We’ve seen copy protection for CDs and DVDs; we’ve seen ink-jet printer manufacturers add chips to their cartridges to make it difficult or impossible to refill them with cheaper ink.
If you have looked at online suppliers, you will have noticed that you can order replacement batteries for your digital camera much cheaper than the [...]
By John | October 23, 2008
Click to start the 360° Virtual Realitity
And here, “The making of…” or how they set up the camera to take it.
(Via Dark Roasted Blend)
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By John | October 20, 2008
When we were in Spain, we took our i-Blue 747 GPS track logger with us and left it running most of the time when we were out with the cameras. I was expecting that it would be a simple matter to geocode the photos when we returned.
But it turned out that there were a [...]
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By John | September 20, 2008
One hassle with using a digital camera is that you have to transfer the photos to your computer to process them. There are two ways, usually, that this is done:
use a memory-card reader (often attached by a propriety USB cable which the camera manufacturer sells at a high price, if you ever need to replace [...]
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By John | September 13, 2008
I bought an i-Blue 747 GPS track logger recently. You can pick one up, new, on eBay for around 40 – 50 Euro. The idea is to use it to tag photos with their position – our cameras don’t have GPS receivers built in, and often when we get back from holiday, its difficult [...]
By John | September 1, 2008
A few days ago Microsoft and Nikon announced a patent sharing deal. At the time a Microsoft employee was quoted as saying:
This agreement is another great example of how industry leaders are coming together to collaborate through intellectual property licensing, and by doing so enabling innovation which that will ultimately benefit the consumer.
However all is [...]
By John | August 23, 2008
Apple is using the Olympics to market it’s Macs and professional image processing software, Aperture, to the press photographers attending. They’ve set up 50 workstations with 30″ Cinema Displays and all the necessary software (Photoshop, Aperture, and more) for the pros to use in the Kodak Photographer’s Center. The set-up is being managed by Joe [...]
By John | February 21, 2007
I noticed a link to this article in Handelsblatt (I think, today I can’t find it again) the day before yesterday. The article is very detailed with lots of photos and I’m sure that if you are good with a very small screwdriver, you can indeed save the 260 Euro that you pay to have [...]
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By John | December 20, 2006
This week’s Economist has a report about the new Nikon D40 – a 6 megapixel digital SLR camera which undercuts its rivals by several hundred dollars. Their main point in the article subtitled Nikon’s new camera favours quality over quantity is that they think Nikon has recognized that chasing an ever-increasing number of pixels on [...]
By John | September 26, 2006
This 160 Megapixel (!) camera from Seitz Phototechnik AG (in Switzerland) takes panorama or conventional digital photographs and uses a optional 1.66 GHz Mac mini with 2 GB of memory connected via Gigabit Ethernet for storing and processing the pictures. Not for the weak-armed (it weighs in at 2.8 Kg without the Mac mini, which [...]
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