One of the little raccoons walked along the back wall this morning.
Category: photo
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zeiss it ain’t
For no good reason, I bought a very cheap ($20) mini digital camera at the airport. Its limitations make it quite fun to use:
- has the astonishingly high resolution of 352 x 288
- fixed-focus lens chock-full of chromatic and spherical aberration
- no display, except for a cryptic 2-digit LCD
- takes 20 images, then it has to be downloaded
- grossly inaccurate viewfinder, which shifts when you press the shutter button
- images have pronounced scan lines
- refuses to take images in low light
- weird non-standard USB connector
It is very small, and can also work as a webcam. It also works as well as it could under OS X (use macam to download the pictures, or enable the webcam). Using the webcam does seem to delete the pictures, so make sure you download ’em first.
I’ve made a minicam gallery, which I’ll add to until the novelty wears off.
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A chilly evening in Søndervig
The concrete lump is a WW2 gun emplacement.
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mother’s day treat: critters!
We were visited by the raccoon family last night; mother and four little ones. Please excuse the ‘painterly’ blur; it’s kinda hard to handhold a 300mm lens for 1/3s exposure. Plus, wee raccoons are speedy little things.
This one was taken a few days back (of the mother alone) in better light:
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I think we might have a dandelion problem here
Quick, call in the team of trained guinea pigs!
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pre-crepuscular visitor
She made off with all speed, which isn’t very much, for a raccoon. -
MacArthurVicPark
The cigarette butt was a nice touch to this brutally stomped birthday cake, I thought. I wonder what its story is?
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growing green
Snapped at the Big Carrot Juice Bar. It’s wheatgrass.
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Splodges Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Guess I’ll have to work on my sensor cleaning game, ‘cos this is what I see (a blue sky, with contrast racked way up, and at 2x scale) on the bottom right of my D70 sensor:
The other troublesome marks are gone, so I guess it kinda works. I used the American Recorder Digital Sensor Swab Kit from Henry’s, and the mirror lock up instructions from brams.dk.
Y’know, that pattern of splodges looks awfully like the indentations on the end of the swab …
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no nimh joy in my speedlight
I wonder why my Nikon SB-600 won’t work with (expensive) Panasonic 2300mAh HHR-3SPA NiMH cells? It loves Duracells to death, but won’t even fire once with the rechargeables.
(Oh, and wish me luck; I’m about to clean my the sensor on my D70 for the first time.)
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Big Salt Ship
The freighter Algorail loading salt in Goderich Harbour. One of the crew shouted for me to e-mail the photos; this is the best I can do for now!
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Nano’s Manxes
They are siblings, and very affectionate. -
Reindeer roasting on an open fire
Have a good one, and hope the batteries run out before your patience does. -
popular stairs
According to Gallery’s stats, the above photo is the most popular one I’ve posted. Not sure why. -
I (still) believe in bugs
We found this praying mantis at the back of the office. Paul picked it up, but it flew off. It didn’t seem to mind having its picture taken.
This (my second) mantis sighting was much more interactive than my first.
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It’s pouring at Erie Shores
I was at Erie Shores on Wednesday, and this is the first turbine base of this size I’ve seen poured. They’re pretty big, but then, they do have to support a 77m diameter turbine on an 80m tower.The picture’s taken from here.
