{"id":651,"date":"2006-12-27T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/new-toys-for-digital-imaging.htm"},"modified":"2009-02-05T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:11:01","slug":"new-toys-for-digital-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/new-toys-for-digital-imaging.htm","title":{"rendered":"New toys for digital imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--116723360203351594-->Blogging may be a bit sporadic for a while as I&#8217;m trying to spend some time with my family (I&#8217;ve been far too busy at work over the last few weeks and they have been losing out); however I did find 5 minutes to blog about the new toys that Santa (okay, it was Mrs. Wilson) left on our fireplace\/under the Christmas tree a couple of days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/wacom-graphire4classica6.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wacom Graphire 4 Classic A6 tablet\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacom-europe.com\/int\/products\/graphire4\/index.asp\">Wacom Graphire 4 Classic A6 tablet<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve never used a pen for digital work before but I figured it must be far more intuitive than a mouse and whilst I&#8217;ve not had much time to play (no more than the basic setup process) this could open up a whole new world of possibilities for digital image creation.  Installing it on my Mac Mini (under both Mac OS X and Windows XP) was easy &#8211; although I was a bit perplexed when the product registration screen started asking me questions about how I&#8217;d found the product&#8217;s usability (duh&#8230; I&#8217;ve just bought it and am registering it as part of the software installation &#8211; I haven&#8217;t used it yet!).  Slightly annoyingly, as I&#8217;m writing this, I see that there is a white version available now; however as my Mac, monitor, external hard disk are all aluminium and my scanners are silver-painted plastic, the silver version doesn&#8217;t look out of place on my desktop.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/lexar-cf2gb133x.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lexar Professional CompactFlash 2GB 133x memory card\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tech present number 2 was a 2GB 133x <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexar.com\/digfilm\/cf_pro.html\">Lexar Professional CompactFlash memory card<\/a> &#8211; now I have room on my camera for either many more JPEGs, or for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/working-with-nikon-raw-nef-images.htm\">long-awaited switch to raw format photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, what exactly is the point of this rambling? Well, like much of the rambling on this blog, bear with me &#8211; normal service will be resumed soon (I have a lot of half-written blog posts to finish writing) and in the meantime, enjoy the Christmas holidays &#8211; I&#8217;ll be playing with my children, my camera and my computer (in that order).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging may be a bit sporadic for a while as I&#8217;m trying to spend some time with my family (I&#8217;ve been far too busy at work over the last few weeks and they have been losing out); however I did find 5 minutes to blog about the new toys that Santa (okay, it was Mrs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/new-toys-for-digital-imaging.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New toys for digital imaging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-digital-photography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New toys for digital imaging - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/new-toys-for-digital-imaging.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New toys for digital imaging - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Blogging may be a bit sporadic for a while as I&#8217;m trying to spend some time with my family (I&#8217;ve been far too busy at work over the last few weeks and they have been losing out); 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