Category: Photography

3D Concepts

3D Viewers

Oh…wow… Finding sources of stereo photography cameras and viewers is hard, I end up building stuff to fit my meger needs. I once thought of trying to display my stereo photos in a public place but could never figure out an easy way of building low cost multi image viewers. This place has exactly what I would have needed! I might get to show off my work after all…

Stereoscopic 3D Products, 3D Services & 3D Imaging.
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3D Concepts

3D, stereo, photography, cool, wishlist

Got Ink?

Big ink tanks

Whenever I get asked about what kind of printer somone should buy, I ask whet they are going to do with it. If they even come close to mentioning something like photo printing I tell them not to blow their money on a inljet and just go to the local Wallgreens of Costco and have them printed there. Its a price you just can’t beat! Anyway, if they are dead set on getting a money sink, er… inkjet printer I mean, I normaly tell them to get an Epson. I’ve had two six ink photo printers (700, 785) and both have rocked. I also tell them to keep an eye out for ink refill kits as this will cut the cost of printing down quite a bit but can be a pain in the arse (ever try to get a blob of ink out of cloth? Forget it!).
This place however has quite the system. Big tanks and hoses. Thats the key to the whole thing. You get the kit, $250 and attach it to your printer where the carts go and then fill it up with 118 to 946ml (thats 4-32 oz from $49 to $270 US) of ink and your set. A normal cart has like 20ml of ink in them so you can see that your going to be pumping out the pigments for along time.
So for around $300 you can out fit your printer with enough ink to print all your vacation snaps for a few years.

[As my friend Greg reminded me, inkjet printers dry out and clog far too easly. I know that the monster printer my brother has will suck the ink back into the tanks so this isn’t a major problem. I’m not too sure if the Niagara system will do that. -John]
Niagara II Continuous Ink Flow System

Ruins in Japan

Abandoned

I didn’t manage to post this last night, this site has some beautiful pictorials of abandoned buildings and ruins in Japan. I don’t know why, but these places have such a strange quality to them that just makes me want to go there and find some of my own.
BTW, I’d swear that there is a school in Yokohama near Isogo station that looks like the Kawasaki city barracks residences. I guess the school is still used but it looks like a run down slum. Are all elementary schools in Japan like this?

Ruins Deflation Spiral
Translated site

Japan, buildings, photography, ruins

Rolling Camera Eyeballs Danger

rolling cameras

Oooo, now these look cool.

The camera has a three-hour battery life, can rotate at four revolutions a minute and capture 55-degree horizontal and 41-degree vertical views. The camera is built into the top half of the device and can be rotated, while the base of the Eye Ball remains static once it has landed. If the Eye Ball lands upside down, officers can flip the video feed. Using a video-out port in the remote control, video and audio can be saved to tape or DVD for use as evidence.

Rolling Camera Eyeballs Danger

Amazing Space Shuttle Photos

SST

Mummm…. Space Shuttle photos taken with a Nikon D2X. I love a camera with good dynamic range!

The D2X is sweet. Thanks to Nikon and (Palo Alto’s) Keeble & Schuchat, mine arrived in time for last week’s trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to photograph the roll out of space shuttle Discovery from the VAB to the launch pad. Tiny web-sized images do not do the camera justice, but the 11″x17″ prints that I have here are testament to the great capability of the camera to record detail in scenes requiring variously: high dynamic range and long exposures at low light levels. Here are a few examples…

D2X at NASA KSC: Nikon D100/D1/D2 Forum: Digital Photography Review

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