This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Well before sunrise, I pull my SLR, a super-sturdy carbon-fiber tripod and a gargantuan $11,500 camera lens out of my car’s trunk. I’d …
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A total solar eclipse is a photographer’s dream and a photographer’s nightmare. I learned that firsthand at 11:25 a.m. Monday in a roughly plowed dirt parking lot in Weiser, Idaho, about 75 miles north of the state capital of Boise. Tens of thousands of us headed to this town of 5,500 souls, giddy and excited to witness the total eclipse. …
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Hopefully you already know that we should be protecting and appreciating the environment. If you don’t though, this project is here to remind you. See that photo? It’s part of the “The Nameless,” a collaboration between photographer Vaughan Brookfield and projectionist Tom Lynch. Lynch uses projected imagery to light up nature, while Brookfield takes snaps with his camera. Their latest …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Twitter! Now playing: Watch this: Canon’s T6 is a dSLR for penny-pinchers 1:22 Today’s deal is a rerun, but the …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Canon Yesterday’s smartwatch deal sold out quickly — which didn’t surprise me in the least. The reseller, Meh, asked me not to disclose …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. A color laser for $75?! Yes, please. Dell I’ll never buy another inkjet printer — not when I can get a color laser …
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This morning I received the sad news: email notifications from B&H Photo breaking that Nikon was discontinuing its DL series of enthusiast-targeted fixed-lens cameras — actually, discontinuing efforts to produce them at all. This is almost a year since the company announced them at CP+ 2016. Then came the terse press release from Nikon USA confirming B&H’s note, with the …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Whoa. Late on Friday, RingPlus sent a rather alarming notification to subscribers, which I will now paraphrase: “Your service will terminate on Feb. …
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Have you been dying to try the Canon 5D Mark IV? Itching to see what all the Sony A7 series fuss is about? Had your eye on the Nikon 200-500mm lens but didn’t want to blindly drop $1,400? Now’s your chance to find out by taking advantage of gear-rental holiday discounts. A lot of the gear gets rented by professionals …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. In August, I spent three weeks traveling through Germany and Hungary with CNET reporters Shara Tibken, Joan Solsman and Katie Collins to find out how technology is being used by refugees and migrants trying …
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