Reef flight | 20141002

Reef flight | 20141002 | 1-memo.com | Flying over the reef – video 1 minute, Caribbean Sea, Bonaire (Netherlands), 2004.
Video clip captured 10 years ago (Sep 19, 2004) using Sony T1 camera (no stabilization in camera available). Color correction Final Cut Pro X (no stabilization applied). Detailed camera info in yesterday’s ① memo 20141001 .

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Reef flight | 20141002

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Flying Filmmaker | 20141001

Flying Filmmaker | 20141001 | 1-memo.com | Diving image of Christmas tree tube worm (Spirobranchus Giganteus – NL Spiraal Kokerworm) underwater Caribbean Sea – Bonaire (Netherlands), 2004. Flying start of making video in 2004 using ultrathin Sony DSC-T1 .
Video became my primary focus 10 years ago – rather than still photography – when I started using the T1 from Sept 2004 … the first ultra-thin Sony T-series digital camera – build with the form factor of a mobile phone (with no lens coming out). More about the camera specifications and review below. I also bought an underwater housing for diving with the camera and that same month started using that camera while diving, driving a car on dirt tracks … everywhere for a first travelogue of a few weeks at the Caribean islands Bonaire and Curaçao.
It was a funny sight to see that little camera in underwater housing floating between the other huge camera’s in the large fresh-water tub on board of the diving boat used to travel to dive sites.
About 1 hour of video (3 GB) was captured with that camera those first 2 weeks using a few expensive 256 MB Sony ‘duo’ memory cards and ‘adventurous’ (problematic) file-transfer burning to CDs using the T1’s docking station and a diving-resort’s PC.

Specifications
The lens-system is folded entirely within the camera , even though that camera has a 3x optical zoom. So, basically working with that camera is comparable with nowadays phones like the iPhone. It captures clean video (SD – 640×480 pixels) with autofocus and auto-exposure and mono-sound.

Past and present – videography
I never did video before.
My first encounter with primitive video had started 1 year earlier (2003) when I started with digital photography, as described some weeks ago (in this ① memo album) in memos 20140722 , 20140801, 20140806.
First love was that likewise built ‘matchbox’ Konica Revio C2 camera. Next sound was possible with the Canon Powershot G3 camera.
Finally when I first watched an ice hockey clip made with that Sony T1 camera in a January 2004 ‘Steve’s DigiCams Review’ I knew that would be my first real little video camera. A quality build camera too I noticed June 2004 when Erik Herbonnet showed up with the T1 !
Ever since that T1, I kept using Sony T series cameras for daily use. I still use one today. However first as of Dec 2013 I ‘forced myself’ using an iPod touch first, and next bought an iPhone May this year and that’s what I have been using for daily picts and video since.

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Raging Fire | 20140915

Raging Fire | 20140915 | 1-memo•com | Heerenlogement building in Leiden, Sept 15, 1976.
In the early hours of Sept 15, 1976 the historic Heerenlogement buidling (1652 – Leiden , Holland) was on fire. I was living nearby then at the bottom of the ‘De Burcht’ (a 11th century shell keep). After midnight I was listening to music via headphones when I noticed the sound of the raging flames. I took my Asahi Pentax SLR camera and tripod and went up the hill of De Burcht to take pictures around 1.30 AM.
Image Michel van der Burg – scan of vintage print on silk-screened – grid – photo paper, making it difficult to scan and a lot of work to restore the image.

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Just before the fire it had been decided to start the restauration of this monument (once a ‘city inn’) as a future location for a new central public library. The attached scaffolding is showing in this picture.
Two weeks later a 17 year-old pyromaniac confessed having set fire to the buiding – he had actually helped that night extinguising the fire and getting coffee for the fire brigade. July 1980 the new public library moved in a the beautifully restaured Heerenlogement building. I – being a ‘poor’ student with a part time evening job – sold some negatives but not the copyright of my images 😉 for 400 dutch guilders (around $200) to the head of that library who planned to have a large print made for the boardroom … and, so I could have a short vacation in Normandie with my future wife and kids 😉 The official opening by queen Beatrix was in 1981.
The image below shows the front page and 1 page inside from the library pamphlet on the opening 11 june 1981.

