Saturday, May 25, 2013

Panoramic images after setting panoramic head ultra accurately (2-4 pixel faults per 3000!)

Both the images below are seven photo's stitched, and not a single stitch fault is visible, even at 100% (these are 12,000 x 5,000 pixel images at 300dpi; so quite large). It took ages to set the panoramic head's rotation axis to within 1 mm of the nodal (entrance pupil) point for the lense. Worth it though.





iPhone 6x12 camera and coffee at Gino's (plus some 7-photo pano's shot with the Canon 1100D)

6am this morning at Gino's in Freo...best time of the day (and week).

Gino's, our world-wide favorite coffee shop (sorry Ujazi).


A photo for my dad. He loves fishing, so we'll go here when they visit in July.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Eugene and his "stoutgat" buddies at school :-)

The look says it all, haha!


Geno's take on his mum....too cute!

Gene's classmates.


Film camera's - Do they still work? Heck yeah!

My good mate, Math, recently gave me his old Konica FC-1 film SLR (thanks mate!!). It is circa 1980, so a good 33 years old. I brushed of some of the dust, bough four new batteries (small little watch types), put the 50mm f/1.7 lens on, and away she went. Can't imagine that digital SLR's will still work 30+ years from now....the sensors simply decay and stop working.

The Konica FC-1 with the 50mm prime lens mounted.

Karin's 1100D as seen through the "old" eye's of the Konica. 

The 50mm lens produces wonderful out-of-focus areas, resulting in my favorite photo of me (ever)...not that I am in photo's that often.