Another Snapper Snaps
Posted: Tue 4 April, 2006 Filed under: Depression, Photography 1 Comment »RIP Bob Carlos-Clarke, one of the more influential photographers of the last few decades.
You might not know the name, but his images were fairly well known.
Canon Software
Posted: Sun 2 April, 2006 Filed under: Getting Organised, Photography 4 Comments »Over the years I’ve got used to the software provided by Fuji with their cameras for moving photos from camera to computer. Well, I say software, but the primary piece is just a driver so that you can copy stuff via USB straight down. Simple as that – it takes about five minutes at most to dump the entire card onto the PC or laptop , just a basic file transfer.
However, with the new Canon SLR, things have changed. For some godforsaken reason Canon use software similar to an image scanner, so you can only move one image at a time. And it’s just taken me the best part of two hours to move seventy images across from camera to laptop. Not including the time it took to make three other attempts to move all the files at once, which resulted in a .tif file that ran to 560Mb before I gave up and quit the program.
I think I’m going to have to invest in a cardreader-to-USB device so I can simply slot in the EOS20D’s memory card and be done with it. But Jesus what a fag, although the alternative is an even bigger pain in the arse…
Photos
Posted: Mon 13 March, 2006 Filed under: Photography, Travel 1 Comment »Ok, yes, photos from Lake District break are up on Flickr – enjoy.
Windmill
Posted: Mon 13 February, 2006 Filed under: Getting Organised, Photography 3 Comments »For the first time this year, I managed to go out for a while yesterday with the camera in tow. Of course, it would have to be on a day when the weather was truly manky and foul, but there we go, beggars can’t be choosers.
Anyway, because of where we were, I wandered over to the village of Brill and got some photos (albeit grey and rainy ones) of the windmill there. I’m quite pleased with them, although it’s still more about learning the idiosyncracies of the new camera, and all that gubbins, before we go off to the Lake District in a couple of weeks time.
But anyway, it was good to get out a bit more with the camera – definitely something I intend to do more of as this year progresses.
Quitting the World
Posted: Thu 19 January, 2006 Filed under: News, Photography Leave a comment »Blimey. Konica Minolta has announced it’s giving up on its camera and photography business completely.
That’s quite an announcement – KM have been in the camera business for a long time, yet now they’ve decided that it’s time to bail out. Some of the business, primarily the digital camera stuff, is being sold to Sony. Other than that, it’s just being gradually folded up.
Shutter Bug
Posted: Sun 15 January, 2006 Filed under: Photography, Thoughts 2 Comments »Another thing I haven’t really started up yet this year is the photography stuff. There’s a lot I want to do there, and some ideas I’ve got for a (potentially) big series of images to work on, but as yet I haven’t done it.
The new camera bag, though, is fantastic. One of my continuing concerns (concern isn’t the right word, but for now I can’t think of the right one) is always about bags etc. that make it look like you’ve got important/valuable equipment with you. I never use a laptop bag for that precise reason – yes, sure it makes my laptop look a bit rougher, to have had it in a backpack instead of the perfect case, but that’s a small price to pay. I don’t understand the people who carry their super-expensive laptop all nice and protected in its case, hanging off one shoulder. It’s so easy for some scrot to come alongside, grab the bag, and run like shit. I’ve seen it happen – the victim doesn’t expect it, the ever-present “it couldn’t happen to me” mindset firmly in place, and then bang, gone and away down the road.
Obviously I feel the same about pro camera-bags. The one I got with the camera for my birthday falls into this ilk – it’s a great bag, but at the end of the day it looks like a camera bag. And for wandering around, I don’t want to advertise “Hey, look, there’s this camera bag here – the likelihood is, it’s got a grand’s worth of gear in it.” . The crumpler backpack fulfils my requirements on that score just about perfectly – at a glance, and even on further inspection, it’s just another backpack. Different styling, sure, but nothing special or obvious about it.
It’ll get its first really heavy-duty outing in a couple of months time, when we’re up in the Lake District. Obviously the camera will be going, and the backpack will be the best way to do it. So that’s the plan.
But there’s other stuff over the year too – and it’s all filed at the moment under “Ideas to Try”. I’ll get there, and there’s the ideas and thoughts, but at the moment it’s all “to try”, rather than “in progress”.
Camera Bag
Posted: Thu 5 January, 2006 Filed under: Photography Leave a comment »The new camera bag arrived yesterday, and it looks as good as I’d expected.
It’s bloody huge, because the camera section is a seperate section at the bottom, while there’s still space for the general gubbins of everyday life in the main backpack section, so it should fulfil all my requirements. Haven’t quite got round to loading the camera into it yet, and all that stuff, but that’ll come.
But it’s certainly going to make life a lot easier when we’re up in the Lake District in a couple of months time – being able to carry camera, monopod (or tripod) and other stuff in a backpack without any risk of damaging the gear is going to be a Very Good Thing.