Pyramids in Bosnia

Just read about this today and I'm super excited. It's not often that we have such major discoveries during our lifetimes. Supposedly they've discovered proof of the existence of pyramids in Bosnia. Check out bosnianpyramid.com and National Geographic for more info and photos. You can also do a search on news.google.com for articles from the worldwide press.

Article on archeology.org that debunks (?) the Bosnian Pyramids.

How far we've come

Over The Edge
Originally uploaded by Proggie.
This was taken with an Apple QuickTake 200 ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake ) digital camera in the summer of 1997 when I moved to Squamish to work for a company that made cutting edge software based around Apple's QuickTime VR technology.

At the time we needed digital cameras to be able to stitch together panoramas from multiple overlapping images into 360 degree QTVR scenes. It would have been a pain to have to scan multiple images from a film camera, so a digital one really helped. The QuickTake was one of the very first consumer digitals. It's resolution was 640x480, and there weren't many other applications for it beside taking grainy snapshots such as this.

Later on, in late 1999 we got one of the very first megapixel digicams, an Olympus D-620L. What a beauty that was. It took great photos, that could actually produce a decent print. Consumer digital photography was still in its infancy but we all knew it would be just a matter of time before the technology would get better, and everyone (well almost) would accept it. Now even a lot of pros, who may have shunned digital photography earlier on, have converted to digital, and more and more of the big film companies are either going out of business or are dropping their film products.

Winging it

Winging it
Originally uploaded by Proggie.
Had some time on the weekend to test out the 70-200 zoom. I'm pretty happy with the sharpness. My old tamron 28-300 definitely wouldn't be this sharp (especially wide open). At first I was disappointed because I was judging sharpness only in my XT's LCD by zooming in all the way. Turns out that that it definitely doesn't represent the sharpness of the actual image. It must only be showing the JPG preview which is obviously not very detailed.

Lens test 2

Don't Turn Away
Originally uploaded by Proggie.
This one is with the 24-70mm. It's not as sharp as can be, because it was taken a t 1/13, but I like the colour saturation of this lens.

Lens test 1

Couple
Originally uploaded by Proggie.
So I got a couple of new lenses. This was taken with my new 70-200mm. Unfortunately I probably need a 400 to capture these guys closer. But the image stabilization worked pretty well.

Might as well do one too

If my niece can have her own blog, I should have one too :)