| The following are some snapshots taken of friends from trips, parties
and random get-togethers through the years.. Last
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Saturday, 06. January 2007
Photographs
I recently purchased an inexpensive scanner and scanned some pictures
from 1993 through 2001. In March of 2002 I picked up an inexpensive
digital camera and started taking that on trips. The camera was the
Kodak DC3200, 2 megapixel resolution and compact flash memory. The
Kodak was more of a knock-around camera, taking good pictures outdoors but
the flash sucked for indoors. Eventually the camera was destroyed by
salt water on a trip in April 2002 to Rocky Point.
I shopped around for a new camera for awhile. I decided I'd either
buy another inexpensive point-n-shoot digital camera or take a big step up
to a camera with some SLR type capabilities. I shopped around and
finally decided on the Minolta DiMage S404. It's a 4 megapixel camera
with a 4x optical zoom. It uses compact flash memory, so my investment
in memory cards for my last camera wouldn't go to waste. It's
operation emulates an SLR. I have an Auto mode for quick shots, and a
manual mode so I can play with settings a bit more.
Eventually I'd like to make this page database driven with the capability
to search for photo's. I have the basic design in my head, execution
and some purchases are all that need to happen. I manage my main photo
collection with Thumbsplus. Thumbsplus indexes photographs in a simple
database and allows me to add comments and keywords to that database.
My plan is to go through my entire photo collection, adding keywords and
comments. If I add a database server to Redzilla, I can then make all
pictures on the site searchable. It'll take a lot of time and some
creative web programming I need to figure out.
The photo's on this site can be turned into prints. I've processed
a couple of them through Walmart, and they turned out pretty good. To
do this, you'd have to download the full-size photo (click on the image with
your right mouse button and choose "save") you want and then going to
Walmart's Photo Center to upload it for processing. I'm trying to
find someone that's easier to use that has a tool I can add to my site or
has a tool you can download and use on any site.
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