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Comment on Nikon N50 by Kepler

Kepler — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:38:05 +0000

Walgreens will do it — I’m going to try that with my next roll of film. I didn’t know for sure if the camera worked, so I didn’t bother with the first two rolls (the first roll was very washed out due to its age, so I wanted to test again before I started getting 5×7s or a CD or something).

The CD is an extra $2.99, and I figure I’ll give it a shot to see what kind of resolution and quality I get. I just hope it’s just a CD with JPGs and not some monkey-brained PhotoFriend software or somesuch. My mother got some kind of a Kodak viewer thing back with a CD once that barfed stuff all over her registry. Took me a day to get it all luxed out again.

Right now I’ve got C-41 black and white in it — I got one roll developed already and it looks pretty great. But I think I’ll move to color soon — I thought it would be great to re-learn the basics in black and white and then go to color, but I think it might be easier the other way around.

Comment on Nikon N50 by Doug

Doug — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:19:03 +0000

I’ve always used bhpotovideo.com or adorama.com, FYI.

Do you have a nearby place that processes and digitizes film? I’ve heard that you can now bring in a roll of film and have a CD of hi-res images in an hour many places, and for less than it used to cost to get prints for a roll of film. Is it true?

Comment on A test of video embedding by Kepler

Kepler — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:15:42 +0000

Whoopee! Finally video embedding works for me. I guess I shouldn’t have waited so long to upgrade my WordPress installation.

Comment on In Your Eyes by Kepler

Kepler — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:23:59 +0000

You’re thinking of Jeffrey Gaines — he was semi-big five or six years ago. Kind of a Lenny Kravitz type, except with talent (zing!) You know, dreadlocked rocker guy, real hard-pushed voice, pretty simple guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WtavVdBCk

I was just playing his version (both listening to AND playing it myself) last night. It’s really a great version of the song — a song with that much great percussion is hard to do acoustically without stripping all the life out of it, but Jeffrey Gaines puts enough back in that it works. Doesn’t hurt that his voice is slightly similar to Peter Gabriel’s, too.

Comment on In Your Eyes by Doug

Doug — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:51:07 +0000

A trip down memory lane. I love that song. The live album from the Secret World tour has a nice recording of the Yousou N’Dour version.

There’s a guy who does an acoustic-guitar version that I really like. I don’t remember his name — it’s on a compilation album from some NPR station (in Portland?) that I can’t find at the moment.

Comment on Thanks, Sarah! by Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:05:22 +0000

you betcha!

Comment on Happy election day! by Kepler

Kepler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:03:54 +0000

Well, er, “barack,” I would argue that both parts of that are wrong. Hope you voted too.

Comment on Happy election day! by barack

barack — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:07:24 +0000

Enjoy your higher taxes and the Socialism!!

Comment on A great article by Doug

Doug — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:42:11 +0000

Hi Tom!

Man, the comment fiasco on my blog sucks. I’ve totally lost touch with my readers — both of you. (Hi Mom!) Anyway, I’m hoping to get a chance over the weekend to nuke the comment database and get back in business.

Comment on Um, what? by Doug

Doug — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:34:47 +0000

Hey Tom, just surfing the net during a break here … I’m in Korea through Wednesday. On beautiful Jeju island now, spending all day in a conference room. Many golf courses here, no time to play. But Tuesday afternoon I’m going on a tour of Sangumburi Crater and the lava caves near here.