Kevin MeredithInterview
Photographer, teacher
Adapted from Kevin Meredith's interview on Uses This, published 12 September 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I am best known for my work using a cult classic Russian film camera, the Lomo LC-A.
When it comes to photography, I have a ton of cameras but the ones used the most are my trusted Lomo LC-As and LC-A+s.
I have also recently acquired the new Lomo LC-W.
Since getting it I have not really used other lenses as it's a great all-rounder - I don't even use my 50mm 1.4 anymore.
My main computer is a Mac Pro with 2 x 2.26 GHz quad core Xeon processors with 8 Gb of RAM.
The first thing I did when I got it was to put 2x 1 Gb Western Digital Caviar Black drives to make a stripped RAID, which in theory makes saving files almost 2x fast when compared to using one drive.
I have a 26" Apple monitor which looks beautiful, but I think it's lacking a few things.
I love the Magic Mouse that my Mac Pro came with.
I also have a 15" unibody MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM that I use at home and on the road.
I don't own an iPad as I have an iPhone 4, a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro.
I also have a 1st gen Intel Mac Mini under the TV for watching iPlayer and other Internet video on a big screen.
Communication
When I tweet, I tweet from twitter.com.
When I look at my email, it's though mail.google.com and I upload all my photos to Flickr via their upload page.
For blogging I use a self-hosted Wordpress installation.
Productivity
I give a lot of talks, so I could not live without Keynote - the more I learn about that app the more I love it.
For my writing, I use Pages.
I use Numbers to keep track of my course attendees and accounts.
Browser
Because of Firefox's appetite for RAM I have just dumped it for Chrome which I am finding easily uses 80% less RAM, but its URL bar is nowhere near as awesome.
Might give Safari a spin but again it takes way more memory than Chrome.
Design
If I need to do anything out of the ordinary, photo editing-wise, I will launch Photoshop CS5.
I use After Effects CS5 to put together time lapse videos.
Media
I slowly changed my career to photography through my use of Flickr where I can be found as Lomokev.
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I am a big fan of Lightroom 3.
Storage
I have DropBox which is great if I want to preview some of my computer documents on the go.
Other
As for my non-photography iPhone apps, I could not live without Evernote for note-taking, whether it be text or a photo.
I have not used bookmarks in a browser for years as I use delicious.