14 blogs from April 02, 2003 to April 30, 2003
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It was my birthday yesterday, and I had a very nice day indeed thank you. Richard bought me lots of photography toys (a new tripod, and a couple of books [1],[2]) which will keep me out of mischief, and I got some lovely presents from other friends and family.
We went out for dinner at the Regency Restaurant, which was pretty good, although La Fourchette is still my favourite seafood restaurant. We then headed off to meet Jeremy for a drink at the 3JBs, probably the last time I'll ever go there as their customer service was appaling - we ordered glasses of wine, which tasted like vinegar to us, and they then refused to replace them. All in all a good birthday (although less surprises than last year 
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Posted by Jane at 11:28 AM
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Yesterday I had a text from Heather saying that she was going to be appearing in Hove Crown Court (she's a barrister) and were we around for a coffee. I was and so after she'd done her barrister stuff, Heather and I met up for a coffee, and then we toddled off to Lucy's for lunch (where Richard joined us) and then we decided to head to the Grand for a bottle of champagne before Heather had to head off back to London. One of those "it just happened" kind of afternoons. Lovely.
Posted by Jane at 5:10 PM
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My Sloppy project has a write-up in PC-Pro magazine, issue 104 (June 2003, cover headline: "Can you ditch Microsoft"). Jump to page 207/208. One day you might see it in the Real world section of the magainze's web site. But not for a month or so, I'd guess.
Posted by Richard at 5:38 PM
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When we were at my folks house at the weekend I collected a couple of old cameras to play with. One is a Baldawerk Baldixette and the other is a Coronet Conway Popular Box Camera. I've tracked down some reasonably priced film from 7dayshop and so I guess I'll be experimenting with film and digital over summer.
Posted by Jane at 8:51 AM
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Coronet Conway Camera
Hello,
Stumbled across your site while looking for more information on the Coronet Conway Popular camera.
Have you used it yet? Any nice results to show? I am picking mine up in a couple of weeks to play with.
Regards,
Rich.
Posted by Rich on 2003-12-22 19:32:52
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Conway Popular
I've taken one film with it, and the results weren't bad considering. The shutter is hard to press without causing camera shake, so a solid surface is useful. I also forgot a couple of times to wind the film on, so had double exposures.
Enjoy your camera!
Posted by Jane on 2003-12-24 18:22:51
We spent Easter weekend in Hull visiting my parents, and managed to fit in quite a lot - a Hull City match (we won!), some touristy stuff as well as setting Dad up with a new PC. As usual I took heaps of photos, so I'll get around to processing them sometime soon.
Update: The photos are now up here.
Labels: hull city
Posted by Jane at 4:57 PM
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We went round to see Paul and Tess's new house last night, and very lovely it is too. We were in no rush, and they had no other plans, so we ordered a takeaway curry and sat and had a very lovely meal. Now we don't order takeaway food very often as we often find the quality suffers, but the Nishat Tandoori had some lovely dishes (it does Goan and Indian so there were a few interesting variations). And what is even better, is that it's only a couple of streets away from our house. Smashing.
Posted by Jane at 10:22 AM
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Congratulations to Karl. He ran the marathon in 5hrs 26 minutes yesterday. He says he's got some really lovely blisters to show for his day, and can hardly walk. But he did it. Well done! You can still sponsor him here and help the British Lung Foundation. There's a photo of him with his medal here.
Posted by Jane at 8:58 AM
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If you were the driver of this car, please do get in touch and let us know how you managed to park it on the railings outside the library in Brighton.
Posted by Richard at 8:48 AM
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With crazy mad Skillz
Also I hear cars can jump a bit when they stop suddenly, cough cough, not that I have experience with that at all. Well not with libraries anyway.
Posted by Jono on 2003-04-14 23:37:09
Last night I went to the camera club again, and again it was interesting. It was a competition, with an outside judge, Jean Holmwood. The categories were "creative" as well as open sections for the Intermediate and Advanced groups. The creative slides included some that had been obviously digitally manipulated, and then created as a slide. At least one of these was manipulated, and displayed to full screen and then photographed with slide film (he hadn't noticed that one of the photoshop icons was on the image - that was a bit of a giveaway really ). It got me to thinking of other ways you could do this. Then I came home and started reading a magazine I'd bought the other day "Digital Photographer" for "enthusiasts and Pros". On the letters page is a letter asking just that, how to get a digital file onto slide. The answer appears to be that there is a firm based in Nottingham, Viva Imaging that will do that, and if you look for photo labs in your area, check them for "digital film recorder" services. So, at least I know that when I feel confident enough to submit images to these slide competitions, at least I will be able to do so.
Posted by Jane at 10:41 PM
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One of the photos I took of the West Pier fire is on the BBC web site as part of their "Taken a good picture lately?" set for the week of 29 March - 4 April. Take a look at it here. I'm really rather pleased about that, although it's a bit odd that they didn't email me to tell me, I just happened to take a look and saw it.
Posted by Jane at 2:10 PM
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I got around to watching a programme that Tivo had recorded for us a month or so ago about Lomography. It was really interesting, and I especially like the Rules for photography. No 1: Take your camera everywhere you go. Last time I did this was with my eyemodule [photos]. Hmm, sometimes I wonder whether I should have 2 sets of camera equipment, one for "shoots" and one just to carry around with me. or maybe I should just invest in a camera phone like Richard's?
I'm especially taken with the supersampler shots as this is a really interesting concept.
Posted by Jane at 9:00 PM
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Or like Jonos
Nokia 7210, although I guess you want more than 128 * 128 at 12 bit :D.
Posted by Jono on 2003-04-07 23:53:02
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you have no excuse
you have a tiny camera already...i've been thinking about getting a little point and shoot digi just so i can always have something with me...640x480 pix off the phone are all very well but the quality is kak
Posted by SpUnKyTh3MoNk3Y on 2003-04-08 09:38:14
I've had 2 fillings in the last 4 days. Hmmmph. One on Friday, one today. Friday's one is still hurting. Today's doesn't feel so bad. Smpathy please.
Posted by Jane at 8:02 PM
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We were in London last night attending an ecademy event. The event wasn't great, but it was good to meet up with some friends. On the way home we noticed the above sign for a play: The Madness of George Dubya. You can't quite make it out, but on the far left it says "re-written daily". No idea what the show's like, but nice title.
Posted by Richard at 2:03 PM
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Last night I went to our local camera club for the first time. I had been thinking about going for a while, but didn't think I was good enough and felt embarassed by my efforts. Over the weekend we popped along to their exhibition at the Gardner Arts Centre and I realised that they had a wide cross-section of styles and talents, and that I wasn't far behind some of them and so could probably learn by association.
Last night was a slide show by a Father and Son team. Paul, the son, did a show on his different styles of photography and some were very impressive especially this. Father, Roger, did a show based on photos he took during a trip to Patagonia - some very impressive icebergs and glaciers. I have much to learn.
The club has a lot of, how do I put this politely?, older members, but the people I spoke to were all very nice and chatty, so I'll probably go again.
Posted by Jane at 8:20 AM
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Jane at the Gardner Arts exhibition
Posted by Richard on 2003-04-03 14:54:51
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me too.
The age factor has also put me off joining a camera club. I'll be interested to see how you get on.
Posted by noinsight on 2003-04-07 00:16:57
