Reviews

My thoughts on Sigma DSLRs

I made a video follow-up to my past articles on Sigma DSLRs (see this and this), where I talk about where Sigma is today and why I think they’re lagging behind the market by 2-3 years.

Sigma’s R&D has not developed new DSLRs fast enough to keep up with market demands and the wonderful capabilities of the Foveon sensor are not put to proper use.

The Foveon sensor is remarkable in that it captures RGB color at each pixel due to its three plates (vs. a single plate in regular sensors). It is supposed to give much more accurate color reproduction than regular sensors.

Unfortunately, because Sigma has not worked fast enough to create DSLRs that can truly compete with those made by more popular camera makers such as Canon and Nikon at all leves (including, but not limited to low light performance and HD video), its DSLR arm now finds itself in a terrible slump.

Their latest offerings, the SD15 and the SD1 have not sold well, and I hope they do something soon in order to catch up with consumer expectations.

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Ligia's Kitchen

Ligia’s Kitchen: How to Make Almond Flour

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See how easy (and quick) you can make almond flour at home, in this new episode of Ligia’s Kitchen! Almond flour is a great (and healthier) substitute for wheat flour. It’s used in the raw food diet as well as the gluten-free diet. You can use it for bread, cakes, cookies and even milk!

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Released 1/18/12

Enjoy!

Thoughts

A Squirrel on Our Balcony

Back when we lived in DC, squirrels used to come onto our balcony all the time. Our building was in a park and it was full of them. When you think squirrels you normally think “Oh, how cute!” but I’d beg to differ. They were cute from a distance. When they dug in your flowerpots and sometimes overturned them, or they investigated anything and everything on your balcony, spilling the contents of whatever they found, they were no longer cute. And they were vicious little critters, too. When cornered they made these really, really nasty sounds and were ready to claw and bite you. So yeah, not so cute.

Now that I’ve ruined squirrels for you, enjoy this video I shot of one of them being cute on our balcony (after it knocked over some flower seeds and started eating them).

Adorable, aren’t they? 😉

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Ligia's Kitchen

Ligia’s Kitchen: Raw Sour Cherry Cookies

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Presenting episode 25 of our show: a wonderful little recipe for raw sour cherry cookies — one of Ligia’s original recipes, naturally!

The recipe is as follows:

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tbsp psyllium
  • 2 cups sour cherries
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp coconut butter
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp lemon peels
  • 6 cups almond flour

Watch the video to see how the ingredients are combined and I hope you’ll try this recipe at home!

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Released 1/16/12

Places

Gaylord National Hotel’s Musical Water Fountains

We visited the Gaylord National Hotel back in 2008, after it and the National Harbor had just opened. These are two videos I filmed back then. The first is of the hotel’s musical water fountains and the second is of the National Harbor itself.

It’s been almost four years since this, and I still can’t get over that name… Gaylord…

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