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Canon scored very well is customer service

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Photography News     Comments 13 comments
Jan
25

Canon were far and away one of the favorite brands in a PC World survey, earning high marks across the board on measurements of both reliability and service. Canon dominated the field in printers and cameras.

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Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Site News     Comments 74 comments
Jan
24

I installed a few new feature on MattMcGuire.com. This blog is now Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv enabled. Here is soem information on these features.

DoFollow – Now links in comments are dofollow, really they are no longer nofollow. This simply means search engines will see the link and give the site your linking to a little credit which will help that site’s search engine ranking.

CommentLuv – This feature will automatically your your site when commenting and pull in your last blog post. It will give your site some credit without the need for you to try and spam this site.

KeywordLuv – This will allow the link back to your site have appropriate keywords in it. Now you can post your name as something like Matt@Sacramento Photography and the link to your site will look like this Matt from Sacramento Photography

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Canon SLRs get new wireless transmitters

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Photography News     Comments 5 comments
Jan
11

Certain Canon DSLRs can not take advantage of a brand new wireless setup. Among other things you can now shoot with unto 10 linked camera simultaneously. The wireless file transmitter devices, which mount to the SLR camera bodies, are the WFT-E2 II A, available this quarter for the EOS-1D Mark IV; the WFT-E4 II A, available now for the EOS 5D Mark II; and the WFT-E5A, available now for the EOS 7D.

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The new EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Photography News     Comments 21 comments
Jan
6

Yesterday Canon released news of a new EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens. This is the newest model of the lens I have been saving for. It looks like they made some nice improvements.

This news lens has reduced the minimum focusing distance to 3.9 feet. The new lens incorporats a fluorite element and a fifth UD element. The result is a better image quality with improved contrast and resolution.

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Site Update – New Theme

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Site News     Comments 3 comments
Jan
6

MattMcGuire.com is finally starting to come together. I am using WordPress to run the front end of the site. Basically everything outside of the photo galleries. For the photo galleries I am using SmugMug.

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How to take better pictures

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Blog, Photography Tips     Comments 26 comments
Jan
4

So you want to improve your photography skills and you are wondering how to do it? There is no get rich quick scheme for taking better photos. Sure better equipment will probably get you a better photo, but that is only part of the equation. A skilled photographer can produce much better photos on marginal equipment than a beginner on professional grade equipment.

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Canon 7D Weather Sealing

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Photography News     Comments 1 comment
Dec
29

The Canon 7D is once nice piece of camera gear. I don’t own this fine camera, yet, but I still enjoy living vicariously through those that do. One of the features of the Canon 7D is the enhance weather sealing. I know I am very careful with my current Canon 30D. I never let sand get on it. I never let more that a mist of water hit the camera. Professional photographers out in the field cannot always be that careful.

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Spam Comments

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Site News     Comments 4 comments
Nov
16

Even though I dumped the old content I still get you silly spammers thinking I will publish your comments.  Basically for this blog I have always had the same rule.  If you comment looks to be spam I will make it as such and delete it.  If you are off topic, but don’t appear to be spamming I will simply delete it.  Comments are moderated and as such spammers are wasting their time here.

What’s Next?

Posted Posted by Matt McGuire in Site News     Comments 1 comment
Nov
11

I dumped the old blog that was found here.  It was infected by some sort of Malware.  I really did not invest a lot of time in the blog anyway so it was just easier to dump it.

What is next?  Well I don’t know just yet.  I thought about directing this domain to my photography site.  I am also thought of just making it my personal blog.  Without a niche market for this blog it is tough to get people to read it.  Who knows what is next, but I will let you know when I know.

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