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My first full frame DSLR. Some poor guy bit off more than he could chew in an impulse buy late last year, so I managed to get this in pristine condition for a song yesterday evening!
P.S. Yes, I know that it’s successor, the Canon 5D MKIII, will be announced soon, but it’ll be a lot more expensive given the current climate, manufacturing hardships (Thai flooding) and the rising price of the Japanese Yen. It won’t be easy to get hold of for most of this year too no doubt…
I’m just boasting now, but 83GB in 6min is very fast… Loving my Thunderbolt RAID array
Wow! Some fresh thinking from Lytro. They’ve finally revealed what their new camera actually looks like, and have opened limited sales to those that expressed an interest early on - i.e. myself. Unfortunately it’s US only, but I’m working on that ;)
A little bit about the camera: It’s super-minimal aluminium & silicon rubber candy-bar design sporting a 1.46” touch screen for setting an exposure point and navigating through images, a power button, a slider for zoom and a shutter button - that’s it. Weighing in at a mere 214g, it has a speedy low-light-friendly f2 aperture lens throughout it’s 8x optical zoom range (35-280mm equiv). The sensor captures 11 million light rays (or “megarays”) per image. This is “at least HD” so we’re looking at more than 1080 x 1080 pixels with filesizes being ±21.3mb per image.
So while that’s all sexy and stuff, the real benefits are in it’s imaging capabilities: No need for focusing (this can be manipulated AFTER shooting), and of course it’s capturing 3D information from a single lens - so the viewpoint can be altered POST shooting too… This really has to be seen to be believed, but let me just say that this is the beginning (for consumers) of a revolution in photography.
Google keep bringing it: The Dead Sea Scrolls are online in beautiful hi-resolution for all to see, appreciated and study!
Is it just me? I haven’t posted or looked at anything on G+ for about a month now. This is the email I got today: “95 people added you on Google+”. Followed a couple hours later by another 12. Does. Not. Make. Sense.
Uh oh… This doesn’t look promising!
Twitter spam can be annoying, but Tumblr spam is just mean… Hahah! Gotta love the temperature of the replies people have been giving…
The LYTRO camera - takes photos that can refocus after the fact… This is huge! Click anywhere on this interactive example above. On sale later this year…
Google Doodle for the Summer Solstice by Takashi Murakami. I’m still waiting for Spring though…
Big up to Tumblr for adding EXIF data! Tumblr’s dashboard now lets you view the Camera Model, ISO, Aperture, Exposure, and Focal Length of any photo that has EXIF data. Also available in themes with a bit of code…
I’ve added it to mine on individual photos - unfortunately it doesn’t work on Tumblr slideshows…
You read all 61 pages of your iPhone’s iTunes update this morning because you know what happens when you don’t right?
SPAMarketing just keeps evolving… Or perhaps it’s more nefarious, either way, I suggest you too ignore messages like this one…
When in doubt, google some or all of the phrases used to see just how ‘uniquely personal’ the message really is…
