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To me the Olympus OM-D marks the tipping point where the Micro Four Thirds format made the leap from a good idea in theory to a good idea in practice.

February 24th, 2013 | Tags: 12-50mm, 12mm, 14mm, 20mm, 25mm, 30D, 35mm, 45mm, 5-axis, 50mm, 5D, 60mm, 6D, AEL, AF, aperture, APS-C, auto, auto focus, battery, bokeh, button, camera, Canon, chimping, compact, custom, depth of field, digital, dpreview.com, DSLR, E-10, E-M5, E-P1, easy, enthusiast, ergonomics, EVF, example, experience, experienced, eye, f/1.4, f/1.7, f/1.8, f/2, f/2.5, face, fast fifty, FF, field of view, five axis, Flickr, Fn1, Fn2, focus, FoV, full frame, full sized, grip, hand, hand held, high, HLD-6, ideal, image quality, IQ, IS, ISO, k10d, kit, LCD, lens, light, Lightroom, long exposure, low light, Lowepro, Lumix, manual, manual focus, MF, MFT, Micro Four Thirds, MKII, MKIII, motion, Olympus, OM-D, Panasonic, pancake, Pentax, photographer, prime, priority, professional, program, quality, RAW, Rebel XT, resolution, review, Robert S. Donovan, sample, sharpness, slr, small, speed, stability, studio, system, test, Travel, user, viewfinder, weather sealed, WYSIWYG, zoom | Category: Photography, Stuff, gear, reviews | Leave a comment

There is a great interview on techradar.com with some of my old colleagues about the product development process at Griffin Technology that I helped create. The people in the interview (and many more) were essential to developing a structured design-driven product development system at Griffin. It is a bit of a long read but interesting if [...]

May 25th, 2009 | Tags: accessories, cubicles, design department, Griffin Technology, Industrial Design, interview, iPod, Mac, Nashville, product development, Robert S. Donovan, studio, techradar.com, TN | Category: My life | Leave a comment

Well, almost. We still have a trip up to Wisconsin next week to deliver our final presentation, but the lion’s share of the work is done for this semester. I can’t write about what we did exactly but you can read more about the photos I took of our final models over on my photography [...]

April 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Auburn University, complete, INDD, Industrial Design, models, project, Robert S. Donovan, spring, studio | Category: INDD | Leave a comment

My industrial design class just completed their semester-long power equipment design project culminating with the building of full-scale appearance models. I set up a make-shift photo studio in a lightly used classroom and over the past 24 hours shot over 600 images. All were taken in RAW format (DNG) with my Pentax K10D and my [...]

April 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Adobe Lightroom, Auburn University, backdrop, diy, exposure, FA 35mm f/2 AL, final, fluorescent, Industrial Design, model making, paper, Pentax K10D, project, RAW, Robert S. Donovan, SMCP-DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL, studio, white balance, whitespace | Category: technique | Leave a comment