July 12, 2004
NEW CAMERA!
I wanted a nice new camera for my trip to europe and my student life in taiwan, so I picked up a canon 1d mark II. It arrived last monday. It's a pretty badass camera, weighs a ton and makes taking insanely great pictures way too easy for someone with my poor photographic skills. A great review can be found on dpreview.
I've been so busy running around preparing for the big move i haven't had much time to test it, but when i got a little tired of packing this weekend I snuck out and took a panorama on the charles with my fisheye and the 1d mk II. It's not really a good test of the camera, since the wide angle has lots of distortion and it's very downsampled to be viewable on the internet. But it was cool to see the extra fisheyeness on the 1.3 crop factor sensor (vs my drebel). I think it turned out pretty well:
The fence you see growing out in a wide V is actually a straight line of fence directly in front of the tripod. The V shape is distortion created by mapping 180 degrees of fisheye frames into the panorama shot. I used photoshop CS to do a photomerge (PS works better for pano factory on the very wide angle merges). There were originally only 3 frames with about a 40% overlap (the fisheye is so wide!). I took the shots at f16 on the canon 15mm f2.8 fisheye lense. ISO 100 on the 1d mark II, exposures varied from 1/80 to 1/100th of a second.
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July 08, 2004
coppermine photo gallery
I'm trying work on the css and layout of cpg so it integrates smoothly with the movable type css. They both have huge style sheets and very different templates so I doubt it'll ever end up perfect.
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July 07, 2004
new blog
the old site has been backed up, photos will return shortly. Articles i won't restore. CPG-Nuke was pretty neat at first, but i'm done with it now. I had problems importing photos into albums, my exif info wasn't showing up when i wanted it to, and some random pictures would end up missing. I'm testing out this free edition of movable type, hope it works better than cpg-nuke. I'll be using the normal version of CPG for my photos, i haven't seen any movable type photo blog samples that looked half as good as cpg.
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