About fyngyrz / Ben  

Current equipment roster:

Image Acquisition
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o Olympus E20, fixed ƒ/2-2.4 macro/zoom, 35-140mm
o Digital Blue QX 5 10x/60x/200x microscope
o Canon EOS 50D (firmware 1.02)
o Epson 4870 Photo / slide scanner [4800/9600 dpi]

Canon system components
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o Canon 580 EXII speedlite
o Canon 1.4x teleconverter

o Sigma 30mm ƒ/1.4 EX DC HSM prime
o Canon 50mm ƒ/1.4 EF USM prime
o Canon 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 EF-S IS zoom
o Canon 85mm ƒ/1.8 EF USM prime
o Canon 100mm ƒ/2.8 macro EF USM prime
o Canon 200mm ƒ/2.8L EF USM II prime
o Canon 100-400mm ƒ/4.5-5.6L EF IS USM zoom
o Sigma 600mm ƒ/8.0 (fixed) MF catadioptric mirror prime

o Bogen-Manfrotto 190XPROB 3 tripod
o Bogen-Manfrotto 322RC2 ball head
o Bogen-Manfrotto RC2 rapid connect plate

o Tamrac 5612 pro 12 bag

Studio
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o Green and blue screens
o Rigging bar complex
o Ring flashes
o Modeling lamps
o Various umbrellas
o Various diffusers
o Dedicated space
o Stage with 50' setback

Processing
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o Mac Pro desktop (8-core, 2.8 GHz, 8G RAM) w/virtual XP install
o Mac Pro laptop (2-core, 2.33 GHz, 2G RAM), w/virtual XP and linux installs
o Dual-core Mac mini w/virtual XP install, 1G RAM
o PPC Mac mini, 1G RAM (media server)
o PPC Mac mini, 1G RAM
o Two linux servers, both 3 GHz, 2G RAM
o Windows XP laptop, 1G RAM
o Windows 98 laptop, 512M RAM
o Windows 98 desktop, 512M RAM
o Two Windows XP desktops, 2G RAM each

Imaging Software
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o Aperture
o Comic Life
o DNG converter
o Epson Scan
o Hugin
o The Gimp
o MixScope
o Nik Dfine
o Nik Viveza
o Noise Ninja
o Paintshop Pro
o Parallels
o Photoshop
o RAW Photo Processor
o WinImages F/X
o WinImages Morph

I'm primarily interested in the Mac (probably obvious, eh?) but I enjoy working with linux, and I need windows for the work I do and to run WinImages, my image manipulation workhorse.

Me: Animal lover. Atheist. Author. Classic audio gear fan - mostly late 1970's. Engineer (EE.) Entrepreneur. Executive. Martial artist. Mineral collector. Musician (guitar, bass, drums, voice - folk, blues, rock and hard rock.) Photographer. Pinup and resin pinup collector. Programmer. Reader.

My partner Debi and I are in the process of turning a 1940's-era church into a home. This involves building an interior into what was essentially an empty box. Consequently, many of the photos you'll find here show walls of raw building materials and unfinished rooms and projects. We purchased the building and land in July of 2006 and hope to be sort of / kind of "done" by mid 2010.