Monday, November 30, 2009

Instructions On How To Build A Bmx Bike

2009

So, I think the other blogs do not update it anymore. Even I have trouble with this, let alone having two.

Saturday morning I got up at 6 (will have been eight years that I did not wake up so early on Saturday), I took a Eurostar and went to Milan. There was Photo 2009: a series of initiatives sponsored by Canon, which primarily related to photography, but also something video. So there were several interesting things to see: more than a few shows, there were seminars, workshops, educational lectures, readings of portfolio and other things. Among them, a space - Info Point - dedicated to test equipment Canon (practically all the available catalog of SLRs and objectives, even the 800mm) and a room where every two hours was carried out by a technical lesson a photographer and field trials of shooting photos. Leaving a document you could try all the equipment you wanted to just insert your memory card to the camera body and so chose to shoot.
Nell'Info Point, as I said, you could try the whole park and optical equipment. Not I could not take advantage, so I tried it on my old 350D the following optics:
Of the three, what impressed me most was the first: a special stabilizer allowed me to shoot handheld at 1 / 50 of a second without any problems. Extraordinary. And then the optical quality is really unparalleled. The price, however, could be a problem: it is about 1000 € (1200 € list).
Then I could try the new EOS 1D Mark IV, which was launched a few weeks ago but not yet for sale. The price should be around € 4500/5000 and unfortunately did not allow me to insert my card. The goal was a front EF 24-105mm f / 4 L IS USM . This car is sensational because it is the top of the range for the burst: in fact you can take 10 pictures per second at maximum quality. A true machine gun. Incredible feeling to have it in my hand and feel this monster shoot wildly. In any case also has a new AF system, I think with 45 points of focus.

Then I moved to the shooting. I was planning to give me a 1Ds Mark III (for the record, € 8000 body only) or alternatively a 5D Mark II. Unfortunately they did not have available, so I opted for the new 7D (which is still € 1800) with a 24-105mm (as before). However, after a few shots, this lens is not particularly impressed me (and that we are about 1000 €) and I changed with my favorite: the 100mm f/2.8L Macro (as before). Even then I knew that would come a model, then a nice drive with a decent opening was the one for me. In summary, when taking the picture I had about 3000 € for the hands of stuff. Fortunately I have not fallen at all.
The impression I got the 7D (APS-C from 18 megapixels) is an extremely valid. Gust speed (we are about 8 frames per second), extremely precise AF (AF is a new system that will mount all the other EOS in the future), and robust construction, the thing that impressed me the most, impressive ease of use. Of course, someone like me, accustomed to the commands of the simple-350D, it took a bit 'to figure out how to adjust the basic settings. But once you understand this, all the most important buttons are on hand and do not even need to take your eye from the viewfinder to change shooting settings.
hand, so the sensor pixel density (the total size sensor are the same as my 8-megapixel CMOS), demand a higher quality of the lenses. The defects such as chromatic aberrations, are amplified in that they take many more pixels and therefore are more visible in the photos. That's why we recommend the use of L-series lens for this kind of machines.
Another fault is that of file sizes: a 2 GB card, there are less than 80 photos. RAW files at maximum size (14 bit) occupy approximately 22/23 MB each. So much space and uses many cards (cards or large capacity).
But the large file size baked 7D are justified by the quality high resolution allows you to crop your photos with virtually no loss of detail. In addition, the dual DIGIC 4 processor means that the noise content is strictly up to ISO 1600, which is no small task. I used the sensitivity between ISO 400 and ISO 640 and I must say that the cleaning of files is extraordinary, not as I would expect from a sensor so dense.

In the end, I think the 7D - criticatissima do not know why - it is really a great machine. A decisive step forward in the technology used (if you go to see the technical specifications here is a list that never ends) at a competitive price, given that it can be a good offer take home for € 1600.

However, if I had to choose a DSLR today, and I had enough budget, I'd without a doubt the 5D Mark II is a full-frame (the sensor corresponds to 35mm film) 21 megapixel, but the larger size of the sensor ensures a sufficiently low density that they can be safely used up to ISO 3200. The outfit that I would I do? Give me at least € 10 000 and come home with:

EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro
and maybe even a nice cecentrabile as the TS-E 17mm f / 4 L that never fails.
But alas, all this is and will remain a dream.

Here are the photos.






