by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Luminous Landscape has a good essay on the current battle between DSLRs and Digicams. Having recently moved from a prosumer Digicam to a DSLR I can agree with much of what is being said here, and like the author I now have multiple working cameras. The D70 for serious photography and the iXus 400 for walk about, concerts etc.
No sooner does is one battle over than another begins. Just a few years ago it was between film and silicon. Now the latest punch-up is between DSLRs and digicams. What you say? Digicams? Get a life!
No, actually, this competition is quite real. One couldn’t have said so as little as 12 months ago, but the game has changed (as it does rather quickly these days), and so a fresh look at these two distinct camera categories is in order — with a summer 2004 perspective.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
Photoxels has a nice tutorial on White Balance.
If you come from the world of films, you may remember using filters to correct for incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Most people don’t bother and their indoors pictures invariably come out with a yellow/orange or bluish cast. In the digital world, these correction filters are no longer necessary, replaced by a feature found in most — even the entry-level — digital cameras called, “White Balance.”
Link via PhotographyBLOG
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
weblog.cemper.com:
I cannot even remember when last this thing validated correctly, Sauce Reader, Sharpreader, Newzcrawler, nothing will view it. Does people not check their own RSS feeds?
The Story of Feedster:
For ages now the RSS links provided on the frontpage of this blog all return one word – “hi” – this is a blog by a company that specialises in a search engine for RSS feeds, you would think they would get it right?
London Underground Diary‘s Feedster built feed:
This is yet another example of Feedster just not working as advertised, introduction of RSS search by Google is well overdue! Instead I will use either the RSS feed or the Atom Feed – assuming I go back to using Newzcrawler.
Feedster Blog of the Day:
While this is a handy little function that I quite enjoy, the fact that this feed shows a entry in it as updated or new when the blog updates – not when the entry in this list gets changed – means that old stuff keep bubbling to the top and annoy me, be gone.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 18, 2004 | Front Page
I made some changes to my RSS feeds, I split Photography and non Photography related stuff while still providing the old unified RSS feed. I will be posting more stuff that’s purely photography related and wanted to give people who do not share the interest a chance to easily ignore it.
All Entries 
, Non Photography Entries and Photography Entries
by R.I. Pienaar | Jun 16, 2004 | Front Page
Six Apart has again made more changes to their licencing in response to recent community outrage. This time they seem to have gotten things better, I would be quite happy to buy a Unlimited Personal Edition from them for $99 this will allow me to run unlimited blogs with unlimited authors for non commercial use.
The licence will allow for unlimited free updates in the 3.x branch, support via their ticketing and so forth. Nice going.
