Is Your Digital Camera Literally Freezing? [Qotd]

 

 

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Is Your Digital Camera Literally Freezing? [Qotd]

via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on 28/01/09

I thought consumer digital cameras had enough temperature operational margin to handle most situations this side of being stationed in Antarctica. Apparently, I was wrong, because I keep hearing reports on problems at low temperatures.

Case in point: A friend of mine bought a Nikon compact digital camera here in Spain, just before going back to Poland for Xmas. When she arrived to Cracow, she tried to make photos but discovered that all of them came up blurred. When she was at her family's home or in any other heated building, the camera would return to normal after some minutes, then take fine pictures.

But whenever she took it out on the streets, it would literally freeze. Not the glass outside, which was clean and shiny. Something inside was getting frozen and the resulting photos looked as if they were being taken through a frosted glass.

When I asked around to other friends in Sweden, they told me the same. Some cameras just do that. Our very own Andi had the same problem with her Canon Powershot in Canada. And her cousin had even worse problems with her cute—but useless under low temperatures—pink point-n-shoot.

Is this another result of the damn product beta culture? Have you experienced the same problem with your digital camera?

[Image above is simulated—because all my friends are shy to post their photos here—but that's the effect these users are experiencing]

 

 

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Presidents competition 2009 Results

Well done to the winners of the Presidents competition 2009

The theme was "movement" to be submitted in a 3 prints panel.

And the winners were,

Digital Entry

1st Won by a mile Paul Bullock

2nd Training Shirley Wildsmith

3rd Grasstrack Racers David Morland

HC Water Flows 2 Whitfield Benson

HC Military 2 step Shirley Wildsmith

HC Freezing Water Ian Whittaker

Print Entry

1st Flowing and Frozen David Morland Best Overall

2nd First Steps Richard Littlefair

3rd Splashing Time Norma Clark

Ripon City Photographic Society Main Page Google Groups

Paul Miguel, professional wildlife and landscape photographer.

Paul Miguel is a professional wildlife and landscape photographer.
He has visited out club as both a guest lecturer and a competition judge.

Please have a look at his excellent website.
http://www.paulmiguel.com/

Update
He also is running some workshops
All the courses for this year are on the web page: Click here for details.
There is a mixture of landscape and wildlife workshops throughout the year.

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2007/2008 Season Competitions Results Round Up

Here is a round up of the winners of the competitions in the 2007/2008 season.
Click here to see the winners

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Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker

 

 

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Create tilt-shifted photos with Tiltshiftmaker

via Download Squad by Jay Hathaway on 1/7/09

Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web

Tilt-shifting, that spiffy photo effect that makes real people and objects look like part of a tiny toy set, has become really popular lately.

Tilt-shift time lapse videos by Keith Loutit were recently featured all over the Internet, inspiring others to figure out how to achieve the effect in their own photos. You could Google a step-by-step tutorial, or you could save yourself the trouble and use Tiltshiftmaker.

Pop a photo into Tiltshiftmaker, move the sliders around to choose the area you want to focus on, and that's all there is to it. It seems to work best with photos that are shot from above and from a distance. If you need some inspiration, there's also Tiltshiftmaker's gallery you can check out and add your own photos to.

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Take a 6-month exposure photo

 

 

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Take a 6-month exposure photo

via Hackszine.com by Jason Striegel on 1/5/09

Pocket-Sized sent in a link to this article about the photography of Justin Quinnell. Using a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can, Justin was able to take super-long exposure, 160 degree angle photos over a 6 month period. The photo above was exposed from the 2007 winter solstice to the following summer solstice.

In the photos, you can clearly see the path taken by the sun each day, marking the passage of time. Justin has dedicated the project to his father, who passed away on the 116th sunrise that was captured.

You can make your own pinhole camera to take long exposure shots like this. Justin put together a howto that documents his own method. The hardest part is finding a good solid place to mount the camera where it won't be disturbed for months at a time.

One interesting thing that he mentions is scanning the film at high-res without even developing it. I've never heard of doing this, but I presume that if it works, it's a one time shot. Does anyone have experience with this that would care to comment?

Pinhole Photography By Justin Quinnell
How To Create 6 Month Exposures

 

 

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