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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Saturday, June 04, 2005 ::

Photo Fun Saturday


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Just testing Flickr for photo uploads to the blog. This is a picture I took with my wife's Fuji 6.3 MegaPixel E550 on our last road trip. [I promise - no cat blogging]

Update: Flickr works but the "blog this" bot clogged up the HTML with a bunch of unecessary fomatting tags. I had to do a little editing to get the result I wanted. In any case, it's not a bad little photo service once you figure out how to tweak it. If you're interested, I highly recommend the pocket-size Fuji E550. It is truly an amazing little camera that features the Fuji 6.3 megapixel Super CCD. The Super CCD is honeycombed rather than the standard checker-board configuration found in other digital cameras so there are more variables for the interpolation algorythm. Actually, I can crank up the resolution to 12.3 megapixels for a 30+ meg file. And believe it or not, this little gem has dropped in price to under $300.00! A good thing because you're going to want to spring for the one-gig XD chip as the E550 shoots digital movies with sound too - astonishing. Talk about a bloggers dream camera [and it's cute as a bug when it wakes up]. Here's the DP Review.

As much as I love the E550, I'm certainly not ready to give up my Fuji Finepix S2 Pro SLR but for convenience and high resolution photos that rival prosumer digital SLRs, the E550 is a tremendous value. I'm actually thinking about getting another one - for me - now that the price has dropped. [Mrs. Max: "hey buddy, get your own camera"]

Here's a larger version of the pic:



Here's one I shot with my Fuji Finepix S2 Pro - manual setting with flash: Carnival!



Here's another pic taken with my favorite film camera, an ancient twin lens Yashika Mat G. I nicknamed it the Yashikablad because it uses the same 6 x 6 format that a Hasselblad uses. It was my father's camera. This photo was taken in Sheridan Lake Colorado using Fuji Velvia transparancy film:



Last one: A little shadow protrait of your humble correspondent using the "Yashikablad" somewhere southwest of Durango Colorado:



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