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torgeaux posted:I want a tablet, but I can't for the life of me think of what I'll use it for. It's an elegant solution without a problem to solve. At first I thought you meant a graphics tablet, which to anyone reading this, owns and you should get one. I've got a Wacom Bamboo, which is relatively inexpensive and great to have for post processing. It takes a few days to get used to, but once you do you'll never go back to using a mouse for Photoshop. Having played with a photographer buddy of mine's and borrowed one from work for a weekend, I'm probably going to get an iPad later in the spring when the new one comes out (probably pick up a first-gen 16GB WiFi model for cheap rather than buy the latest and greatest). It's not something I strictly "need", but it would probably replace my netbook (getting rid of) and 13" laptop for everything but processing photos and downloading them on the road. For the most part, the stuff I do on my computer at home is browser-based, and like you said, that 10" IPS screen is great for using as a portfolio. It's also very nice for viewing stuff online: scrolling down FlickrRiver works great, as do RSS feeds of photo blogs and the like (The Big Picture, etc). I've already got a fair amount sunk in iOS apps already with my iPod touch, which I use on a daily basis for studying ($25 cloud-syncing flashcard app). Also video games -____-
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I have a lovely tablet like this : http://www.amazon.com/Genius-MousePen-6-Inch-Graphic-Tablet/dp/B000LEI95I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294594700&sr=8-1 I got it from a goon for like 40$ I think. And it's 100x easier for editing than a mouse or touch pad.
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xzzy posted:That's one of those things you say until you've owned one for a week or so. GPS: Phone Find stuff to do: Phone Preview+upload pictures: Until I can process the photos on the tablet, e.g. photoshop, I'm never going to use a tablet for that Stream Netflix: Two issues there. One, where I travel mostly, there is no 3G and the wireless is sparse and slow. Not to mention, how soon does one go through the download limits? When there is a 4G, real broadband tablet, it might be enough for an entertainment device, but even then, I wonder about the limits on monthly downloads.
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Apologies if this has been posted before, but I remembered a speaker I had in class this semester and thought he might be cool to tell y'all about. His name is Clifford Ross, and in 2001 (ish) he became obsessed with Mt. Sopris in Colorado. He initially took a single picture of it using a polaroid camera, and then wanted to capture the mountain in more detail. Mt Sopris:  HERE'S THE MASSIVE ZOOMABLE IMAGE FROM HIS WEBSITE So he spent a year or so building the most high powered camera ever invented with a guy in buffalo, ny* and ended up with a camera that takes an image so large, that when printed, it spans 5ft by 10ft. We're talking about billions of pixels here. Here's an excerpt from an article on his website about it: quote:3. The Big Picture Overview Did I mention that he is also crazy? He has used this monumental image to create the representation of the "harmoniums" that he believes in. "Harmoniums" are: quote:...according to The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, the only form of life on the planet Mercury. Harmoniums are paper-thin cave-dwellers that feed on nearly undectable vibrations in the planet, described as "Mercury's song." Harmoniums are kite-sized and kite-shaped, and reproduce asexually by flaking off in a manner not unlike dandruff. They have only the sense of touch, and also rudimentary telepathic powers capable of only two messages: "here I am, here I am, here I am," and "so glad you are, so glad you are, so glad you are." Here is his eventual representation, all derived from a single small crop of the mountain scene above:  The single mountain section, messed about with, and called "harmonium" on his website:  Note that even that tiny section stretches about 4ft x 3.5ft (Screengrabbed from his website, sorry Clifford) To create these images and figure out how to display them, he spent years with pretty much every high end science organization (government, private, schools) one could think of (this is an exaggeration, but not an extreme one). They eventually figured out an entire room display system, so that the user would be completely surrounded by the image in a large space. How did he managed to spend almost 10 years mucking about building a ridiculously high powered camera and figuring out how to show it? He owns the rights to this little guy:  That's right, everyone's favorite childhood elephant who wasn't Dumbo: Babar (despite fairly pointed questioning from my classmates about the business side of this (after his talk to us), he refused to divulge this information). Let's review: one of the highest resolution photographic cameras ever created, used to create the physical representation of alien blocks of color that live on Mercury from the Vonnegut novel "Sirens of Titan", all by the guy who owns a childhood memory to millions of adults worldwide. *this may be untrue, he definitely built it in some guys garage, but I don't remember where the guy was exactly Awkward Davies fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 12, 2011 |
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I was going to snark about how that mountain landscape is totally typical and boring for a crazy pixel peeper with a *~patented~* camera but then it got awesome. I want to have a beer with that dude.
