Today I stumbled across this short blog post in the New York Times' technology section (a blog called Pogue’s Posts, written by David Pogue) about the way a camera’s settings is generally included alongside photos in various magazines and articles related to learning photography.

Pogue’s point, in part, was:

… [T]he caption always gives the specs for the photo: “Taken with a Nikon D90 at 1/200th second, aperture f/2.8, exposure +1, using Sigma 18-200mm lensâ€? or whatever.

Little did I know of the abilities of so-called “tethering,” for I had never tried it myself.

In the photography realm, tethering is a term generally used to describe shooting while the camera is directly connected to a computer. Most often, it is used to instantly push the photos onto the computer so that they can be previewed or, in some extreme cases, immediately edited by someone else for review by an on-site art director and so forth.

There’s this guy… Let’s call him “Carlo Allegri.” That’s his name, after all. He was born in Bermuda and raised in Toronto, and all he ever wanted to do was take photographs. He started as a photo-journalist and worked his way up over many years to finally become a senior entertainment photographer for Getty in Los Angeles.

The dude loves Profoto gear. Wait, you don’t know Profoto? They make some pretty high-end on-location strobes and other lighting accessories. (Buy ’em from B&H.) Two 2400 watt-second strobes with basic reflectors, a battery pack, and a case to carry them in is going to run you around $2,500, and then things go up from there.

So you guys know that the Canon EOS-5D Mark II can shoot video, right? It seems like video is the latest “must-have” feature for DSLRs, and although I remain skeptical of its utility when it comes to the core function of a DSLR (to make photographs, last I checked), it turns out that there is something to be said for it.

As you read here not too long ago, the season finale of the hit Fox show “House” (which I watch religiously) was shot entirely with 5D Mark II cameras, proving that although it may not be as convenient or feature-rich as a purpose-built digital cinema camera, it gets the job done.

It goes without saying that people are endeared to robots. Why, just look at that lovable Johnny Five over there, the late-’80s childhood icon of the human/robot emotional connection. And why not? Robots are built to serve us unswervingly and to carry out our commands without a microsecond’s hesitation.

Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas love photography, but they, too, love robots. Okay, I’m using “robot” in a very loose sense here, because what they have built—they call it the BeetleCam—is more of an RC car than a robot, but let’s not split hairs… It’s awesome anyway!