Disk Drill Review – Recover Lost and Deleted Photos

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Accidents happen, and unfortunately the vast majority of people don’t have a safe photo backup strategy like mine. If you do find yourself in a situation where you’ve lost some photos or other files, you have a couple of options: Firstly, if it’s a hardware failure such as a dead disc platter, you’re only option is to send it in to a data recovery specialist and pay a large amount of money. If your disk or memory card won’t even mount to your computer, or it is making a catastrophic noise, this is really your only option and there’s no …

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Welcome to the Team – An Interview with Chase Teron

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Chase Teron is a Canadian environmentalist, traveller, adventurer and photographer who has visited over 25 countries in search of light and stories. We’re excited to be featuring his content here on Shutter Muse, and to start things off we thought we would get to know him a little better with some Q&A.

How to Set up Double Back Button AF on Canon Cameras to Get Both Servo and One-Shot Af

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Camera Compatibility At the time of writing this, the following tutorial applies to the Canon 7D Mark II, the Canon 5D Mark IV and the 1D X Mark II. It’s quite likely that it works on the 1D X as well, and will almost certainly work with future versions of these cameras. 7D Mark III, 5D Mark V and 1D X Mark III etc. If you have managed to get this working on other cameras, please leave a comment at the bottom so that I can update this tutorial. Thanks 🙂 Confirmed: Canon 80D cannot do double back button AF. …

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Mountainsmith Tanack 10L Lumbar Pack Review

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Adventure photographer Chris Burkhard has worked with Mountainsmith to create a series of outdoor photography packs and carry solutions. I’ve previously reviewed the Mountainsmith TAN Kit Cubes which are designed to fit inside most of these bags, and today we’re looking at the larger of two camera lumbar packs that are also offered as part of this adventure photography lineup. Firstly it should be noted that the Tanack 10L lumbar pack is designed to work with either the small or medium TAN (Tough As Nails) Kit Cube, but it does not come with either of them for the $99 price …

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How I Get out of a Funk from Failed Photo Missions

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We know photography is a waiting game. Sometimes you strike it lucky and Mother Nature rewards your efforts with incredible, dramatic sunrise or sunset light. Other times it can seem like you’re fighting a losing battle and things just don’t seem to ever pan out how you want them to. In recent weeks I’ve had a run of bad luck. Two weeks ago I drove 3000km to photograph a frozen lake, with some specific images in mind for a client. By the time I got to the lake, it had snowed and the glassy ice that I was looking for …

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