eike.welk

Great images! Especially David's "Steamy" image gets me. Phylo, your first image reminds me of the

illustrations in the book "In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak.

<p>I have a matching image of a man at work too. It also has a triangular composition.<br>

I took this image because I have been in this situation, and many other people too: You tow a trailer with your car, and when it gets dark you find out that some of its lights don't work. Off course you have only few tools with you in the car, and you have to tinker with the trailer's cabling in the dark. It always quite annoying.<br>

What do you think of the image?</p><div></div>

I think a more interesting idea would be a dust proof curtain, that closes closes the lens mount's opening when

the lens is changed. (This would also be interesting for EVIL cameras, and for future cameras with a fully

electronic shutter.)

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A clear filter in the lens mount would be an other source of unwanted reflections, and you would have to keep

its surface free of dust insted of the sensor.

Hello Justin;

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I too think it would be great, if the camera's firmware were free software. The firmware's overall

quality would increase as users would fix errors/nuisances. The camera could be customized very

much to the ideas of individual users. Also features which are only interesting for a small

minority could be implemented, for example: focus series to create macro photos with a high depth

of field.

Here is a website that has some reviews of film scanners:

http://www.filmscanner.info/en/FilmscannerTestberichte.html

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The "Reflecta CrystalScan 7200" seems to be a reasonable choice.

Video cameras have no mechanical shutter for each image. The technology used is fully electronic.

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CMOS sensors have something called a 'rolling shutter'. Which means one row of pixels is digitized at a time,

and one (other) row of pixels is cleared at the same instant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

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This readout of one row, while other rows still collect light, leads to artifacts when the camera or objects in

the image move. Those artifacts are frequently called 'jello' effect in discussions about the Canon 5D Mark II

and Nikon D90.

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CCD sensors in video cameras have light insensitive regions to store the image information ('interline'

or 'frame transfer' architectures). The transfer of charge from the light sensitive regions to the storage

regions is fast. Therefore CCD cameras can have real electronic shutters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#Architecture

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src="http://u1.ipernity.com/10/74/16/3697416.abbc8024.png"

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From a technical point of view it makes perfect sense: The camera does not heat up much in strong

sunlight. (Although I doubt that any technical consideration lead Pentax to release this camera.)

For good ergonomics the camera should be light gray, so that looking at it doesn't hurt your eyes

in bright sunlight.

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Darth Vater seems to be a smart guy too, just not with his own uniform.

Maybe buy a used Fuji F30 of F31.

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They cost about 200$ on Ebay, which is about the price that these cameras had when they were new.

However, they were the last cameras with a kind of reasonable pixel count. (And even the F30/F31

would have been a better camera with 3 megapixels.)

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I have a Fuji F31, it is fairly robust, fits easily into a jeans pocket, and image quality is

reasonable. Negative points are absence of manual mode, bad contrast in backlight situations, and

the very extreme non-linear noise reduction (which leads to the painterly looks of high ISO

images).

I have an Asus M2400N which is about 5 years old. When it was new it had about 5 hours of battery

life, now it has about 3 hours. It was a kind of expensive business laptop when I bought it, now

it is slower than some Netbooks and it has much fewer RAM than current Netbooks.

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I think that Lenovo ThinkPad T series should also have models with 5 to 7 hours battery life. What

kept me from buying a new Laptop is the fact that even ThinkPads now have wide-screen displays.

The 'Severinsbrücke' bridge in Cologne. Taken with K20D at ISO 3200 and DA*16-50.

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src="http://u1.ipernity.com/9/00/38/3190038.27483971.1024.jpg" width="731" height="1024" alt="Bridge"

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Severinsbrücke, a suspension bridge in Cologne, Germany.

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K20D, DA* 16-50; ISO 3200, 1/15 s, f/2.8

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src="http://u1.ipernity.com/10/82/24/3498224.0d89b2f1.1024.jpg" width="1024" height="710" alt="Bridge"

border="0"/></a>

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src="http://u1.ipernity.com/9/00/38/3190038.27483971.1024.jpg" width="731" height="1024" alt="Bridge"

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There are not so many photos from Greenland in Google-Earth. Also most people have no idea about

the life in Greenland. You could put some photos (with GPS location) into Panoramio.

I think most interesting are man made structures and the way people live. Locals and tourists are

both interesting. So I suggest, in villages ask some people what their job is, and photograph them

in front of their workplaces. (Put this later into the image's legend.) Also photograph schools

and medical infrastructure. On the trail you should photograph every cabin with a realistic amount

of tourists included. Also shoot interiors; if they show how life is at this place they might get

included in Google-Earth.