Pretty sweet looking set-up of a wireless 7″ monitor off a Canon HDSLR camera. Photographer Robert Benson McGyver’d the wireless hook-up to output Live View video from his Canon 5DMkII to either a 7″ or 10″ monitor for viewing and pulling focus.
You can find his info about it at www.robertbenson.com/blog and you can even try to win one of these wireless monitors by embedding a video of his set-up on your website. See this blog post for an example of this 
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I got a fake receipt in email today saying I ordered some expensive shoes from Zappos.com
At first I thought for a millisecond, ‘what the!’ then I noticed that it must be a phishing email to get me to go to a website. Sure enough if I mouseover a link it shows a URL for the phishing site. And the prices don’t even add up for the price of the stupid shoes!
You would think that some computer person devilish enough to be pulling that kind of crap can do some simple math so the invoice looks right.
They did get my shoe size right although I think there might be a difference between men’s and women’s sizes and I’ll probably need an extra-wide instead of medium.
Amazing photos of a jet crash in Canada. The still photos reveal all.
http://tinyurl.com/298n2zk
Look at the nozzles on the jet’s engines. The port (left) nozzle is wide open indicating that he was really thrusting on that. The starboard nozzle is in the closed position meaning it flamed-out and wasn’t pushing any air through. Also when the plane crashes flames shoot out the port engine which was running but not the starboard engine which was off.
Then the video makes sense. The pilot was doing a low speed/altitude pass and lost the starboard engine. He tried to compensate but it wasn’t enough at that speed (you can hear the port engine whine in the video) and the plane banks starboard since the port engine is the only one running.
Here’s the video. http://tinyurl.com/38zfjmt
Did a photo shoot for the New York Times the other week up in Hawi. A beautiful home with a landscaped three acres and a view. The article says you can see Maui but it was late in the afternoon and cloudy so I must have missed it on that day. And no ocean sunsets here at this time of year.
So what’s your choice for $925K? Where would you rather live? Click on the image above for the article.
Last day at work.
I worked at the Honolulu Advertiser for about four months, had an internship there as a staff photographer while going to U.H. This was a a goofy, not for publication, going away photo for this gal. Can you name the folks in this photo? Off the top of my head I can name a couple but let’s see how good the memories are of my newspaper buddies are.
A friend gave me a memory card she found although it appeared blank because it was formatted erasing everything on it. Being the techie I am I ran a recovery application that recovered the images shot onto it.
Now the card needs to find its owner. I sent four images over to Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures and hopefully the owner or their family/friends will see the images and contact the site so we can mail the card off to the rightful owner.
I’m not going to reveal too much about the memory card except to say it was found in Hawaii but it looks like the images were taken somewhere else, maybe in New York?
Here’s one of the photos below. Recognize anyone?
Update: The camera that shot the photos looks like this below
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T1
Nancy Wilson of Heart at Aloha Stadium - 1979 Photograph © Copyright Baron Sekiya
I moved this month and along with it came going through box after box of stuff. Took a bunch of stuff to the Kea‘au Recycle and Reuse Center, some other stuff I just pitched and I came across this one big box still sealed in the wrapping paper of when I had it mailed from Oahu to the Big Island over a decade ago. I almost considered just pitching it too, I mean, if it’s that old and I haven’t even opened it what could be in there that’s important?
I decided to open up this time capsule of ‘stuff’ and have a look inside. What I found was packet after packet of photos, negative and slides that I had shot on Oahu. When I started getting a little serious about shooting photos I took a bunch at concerts. In those days you could shoot photos and even record some concerts on tape if you wanted without hassles.
This is the first concert I shot photos of. Heart opened for The Beach Boys at Aloha Stadium. This was on their Dog & Butterfly tour of which their album went multi-platinum.
I didn’t quite know what I was doing then photowise. I had finally learned what depth-of-field was and thought it was so important I shot everything stopped-down as much as I could but only after realized I had sacrificed a lot of shutter speed to do so on the Kodachrome 25 or 64 film I was shooting. So many shots have motion blur, this is one of the few that were fairly sharp.
I’ll bust out the slide copier again and post a photo of Nancy too.
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