The Twilight Hour – Photographing Star Trails and Static Stars – Nature Photographers

Nature Photographers

The Twilight Hour – Photographing Star Trails and Static Stars Nature Photographers, NY A faster lens (like an f/2.8) and the high ISO (3200-6400) of modern digital SLR's make it much easier to get high quality stars. Photographing star trails with a digital SLR is a much more involved experience than it was with film. …

Epson T042520 Stylus C82 Color Multi pack

Epson T042520 Stylus C82 Color Multi pack

Epson has earned a strong reputation for first-class printers, which offer an outstanding combination of quality, reliability and value for money. However, unless these products are complemented by Epson consumables, users cannot expect to fully capitalize on their investment. Epson understands that printing is a process, with printer, inks and paper working together to offer the ultimate in quality output. With this in mind, Epson produces consumables that offer optimum performance throughout a long, trouble-free, working life.

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4 Stars Be careful
The graphic on this item is deceptive. It shows a black cartridge but you only get the 3 color ones. You need to order black speratly. I found that out the hard way!

3 Stars Lots Left
Epson makes fantastic printing products. Here is the problem there is still lots$$$ of ink left in the cartridge when the printer tells you to change cartridge. After hearing this I cracked open about 10 C82 cartridges I have saved and was shocked to see that they all had ink left, and the worst of them were still 4/5 full (about 4 out of the 10). Here is what I suggest. Weigh a new cartridge on a postal scale; weigh one that you know to be empty. If the printer wont let you continue using a cartridge that you suspect still has quite a bit if ink left, get the weight and send it to epson and demand a prorated reimbursement.

3 Stars ink
i ordered the wrong ink and now i am stuck.

i am going back to office depot, so if i order the wrong item, i will be able to return it and get the one i need. the extra savings is not worth the hassel. there is no savings when i have to eat the whole amount and time.

5 Stars It’s True…Stick with the Original
I’ve tried many so-called suitable substitutes “guaranteed” to be as good as Epson. What a frustration to be working late at night, run out of ink and find that my suitable substitute streaks, skips and/or just doesn’t work. The guarantee doesn’t do me any good at 2 a.m. as I fiddle with it to try to get a readable product out of my printer!

5 Stars excellent product
this is the 2nd time i have purchased this from Amazon. great product and quick delilvery.

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Startrails

Testing the creation of a startrail image using a digital slr in…

Author: underwatergrote
Keywords: startrails time lapse stars
Added: March 5, 2009

Sennheiser HD201 Headphones

Sennheiser HD201 Headphones

Powerful stereo sound / Rich, crisp bass response / Lightweight and comfortable to wear / Good attenuation of ambient noise / Extremely rugged

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3 Stars Sennheiser HD201 Headphones
They are great headphone, i would just like the cable to bew a little thicker, and they got to me exactly the day it said they were going to come

5 Stars good headphones
i bought this headphones for my everyday use, surprisingly it is really good for its price =D

pro:

- good price tag

- comfortable (for me) cause it has big ear pad

- stylish

- generally good for any kind of music

cons:

- i hate long cables

- cause it has big ear pad -> isolate less

- somehow you need crank up the volume

- it’s not really a cons though, but if you want more bass

go with hd202 (hd280 if you have the money)

overall it’s really good if you are looking for basic headphones =D

4 Stars A lot for a little
I never expected such great frequuency response from such a reasonably priced set of head phones. I love highs and low low frequencies. This set of phones deliver a highly satisfactory range of both.

5 Stars Neutral sounding headphone with very high potential.
This is really the best value headphone you can get. I am somewhat an audiophile and I have heard many high quality headphones, some 15times the price of this one, but the HD201 is the most impressive sounding headphone I’ve ever heard at it’s price range. It has good comfort and sound comfortable as well. Overall I rate the sound quality of this headphone much higher than it’s cost, if driven by proper equipments.

Physical design: It is a fullsize, closed circumaural headphone. Although the headband grip is not as tight as I wanted, it probably stay more comfortable that way. It is plastic so I wouldn’t recommend abusing it, but I have slept while wearing it more than once and being tossed around that way it’s still in tip top shape. The cable is pretty long and you can walk across the room with it. The earpads will cover your entire ears, it will block out some noise, but not too much to be used as a serious isolation headphones (ie. in-ear-monitors).

Sound: As a music enthuasist I really love the sound of this headphone. The great thing about Sennheiser sound signature is that they make the sound comes together, nothing jumps out at you, there isn’t one part of the sound spectrum that is unbalanced with the other. It’s not too warm and it’s not too bright, exactly how I like it to be, there is no sharpness that will hurt your ears. Which means if you want big bass, this isn’t it. I was expecting something more muffle sounding at this price range, people tend to dub Sennheiser brand as veiled sounding, but I don’t perceive any of that.

Cons: The only thing that the sound ideally lack is sometime it can be a bit dry and not fluidy, which tend to base on the source/music you are listening to. Some instruments might not have a full body/thicker sound. Single notes might note have a longer decay period/resonance as compared to more expensive phones. But in the end the headphone limited by it’s relatively small diaphragm size, you can’t ask for more at this price.

Finally, the sound is only going to be as good as the music, source, amplifier and cables you use with the headphone. The great thing about this headphone is it can potentially become very good sounding if you pair it with high quality equipments, such as a high quality soundcard/source and a headphone amplifier, then the bass become very tight, smoothout midrange and very precise trebles. Instruments can be very defined and seperated. Although if you are simply connecting it to a weak mp3 player or directly to a labtop headphone output, you might not get the most out of it as I’ve described.

5 Stars Bought them to save on shipping cost. Glad I did!
I bought another product on Amazon for $12 which was going to cost me over $8 to ship. I hate paying nearly as much to ship a product as I pay for the product itself, so I looked for something to bring my order up to $25, which of course means free shipping.

I found these Sennheiser HD201 Headphones and noticed they had great reviews. I don’t usually like to buy cheap headphones becuase I am never happy with them, but I needed a pair of headphones and I wanted to save on shipping so I took the chance.

I can’t tell you how glad I am that I bought these. They ended up being about $11 because I saved on shipping, and for $11, these things rock. They have great clarity and I don’t see why some people say they don’t have good bass, because the bass sounds just fine to me.

Do they match the quality of my more expensive ones? No, not really, but for the price (even if I had to pay full price), these things are more than worth the money.

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SanDisk 2 GB SD Memory Card SDSDB 2048 A11 Retail Package

SanDisk 2 GB SD Memory Card SDSDB 2048 A11 Retail Package

SanDisk Standard SD cards give you plenty of room to capture and store all your precious photos, safely and securely. Fast, and built to last, you can count on SanDisk Standard SD cards to be ready when you are, every day.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Worth it…
Liked it so far. Worth having it, but a bit costly at the time of its buy.

5 Stars SanDisk 2 gb card
SanDisk 2 GB SD Memory Card ( SDSDB-2048-A11, Retail Package)I purchased this for my new Casio camera!! I already have a 1/gb! The price was alot lower for the 2/gb from Amazon than the 1/gb purchased at target at an earlier date!!! You may as well have more memory if you can, when purchasing a memory card!!! I recommend going to Amazon.com, first for accessories/electronics/etc, before going to a retail store!!!

5 Stars good buy
a good buy, reliable, cheap price, others sites have as much as 3X the price with same exact disk.

5 Stars Just what I needed
This SD card came in the mail on time and the packaging was in perfect condition. Totally worth it. I went to europe and I was able to hold over 500 8 mega pixel images on it and still had more room.

5 Stars Work as expected
Smooth transaction. Item received on time and I have been using it for a week with no problem.

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