when no one cares but you

Hi gang,

Some news on the photographic camp material:

• got a huey pro to calibrate my monitors. Works in Windows, Mac, Linux, so it’s a perfect fit. And it also does ambient readings during a certain interval, which is very cool.
• wanted to plug my CRT to a second graphics card, so I could see my images on both the TFT and the CRT at the same time. To my surprise, I found out my graphics card already had 2 DVI links. cool.
• got a half case for my Zeiss Ikon ZM hand made in Italy, with the best Italian leather.

So now I have 2 monitors (one TFT and one CRT), both constantly monitored by the huey pro colour calibration device.

Some crappy photos of my ZM’s outfit (shot them at 23:00 with my mom’s point and shoot, so… yeah..):

I am taking my time to rescan some negatives (cause now I have the monitors calibrated et al), it’s great therapy!

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All the content in this post took place on the 11th of the current month

I woke up in Lisbon on that day, on Marisa’s house. We woke up pretty soon, so that we could still go to my house in Coimbra, so I could dress up, and then we would head to the marriage location.

The following video was shot in my bedroom.

Yes, it has a very crappy quality, but that “video camera” was an offer (e.g. free), so… We can’t really expect much. That’s my mom and Marisa on the video, btw

Now, I am going to post 31 photos from the marriage, the film used was:

• Ilford FP4 Plus 120
• Ilford Delta 400

both shot with a Zeiss Ikon ZM, with a 35mm f1.4 SC Nokton, developed with Xtol Stock, and scanned with an epson v700.

I must warn you, that it was my first venue with the lens/camera combo, so everything might not be perfect.

Oh, and another heads up. If you like some of the photos, let me know, so I can send you the 16 bits TIF gray versions of them. The quality is so much better, it’s haunting! In the mean time, I’ll try a better way to get them from tifs to jpegs.

I also need to calibrate my monitor. TFTs suck, and photos might be too dark.

The photos are posted after the following jump, so that the blogs’ main page does not get too crowded.

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Now I can say I am ready for Nuno’s and littleNes‘ wedding on Sunday!

Hot date: CHECK! My Marisa Duque!

Cameras: CHECK!

• Zeiss Ikon ZM with a Nokton 35 f1.4
• Yashica GTN with a Yashinon 40 f1.7

Film: CHECK!

• Ilford Delta 400
• Ilford FP4 Plus 125
• Fujicolor 100 (to waste before the wedding to make sure everything is working properly)

Don’t know if I will load each camera with it’s own film, or use only the Zeiss, and load Yashica with something else, and perhaps convince Marisa to take some shots

And now for the pics for the GAS attack MUAHAHAH

Oh, btw, the lens on the Zeiss is the nokton 35mm f1.4. You know why rangefinder rocks? It weights 200 grams, and has a length of 28,5mm.

A canon ef 35mm f1.4 weights 580 grams has a length of 86mm.

How much more stealth can you be?

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2008-05-07  Tambet Ingo  <tambet@gmail.com>

Patch from André Lemos.

* libnm-glib/nm-dbus-settings.c (fetch_connections_done): Fix a memory
corruption.

this is part of Network Manager, so in a near future around 98% of Linux desktop users will benefit from this

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Hi.

I am on an hotel room in allicante. it’s 4:25. I am a bit dizzy. someguy offered me a box of allicante sweets (lol), and I need to get some sleep, meeting early in the morning.

damn

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that are a special miss. Shot with the Yashica, scanned with the V700.

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Ethereal, originally uploaded by a_lemos.

So, I now have 62 items on my flickr account!

I will now try to do new posts on the blog, always associated with a photo on flickr. According to flickr, this is my most interesting photo currently, which brings me to a news I’ve read the other day:

“Mamiya introduced the ProSD Adapter HX702″

this means, that I will be able to use IF I WANT TO, a digital back on my Mamiya RB67 Pro-SD (the machine used on this photo), which will generate digital files, instead of burned slides or negatives. Sounds interesting? Yes, maybe… But where in the world would I get the above picture on a digital sensor?

Sources for this information:

@dpnow

@vistek

@photofair

@mamiya

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I Wanna be a Pilot II, originally uploaded by a_lemos.

Started adding my photos to flickr.

I will try, in time, to upload most of my “postable” photos, so many photos should get in there in time.

Be prepared for some surprises

I am doing this post from flickr directly into my blog, let’s see if this works.

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