Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 2
I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…
Slightly similar posts...
- Digital pictures | Electronics | Equipment | FAQ | Journal | LED | Lighting | Photography | Studio | Technology | Zoneminder
Fed up with wall warts?
One of the problems with modern life is the plethora of plug-in mains adaptors or “wall warts” as they call them on the other side of “The Pond”. Aside from the mess of wires, and the fact that often they are plugged into multi-gang power sockets an heaped on top of one another, building up…
- FAQ | Journal | Linux | Site Blog | Technology
Didn’t you use another Linux at one time?
Editors note, as of June 2024 this web server, and indeed most of our web servers now run Debian. As do many of our desktop and laptop machines. In 1995 our ISP set us up on a server running FreeBSD. Then in 2005 we built our own server, moved to Linux and chose a ‘live…
120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens, in action, on Portsdown Hill
Regular readers may know that my 2023 Christmas project was to make this 120 year old Bausch & Lomb + Beck lens fit on my µ4/3 cameras and actually capture some pictures with it. Unfortunately, at the time, the weather was too wet to take the thing outdoors. Fortunately by early January the weather became…
WebOnCD
The WebOnCD concept concerns putting standard HTML (hypertext mark-up language) pages on a local removable disc such as a CD ROM or DVD. Simple WebOnCD publications are very easy to create. They require little previous programming experience, and no special software. Any text editor such as Notepad for Windows, KDE KWrite or Kate for GNU/Linux…
- Digital pictures | Journal | LED | Lighting | Photography | Studio | Technology
Cheap but effective continuous studio lighting
For continuous lighting, one needs a light source that has good colour balance, uses power efficiently, is reasonably robust and does not present a health or fire risk. I am also a tightwad – interested primarily in “bangs per buck”. Whilst I love new technology, I am not prepared to pay silly money for it….
Road trip to Hungary, part 4
Through the Austrian Alps > Kufstein I managed to get sunstroke driving through the Austrian Alps. So we stopped at the strange but beautiful little town of Kufstein so I could take on some fluids and recover for the next leg of the journey. Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 You are here:…
