Yet another photo sharing site, Flickr. (Link fixed)
It’s done pretty well and has a nifty Flash app for chatting and sharing media. There’s also a little Javascript widget for displaying recent photos on your own site. I’ve (for now) put it over there on the right.
$290 million is a lot of money, but the odds of winning are somewhere in the neighborhood of 135 million-to-1. Repeat after me… You Will Not Win!. Nor will I or quite probably anyone we know.
I have just as much fun thinking about winning without playing as I would if I bought a ticket. The odds are essentially the same anyway.
Oh, and if anyone I know does win, forget I said anything.
Just bought another camera. An Olympus Stylus Epic. I’ve been wanting a pocketable point-n-shoot that I can always have with me. After hearing all of the rave reviews (by other Leica owners, no less), I decided on the Olympus for $75.00. I didn’t want a digital because it would’ve cost me $400-$600 to get similar image quality, and probably even more shutter lag.
Here’s what I like…
Small. Really does fit in my pocket.
Cheap! Helluva shooter for $75.00
Reasonably well-built and the sliding, water-resistant lens cover may come in handy.
Fast, sharp 2.8 lens.
Selectible spot metering.
Auto exposure leans toward wide aperture, reducing DOF when appropriate
Metered fill flash seems to work very well.
What I don’t like…
Tiny flash mode buttons. I need to use a fingernail to press them.
Settings revert to default each time the cover is closed.
Viewfinder is very small. It sometimes takes a second or two for my eye to find it.
So far, after only a couple rolls, I’m reasonably impressed. Focus seems spot on, metering does a good job, lens seems sharp and contrasty, and the fast lens makes available light work possible.
25MPH grab shot while driving, camera in right hand extended toward the passenger window. Never mind about my left hand.
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For further proof that you don’t need a way-too-expensive camera to create great images, take a look at 640×480.net.
He uses an Eyemod, the low-res add-on camera thingy for your PalmPilot.
It’s almost embarrassing.
Al Kaplan, long-time photographer and Leica fanatic is becoming something of a phenomenon. Or more precisely, the following photo of him is…
T-shirts with the above portrait are selling like crazy nation-wide.
Al is a very helpful and friendly contributor to numerous Leica mailing lists and seems quite the opposite of what that image suggests. He does clean up pretty well, though. Here’s a photo of Al and Jeb Bush as proof.
At last week’s baseball game, they let a young boy throw out the first pitch. Apparently he’s something of a local hero. Why? Because he found a $100 dollar bill in a store restroom and returned it to the store manager.
That’s sweet and all, but since when does not being a thief make you a hero?
My favorite from last year, now on DVD.
Billy Bob starts out nasty and never gets much nicer. Funny throughout. Also, John Ritter was great in his final role.
Not technically a movie. Why didn’t anyone tell me about this? I just watched the complete season (DVD) and it’s Hilarious. Watch it.
Okay, so it wasn’t even two weeks, but I was right about Tracy’s story being interesting.
I wonder if the problem is that They never get to the point of actually having names. Referring to “Them” as “Red light guy” and “hot tub guy” has got to sort of make everything a little clinical, no? Or maybe it’s just a lot safer that way. I’ve been trying to come up with generic labels for a few of my ex-whatevers and although I probably shouldn’t share the results, I’m sure laughing my ass off trying!
I went with my dad and family to a Whitecaps game today. I’m not a baseball fan, but I enjoy actually going to the park and watching a game now and then. This is the first time that the advertising really got to me. I don’t think there was a single sentence spoken by the announcer that didn’t contain an advertisement of some sort. “In the [company name] bull pen…”, “Welcome to [company name] ballpark”, “Now it’s time for the [company name] three-legged race.”
Nearly every surface, both vertical and horizontal, was covered with a logo or something definitely not-baseball. Then, a very attractive girl walked by wearing excessively low and tight jeans sporting that obnoxious hey-look-I’m-wearing-damn-expensive-jeans Von Dutch logo.
I give up.