About Lloyd Chambers
Lloyd's eponymous diglloyd.com website publishes a popular blog and a wide variety of articles and guides geared towards professional and advanced photographers.
Publications include:
- Guide to Zeiss.
- Guide to Leica.
- Guide to Mirrorless Cameras.
- Medium Format
- Making Sharp Images.
- diglloyd's Advanced Photography.
- Guide to Digital Infrared Photography
- MacPerformanceGuide.com
- WindInMyFace.com
Lloyd’s print articles may be found in Photo Technique magazine, covering important concepts such as diffraction, focus shift, digital infrared, optimizing Photoshop/Lightroom, and more.
Also a computer expert (and software engineer), Lloyd's Macintosh Performance Guide offers the web's most sage advice on selecting and configuring a Mac, especially for photographers.
An avid cyclist, Lloyd explains cycling for beginners to experts in his WindInMyFace.com site, covering training, nutrition, road and mountain biking, gear, clothing and equipment.
Photographic experience
Lloyd is a longtime photographer, having used a wide variety of film formats and lenses including 35mm, 4X5 view camera, 6X7, 645 and 617.
Having learned darkroom technique in high school and later managed the Stanford darkroom while a student, I am glad to be working faster and cleaner with digital!
Diglloyd.com is targeted at photographers seeking objective and high-quality information which can be trusted to make buying decisions, to learn or enhance skills, or to find best-practices for a smooth photographic workflow.
US Patents, education, background
Patent numbers: 5577248, 5481701, 5455943, 5155484
Dates approximate in some cases (my memory fuzzy on year).
Software Architect @ Mansfield Systems(1985)
Co-Founder and President @ Salient Software (1989) [note: Wikipedia has some inaccuracies], author of DiskDoubler, AutoDoubler, CopyDoubler
Engineering Manager (Fifth Generation Systems (1992, acquired Salient Software)
Engineering Lead/ Manager / Software Architect @ Pretty Good Privacy / PGP INC(~1998), author of PGP for Mac encryption driver
Senior Engineer Norton, later acquired Symantec Corporation
B.S Mathematics and Computation Science @ Stanford University (~1997)
Senior Engineer / Software Architect @ NetDynamics (~1995)
Senior Engineer @ Sun Microsystems (~1998, acquired NetDynamics)
Senior Engineer @ Oracle Corporation (acquired Sun Microsystems)
Founder and President @ DIGLLOYD INC (2007 - present).
Contact information
Please see the Consulting and Contact pages.