Tag: digital

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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Fjord Cabin

Norway, Eidfjord. Nice shots made during my 1st month working with a Canon Powershot G3 digital camera (August 2003). Images during a trip in Norway of our cabin in Eidfjord Hyttegrend by the sea at the head of the Hardangerfjord, and mushrooms in Røisheim (see also memo 20140801 on the camera).
Fjord Cabin | 20140806 | 1-memo.com

Digital Canon Powershot G3 Camera

Friday August 1, 2003 – Today 11 years ago – took this first (test) picture late at night 1 AM with the great prosumer grade digital Canon Powershot G3 camera bought that same day … within 2 weeks after first starting digital photography with a very simple camera (see ① memo 20140722).
Image of the dutch newspaper NRC taken with available light , handheld 1/8 sec , iso 75.
With this Canon G3 camera also movie clips (320 x 240) up to 3 minutes with sound are possible – however for scenes with a lot of detail (like a forest) video quality was poor .. because of image compression due to memory / card limitations those days.

The original three megapixel PowerShot G1 was announced at Photokina 2000 (September 2000), just less than a year later (August 2001) they announced the four megapixel PowerShot G2 with a fairly significant range of improvements. A year after that at Photokina 2002 Canon announced the new four megapixel PowerShot G3, with a sleek new body design, new control layout and image processor and four times optical zoom lens.
Digital Canon Powershot G3 Camera | 20140801 | 1-memo.com

Start Digital Photography July 2003

First encounter with digital photography July 28, 2003 at the Nort Sea beach in Katwijk aan Zee, Holland – I was very impressed at my first encounter with digital photography starting July 20th 2003 using a simple Konica Revio C2 camera. A lovely very small quick fixed focus camera for 1280×960 picts, which also allowed making 10 second video clips with no sound, my first experience with filming altogether.
Start Digital Photography July 2003 | 20140722 | 1-memo.com