Sunflowers, northeast Colorado. Photo copyright (c) Jim Doty. Jr.
I am on the road. Photos are here.
8/30/2004
8/19/2004
CANON 20D
It was rumored, now it’s official. The new Canon 20D looks like an impressive successor to the 10D. The sensor is 8 megapixels. It still has the same 1.6x field of view crop as the 10D. I was hoping for a bigger sensor so my wide angle lenses would give me a wider field of view than on the 10D.
Start up time is much faster, it shoots at a maximum of 5 frames per second vesus 3 fps on the 10D, and it has a bigger buffer.
DP Review has an excellent 11 page preview here.
Comments Off
8/13/2004
COMPUTER MOUSE
Photo copyright (c) Jim Doty III
When you refer to your computer mouse, you probably aren’t thinking about a living, four-legged, furry critter. My son Jim went to do some work on his computer one evening and found a very young and small mouse happily sprawled out and warming itself on a power block plugged into a power strip. My son and daughter-in-law decided the mouse was too young and cute to kill, so they captured it and turned it loose at the back of their yard. Jim went back to work at the computer.
Early the next morning, Jim again headed downstairs to the computer and there was the same mouse, back in the house and warming itself again on the same power block. (Notice the ignored mouse trap, baited with peanut butter.) Once again, the persistent mouse was captured. This time it was taken for a car ride and turned loose at a city park.
And what happens in the unlikey event the mouse finds its way back again? It will be deemed worthy of a proper home and they will keep it.
SEQUEL – August 14
A day after posting the above, I received the following photo and note from my brother-in-law.
“Ours wasn’t so lucky.”
Comments Off
8/10/2004
PERSEID METEORS
The Perseid metor shower goes on all month, but peaks the evening of August 11-12. It is usually better after midnight. Look high in the northeastern skys about 45 degrees above the horizon.
click the page links to the right to continue
8/7/2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson died Tuesday at the age of 95. He was one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century.
click the page links to the right to continue and see several of his classic photographs