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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: Gear

25 April 20102 June 2010

Cheery cherries at Kew

A test of the Android WordPress application and postings from my mobile. Neat!

Photoblog, Plants & gardens, Gear, Plant pictures, No Comments
12 January 200912 January 2009

Image stabilisation – chicken style

Modern camera lenses (and some cameras) have image stabilisation built in, and I’ve often wondered how they do it. But how do they fit the chicken inside?

Gear, No Comments
6 October 20066 October 2006

Geocoding Photos

Is ‘geocoding’ a word? According to this site it is, and who am I to quibble? Geocoding basically means adding location info to image files, which then opens up all sorts of possibilities for mapping, such as in Flickr, which I mentioned just a few days ago. I can’t help Read more …

Gear, No Comments
25 January 200625 January 2006

Lots of lovely Canon F1 equipment for sale

Well, the enigmatic Zeus camera mentioned previously has been handed over to Royal Mail who should hopefully deliver it to its rightful owner by 1pm tomorrow. /etcetera/cameras/eBay/f1servoeefinder/060119ebay074.jpgMeanwhile I’ve been busy listing a whole load of other auction purchases on eBay, the real highlights of which being some fabulous 30+ year Read more …

Gear, 2 Comments
19 January 200623 January 2006

Mysterious old camera – Zeus

I was in my local auction house on Monday and spotted three old cameras in one lot. A couple were nice-looking (but seemingly valueless) Kodaks – an old folding ‘Junior’ and a Box Brownie. The third was intriguing, a simple box labelled ‘Zeus’ and ‘Made in England’ and inside a Read more …

Gear, No Comments
5 January 200613 January 2006

New cameraphone

I do like my gadgets but I’m not a label freak, so the idea of some trendy slick phone with polished aluminium and a name that sounds like it’s the result of a six-week brainstorming session by a bunch of marketing execs just doesn’t appeal. I was due an upgrade Read more …

Gear, No Comments

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