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You can give your 16GB iPhone 128GB of storage for $60 and a lot of trust

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One of the biggest complaints from consumers in regards to the iPhone is the lack of expandable memory. Combine that with the always-minimal storage they continue to put in their lower-end models and you end up with a disaster waiting to happen if you take a lot of photos and prefer to keep them on your device rather than syncing them to the cloud.

Thankfully, you don’t have to shell out the big bucks to increase your iPhone’s storage. That is, if you don’t mind taking a trip to China’s Shenzhen market, where they will upgrade your iPhone’s memory for only $60—$140 less than the premium you’d pay if you bought the larger phone directly from Apple.

YouTube user BeSound has shared an interesting video showing roughly how the process is done.[Read More…]

Who knew? Wine racks are perfect for storing, showing off your camera gear

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Incredible illustrator by day, passionate photographer by night, Ryan Hamrick loves little more than making art—the exceptions being his wife, children and maybe the perfect Old Fashion.

Since hopping onboard Samsung’s #DitchTheDSLR campaign some time ago, Hamrick has amassed an impressive collection of camera gear, most notably Samsung and Fuji. As his collection grew, he needed a place to store his camera gear.

In his typical artistic fashion, he wanted it to not only store his gear, but show it off in a beautiful way.

What he came up with is a beautifully simple solution: a minimalistic wine rack that perfectly displays his glass and accessories.[Read More…]

Nikon Is Really Pushing XQD; Why Isn’t Canon?

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SanDisk developed the CompactFlash (CF) format and manufactured the first devices back in 1994, which makes the technology 22 years old.

That on its own is enough of a reason to replace it, and it seems Nikon is doing its best to crown the XQD format as the successor.

Not only will the newly announced D500 use an XQD memory card, the flagship D5 will be available with either dual CF slots or dual XQD slots, and according to a recent rumor 90% of the new cameras will come with the latter.

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These amazing little USB drives are 1:2.6 scale models of Canon’s 5DS and ‘L’ series lenses

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USB drives are practically a dime a dozen nowadays. But sometimes you want something a little more specialized that will make yours stand out from the crowd when you slip it into your USB port.

To help take your USB drive game to the next level, Canon has unveiled a new mini DSLR USB drive.[Read More…]

Transcend’s New SD Cards Are Meant to Go Through Hell and Back

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Transcend, a lesser-known manufacturer of storage devices, has recently unveiled a new lineup of Industrial strength SDHC and MicroSDHC cards capable of withstanding extreme temperatures.

They’re called the Wide Temperature lineup and as their name suggests, these SDHC and MicroSD cards are meant to be pushed to the limits. How far? Transcend claims these MicroSD cards are capable of temperatures from –40ºC to 85ºC (–40ºF to 185ºF), more than enough to get that ridiculous GoPro footage.[Read More…]

SUPERcase gives your GoPro 512GB of storage and 6 extra hours of battery life

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GoPro cameras are impressive in their own right, but they’re far from a complete video solution. Here to change that is SUPERcase, an all-in-one device from Austin-based startup Si-Jex that not only protects your GoPro camera but provides more storage, power and protection.[Read More…]

Amazon Now Lets You Backup 50 Terabytes of Data With a Sci-Fi Suitcase

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Not many of us have 50TB of data that we want to back up. But the creative amongst us who shoot lots of footage or want to backup all their 50,000 RAWs from a timelapse project now have a fast and easy option to do so.

Amazon’s new service is called Snowball and it is a small suitcase that has the sex appeal of a safe. But a safe that can hold 50 Terabytes.

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Here Is A Clever System For Labeling Your Lens Caps, Body Caps And Rear Lens Caps

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Here is a quick question, how many lenses do you have? More than 1? Great. How do you match each lens with its front and rear lens caps?

I used to put the name of the lens on the cap with a tape (both on the front and the rear ends) but after watching this move from DSLR Video Shooter I think I am going to change to their method.

The problem is simple, if you have several lenses, they are all nice and neat when you start shooting, but by the end of the day, there are lens caps all over the place. Or if you are a bit neater, all the caps are accounted for, they just don’t match their lenses.

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World’s Largest Hard Drive Offers Photographers 16TB of Storage

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As photographers, backing up our images has sort of become a passion, and so it should.  The catch-22 in the situation is that hard drives (the ones with the little DJ in there spinning laser-read disks) offer the most storage space but suffer from low long-term reliability.  We therefore resort to all kinds of other methods to increase file redundancy, such as cloud storage.  Solid state drives (SSD) are great (and fast), but they have typically been rather limited in capacity.  That…is changing.

The other day we reported on Samsung’s new 256-gigabit flash technology that would significantly increase the storage capacities of solid state drives, but we had no idea they were aiming for the moon and hitting it!

Samsung has since unveiled the culmination of this technology:  the world’s largest SSD hard drive.

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