Grizzly | 20141017

Grizzly | 20141017 | 1-memo.com | Close encounter on a boat with a Knight Inlet grizzly turning over rocks in search of crabs – British Columbia, Canada – June 14, 2002. Day trip into the Knight Inlet at the continent with a Tide Rip fishing boat from Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island. Captured at 115mm with the Olympus µ – Mju – ZOOM 115 compact camera on slide film lying down on the deck of that rocking boat.

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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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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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Ceiling Mirror Selfie

A flow of images passing by – here from Sportsman’s Inn, Killarney, Canada – during digital archiving while transferring some 30,000 copies of older – analogue – photographs and slides. And that’s not all – much more needs to be digitized. Of course many scans were made the regular way : using a flatbed scanner for prints, and a film-scanner for negatives and diapositives. But a digital camera can be very usefull for making copies ….
That digital Canon G3 that I mentioned in recent memo’s (August 1, 6, 7) was used as a daily camera between Aug 1, 2003 and the end of december 2005. The next 4 years that camera was still used but in a different role : that is, once in a while, for bulk copying photo prints in big albums that are difficult to handle on a flatbed scanner. Further because scanning of all slides was also taking so long …years .. a quick and dirty shortcut for making temporary copies of the remaining half of all my slides was used by taking photo’s with the G3 camera of those slides during projection on a screen.
The image shows the importing in iPhoto of a 1998 mirror selfie taken immediately after arrival in a hotel room in the Sportsman’s Inn, Killarney, Canada.
Comment : NO , at the time I was not aware of the dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken or his work and similar ‘Mirror above bed’ photograph .. that encounter would take another ~ 10 years.
Ceiling Mirror Selfie | 20140815 | 1-memo.com