First photoshoot in months, the pics turned out pretty nice, especially when I had absolutely no planning or concept for the shoot…
The shoot went for about an hour, I got about 400 pics, around 3GB… Post-processing them should keep me entertained for a while… Oh yeah, now I have 1.5GB of RAM, PS works way better than before… 🙂
It was too slow for very little gain…
If you’ve been holding back to buy your Canon digital SLR outfit, it’s a great time to do it now!!
The 1-series and 5D don’t even quality as one item with zero rebate this time, this means no 1Ds Mark II upgrade for me… 😀
I’m not very impressed with the performance of Gallery2, it’s MUCH MUCH slower than G1. I understand it has database backend, the codebase is huge in comparison, yada yada yada… Still, vB is pretty big and it runs quite fast on my server.
I also tried viewing my G2 gallery in Firefox instead of Safari on my PowerBook, and guess what, Firefox is MUCH faster! I know, Safari is not the fastest browser anymore, but still, there must be something about how G2 does CSS or the dynamic shit that makes it super slow in Safari (and probably Konqueror too).
I don’t recommend upgrading your gallery to G2, or using G2, unless you have more than 4k pictures. My snapshot gallery had around 3k pictures and it worked just fine. I guess I could downgrade, my G1 installation is intact, I’ll have to think about this more…
I messed up the album database of my snapshot gallery, had to restore from a known-good backup and apply the difference since the backup was made, not a problem. I then decided to upgrade to G2, the upgrade went smoothly, was able to import my Gallery 1 albums without any problem. There was a minor annoyance though; there should a default layout for the top-level gallery, and one for the albums. I wanted the classic theme for the top-level page coz it shows one album per row with the sub-album tree on the right. But for each album, I wanted to use the matrix theme so I get 3 items per row. To accomplish this, I had to set the default to classic, and went into each individual album to change its theme to matrix. Took a while with the number of albums I have.
Also, in the Edit Album page, there should be an option to apply the changes recursively to each sub-album in the tree, this was there in G1, no reason why they can’t do it in G2. It would’ve saved a lot of my time if I was able to set stuff recursively. 🙂
So now I no longer live 5 minutes away from Kevin Lu, I don’t have access to his nice Canon i9900 photo printer. Solution to this problem? Asked Amazon to send me my own i9900… It’s sweeeet! 🙂
Need to pick up another 15-bucks end table from Ikea to put it on.
Man, Canon surely been busy working on new cameras… the SD450 is very interesting… I sold my PowerShot S100 (aka Digital IXUS), might pick up one of these SD450 is the CA (purple fringing) isn’t as bad as the SD400.
Canon PowerShot SD450 & SD550:
Two more additions to the Canon ultra-compact line are the new five megapixel SD450 (IXUS 55) and seven megapixel SD550 (IXUS 750). Both cameras feature a new wide viewing angle 2.5″ LCD monitor, DIGIC II image processor, Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries and SD card storage. They also have a surprisingly useful new feature which rotates the image in display mode depending on which orientation you are holding the camera. These models will be priced at $399 and $499 respectively.
So the EOS 5D is real:
Canon EOS 5D, full-frame 12.8 megapixel: Digital Photography Review
$3.3k, that’s quite a bit of change, don’t think this is better than the D2x, which is just a couple of hundred bucks more. Couple points from brief inspection of the specs:
I guess the 5D bridges the gap between the 20D and the $8k 1DsM2, from the specs it doesn’t look as good as the Nikon D2x. But then of course, if you already have invested in Canon L glasses, you want a pro body to compliment them, and you can’t justify spending $8k for the 1DsM2, then this might be the answer for you.
I think I’ll be keeping my 20D until its replacement comes out.
Ming Thein?s Photographic Dictionary
My friend Ming posted his photographic dictionary, very nice!!