by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 21, 2004 | Photography Equipment
I am dying to get my hands on a Nikon D70 that was announced last December and again in January, so far they are not in the shops and no-one can get their hands on demo models to write about them.
A few preview reviews have been published but nothing major yet, I came across another today that was not mentioned before by a non-commercial reviewer and so far I have to say I cannot wait to get my old kit sold and buy the new camera.
The annoying thing is Nikon is not doing anything at this point to feed the hype, even the sample images that were released are of pre-production models and traditionally the difference in quality can be massive. The UK suppliers are taking pre-orders and quoting early March delivery, I hope they are right ๐
UPDATE:
I noticed a lot of people come here looking for sample images taken with the D70, here are a few links I found on-line to help you guys out:
dpreview 1 (lots here, read the whole thread)
dpreview 2 (lots here, read the whole thread)
Here is a shot of the box and its contents:
box and contents
And some more online reviews:
www.hardwarezone.com
dpmac.com
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 21, 2004 | Front Page
The Viagra Prank is a must read! Thanks to Jay Allen for posting the link its a hose.
This guy takes you through the process of buying viagra from a spammer and testing out some of its insane claims, a good laugh!
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 18, 2004 | Front Page
For anyone who has been reading my pages about Fighting email harvesters and other unfriendlies. using .htaccess and other methods, here is a new one to add to your black lists.
ac903d6b.ipt.aol.com – – [18/Feb/2004:22:41:30 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1” 200 0 “http://blog.johnkerry.com” “StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004”
Hopefully this is some hill billy John Kerry fan (Presidential candidate) and not the man himself being silly.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 18, 2004 | Photography
A few weekends ago I was bored and it was too hot to go outside so I started playing with some of my nearly 4 000 photos that I have taken over the last 4 years.
I wanted a good selection of high contrast black and white photos and finally settled on 72 of my favorites. Eventually I had to get that down to 20 and today I have a collection of what I consider my 20 best photos for the black and white medium. I have a number of photos that contains people in various activities and specifically did not include them here, watch out for them later on.
The photos were all taken with either a Olympus C3000z, Nikon 5700, Canon IXUS v3 or my latest camera a Canon IXUS 400. Be sure to have your display to at least 1024 x 768 for optimal viewing. Any comments would be much appreciated.
The photos are here, all the work is licenced under the Creative Commons license that allows you to copy and display as long as you give me credit and do not modify it in any form or use it commercially. I have printed some of these in larger formats and they do come out quite nicely, if anyone would like prints I will be glad to oblige.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 17, 2004 | Usefull Things
I first noticed this via Roland Tanglao but I think he has a misshap with the link, some googling soon found the right url, it is a quick annotated checklist on how to run a secure windows machine at home, useful to give to some people who run ADSL connections on their windows machines and such.
