This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. The books showed up yesterday. Although FedEx did load them on a smaller truck than the 18-wheeler they tried to use Friday, the truck is still pretty big: First thing off the truck is the mailers, which are shipped… [Read More]
Archives for October 2016
Sony a7RII current draw
There have been some complaints about the Sony a7RII battery drain when turned off. There have always been complaints about how fast the camera drains its pint-sized batteries when the camera is on. So far, the discussions have been usually qualitative, and, even when quantitative, not reproducible. I thought that there was probably a way… [Read More]
A book report — Semis & ISBNs
This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. On Thursday, I got a call from FedEx in Salinas, saying that they had my books, and wanted to arrange a delivery time. We agreed on Friday afternoon, and also agreed that they’d load the books in a bobtail… [Read More]
Sony a7RII maximum continuous frame rates
I’m going to be doing some synthetic slit scans with the Sony a7RII, and I needed to figure out what frame rate the camera could sustain on a continuous basis, so I did some testing. Thinking that others might be interested in the results, I’m sharing them here. Test conditions Sony a7RII Lexar Professional 1000X (150… [Read More]
And the winner is…
Yesterday, I posted all the images that I entered in the Center for Photographic Art’s 2016 Juried Exhibition. Here’s the one the juror picked: This is an image of a bunch of Pez dispensers in the window of a shop in Santa Fe. It has been extensively reworked at the hands of a Matlab program… [Read More]