B&H has a great article on “Cameras & Lenses That Can Take a Lickin’” and it covers a number of cameras and lenses that are weather proof, or at least weather resistant.
I may be a biased Canon guy, but I was impressed that they described the Canon EOS 1D Mark Series by writing, “Over 70 silicon seals and gaskets block moisture and dust from entering most every cutout on the camera body, which is constructed of a composite of magnesium-alloy and carbon fiber materials for an optimized weight/strength ratio.” They describe it as “an all-but-bulletproof camera.” Pretty nifty. I’d like one myself, but at $4100 to $8000, they’re a little out of my price range.
May 18 through July 19, Canon is offering a number of rebates on their SLR gear. The rebates certainly aren’t as good as the double and triple rebates that have been offered in the past, but they are something. I’m also a little disappointed that there are no rebates on a 10-22mm lens that I was thinking about getting. But maybe that’s for the best since I don’t really have the cash to spend anyways. Come to think of it. I don’t think they’ve ever had a rebate on that lens.
There is a pretty sweet rebate on the 40D. other than that there isn’t anything earth shattering, at least not in my opinion. But take a look below, and judge for yourself.
Hope you bought your Forever Stamps or are prepared to shell out dough for a bunch of $0.01 stamps soon. Postage is going up as of Monday to $0.42 for a first class letter. What a bust!
Back in the summer, I bought a nice long roll of 100 stamps from Costco. I haven’t bothered to count how many I used, but it’s probably around half. That means I’ve gotta go buy a ton of 1 cent stamps. Arghh…
Guess my next stamp purchase will be a set of Forever Stamps.
Google is officially allowing users to sync their Google Calendar with their Outlook Calendar. There’s a help page with a utility that you download that syncs your calendars. There are three options on how to synch:
- 2-Way Sync to have information from both calendars completely in sync
- 1-Way Google to Outlook to have all Google Calendar events on Outlook
- 1-Way Outlook to Google to have all Outlook events on Google Calendar
Pretty slick!
All you have to do is download the utility, give it your username and password (it works with Google Apps for your Domain by the way), choose a sync method, and then it goes off and downloads and/or uploads all your data for you to sync your calendars. Sweet! I’ll keep you posted on how it works.
Oh, one caveat, according to this page it only works with Outlook 2003 and 2007. I’m sure Microsoft is happy about them not supporting earlier versions of Outlook especially with all the trouble they’re having getting Vista to sell.