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Sounds good to me.. all I want in life is the financial resources to prove I'm as crazy as this guy (both the good crazy and the bad one). The image is absolutely ridiculous when you zoom in. poo poo jumps out that you can't even see in the full version. I'd like to see "where's waldo" style images done with this guy's gear.
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"patented R1 camera" "unique framing system" "synergy" "aggressively exploit leading edge commodity technology (Photoshop)" "Sistine Ceiling"  The pano is nice. I love giant images and doing high res panoramas is what got me into photography in the first place, but holy gently caress is that guy full of himself. It's a high res scan of large format film. 9"x18" is big by today's standards, but it's no 20"x24". On the subject of gigapixel images though, http://www.autopano.net/en/ has a good amount of zoom-able panoramas to look through.
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Jan 12, 2011 05:56
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See, that is just the right amount of crazy and an inspiration to us all.
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Jan 12, 2011 05:59
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If I were that rich and crazy, I'd develop a large format DSLR that takes noiseless photos at ISO 128000.
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TheLastManStanding posted:"patented R1 camera" "unique framing system" "synergy" "aggressively exploit leading edge commodity technology (Photoshop)" "Sistine Ceiling" Oh dude is definitely full of himself, and wasted this really awesome tool on creating something that looks more like rgb pixels than anything else. The majority of the class thought the guy was a joke...a really interesting, inspiring joke.
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Who wants to go with me to Mongolia? Finally found the absolute perfect tour package, and got a nice windfall of money to pay for it. http://bluewolftravel.com/go-to-eagle-festival-with-eaglehunters-and-altai-explore Right now I'm going alone (Agust doesn't like these kind of trips) so I'll have to tag along with another group of strangers, but if I can get even one other person interested (long shot I know) we can have a photographer only group.
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poopinmymouth posted:Right now I'm going alone (Agust doesn't like these kind of trips) so I'll have to tag along with another group of strangers, but if I can get even one other person interested (long shot I know) we can have a photographer only group. I would but you never once complimented my looks in the show yourself thread so I'm afraid I can't help you out, Mr. Poopinmymouth. In all seriousness, it does look like a cool trip but I can't commit at this time due to uncertainty in where I'll be working come September and whether or not I'll have vacation time I can use. Ah, the life of an overworked American.
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poopinmymouth posted:Who wants to go with me to Mongolia? Finally found the absolute perfect tour package, and got a nice windfall of money to pay for it. I've been planning a trip to Mongolia for like three years, I was planning on going to Thailand on my next vacation, but I'm flexible. When are you going?
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poopinmymouth posted:Who wants to go with me to Mongolia? Finally found the absolute perfect tour package, and got a nice windfall of money to pay for it. That sounds awesome. How low does the cost get if you can get 8 people?
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tuyop posted:I've been planning a trip to Mongolia for like three years, I was planning on going to Thailand on my next vacation, but I'm flexible. When are you going? There is only the option of Sept 10-24 if you want to go on this specific tour, that is when the eagle festival is.
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I'm going to kick this around with the wife, sounds like something really cool to do.
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HPL posted:If I were that rich and crazy, I'd develop a large format DSLR that takes noiseless photos at ISO 128000. 
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poopinmymouth posted:There is only the option of Sept 10-24 if you want to go on this specific tour, that is when the eagle festival is. That might be possible, is there a deadline?
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poopinmymouth posted:we can have a photographer only group. Are wives allowed?
