Author Archives: Anil

Camera overkill.

EOS 1D s Mark III

Many friends and relatives said I was mad when I bought my D80. Now look at this:

Canon EOS 1 Ds Mark III (the number of words in the name scares me) that belongs to a relative. Apparently he had (quite) some money to spare. My D80 had a chance to take a picture of that beast. I dont know how much it costs (did not dare to ask him either).

Specs:

More pixels than your PC can tolerate, More Autofocus areas than you can manually select (comfortably). Detailed specs on dpreview (clicky).

LCD display – selection PITA.

I’m dying to get an LCD display for my home – just that I can’t think of getting the ‘wide’ screen variety which every body is fond of now. Firstly you would find only 0 to 1 model of LCD display with 4:3 aspect offered by most companies and they are too expensive. Viewsonic VP2030b and Samsung 214T cost close to 24 and 50K (!!) respectively. Googling hints me viewsonic is half the price as it uses the conventional panel than those PVA panels (like 50-1lakh prof. LCD displays).

From an Apple

The second apple mac that I am laying my hands on. This one is a MacBook pro. First impression : Nice looks. Tried safari and this blog on it (thought it might look like what IE had done to the face in ACID test 2). To my relief its not bad. A couple of tricks (that put a smile on your face) that the mac does are the magnetic charging dongle (which acts like those freaky alien limbs which hauls itself to the host; though this one just snaps automagically) and ‘white’ screen flash technique for the webcam photograph. The bad part is that “ps -ef” command shouted about wrong option (ps ax works).