What is a “moonbow”? Its like a rainbow, in a water fall – by the light cast by the moon at night.
Really. Pretty amazing, actually.
What is a “moonbow”? Its like a rainbow, in a water fall – by the light cast by the moon at night.
Really. Pretty amazing, actually.
A nice feature of the Lumix GH-2 from Panasonic, as well as other micro four thirds cameras, is their ability to use a wide variety of lenses.
I had two old Minolta film cameras and had several old lenses that work great with the GH-2, using a Minolta to m43 adapter ring.
Here’s a photo of my collection (picture taken with a Canon SX-1):
The lenses are from left to right:
This was the first time I’d pulled everything out and this collection seemed impressive. Okay, okay, may be I am easily impressed. I know, its not Canon L-series glass. But it doesn’t cost as much as a new car either!
In fact, except for the Lumix lens, there’s not much money in this at all. I had all the Minolta lenses stored for decades.
The micro 4/3ds format enables use of all those old and often very good lenses. Either ones you already have, or ones that you can buy cheaply on Craigslist, EBay, or some camera stores and pawn shops.
I always thought it looked like rolling hills in northern California. But I had heard otherwise – from people supposedly “in the know”. But they were wrong – the photographer who took the photo says he took it in Napa County area.
Windows XP desktop screen is a Napa image.
How to Scan Film Using Your Ordinary Flatbed Scanner.
I need to give this a try – actually, I think my scanner might have a top side illumination capability already. I have a bunch of old B&W 120 film that I’d like to shoot. No problem developing the film, but it seems that digital printing is the way to go today. Looks like I need to go experiment!
I am apparently the last person on earth who does not yet have an iPad. Anyway, those that have them are using them for video editing, as described here: Quick-edit Videography with iMovie for iPad « Moving at the Speed of Creativity.
Me, I still use my MacBook for portable work. Why? I like having over 100 Gigabytes of disk storage available, plus an external disk drive as well. I store stills and video on board while traveling.
For event videography, I sometimes record direct to disk, routing the Canon XH A1’s firewire output direct to the Macbook. This copies the HDV equivalent files to the disk, for captureless editing. At 12 to 13 GB per hours, this uses up considerable disk space rather quickly!