After reviewing this article, you will know if the Panasonic G1 is right for you.

The Panasonic G1 has me very intrigued.  The camera is a small-sized digital SLR, the smallest around.  I've scoured the web to find the best reviews of this camera and have been impressed so far. 

As a digital nomad, traveling from place to place, I want to take good pictures worthy of posting on Flickr.  But lugging around a huge digital SLR is not my idea of fun.  Could the smaller sized Panasonic G1 SLR be the camera of my dreams?  Maybe.  But it has some trade-offs.  Continue reading »

Every good digital traveler needs a camcorder. With so many great choices, digital nomads can now get picky about camcorders and choose one suitable for travel.

For a digital nomad, the most important factors for choosing an appropriate camcorder are probably size, portability, quality and price.

Sanyo's Xacti HD 700 camcorder is among the ones that fit the bill well. In the less than $500 range, this camcorder is pocket-sized, uses SDHC memory cards, has small, cheap batteries, and records good quality video.  Continue reading »

Did you ever take pictures in dark lighting and end up with terrible results?

Nighttime photography takes practice for the average enthusiast like you and me. That's why I like Las Vegas.

Las Vegas has to be one of the best places in the world for experimenting with night photography. Incredible lighting is everywhere. Look around you on the Strip and your eyes take in billions of dollars worth of lighted structures. Could anywhere possibly be better?

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You've heard of GPS devices in cars and boats and even for hiking. But did you know hand-held GPS (GPSr) devices can be used to play a game? Enter geocaching.

A good un-official definition of geocaching comes from Wikipedia:

• "Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and "treasure," usually toys or trinkets of little value. Today, well over 440,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the sport. Geocaches are currently placed in 222 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica." (Source: Wikipedia, geo caching)

Geocaching.com, the popular geocache website, points out that the traditional cache is a "tupperware container, ammo box, or bucket filled with goodies, or smaller container ("micro cache") too small to contain items except for a log book." But there are other types of caches too. Instead of the traditional cache, there's a multi-cache variation. Multi-caching involves multiple caches with a GPS. Sometimes the first cache contains a clue that give hints (not coordinates) to the location of the second. It's like a real world Da Vinci Code quest, but for fun.  Continue reading »

Travel to a city, digital camera in hand, and you have a chance at capturing real world fashions for others to see. In this case, I was in Seattle. This guy was in front of a Starbucks.

While pondering Grande Lattes, he wondered if his red suspenders and big belt were going to be enough to keep his pants up.  Continue reading »