Casper's Life

Google Earth watches over me

Monday, November 27th, 2006 |

I don’t know if you know about Google Earth, but it’s a service provided by Google which allowes you to to look at satalite pictures of the earth.

Friday last week, a colleague told me that one could see my motorbike from Google Earth – right…. in the office parking lot.

Well I had a look at yes, he was right, one can see it

It’s nice that once can see that I was actually was at work that day when they took that photo.

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Dublin…..

Thursday, March 9th, 2006 |

So I got this email, asking if I could be interested (actually; we’re going to Dublin, care to join), and I was….

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I cannot remember the last I ate, and drank so much in such a short time…..

Great trip guys….

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At Oestplein

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 |

Sometimes one can get lucky….

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D200… Got it, got it, got it…..

Friday, February 24th, 2006 |

So what do one call this, I was bored at work (after a very busy week) and, I was surfing the dpreview forums, and thought that maybe I should have a look around at the local photoshop dealers to see if they finally had the D200 in stock…. And lucky me two had, and of cause I choose the cheapest, which isn’t cheap at all, but a man needs to have a hobby.

I have to admit that I’m still trying to figure out how it works, but just for the fun of I took a walk at the Maas, to see if I should be lucky to get a decent photo of the Rotterdam skyline… No too bad, but could be better….

1994Now the next is to hope for some warmer weather, so that I do not freeze my private parts of…..

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The Moon….

Monday, December 19th, 2005 |

One of the subjects I can continue to take photos of is the Moon. I’m not very good at it but I can still try.

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Fullmoon

Thursday, November 11th, 2004 |

It is actually possible to see the moon once in a while.

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Camera: Nikon D100, Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 EX, Sigma 1.4x, 1/159sec, f8, Manual exposure.

And yes I know I should have used RAW instead of JPEG.

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Linux and Nikon RAW

Sunday, September 12th, 2004 |

I’ve been trying to switch to Linux for all my application for a very long time, and the last outstandig issue have been Nikon RAW files.

But now it seams that I successfully can fdisk my windows PC and install Linux on it. Today I found two websites which have the tools needed for me to use The GIMP for all my photo processing.

First get dcraw.c from http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ and compile it with:
# gcc -o dcraw -O3 dcraw.c -lm -ljpeg
# su
# cp dcraw /usr/local/bin
# chown root.root /usr/local/bin/dcraw
# chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/dcraw

Then get RawPhoto GIMP-2.0 plug-in from http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/RawPhoto and install it:
# tar zxfv rawphoto-20040527.tgz
# cd rawphoto-20040527
# cd src
# gimptool –install-admin rawphoto.c

Then use The GIMP to open a .nef file, and bingo it works.

Excelent.

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