Seems like this camera does okay:
I did have one problem– the camera was focussing on the closest subject, which led to some odd focusses (particularly when it decided to focus on the line) — I did find the mode that’ll focus from 16ft to infinity. It remembers this mode between power-on and power-off (actually, the mode wheel is really nice, and will select between that various modes pretty smartly)
I picked up a new P&S camera for KAP– I’ve been doing some ground-based tests with it, and have been generally impressed:
(Click for flickr page, from there you can zoom to the original file) These are the full jpegs that were shot in-camera, no modifications. It does pretty well. The camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX30K, here’s a list of Pro/Cons I came up with yesterday while e-mailing another KAPer about it:
Cool things:
Okay things:
Things that suck:
The Noise Reduction is pretty bad– basically kills all/most shadow detail, visible even at ISO100. It doesn’t start to get too painful until ISO400, but I own Noise Ninja, and I’d much rather use that to deal with noise than have all my shadows be smeary.
I’ll be flying the camera tonight or tomorrow, and we’ll see how it does then.
Same rules as last time (leave a comment with your guess, comment moderation is on so you won’t be able to see other’s guesses until someone gets it right):
Common object found in or around my office.
Feel free to ask yes/no questions, although I may elect not to answer.
The absolute best craft fair I’ve been to is coming up again. It’s December 8th & 9th in San Francisco, and perfect for your last minute Christmas shopping. Above is one of the children’s quilts that I photographed for KPFA/EBHQ for their marketing this year. I covered the fair last year for KPFA, as well. Read on for more details on the fair.
Kids Chalk Art Project– seriously cool. These people have a lot of momentum, and are super-organized. Upcoming adult Halloween party at the O-club on the NAS!
Just in case anyone is trying to do this– we have Snom320 phones in the office, and we wanted to dial from our desktops (using, for instance, copy-paste), rather than having to pick up the phone and transcribe a number from the contact list to the phone. This is a simple way to do it, but it’s not fool proof, and relies on your dialplan being somewhat smart about being given random strings of digits, but it works for us.
REM Don't Edit any of this!
echo %* | "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed.exe" -e "s/[^0-9]//g" > C:\WINDOWS\Temp\number.txt
set /P NUMBER= < c:\windows\temp\number.txt
REM Edit the IP Address to match your phone's
"C:\Program Files\wget\wget.exe" "http://x.x.x.x/command.htm?number=%NUMBER%"
Requires having sed and wget installed. We’re using launchy to run the above code as a batch file named dial.bat, so you type <alt+space>dial<tab>phone-number<enter> and your phone dials like magic. The sed command strips out anything that isn’t a number, and then loads it into the %NUMBER% variable — if anyone has a better way to do this (that doesn’t involve temp files) please let me know.
Also, the blog entry seems to be adding some extra linefeeds– the first block of code, has only two commands, one starts with “echo” the other starts with “set”, the second block of code is only one command, the “C:\Program…” bit
Hey, some more stuff out on the Alameda NAS, click for more:
And trying out a new style… let me know if you like it.
Hey, it’s that time again– time for me to plug the Red Scarf Project. It’s pretty easy (and not just completely Red Scarves) — knit a scarf or twelve with some red in it, and send it to these folks, and they include them with care packages for college-bound orphans. Fun knitting project AND you get to help orphans and college students in one swell foop!
