Ignore what the EXIF information says– this was an ISO40 42-second exposure. Only scaling and cropping was done to the photo.
For a 42 second exposure with any other cheap digitial camera, it would be a image of random red and green dots. This was only possible with the CHDK alternate Canon Powershot camera firmware…
The Wallsend Enterprise Centre, between Cooper and Dan Rees Streets– “at the entrance to Wallsend”. The monthly meeting-place for LOGIN, the Linux Owners Group of Newcastle (www.newcastlelug.org).
When I used to live on Kemp St in the 1970s, this was still an abandoned collery railway shed..
The wide-angle lens mentioned in a previous post had a problem– the lens chamber was contaminated with manufacturing residue, and as I was unable to clean the internals myself due to a very esoteric pin-ring size, I had to send it back to Olympus (via the NDF Camera House in Newcastle) and get it eventually […]
Photgraphed near to the (dry) bushland pool on the Lindsay Estate at Faulconbridge.
This is technically not something made by Lindsay– it’s a bronze cast made by the National Trust of a deteriorating concrete ‘garden ornament’ he had made.
Firstly, I bought a Wide (angle) Conversion lens for my Olympus cameras…
Guaranteed to scare even more crap out of my camera-shy friends :-) … It’s to be used when taking landscape-type photography, to fit more of the view into the final image.
I felt it was also time to upgrade from the Yellow eTrex GPS. The […]