Archive for category Photography

Review of the Manfrotto 055CXPro3

I picked up a Manfrotto 055CXPro3 tripod for Christmas 2011. At that time, I started off writing a short review of it, comparing it with my then-current 055XProB. Amazon shipping no problem, earlier than expected price went up after I put it in the cart though center column was damaged in transit, cosmetic marks made […]

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Fun with Python and image processing

Today I got to work with something I’ve been meaning to for a while – Image processing with Python, in particular the PIL/Pillow library. (Pillow’s a forked, more up to date version of PIL, and it’s in PyPi.) So about 30 minutes after planning and googling and reading the docs, I have a first version […]

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Time Lapse Lessons

I ordered an intervalometer off eBay back in December. After waiting 49 days for delivery (I even opened up a dispute case with eBay because the time limit was about to expire, then it came the very next day), I got it, and played around with it. So far, I’ve done 3 time lapses, and […]

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Travel tripods: Update

So… I checked on the 190CXPro4. $669. Yeah… definitely not getting that, at least right now. I’ll admit I’m worried about wasting money… but that’s why I’m starting my search now, so I can look for a good one that will keep most of its value. Have a few pictures from Japan though.

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Travel tripods

So… Been looking around. The 190CXPROB costs upwards of $300 on Amazon… which means I shudder to think how much it costs here. Ideally, I’d like a tripod that’s under $250 ($300 max), and folds up small enough to hang off the side of my bag. Or get strapped underneath it. Essentially, limited to the […]

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State of Photography (Equipment)

So. Faced with a trip to Japan next Feb, and Uni after that, it’s time to take stock of stuff.

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Placeholder + New gallery

So… it’s been almost exactly a year? Clearly I do not use a blog. But just when you thought this was dead… I’m STILL ALIVE! === Now that I’ve paid homage to one of the many internet memes, more about what’s going on with me. busybusybusy. About 2 weeks before school begins again, and I’m […]

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