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Noblex Oblige Redux

Took the Noblex to the annual Beaches Easter Parade. Despite clumsy handling of the still unfamiliar beast, it turns out to be a capable street camera. I was using the 0.25 dioptre close up lens, but I think the 0.5 may be necessary as some of the closer figures are a bit soft.

One thing that I found annoying was that the light meter attachment will refuse to fire the shutter if it considers the scene overexposed -- took me a LONG while to figure out what was going wrong. Anyways, click on the pic below for more.

popphoto gets a clue

So it seems I made the pages of Popular Photography . One of the editors over there, Mason Resnick, had been pushing them for years to do a Streetphoto story and I guess they finally succumbed. Funny that really I don't do that kind of thing so much any more... but anyways.

I haven't seen the meatspace issue yet but they have a sort of companion piece on the website which has the full questionnaires they did with all the snappers. The only other one I know is John Beeching, who rocks.

Read the questionnaires here

Streetphoto beta test

Since Topica started putting spam in the emails to the Streetphoto list I've been thinking of a way of moving it.

The problem is that Topica provides both mailing list and BBS functionality and not many commercial third party packages do that. However, after many nights of struggling with Unix, PHP, permissions and that kind of thing, I got a beta test running here:

http://johnbrownlow.com/phpBB2

This allows you to both read and contribute to the list by either bulletin board or email, and everyone sees all the messages. There are still a couple of bugs with the email implementation but the basic functionality is there and I'm steadily ironing out the wrinkles.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.

Holding On

To those sceptics who thought this blog had died I say... okay, it nearly did. A long layoff to write scripts and snowboard. Today (Good Friday) was the annual parade in Toronto's Little Italy... I mean to shoot it with the Noblex but left it too late to buy film and nowhere was open. So I picked up the digi with little or no idea what to do with it. I shot 360s last year and the year before and was determined not to this year... so I put on the 28/1.8 and ventured out.

Took me a while to figure out what to do, but when I did it got surprisingly interesting