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This page introduces most Canon EF lenses and contrasts quite a few of them in nice comments.
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A photo I took for their concert program
Oct 302004
From Technorati:
- How many sources of information must you keep up with?
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- RSS readers collect updates, but with so many unread items, how do you know which to read first?
Attention.XML is designed to to solve these problems and enable a whole new class of blog and feed related applications.
Good stuff, guys, I’m excited to hear about it and wonder where this’ll go. (via Jeremy Zawodny)
Oct 292004
This dude has moved into our stairway
Oct 292004
With the announcement of iPod Photo and all the hype about it, I’m afraid that the iPod has become even less of an option for me. This little device is about PAST creativity, I take mobile devices with me primarily becuase of PRESENT creativity.
What do I mean? I bought a Creative Jukebox a while ago, not because it was nice looking (it’s certainly not) or seemed cool, but becuase it had a microphone inlet. (turned out to be useless for microphone without a preamp that I had to go and buy because it was really more of a line-in that didn’t get microphone-usability before many firmwares later, but that’s another story). The iPod, Jukebox and company are portable storage devices. That means that I should not only be able to retrieve information from them (photos, music and video is widely available on many of these), but I should be able to store it to them in an instant. Listen up, Apple: that means microphone in and a CF (and/or similar) reader. Minimum! (I’m sure many people would require Composite/S-Video, GPS in etc)
When I’m at a raga concert in India I want to record it to take back home and listen to how they make their music. I was, they didn’t mind, I recorded. An external microphone (Sony’s minidisc microphones are nice) should be enough of add-ons. But not with iPod, there you have to add a separate box for audio-in, and I haven’t heared much reports on it, so it’s quite possible you’d need the same preamp. For the CF-cards (yes, I took loads of photos of raga players in India, and yet, my CF-card went full) you have to add another external box. That it three or four boxes + of course a microphone and the camera. This scenario becomes nothing of creativity and lots of pain by carrying all these boxes, wires, plugging them all together, having batteries and monitoring their levels. It’s not just for concerts, it’s for when I’m praciticing and want to review my practising. Most walkmans now how to handle record and playback and don’t come with lots of extra boxes, just a microphone.
Apple & co: what I need is a storage device that’s small and allows for good input. A storage unit (iPod for instance), my camera, my microphone, I should be on my way. Or quite possibly, a storage unit, a microphone and a video camera.
When you’ve got this in place, you can think of putting a screen on it to watch those pictures, ’cause I can watch them just as good on my camera when I don’t get them off my CF-card anyhow. And the few pictures I want to have with me to show people fit nicely on my mobile phone which has the same resolution as those fitted on the iPod Photo. I don’t take thousands of pictures with me for everyone to store, but I take thousands of pictures on the road to take back home, and it’s fun reviewing those while I’m on the road.
No, I’m not an iPod fan, yet. But if Apple would add input facilities, I’d be first in queue. Think how nice an iPod mini would be with the good battery time and filled with pictures and recordings from my trip. That’d be something to show to my fellow backpackers.
Oct 292004
From AK47, I love this series
Oct 282004
A ballet dancer becomes king in Cambodia. Who said there are no careers in arts? 
[from Aftenposten]
Oct 272004
My first attempts at editing, only minor adjustments in green
More or less, anyways. As long as you don’t make a profit of it, you can download the movie according to Michael Moore. Not sure if this is his call to make, so it’ll be interesting to see possible reactions.
Oct 262004
Dave Coffin has made dcraw work for OS X by a couple of support mails. Grab the source code and compile with gcc -g draw.c -lm -DNO_JPEG -o dcraw or get the binaries from Francisco Montilla.
My workflow is now: download RAW images from the camera into folder, do all my regular post-processing (auto-colour, auto-levels, make jpeg) and then import to iPhoto. I used Canon’s own software for the RAW handelling first, but it’s got clumsy select mechanisms. Now I get it all just the way I like it. 
(shell handelling of graphics has been my main preference since 1999, but of course I’ll use a graphic editing program for non-typical operations. Far better than automate-functions in Photoshop )
Many thanks to Dave and Francisco for their help in getting dcraw working with the 20D on my OS X box.
Oct 262004
After reading on a nice, Brazillian island, my apetite for going out travelling is growing again. Although I’d still prefer backpackers’ accommodation. $100 a night that was suggested for this island is a bit stiff in my opinion. Hmm… where to next?
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And no, I don’t live here. But if you were up at night and this was your home, wouldn’t that be nice?
Oct 242004
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Jake at Photoblogs asks if we loose a way of telling a story by using single-shot photoblogs rather than multi-shot. So here’s why I do single:
The picture I choose best represent my mood, feelings, thoughts and/or highlights of the day. Doing multiple shots I feel would be saying too much. By going through the shots day by day, perhaps you’ll get to know me well, but by multiple shots you’ll have no idea what I most want to focus on as I’m probably all over the place.
Secondly, of course, is the time issue. I don’t get to take that many good pictures as I’m still learning. And processing them takes time. Time comes coupled with space: I don’t have unlimited with space to publish everything. (although some would say I’m fairly close )
No, I’ll save those multiple shots for photo albums, such as my gallery. But having said that, there are multi-shots photoblogs that I read every time a new picture has been added, and one of them is on my top 3. So choose your format, wrap it nicely and I’m looking forward to seeing it. (yes, by all means, do leave an URL in your comment)
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