| M's profilemarks spacePhotosBlogLists |  Tools  Help |
|
|
marks spaceNovember 18 Greetings from Mexico!all checked in to the Holiday Inn, Peurto Vallarta! so far we've eaten and slept, swam. eaten more :) life is good. heres the view from my room. October 16 walt bailey trailOn saturday some friends and I went for a day hike in the Mount Baker area... 2 hours drive and 2.5 hours hike to get to the lakes at the top, but amazing views at the top. i wanted to try flickr so this time my photos are posted here:
also, wanted to mention www.washingtonhikes.com where i got most of the information for the hike. Great site and thanks for sharing! the hike was amazing.
September 22 ZuneGot a chance to beta test the Zune.. here a picture! i have not gotten the software for it yet though, so have not yet been able to put music on it or use it very much September 15 D80 arrives!my d80 has arrived! heres a picture with the 18-200mm VR (my only lens for now). I'm trying to resist the temptation to buy all the neat gadgets that i could get for it. Chatting with Ervin is particuliarly bad since he already has every camera toy under the sun (sometimes he even has two!) Wish i bought Canon so i could just 'borrow' all his stuff :) So far i've only done a little night shooting on sunday night near Pioneer Square / Pike place market - when i get around to it i'll put up a few pictures in the gallery. August 31 who says dslr's cant take videos?.. check out these surprisingly moving clips here: http://www.martincrespo.net/clips.htm with some discussion about them from here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?for... August 22 the tyranny of choiceits a terrible choice we consumers have to make when we're about to make a <relatively> large purchase - so many manufacturers to choose from... my search for a dslr continues. after closely examining the a100 from sony, i've decided to give it a pass based on its less than stellar high iso images, as well as the relatively short supply of sony branded lenses (i know you can pick up used KM lenses but it seems like a hassle). plus you never know if Sony is going to abandon the whole effort and leave you stuck with a bag full of expensive glass. That leaves me looking long and hard at the canon and nikon offerings, mainly the 350d, the 30d, and the upcoming nikon d80. My friend Ervin and i had a long conversation about the relative merits of each but i'm still torn - Canon is announcing a new cam, rumoured to be a 350D update on the 24th of august and photokina may also hold some interesting surprises. I wont bore you with all the <time consuming> reading i've been doing but here are a few good links that i've found. lets start with some actual photos: http://www.pbase.com/fotoopa/water_figures&page=al... then some early pics from the d80 http://photo-cafe.jp/scoop/index.html http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/digitalcam... http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/review/2006/08/1... two very comprehensive SLR lens review sites i've found (somewhat depressing) http://www.slrgear.com/reviews/index.php http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/index.html and two fascinating articles on the future of photography: http://www.pcphotomag.com/content/2006/june/Future... http://www.colorado.edu/isl/selpubs.html this one is a very interesting read - Wavefront coding is going to be revolutionary.... imagine taking a photo and focusing after! the possibilities here are mind blowing. Also, it's a nice blowback to my Uni days - it might be worthwhile to brush up on my signal processing! hard to imagine once upon a time i could write that gibberish :) |
|
||||||
|
|