Sunday, November 22, 2009

Squeaking In Bread Machine

Burano and reflections on the concepts of 'style' and 'Photos'

I found what to write. By now you know that I always update on that meeting facciamocon the forum, so this time I feel compelled to do so.
The appointment was for yesterday, Sunday, November 22, the Venice train station. Destination: Burano. As we know, there had already been to Burano at a mini-meeting in January (I did not want to fish out the link). This time we were more than 10 people (if "people" you can call 11 photographers ...) and despite the bad weather, it was a beautiful day in the sense that we had (at least I). Photos in the end, I made many, say less than 290 (actual 220, many are double), more than anything else I went to stay with friends and exchange gossip with four other "crazy".
Of the photos I took, I tried to focus on the details is time, and color contrasts there are the beautiful little island. I'm around I managed to catch even a couple of cats that had escaped me the last time. In any event, the 220 photos I think that if they save up to 10. The rest is stuff already seen a thousand times.
And here I take the opportunity to make some reflections on photography matured in recent months. First, I consider very important these days - in which photography has become a mass phenomenon -, l ' have developed their own style. Especially when you go to places seen and photographed by a multitude of people like Burano and Venice, having its own style, its own way of seeing reality, maybe risky shots definitely not common, well, this can help bring home some really funny pictures and not the usual "postcards" .
Obviously my thinking is completely debatable. As for style, well, we could talk for hours about this subject, were written flower books and spent a lot of words. For me, I think I've somehow found my own style. Or rather, I noticed that not all the are photos like many, many times, like yesterday, there are shots that currently attract my attention, but then I realize that was not what I had in mind. So begins to spin like a moron around the subject, constantly changing views: top, bottom, right, left, side. Until I find the right shot and shot. Many times it happens that, despite all the turns, there is no way for me to photograph the subject. And not because it is a problem of lenses of focal lengths or more. But just because, what is the way I see it, is not "photograph".
Now, again, on the concept of what "pictures" and what is not, you should open a parenthesis long. One could think that taking photographs is all that draws our attention, while others might say that the mere fact (that would become all photos). Others might say that everything is photographed to communicate a message, tell a story. And so on.
I think, but then again that is just my thought, which is photographed everything that reflects my style and, in agreement with this, tell me something . My intention, when I press the shutter button, capturing the moment is not perfect as it is. Nor tell a story with a single frame. This I think is very difficult and only the greatest photographers and may fail to do so. No, when I click I try to put the reality as seen through my eyes . And I think this is in line with what I said before the shots. Let me give an example. In Burano, as well as in Venice, there are many views that objectively are beautiful (I hope you agree with me). And I, when I see them, I say that these beautiful sights. " But not even put the eye in the viewfinder, because it is, indeed, a vision objectively beautiful. Then there may be the case with a view to objectively has nothing interesting: a little square closed, dark, with half-ruined houses, and other objective factors very photogenic. And in this context you can just see me run or walk on all fours with the head raised to heaven, or, again, leaning against a wall in a very uncomfortable and untenable position in an attempt to capture in a photograph a representation of my reality .
So, the concepts are a bit 'strange, I admit, but I do not know how to say it better, but I hope you both get the point. All this to say what? I believe that photography is an art very subjective. In my style, my style and my personality, I can very well say that a picture is "objectively better", but I do not say anything more than does not say if you look at a robot. Instead I can also say that I loved this photo because it actually told me something. Maybe the author does not even have imagined that this picture could provoke certain feelings. Understand? So you could say that subjectively photography is all that communicates emotions depending on your style, or in accordance with their personality . You could then
associate the concept of "photograph" the personality of the photographer . One could, of course. Do not do it just because it's late, I sleep and I have already written a long post, surely the longest of the year. And since you are no longer used, I also put in bold the most important things !
Obviously the picture will be on the page Burano Flickr. Here below here is the merry gang. Good night.



Thursday, November 19, 2009

Garage Battery Chargers

eccitantissimo A new post!

Ve I promised and here I am, I'm back.
So things to say there are not many, after the last post. Novelty even then I do not know what to say. Ah, well, yes, I'm tired. But this I have said this 2 more times and, if the mathematical serves me correctly, is the third. So as not to repeat a fourth time, I'll change the subject.
The point, however, is that I do not know what to write. That's it. Of course, when I have something to write, my dear faithful readers, will be the first to know.
I greet you and kiss, but only if they reciprocate.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Msds Suave Body Lotion



no. Who are sick. I had already said it seems to me, no?

two months to write something that I had already written. It seems to me better.

I buy a damn monkey.

'll be back.