Sunday, January 15th

New uses for your digital SLR

Here's a wonderful short film created using the "burst mode" on a Canon 20D, which is a bit like my Canon 10D digital SLR. In burst mode the camera takes pictures for a long as you hold the shutter down, at about 5 frames/sec or until the buffer or flash card gets filled up.

Anyway, it's a wonderful technique and a wonderful film. It's probably also a good way to wear out your camera shutter, which has a finite lifetime - something like a couple hundred thousand exposures.
Jim on 01.15.06 @ 05:51 PM ET [link]


Tuesday, January 10th

ClustrMaps

While listening to a Scottish music weblog (I hate the term "podcast"), I noticed a map icon. I clicked on it and discovered ClustrMaps. This is a really cool and simple idea. I wish I had thought of it. You sign up with ClustrMaps (free for the basic service) and paste a few lines of HTML into your web page, then they track all accesses to your page. They will generate a world map with red dots of various sizes to indicate how many accesses to your web page there were from various parts of the world. I put it on my main page

Ooh! I got a hit from eastern Australia!

Of course, correlation of geographic location with IP address isn't perfect (GeoBytes locator placed me in Cambridge rather than Waltham, MA), it does a good enough job on the scale of a world map.
Jim on 01.10.06 @ 07:35 PM ET [link]



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