A dog cannot be a hypocrite, but neither can he be sincere
Every now and then I get the shits with thesis work and wander around campus with a camera, taking candid shots of trees and buildings. The photo below is the first in a series entitled "Ian gets the shits with thesis work and wanders around campus with a camera". The photo itself is called "The stone tower of ultimate despair".
I'm strongly considering buying a digital SLR camera duty free on my way to Sverige, or possibly in Singapore. Yass yass yass, there's some fine cameras on the market these days.
Upsides of SLRs: Much better image quality, a wide selection of nice lenses from super-duper-telephoto (should I ever need to photograph a bee's dick from orbit) to ultra-hyper-wide-angle, that only anorexic midgets can use without inadvertantly photographing themselves.
Downsides: Underwater housings are big, bulky and massively expensive (~$2-3k just for the housing), and my strobe won't sync with them.
Above downside is mooted somewhat by the fact that all water in sweden is actually solid (technical term: "ice", look up your old chem textbooks, folks), negating need for said housing, but requiring purchase of pick-axe and shovel.
Here's a photo of some happy chappies from Soelvi's dive club in Norway:
Update: speaking of Norway, my supervisor just suggested I might like to give a talk on coordinated control of unmanned vehicles (something like that paper I showed you Mat, although hopefully a bit stronger, scrg folks: the one I was working on for CDC) at a workshop being organised for next May in Tromsø, latitude 69º39' N - well north of the arctic circle. Wikkid. The guy running the workshop is Henk Nijmeijer, of Nijmeijer and van der Schaft fame.
While I'm uploading photos, here's one of my Dad enjoying Genghis-Khanesque hospitality in the far far west of China, at a place called Urumqi, where they're building an observatory with his help.
Guess which one is my dad (go on, you've got a one in three chance)
I'm strongly considering buying a digital SLR camera duty free on my way to Sverige, or possibly in Singapore. Yass yass yass, there's some fine cameras on the market these days.
Upsides of SLRs: Much better image quality, a wide selection of nice lenses from super-duper-telephoto (should I ever need to photograph a bee's dick from orbit) to ultra-hyper-wide-angle, that only anorexic midgets can use without inadvertantly photographing themselves.
Downsides: Underwater housings are big, bulky and massively expensive (~$2-3k just for the housing), and my strobe won't sync with them.
Above downside is mooted somewhat by the fact that all water in sweden is actually solid (technical term: "ice", look up your old chem textbooks, folks), negating need for said housing, but requiring purchase of pick-axe and shovel.
Here's a photo of some happy chappies from Soelvi's dive club in Norway:
Update: speaking of Norway, my supervisor just suggested I might like to give a talk on coordinated control of unmanned vehicles (something like that paper I showed you Mat, although hopefully a bit stronger, scrg folks: the one I was working on for CDC) at a workshop being organised for next May in Tromsø, latitude 69º39' N - well north of the arctic circle. Wikkid. The guy running the workshop is Henk Nijmeijer, of Nijmeijer and van der Schaft fame.
While I'm uploading photos, here's one of my Dad enjoying Genghis-Khanesque hospitality in the far far west of China, at a place called Urumqi, where they're building an observatory with his help.
Guess which one is my dad (go on, you've got a one in three chance)
posted by I-Rock at 9:00 AM
6 Comments:
I'm not sure that you can consider someone who wrote "Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems" famous...
is it the donkey?
hah ha ahahahahahha.
I despaired at that block for 2 years myself... then I transferred to art collage for a more pointless degree - suckers! ergh.
When do you finish Ian? Hold tight little guy!
Have you being doing some camera research? May I have your advice? ($600 budget, SLR not necessary?)
alex: Have you read it? It's a rip-snorter!
kt: ha!! The wit!! well, half of it.
(snigger)
Plan to have a draft in my supervisors hands at the end of this week (alex will be able to judge whether this has happened by observing my levels of relaxation at her b'day do) and then submit the final a couple of weeks after that.
Everything all wrapped up by the end of August.
Cameras: kt, at that price point, the dark secret of the camera industry is that almost all brands (except canon) use the same sensors, which are all made by sony, and essentially the same lenses. Canon makes some of their own sensors. Pick whichever has the features you want, and/or the sexiness you desire, from any reputable brand (canon, olympus, sony, fuji, nikon, minolta, panasonic) and you'll be thrilled to bits with it. Or if you're not, its unlikely you would have been with any others.
xo
p.s. the website Digital Photography Review has arse-loads of information and tests of the various models.
p.p.s. I am holding the little guy tight!
What?
cheers!
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