Rolling stock on Bushmaster siding:
Leaving Leupold tunnel:
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3 April 2009Turning negatives into something useful
9 December 2008I sent off ~150 negatives to ScanCafe Monday; I bought the 35mm negative + pro library option. This should result in 3000 dpi TIFF files + “processed” jpgs for $0.48 per frame; with shipping, the total order was around $80.
At 3000 dpi, 35mm images (36mm*24mm) should end up around 11.5 megapixels.
Sadly, they don’t scan black & white negatives. At least 20 of the negatives I sent are of this type; fortunately, you don’t pay for what they don’t scan. I should have read the fine print more clearly.
I’ll report back when I get results. If I’m happy, I’ll send the rest of my color negatives off. It will be nice to get all of these pictures in a usable form.
When the kids ask where the college fund went…
13 November 2008well, here you go. You see that? 261 megapixels. 1-25 FPS. You read that right – 261 megapixels. If anyone is looking to kick in, just paypal me. I’d appreciate it.
IV50, bit rot, and Boomershoot
29 October 2008I have a bunch of videos that I encoded using a great (at the time) codec: the Intel “Indeo” codec. Sadly, I no longer have the source to these compressed videos and the installer and vodec I have for Indeo no longer works; I even tried installing the codec on XP, no dice. Wikipedia led me to Ligos, the current owner of the Indeo vodec. $15 later, I have a version of Indeo 5.2 that works on Vista! I transcoded a bunch of videos from Indeo 5.2 using Windows Movie Maker; these were published on Soapbox and Flickr. I appreciate that the quality of the videos is degraded due to transcoding; I hope you appreciate that staving off bit-rot is a painful task.
You love me! You really love me!
21 October 2008
I’m a professional!
15 October 2008I took a bunch of pictures for a video game artist in France, expecting nothing of it. The project was interesting to me (take a bunch of pictures to someone else’s specifications); that was, really, payment enough.
Today this "cookware" (how it was declared on the customs forms) showed up from France. At the current exchange rate, it’s about $115 (115 € with tax and shipping; $155)
I guess I can hang out a shingle now! At an hourly rate of, oh, $4 an hour or so.
I’ll keep my day jorb
The story of Red
15 October 2008If you’d like to read about the birth of Red One, Wired has a great article on the topic.
New Nikkor 50mm
22 September 2008Nikon has announced a new 50mm lens; at f1.4, it is plenty fast. Not sure about spending $440 on a prime, but I might.
TinEye results
9 September 2008Before, I was kinda… meh. I searched for a picture of a soldier, and TinEye came back with two other pictures of the same soldier. Different angles and backgrounds, but it’s the same guy. The image is a subset of a filmstrip of four.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like there is a way to share search results when the source image isn’t online somewhere. Trust me, TinEye is pretty boss.
