Entries Tagged 'Digital' ↓

We upgraded our TV recently from a 26" tube to a 32" LCD. We had to swap out our regular Time Warner DVR to a HDDVR. It turns out the Scientific Atlantic 8300HDC box has software that is quite buggy. I had read this online as I struggled to set up the DVR with the TV and soon found found this out first hand. Several times the DVR has crashed.

Today the DVR crashed again and we had to reboot it because it was not sending a good signal. After the first reboot we were greeted with this message:

Note the phone number. Now I know it's very easy to erase that last digit in Photoshop but I assure you it was not there. For the record the last number is a 3.

One more reboot of the DVR fixed the problem.

A few more from the Vivitar Mini Digital

I've been thinking again about destructionist photography and the randomness of the Holga. I'm always amazed by Michal Daniels' work, made with the camera mounted on a Palm Pilot organizer. His site, 640×480.net, is like a raw nerve.

There is something about those images that are so less than technically perfect, but done so with a purpose. Even camera phones are now turning out amazing quality images.

I found this $10 camera at Walgreens. It shoots 20 images at 352×288 at 72 pixels per inch. The camera has no LCD and will take 20 images. There is a pop-up glass window that gives a vague idea of what will be recorded. The only way to download the photos is on the PC. The Mac won't recognize the camera. There is about a second delay when taking a photo. It eats the single "AAA" battery that powers it, so only load the battery when shooting.

There's a place somewhere for this camera. Sample images from my first shoot below from a half-hour spin around my neighborhood:

The making of the "Just Got To Be" video, 2007

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Shot with the trusty, little $200 Sanyo C40.

My review of this digital video camera which I've dubbed "The Guerilla Multimedia Tool for Online Journalism."