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Out Of Service | 20140911

Out Of Service | 20140911 | 1-memo•com | In the morning of 9/11 2001 logistics forced me to officially announce a temporarily – 1 week – ‘out of service’ of our Leiden islet isolation and transplant center. Our center was started earlier that summer of 2001 at the Leiden University Medical Center. So, I decided to have a short vacation abroad – heaven, after being on call 24/7 almost non stop for years. Later that day at home, I was downstairs watching TV — because upstairs near my workroom the central heating was being replaced – when I saw the CNN breaking news about the plane crashing into the World Trade Center. That day would become a landmark in history and the course of my life.

Background image : Microscopy picture I took of purified human Islets of Langerhans – tiny clumps (size around 1/10 mm or 1/25 inch) of 10s to 1000s of cells that produce hormones like insulin – these cells are just visible when you enlarge this 50x microscopy picture : as tiny translucent ‘balls’ or ‘spheres’. The red color is from a stain that binds to the insulin cells.
Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x.

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Caption/Description: Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x. Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2004 M.P.M. van der Burg. All rights reserved. Digital Creation Date: 18 Nov 2004

References

Image published in : Transplantatie van eilandjes van Langerhans bij patiënten met diabetes mellitus type 1. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2005 1 januari;149(1) – URL https://www.ntvg.nl/system/files/publications/2005100120001a.pdf

Efficacy of the novel iodixanol-UWS density gradient for human islet purification (Presentation publ. Archive Org – michelvanderburg, 19990125 )
https://archive.org/details/EfficacyOfTheNovelIodixanol-uwsDensityGradientForHumanIslet

25 Years of the Ricordi Automated Method for Islet Isolation. Piemonti L, Pileggi A. in CellR4 2013; 1(1): e128. – URL https://www.cellr4.org/article/128

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Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821

Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821 | 1-memo.com | Great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ van der Burg was a water-miller 200 years ago (from 1811) on the ‘Noorddammolen’ (the North Dam Mill) of the “Oude Pijnackerse polder” (Old Polder of Pijnacker) in South-Holland. The Noorddammolen was demolished in 1861 (a few years after Pieter had died) when a steam pumping-engine was build for the job. This picture from around 1900 shows both the similar neighbouring water mills and the steam pumping engine : in the front first the Zuiddammolen (South Dam mill) – then the chimney of the steam pumping-engine at the site were that ‘Noorddammolen’ of Pieter used to be, finally the Noordmolen (North Mill).
Background on the Noorddammolen – That mill had been rebuild in 1577 after the original mill had been destroyed during the Spanish Siege of Leiden. Further note that Pieter had moved to another mill already in 1815. Image source / part of the info : molendatabase.org | Allemolens.nl.

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Pinhole Polder Windmill “Rooie Wip” | 20140816

Pinhole Polder Windmill “Rooie Wip” | 20140816 | 1-memo.com | Pinhole image today of the “Rooie Wip” poldermolen – the “Red Hollow Post” polder mill – used for water drainage (build in 1639) in Hazerswoude, South-Holland.
Camera : Olympus Micro Four Third – Pin hole cap f/128 aperture, 12m.
My grandmother , when young and living with her parents in Hazerswoude , would walk there to this polder mill every Sunday.
Note – my great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ was a water-miller at the nearby town ‘Pijnacker’ in the early 1800s. His first wind mill – the ‘Noorddammolen’ – was demolished after his death when it was replaced by a steam pumping-engine and later finally by an electric pumping-engine.
Just noticed 😉 it was Pieter’s birthday yesterday – born Aug 15, 1768.

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