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Comment on OMG 20 years of Photoshop by MartinB

MartinB — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:12 +0000

You're just showing your age, Aiddy. I was trying so hard to ignore this as well. Barneyscan vs ImageStudio, huh? Those were the days!

Comment on Nothing new after Seventy Two by Nik

Nik — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:59:41 +0000

Watching the prog on the telly here made me tweet... "Watching photog docu on telly (about Duffy / 60s). Depresses me. Reminds me that my mojo has sort of gone walkabout."

and then "I need some Bowie albums"

and then [quoting Duffy] "Art photography is a very, very modern idea. Look at the plug over there. I'm paying it attention. The work is the statement". Duffy..

Comment on Compact by aiddy

aiddy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:51:20 +0000

Thx Martin, I'll take a look at the G11. I often shoot with a fixed lens on the SLR - which is one of the attractions of a pancake (*I think*). I'm also attracted by the lower pixel density on these newer compacts: my 40D is at 3.1MP/cm^2, the PEN is 5.1 with the G11 at 23. Interesting stats but just stats afterall.

Comment on Compact by MartinB

MartinB — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:28:53 +0000

You missed the G11 off your list. Some of the new non-SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses are wonderfully compact … with the prime pancake lens, but get a bit bulky with the lens you'd actually use. OK, the G11 isn't so great on high-contrast images at ISO 800, but at least the raw format lets you fix up the more difgficult shots in post-processing …

Comment on A note to record that CDs are dead by Pater

Pater — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:31:00 +0000

But not available over here as far as I can tell

Comment on Map junkie gets a fix by Steve

Steve — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:50:00 +0000

Regarding presentation, We have great cartography to like this.

Comment on Easier backup by James Clarke

James Clarke — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:39:00 +0000

The new backup feature in Vista is Awesome (which works in conjunction with Home Server). It can create a complete snapshot drive image and then do file-based deltas as you create documents. If the drive fails, boot off the Vista CD and restore the entire OS/Apps/Data in one go without even needing to reinstall Vista first.

Comment on Popular Cameras (part II) by Bart

Bart — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:42:00 +0000

Thanks, I shall sleep soundly tonight.

Comment on Popular Cameras (part II) by aiddy

aiddy — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:50:00 +0000

Not being one to leave a question unanswered (or at least attempted), I've done a little more digging.

Looking at the top 500 'interesting' pictures over the past two years, a grand total of 90 have been geotagged (encoded with information about a location expressed in latitude and longitude). Of those, two pictures are geotagged with a location within a boundary approximately corresponding to downtown Seattle and the Seattle Center (location of said space needle); while an amazing zero pictures have the location within a bounding box corresponding approximately to the the area covered by the greater Sahara region.

Now it may be that all the really great pictures of the Sahara haven't been geotagged, or have been geotagged with the location of the photographer's first primary school in Dorset.

Hope that helps.

Comment on Popular Cameras (part II) by bart

bart — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:25:00 +0000

I'd like to see a geographical break-down of these figures.

I have a feeling that interestingness is probably related to it's geograpical location. The least popular locations for taking a photograph - being rated as the most interesting?

i.e. a crap photograph from an incapable photographer in the Sahara desert might be considered more interesting than a work of genius by an expat's pic of the space needle in seattle (say)?