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12/26/2002 08:45:36 AM · #26 |
New flatware, a gravy spoon, the "Joy of Cooking", a wok, and a ceramic baking dish. Hmmm...do you think Santa was trying to give me a hint? :-)
Oh, and I also got a new bed...Woohoo, no more sleeping on the floor! |
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12/26/2002 10:59:35 AM · #27 |
I got to work, cooking Christmas lunch for 45 people. Started work at 5.30am, think I saw santa going overhead on the drive in. Finished at 4.30pm then parked my butt on a bar stool and procceded to drink as much of the bosses beer as I possibly could. Had a belated X-mas on the 26th with the inlaws and then my family. I've got a hangover that feels like it's going to last until new years eve. Oh yeah, I got bottles of Black Douglas Scotch Whiskey, Jack Daniels, Wild Turkey and Black Sambucca. New years eve's going to be a big one! I'm not an Alcoholic but everybody else seems to think I am.
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12/26/2002 01:11:33 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by magnetic9999:
Originally posted by hbunch7187:
I also got a Olympus e10 from a very good friend of mine. HE got a d1x, so he gave me his e10. I'm still trying to figure it out, but I'll get the hang of it. |
Great camera! ;) I've had mine since February. It's a camera that takes some practice to get the best images out of, but once you learn its quirks, it can hang with the best of em !
Let me know if you want any tips/suggestions :) |
Right now, I'm working on trying to focus it. lol. My old camera is point and click. not manual settings what so ever, so I have to learn about that first. I know what white balence is, but not what the numbers mean. I know shutter speed, but not the numbers. I'll get the hang of it. I'm reading up on it, and have taken a couple ok photos. One of which you might see in the portrait challenge.
~Heather~
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12/26/2002 01:27:08 PM · #29 |
*happy dance*
I got an iPod!! I've been dying for one forever. I learned a very important lesson this year: Nagging works. LOL!!
I normally don't ask for very much at Xmas 'cause I have waaaaay more fun shopping and wrapping and giving. But we got 8 inches of snow on Xmas morning (it NEVER snows in Indiana on Xmas) and that plus my gifts just made this the best Christmas EVER!!
Oh, and I got an ice cream maker too. So I'm going to get fat(ter) and listen to really loud music. LOL.
Off to play in the snow...
Rob :) :) :)
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12/26/2002 01:35:28 PM · #30 |
I got a rock.
-Charlie Brown
Message edited by author 2002-12-26 13:35:39.
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12/26/2002 01:43:00 PM · #31 |
ok. the white balance numbers: the more orange the light, the lower the number you need to use.
So 3000 and 3700 are both for incandescent light. 3000 is a little cooler effect. 4000 and 4500 are for flourescent. 5500 is for sunny or outdoors. 6500 and 7500 are also outdoors for cloudy and shade respectively. Although I tend to use 5500 outside the most - - it seems to 'orange up' the colors the least and keeps them more accurate.
Then there's a -0- setting. That's one of the most useful, because the indoor white balance presets (3000 to 4500) don't really do a good job. There's always a weird color cast. Here's how you use it: there's a little button on the front of the camera next to the lens. You point the cam at something white and push it and it does a manual wb setting. you push ok to accept it. you set the wb to -0- and it uses the reading you just took. THIS WORKS GREAT!!! It's one of the nicest features of the camera is how good and realistic the color is on manual white balance.
My best advice is to not use the P mode (the automatic mode). It's badly implemented. It sets the shutter speed too slow the vast majority of the time. Use the 'A' mode: set your own aperature, and then let the camera pick the proper shutter speed. THe smaller the #, the more light it will let in.
One common gotcha is forgetting to switch to or back from the macro mode (icon of a little flower) when switching subjects. Suddenly the camera wont focus and you're wondering WHY!
What else.. oh yeah, I use the 2240 x 1620 JPEG mode with the 1/2.7 compression level. Occasionally the 1600x1200. The higher ratio JPEG, IMO, really degrades the image quality. You can set what SHQ, HQ and SQ relate to in terms of resolution and compression, through the menu system.
The manual is on PDF, and highly recommended if you don't have it. It deciphers what the buttons do. Sort of imperative , since that cam doesn't take its best pics in point and shoot mode.
I also have some E-10 related links. Let me know if you want 'em.
(This applies to anyone reading this who may also have an E-10, btw: PM me).
Good luck!
Message edited by author 2002-12-26 20:04:59. |
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12/26/2002 02:10:40 PM · #32 |
The only photography gifts I got were a Frog-tographer from my 1 1/2 year old god-daughter, an Ansel Adams 2003 wall calendar and the 2003 Photographers Market book (hopefully my camera expenses will now pull in some income!!!).
But my wife and I were more than happy to find out that our child, due in May, will be a girl!! We found out the Thurs. before christmas.
Also, the snow we got here in New Jersey was very welcomed by me and made Christmas even better. And yes, I did have to travel in it! |
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12/26/2002 02:29:39 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by magnetic9999:
ok. the white balance numbers: the more orange the light, the lower the number you need to use.
So 3000 and 3700 are both for incandescent light. 3000 is a little cooler effect. 4000 and 4500 are for flourescent. 5500 is for sunny or outdoors. 6500 and 7500 are also outdoors for cloudy and shade respectively. Although I tend to use 5500 outside the most.
Good luck! |
Just for background, those numbers would refer to the temperature (in degrees Kelvin or Absolute) which an object glowing that color would be.
In the printing business, color proofs are always evaluated under lights set to 5000k, which is considered the closest equivalent to "natural" light or bright indirect sunlight. |
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12/26/2002 03:14:09 PM · #34 |
| I got a Sony DSC-F717, and I still can't believe it! |
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12/26/2002 06:46:38 PM · #35 |
| Santa brought me a dvd player and a 20 ft long cable release for my camera :) Also a car ride back home to london ontario courtesy of "daddy's shuttle service"! Didn't want to take the bus carrying allll the stuff I have to bring home! |
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12/27/2002 02:50:14 AM · #36 |
I got a ND Filter Tom Ang's book The Digital Photographers Handbook and non digital a Minolta XG-M with a 50mm 2 lens plus the normal choclates Socks that say the worlds best mom bath goodies etc
Merry Christmas all |
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12/27/2002 12:21:51 PM · #37 |
I got the coolest Timex Speed and Distance GPS system with 100 lap memory for my Triathlon training, a Trek Hilo 2000 Triathlon bicycle (I really needed a new one). And the wife approved the release of funds for purchase of a new G2, which I ordered yesterday. :)
Tim |
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12/27/2002 03:48:27 PM · #38 |
Well, since I felt sorry for myself I just went and bought myself a 50mm f/1.8 lens! A whopping $100! I was going to hold out for the f/1.4 but I needed INSTANT comforting. hehe
That is all. Please drive through.
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