So You Wanna Be a School Photographer?

Start by checking out “All About Schools” at WPPI in Las Vegas.  Click here to find out more.
A franchise is a good way to get started in school photography, but it requires some up front cash.   The advantage to a franchise is that they give you a “turn key” solution.  They also provide training and [...]

Will Windows 7 Eclipse Vista?

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP…. Just taking a look at the name of each version of Windows, one can see that historically there has only been a 2-3 year span between each version. Yet, there was a 6 year gap between Windows XP and Vista. Maybe that [...]

Frosty the No Man….

Although I was glad to get home on Friday, I was sad to see the snow all already gone monday. I think this picture says it all.

The Day PhotoLynx Freezes Over

I’m sitting here tonight at the PhotoLynx office, because I’M STUCK! For the first time in three years since I worked here, we received enough snow that my car could not make it through the hills to get out of here. To make matters worse, it’s Valentines Day…
We received around 6 inches of [...]

More About Zigview Viewfinders

I’ve received many questions about Zigview lately. Zigview attaches to the eyepiece of most any digital or film SLR and displays the image in real time on a 2.5 inch color display. It also has an additional output that will allow it to be viewed on any video monitor. The Display flips [...]

The Lost PhotoLynx Manual

In my news letter that I sent out last week, I forgot to put the link to “The Lost Manual“, so here it is. This manual was handed out at our user’s meeting we had in early January. It pretty much covers many of the new features that were added into the [...]

Continuing the Quest for perfect Green Screen

After some delay, the Engineering team got a preview of the new green screen out to Tim & I to take a look at. The way the software drops out the green is phenomenal. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be any touching of some images, but far less then in our previous [...]

Quest for the Perfect Green Screen

One of our users, Portraits by Kranz, in Los Angeles, California, has used the green screen in PhotoLynx for the past two school seasons. They have output about 300,000 fall packages, and roughly 200,000 spring packages using the green screen automation in PhotoLynx. They have been using our current green screen technology to [...]

PMA was a BIG hit!

Just got home from the PMA last night. It was a long week, as the PhotoLynx gang arrived the weekend before PMA to speak at Walter’s Publishing about green screen and then attend PSPA and set up the booth for PMA. My speech on green screen last Tuesday, although generic, went over [...]