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DaNzA posted:Hah. I forgot about that.
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The World Erotic Art Museum in Miami used DMCA to get Flickr to take down 300+ photos. WEMA is now suing the photographer for $2 Million. What do you guys think about this? EDIT: GIZMODO talked to the owner/curator and she said this "While WEAM allows media and photographers to enter the premise and take photographs, it's with the unspoken and unwritten understanding that no one would ever post anything explicit—especially not visuals involving penetration—online." Whitezombi fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jan 12, 2011 |
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tuyop posted:That might be possible, is there a deadline? The deadline appears to be when it is full. I plan to pay within the next two weeks to be sure I'm in. Charmmi posted:Are wives allowed? Read the trip schedule. Depending on the outdoorsiness of your wife it should be fine. I read a blog of a woman who went and it seemed she complained the whole time, so if that's yours, leave her behind. A hardy lumberjack type that doesn't mind camping or not always having hot water/showers should be fine.
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GWBBQ posted:That's only 1.6 megapixels and is for x-ray fluoroscopy, not standard photography Then maybe this will impress?  The green dot in the upper left is the CCD from an iphone, for scale. "The scientific sensor array on DECam is an array of 62 2048x4096 pixel back-illuminated CCDs totaling 520 megapixels, there are an additional 12 2048x2048 pixel CCDs used for guiding the telescope, monitoring focus and alignment."
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Post your tax-refund-irresponsible-photography-related-purchase you wish to make with it: Canon 85 1.2
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Poor fellow goon wants to win free wedding photos from some crappy photographer. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3380842
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The 'Post terrible photos from other photographers' thread is that way 
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Maybe I should ask for mod permission to start a "Please help me help a goon to not win crappy wedding pictures, goons" thread
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That's a lot to give away to harvest a few hundred fb followers, and in the goon's case, people who are not good prospects. edit: Also, he's not too terrible.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:That's a lot to give away to harvest a few hundred fb followers, and in the goon's case, people who are not good prospects. For what's supposed to be a portfolio, he seems pretty crappy. Underexposed foregrounds and blown highlights galore.
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:edit: Also, he's not too terrible.
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dunkman posted:Post your tax-refund-irresponsible-photography-related-purchase you wish to make with it: Either 50mm 1.2 or an Elinchrom Strobe Kit
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dunkman posted:Post your tax-refund-irresponsible-photography-related-purchase you wish to make with it: I've been slobbering over Canon's new 70-300 f4-5.6. Reviews have been positive for the kind of shots I want to take, and I'm expecting a return that could make a huge dent on the purchase.. it's something I'm sure thinking about. (though I'm a cheapskate, and will probably end up with an older used lens with similar capability)
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Canon refurbished 5D MKII.
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dunkman posted:Post your tax-refund-irresponsible-photography-related-purchase you wish to make with it: 70-200 F/2.8 IS II and a 580EX II 
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I want a Canon 100mm macro so bad but I just KNOW that I would only take some pictures of electronics and then probably never use it again. Another option is like a Sigma 300mm or some other long prime. Because I like birds.  I owe several thousand this year because of an inheritance so I probably won't be buying anything though.
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tuyop posted:I want a Canon 100mm macro so bad but I just KNOW that I would only take some pictures of electronics and then probably never use it again. Sorry if I'm wrong, but you live in halifax right? I'm moving there tomorrow and am wondering about the cool spots... Photo wise and just to chill and have a few beer. I don't have PMs so if you could email me at mattt at matttphoto.com I'd really appreciate it.
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dunkman posted:Post your tax-refund-irresponsible-photography-related-purchase you wish to make with it: Not expecting much of a refund, but I did get an end-of-year bonus - a good chunk of which went to a Voigtlander 35/1.2 
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I either gonna use my Tax return to buy a fridge full of polaroid pack film or a set of strobes (if I can find a good deal on craigslist). I should probably just save it but I probably won't.
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Probably going to get a 16-35 2.8L I with my refund. Then sell my Tamron. We had good times.
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