Photons in my eyes

Saturday, April 30, 2005

First Cut

It's Alex's first hair cut. It's expensive! Is it good? Well, I honestly don't think it's that good to worth HK$98.

Friday, April 29, 2005

Snap 鏡

近期試用 24/2 鏡頭配 DSLR 去 SNAP, 但我的鏡頭是銀色的, 實在太耀眼了. 就用黑色膠紙把它封起吧!

Bad news for all digital SLR users: the camera manufacturers are starting to code their meta data within their RAW files. Which means, all third party software will have to do the de-coding works before they can get the important data to get the picture out from the RAW files. You are right that the original software will comes with all digital SLRs, but think about the following points:
- Computer OS changes over time. Your original program may not be usable after a few generation changes of OS. Are you sure your camera manufacturer will still support raw files of your camera model at, say, 10 years later? Worse, are you sure the camera manufacturer will still in business?
- Most original software run slowly, and the workflwo is horrable, especially if you have a large batch of RAW files to convert.

OPENRAW is a new organization pushing camera manufacturers to document their RAW files, so to make sure 3rd party developer can easily support every camera. That really makes your RAW file more accessable by different program, platform, and over time. Go there to have a look. They have a mailing list and is now asking members around the world to send press release to their local media. Help them if you can.

Friday, April 15, 2005

不再沈醉

曾是我最愛的相機, 完完全全是一部 photographer's camera. 但既然已有一後時間不再用, 也應該出讓了. 看那有緣人能善用它吧.

Friday, April 01, 2005

大澳美食

上週未假期去了大嶼山渡假屋兩天，順道跑了去大澳嘗一嘗著名的海韻菜館。真的美味。他們的走地雞，紅燒豆腐及炸芋頭素魚相當出色，價錢也不貴。值得推！

Thursday, March 31, 2005

天氣熱嗎?

近期看了 Michael Crichton 的最新作品 "State of Fear". 個人認為是該作者眾多小說中最精彩的一本. 書的主題明顯地帶有政治色彩: 書中引用了大量的研究資料並引其出處, 還加入大量的圖表等, 目的就是想反證全球暖化並沒有足夠的證據; 相反地地球可能跟本並沒有暖化的跡象!!

由於好奇的關係, 我透過香港天文台的網頁建議他們在網頁中加入有關地球暖化及氣侯突變的討論. 本以為沒有回應, 沒想到竟然在第二天便收到了具名的電郵回應, 說會與其他同事商量一下. 今天更收到另一個的電郵, 當中頗詳細地建議了不同的網頁參考, 亦說會在天文台網頁中加強有關資料. 其認真的態度確是值得一讚.