Mumbling Again

Nikon Encrypts White Balance in RAW Format

I've really been looking forward to buying a pro-grade digital SLR from Nikon as soon as they upgrade the number of mega-pixels. I own a Nikon FM2 which would be able to share lenses, and this was my justification for getting another Nikon instead of a Canon Digital Rebel.

However, I'm seriously reconsidering my options now, and it may even lead to me jumping the fence to go all Canon. I read over at Engadget and Slashdot that in a bizarre paranoid move Nikon has begun to encrypt the white balance data in RAW format photo taken by their high-end digital SLR camera. This really gets me heated and I'm having flash backs of my turning point with Verizon.

Download a Web Gallery with wget

Ok, let's skip the obvious jokes about downloading pr0n. People look at galleries of photos that their friends upload on the web too. If you want to download the entire gallery it can be tedious and time consuming. Enter wget—a great and free application that will allow you to download files off the web in an automated process. Give it a list of things to download and it will return a directory full of the files you wanted. The following tutorial covers two parts: Using a perl filter to extract the image paths from a web gallery and downloading the images with wget.

Mes vacances avec Holga

My favoite camera now is definatly my Holga now. I have 7 cameras, including a really nice manual Nikon, and the one that costs $25—and which is made entirely out of plastic—creates the most interesting pictures.

My only complaint is that there is no good way to shoot half a roll and change to a different film speed then put the half shot roll back in the camera. But really, for another $25 I can buy another body and load one with 100 iso and the other with 400 iso. My biggest problem was compensating for lighting. The Holga only has one shutter speed, and two aperture settings.