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Thirteen thousand

Photography

Two thousand and Six. 13,217 frames later, Ninety-eight point five gigabytes of photos. That’s 367 rolls of film (if you still use that stuff)!! And no upgrades, no new cameras in 2006. Nada. Yet, the sentimental part of me will say that every frame was a journey, a step somewhere, in my garden or some place else. I realize it’s always a journey, even though it’s just at home. The journey of life, one step or one shutter click at a time. Savor the moment. Capture it. But, just as importantly, know when you just need to live and experience the journey without the camera. Just go with the flow, participate and not observe with a lens. Be courageous and step on the other side. Happy Happy New Year 2007 everyone!

EOS-20D, 2.5yrs old…

Avoid Red Eye

Photography

The LiveScience website reports that an Australian physicist has calculated the number of photos of a group that need to be taken to ensure at least one frame that’s free of blinking.

“For groups of less than 20 people, divide the number of people in the group by 3 if the light is good or by 2 if the light is bad,” Barnes told LiveScience. “Take that number of shots and you will have a better than 95 percent chance of getting at least one good one.”

Running out of space…

Photography

In 2003, 80Gb storage was pretty much enough for most photo scans. Afterall, you’d come back from a two week trip and end up with like 26 rolls of film. Since I scanned every single frame, I’d end up with like 936 frames which with compressed TIFF scans, they only consume about 12Gb (you’d normally average about 11-13mb per scan). Fast forward two years to 2005 and I’m finding that 200Gb is filling up fast. In 2004, I went on a two week trip with 2 1Gb cards but it became 3 1Gb cards in 2005 and I was averaging 1.5Gb a day which means that on a fortnight travel, I’ll have over 20Gb! So now, in 2006 with 4Gb cards which just means that the shoot rate just went up. And I don’t have my 5D yet! And Seagate just announced disks that achieve 2.5TB!

Have storage, will travel with camera!

Canon onslaught begins

Photography

Leaked on the Canon China website: Canon EOS 400D, with a 1.6x (APS-C) sensor, 3fps, 2.5″LCD, 9-point AF system and ISO settings from 100-1600. Shutter speeds from 30-1/4000s with a sync speed of 1/200s. The sensor has an ultrasonic dust removal feature. The EOS 30D/5D picture style modes are also included. More here.

The 400D?