Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:49:49 -0800
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Digital Review
<snip>
Just reading it and the size and weight are impressive. The battery
alone weighs 11.8 oz. Body with battery aboard is 3 lbs. 8 oz. and no
lens. Phew. If I am not mistaken that outdoes Hasselblad and some
other medium format cameras. In its favor is the ergonomic shape that
helps in holding it.
- --
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
Yeah, they sure are heavy all right. They're not Oly 35 mm gear. I
was shooting with a D30 with battery grip and a big beefy 70-200L IS
USM during my go-kart motorsports tryout. It was wearing my arms out!
The only upside is that I will be able to wield my OM-2S and CH's
beautiful 300 mm Zuiko that much more easily from all that "weight"
training! ;-)
-Stephen.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:12 -0800
From: Mike Veglia <msvphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] OM to EOS Adapters
Norm Nadel swas kind enough to send me the instruction sheet for the OM to
EOS adapter (he scanned it and put it in two MS Word files). I have
converted these two MS Word files into PDF files which can be found here:
http://motorsportvisions.com/OM_EOS/OM_EOS1.pdf
http://motorsportvisions.com/OM_EOS/OM_EOS2.pdf
Note that the above URLs are case sensitive (at least the OM_EOS parts that
is).
I sent a note to the email address to the source of this adapter in Japan
that Norm posted yesterday, in English, but have yet to receive a reply. My
hopes are to get one of these before the next time Stephen Scharf and I are
shooting at the same place and time (which would be end of January) to test
his D-60 with my Zuiko 350/2.8 (assuming he's game to help in this
experiment that is).
Yup. I'm game! I am looking forward to meeting up with you on the
"inside of the fence" for Indy Car testing at Laguna on the 25th and
26th! MIke Doran says I will have paper credentials for that. If my
D30 hasn't sold by then (it's on Ebay right now), I'll just lend you
the D30! <grin> *That* will really wear your arms out with the mighty
Zuiko!
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:05:50 -0800
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Digital True Lies
One of the interesting new devices that is optional on the Canon
EOS-1D is a data verification device. The camera can be set to write
a code into the header of the digital file. The image file can then
be read by a device that will verify whether the image has been
changed at all even by one pixel.
- --
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
Cool. Thanks for the info. The other thing about it that is neat is
that will write both a RAW and JPEG file of each image.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:21:28 +0000
From: bsandyman@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Digital vs. film
Interpolation is mathmetically filling in missing points from
sampled data. For
example lets say you go out and measure the position of the moon every 15
minutes. You don't actualy know where the moon was in between those
measurements. But you can guess. The simplest interpolation would be
a straight
line between observed samples. For example if you observe that the
moon is at 20
degrees at 2:30 and 22 at 2:45, then you can guess that it was at 21
degrees at
2:37:30. (I am making the measurements up, but you get the point.)
<snip>
I don't know what kind of model photo shop or similar would use, but I imagine
it would be more sophisticated then a straight line.
The best interpolation algorithm I have seen is Fred Miranda's "stair
interpolation" Check it out at www.fredmiranda.com in his
"Actions/Workflows" section. Quite impressive.
I think about the only way that has been successful is to use
fractals. Fractal Designs has software that allows enlargement that
normally would be offensive because of the digital artifacts.
- --
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
Fractal Designs has some good stuff. See my comment above re: Fred
Miranda's stair interpolation.
There's a store in Palo Alto, CA that almost certainly rents D-30 and/or
D-60 bodies if need be, but since Stephen Scharf just bought a D-60 I
imagine he would want to get in on this.
How much interest is there in a group buy, and how difficult to make a short
run of these be for a good machinist to pull off????
Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com
Mike,
You can count me in as being interested, for sure. If we can get one
in before my D30 sells, we can also use that as the "test hack". I
could even lend it to you for a time to play with....(though I may
never get it back if I do! <wink>).
-Stephen.
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of iwert
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:13 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] OT twins
Just wanted to share this with the list,
I became father of twins this morning around 6am.
They are early at 32 weeks, so we are anxiously awaiting the next 72 hours
to see if their condition remains stabile.
At the moment Lars is about 2240 grams, Simon is about 1860 grams.
I'll be off list for a while, and most probably another WE 2002 participant
will get his print a bit late.
Iwert
Congratulations, Iwert!
-Stephen.
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2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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