Today’s Links (15/04/08)

• Epson R-D1: Sensor clean­ing
  I need to do this - my pin­hole body­cap has revealed quite a bit of dust on the sensor.
• Through the Viewfinder: A Tuto­r­ial
  I assume this would be next to impos­si­ble with a rangefinder? I might try to cobble somet­ing together involv­ing an old twin lens reflex, a couple of close-​up fil­ters on my 50mm and a precisely-​measured ‘smoke­stack con­trap­tion’. Or just take pin­hole through-​the-​viewfinder photos for extra silliness.
• Fire Eagle : Gallery - Get­ting Started
  There are now some Fire Eagle apps listed, a couple of which I’d not seen before. If anyone wants an invite, I have 4 going spare (it’s a poten­tially very useful ser­vice that lets you tell the web where you are).
• city­of­sound: Mon­o­cle: design notes
  Fas­ci­nat­ing look at the design of Monocle’s site.
• Can the Cell­phone Help End Global Poverty?
  Piece pro­fil­ing Jan Chipchase of Future Per­fect fame.
• Where have all the cheap, simple, low-​cost, long-​battery-​life mobile com­put­ers gone? « gilest
  It seems to me that the ‘long-battery-life’ bit is the main prob­lem. Why is bat­tery tech­nol­ogy so shit? (Or is it that screens, chips, etc. are too power hungry?)
• Sunday Herald: Around The World In 80 DVDs
  Nice long-​running world cinema fea­ture by Alan Mor­ri­son. Shame the web­site is lag­ging behind the newspaper.
• The Art World Is Often Accused Of Being Aloof And Too Out Of Touch For The Public To Engage With The Glas­gow Inter­na­tional Fes­ti­val Of Con­tem­po­rary Visual Arts Aims To Change That But It Wont Be Easy (from Sunday Herald)
  Barry Didcock’s intro to the Gi. Quite a head­line, that!
• Glas­gow inter­na­tional - A. Vermin
  Crack­ing show in the base­ment of the State Bar on Hol­land Street.
• Luke Fowler: Winner of the First Jarman Award for Artist Film-​Makers
  Con­grats Luke!
• six twenty nine on Flickr - Photo Shar­ing!
  A nice, very Flickr-​ish exam­ple of the ‘long photo’ idea the site is using to jus­tify the lim­i­ta­tions on video uploads. Bonus: it’s a sunset, not a cat!
• Voigt­lander 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar
  My next lens…

Posted at 12am on 15/04/08 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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