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Self portrait, taken with the Velbon VTP-815 tripod. I love this tripod. It isn't the most full-featured, precision, professional tripod, but it collapses down to 26cm and extends up to 102cm, and it weighs .5kg. I can take it anywhere, and it's a pretty sturdy table-top trypod.
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This, and the previous photo, were both taken with all of the G1's gadgets in play. The exposure was set to full auto; the LCD was twisted completely around so that I could frame the picture, and I used the little remote to frame the picture and trigger the shot. The picture still turned out crappy, but that's the model's fault, not the camera's.
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This is our Christmas tapestry, hanging on the wall in our front room. The Messiah is a great symphony. Monika did a great job of hanging this tapestry this year. My first photo with the camera. The detail on the original 2048x1536 is amazing.
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The second photo. Monika, in our front room, next to our impossible well-lighted tree (cough, cough), with snow outside! Yea! Living in Bend has it's advantages. This is still early December, and I haven't put down the train set yet.
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My first try with the tripod and remote. I have to remember not to take any more profiles of myself. I look like such a goober. I also should have done some white balancing on this one. Doesn't Monika have great dimples?
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This is our breakfast nook, or breakfast cupola, or forward firing position, depending on how you look at it. I don't remember why I took it, but you can see the boys in the barn.
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A picture through the window of the breakfast nook. You can see the streaks and reflections on the window.
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Our Christmas tree, drowned out by the sun outside. More white-balance ineptitude. If you look closely, however, you can see the CCD artifact that most digicams suffer from: notice the purple around the window borders?
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Ah, this thing was so cool. Ok, so we have this outdoor cat... he came with the house, so to speak... anyway, he's fed and watered outside, although he tends to ignore the water we give him and forages for himself...
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So we put his water in this old Nancy's yogurt container, and during the winter, it freezes. We bring it in, dump out the ice block, refill it with his food... yada, yada, yada...
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So this time when it started to freeze, Monika dumped some hot water down the middle, and it created... this. This thing was so amazing, all of the little whorls and vectors...
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And so, I took a bunch of photos and a little mini-movie. Monika made fun of me, of course. Women just don't understand this sort of thing (well, most don't).
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Black-n-White mode on the G1 works pretty well. Tres film-noir. Monika, at the computer, in the home office.
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Monika, in her office. Damn, this camera is good! It even got the red rash on her neck and face from the beard-burn I gave her. She has sensitive skin. I was mucking with the white balance on this one.
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Sometimes she looks just like she did when she was 18. I think it is a hair-thing, because her face doesn't change much.
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The office X-mas party.
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Brad, Dave, Dave's wife, Gina.
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One of the G1's mini-movies. This is the amazing footage of Gaston-marie's incredible flying cheeze-catching trick (6.4Mb). The G1 is capable of recording Motion JPEG AVI movies, with audio, up to 30 seconds in length. While this isn't enough for a documentary, it is plenty for most of what I'd use it for (vacation shots, stupid pet tricks, etc.).
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Just to show that 30 seconds is sometimes way longer than you wish it was, here's a really boring video of the amazing spinning ice block (6.8Mb). The AVIs are proprietary-free (Yea Canon!!), viewable on Linux. The G1 writes out the movie, plus a thumbnail consisting of the first frame of the movie -- which is what this image is.
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The G1 has a panorama feature, whereby you shoot, and the camera shows you the picture you just took, offset to the side, so that you can frame up the next picture. This makes it really easy for the photo-stitching software to compose the panorama.
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Unfortunately, I can't find any working panorama stitching software for Linux, so here are a bunch of frames which comprise a 360 degree view of my office.
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The camera was on the tripod, on my desk.
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And so on...
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And so on...
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And so on...
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