy Hoy RXSwift Reactive Programming with Swift by Florent Pillet et al audiobook version of Rework by Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson On order: hardcover edition of in camera by Gordon Laing
First Race
Have been riding bikes since I was seven, in college after my $100 K-Mart steel bike was smashed by a car for the second time (another story, long story short I flipped off the bike and was fine, bike was destroyed) I dug deep and spent around $270 on my Bianchi Mainstreet. Have had that […]
An Open Letter to Oakley.com
Dear Oakley.com, I spent many hours in the mall in Columbia, Maryland, this weekend, trying to buy a pair of prescription eyeglasses. I started with the Oakley store, where I picked out the frames I wanted. I had actually decided from your web site which frames I wanted, but the Oakley store didn’t carry those […]
Flickr vs Instagram
When I ask my cycling buddies to post group ride photos to our team Flickr pool, they complain that Flickr isn’t user friendly, it’s to hard, yada yada yada. Yeah, Flickr could definitely use some UX love. But then they start comparing Flickr to Instagram. OK, maybe you have a Facebook account and like to […]
incredible detail
I know I’ve gone on and on about this before, but the resolution, quality and detail in the image files coming off of the Sony A7RII blow my mind every time I work with them.
Sony A7RII + Canon Glass
I am still so blown away by the capabilities of this camera, by the sheer amount of detail. Shooting with a 50mm prime feels like you have the resolving power of the hubble telescope, only hand-held.
Lens tests with Sony A7RII & A6000 – part I
Hey, I can see inside your eyeball through your sunglasses! -a series of lens tests with the Sony A7RII & A6000 camera bodies.
You don’t take a photograph
You don’t take a photograph, you make it
-Ansel Adams
I’m getting a Sony APS-C mirrorless camera – what should my first lens be?
I convinced a friend of mine to jump on getting a Sony A6000 as this is, in the opinion of more than a few pro photographers, currently the single best value camera on the market. His next question, naturally, was “what lens do I get for this camera?”