Sternhammer

This is the first time I've been on dA for months and then it was only an accidental click of the mouse in my browser. So I thought I'd upload a selection of my latest images, having just returned from a working trip to Seoul with several hundred pictures. And now I'm reminded of why I had largely stopped using my dA account: the submission interface is painful. My Seoul album on Flickr contains about 120 pictures from my trip, most uploaded while I was away which meant my family could see what I was experiencing, and at the full resolution which meant I had an ironclad backup of all my pictures. I uploaded in batches in the evening using 10

As a regular reader of TidBITS ("TidBITS, begun in 1990, is an online newsletter and Web site, devoted to the person behind the most personal of personal computers, the Macintosh.") I've been enjoying recent articles on digital cameras and imaging techniques. I thought some dA types might enjoy them to so I've decided to feature some of them in my journal. The first attends to some basics but it's fascinating reading if you want to know more about how your digital camera works. Sense & Sensors in Digital Photography by Charles Maurer In another incarnation I was a commercial photographer. At the end of that life I sold all of my studio equ

On Monday I was very happy to take delivery of a new Canon EOS 350D Digitalat work. It's a pleasure to use an SLR after several years of viewfinder digital cameras. It feels quite petite in comparison to my old EOS 50e, which sits neglected as ever in my camera bag but now I can put its lenses to good use. Gee, now I miss using the 50e *sob* (but I'm too cheap to use film much anymore). I hope to some shooting this long weekend. If I happen to produce anything half decent I'll submit it.