I got a Mac program called exif renamer from virg... oops I mean VERSion Tracker for free, that extracts the exif data from a batch of photos and renames them with the date and time they were shot, amongst other features. No one trusts time and date stamp images anymore unless you have film to prove, or a canon security hardware/software package to prove authentic.

Here's my unscientific approach to lens testing....Don't Bother.
I read some tests and reviews, get some opinions, and whenever possible try it out, before making a purchase.
Once I got it, I use it, and use it, and use it.
I evaluate it, based on the images I like, and learn what it does well and does not do well, and then call it into action whenever the situation demands that piece of equipment's best features.
Same goes with managing people, find out what they're good at, and put them where they'll do the most good.
When somebody starts saying "low contrast, low color saturation, soft" about a lens I start thinking "Hollywood, '50's, Glamour, Portraits"

Ithink I've seen those bfore. seem to recall sterio photo equipmen atricles in 70's pop photo mags.
poor mans workaround was to mount a rail (i used a piece of a flash bracket that had slots cut into it for sliding the camera left-right, for alining the lens with the flash), and firing 2 shots moving the lens latterly 3 inches (approx the space between your eyes). between shots, and mounting bothe shots side by side and then holding a piece of paper (not really nessacery) between the eyes while viewing.
soory for the speelling- I can't seem to get the dyslexia thing under control this morning.

Flink, here's my two cents on trusting reviews and magazines:
I am self taught. My love of photography started, twelve years ago.
(I had done photography for a school yearbook, before that, but, was unhappy. I had learning disabilities and did poorly in school. They kept taking everything away from me to punish me for bad grades. I made the football team, but was not allowed to play, I took great pictures but was forced out of the yearbook club, I scored 100% on seven out of eight exams, and failed every single course due to my inability to keep up with written work etc.).
I had been dropped off on a streetcorner in Toronto, at sixteen by child and family services, with nothing.
I had been working as a bouncer at a local bar, in my hometown, until I got a shoulder and neck injury, and so was at the time a part time dishwasher and also a single parent with twin enfant daughters.
A friend sold me a secondhand pentax k1000 for $20.00.
A neighbour gave me a box of old photo magazines (Popular Photography mostly), that didn't sell at thier yard sale.
I used to pick up empty bottles along the road, while walking my dog, and cashed them in to buy film.
Within six months I had restaurants, flowershops, a church group all promoting and selling my work, and made my first wedding sale for $1200.00
My girls are thirteen now.
My reasons for telling you all this?
A) over the years I've seen those same magazines shifting from valuable learning tools for would be photographers, to "paid for" catalogs of ads for large companies. Ironically the newer mags have alot of the same stories, tips and teckniques as the old mags from the early sevenites, just less content and more ads. Of course whomever spends the most on ads is getting the better reviews....I was blowing away pros and thier expensive hassleblads with with a k1000 and vivitar 285. What else do you needs to create great images?

B) the bussiness end if this industry requires a thick skin and tough attitude (honesty helps too).
You want tough? here's my take on tough:
"You knock me down, and you're dumb enough to leave me breathing know this: I WILL get back up and when I do, You better have a whole new bag of tricks ready, because I just learned your old ones."
"There are a million ways to lose a fight, but only three ways to win:
A) you are tougher/smarter/better trained than your opponent, and you dominate.
B) you are lucky.
C) if A&B are both in his favour, you get knocked down, then you have to get back up. and you keep getting back up until your opponents are too tired to knock you down again and are starrring at you in disbelief thinking "this guy can't be human" then you get up one more time and finnish it. Attrition is the worst way to win, but when all else fails, it's still better than the alternative.

Juxtapositions...Wonderful creative element for any photogs.
I have a great one of an old boat, the ms keenora that I had been on, on Lake of the Woods Ontario as a child, it now sits in the marine museum here in Selkirk (you Brits may remember him, or was he a scott? we called him "Lord Selkirk, right up till about the time my ancestors started hanging around with some charactor named Louis Reil), Anyhoo, The boat is on display ata local park, near the river, accross from a coal power generating plant. I lined the smokestacks from the ms keenora up with the stacks fron the plant and low and behold, the old boat seems to be running...

confused was I it most certianly is the bedspread...lol

I find the carpet in the foreground a little out of sync with the reflection in the mirror.

Well I supose I could've checked my sound levels, fired up my halogen lights and maybe done something with my hair, but that would take too long and make too much sense....I only make cents when people pay me to.
I hope you got what you needed in regards to getting your presentation together. Good luck with that.

I slapped something together for you to check out. it's on my website in the movie gallery, under JR. Directly through the viewfinder would require an evf but the auto playback on the istd's will show what you just snapped along with any othe data you can see on your camera's lcd.
http://homepage.mac.com/lightexpressions/index.html
The audio and lighting suck, since you're not paying me by the hour...lol
It's comming down after I hear back from you JR.

Several ways really. Easiest is tv out cable from camera to video in on projector.
Best way is to combine video clips, shot with camcorder, with video captures done through the camcorder (video out from camera to video in on camcorder) All transfered to computer with firewire and edited into a power point/keynote presentation along with your photos and music, titles and scene wipes.