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23-MAR-2004	Olaf.dk

A slice of time*

In my shooting frenzy** at home today, where I took 268 photos in the course of 27 minutes, I also took
a shot like this one. I liked it, except for the hands of the clock, which were in the wrong position.
So I rearranged the hands and reshot this one a little later.

**I was suspecting that the power consumption of my camera was abnormally high, as at one point,
it ate three batteries in the course of about 100 images. To test it, I loaded the camera with a freshly,
fully recharged and not very used battery plus an empty 512Mb card. Started to shoot away, around
the house, and out the windows. As already mentioned, I filled the card with 268 photos taken in the
course of 27 minutes!! How is the camera doing? Still displaying full power on the battery indicator!

PS. Even though this is JPEG-compressed at level 10, weird things have happened to the original shades of white.

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
1/20s f/1.4 at 50.0mm iso100 hide exif

Full EXIF Info
Date/Time	23-Mar-2004 15:45:31
Make	Canon
Model	EOS 10D
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	50 mm
Exposure Time	1/20 sec
Aperture	f/1.4
ISO Equivalent	100
Exposure Bias	1.00
White Balance	(-1)
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality	(6)
Exposure Program
Focus Distance

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Olaf.dk		24-Mar-2004 21:13
Karl P: Yeah I know, but I've never seen it so clearly before at level 10. I guess almost-white is more revealing than other colors... Victor: Thanks, I've never used the PNG file-format before. How does that compression work, do you know? Also, will people be able to see PNG-files as photos in their browser? - And - to answer your question: No, in fact I don't own any IS-lenses. It actually happened, when I retested the camera after it came back from the second round of AF-calibration (first time they made it worse than it was to begin with). I was suspecting that they had squeezed a wire or something, when reassembling the camera. This was almost three months ago. I haven't noticed any unusually high power consumption since then, but then, I haven't had any real long shooting sessions like that either. I think the warranty on the repair is three months, so I had to make sure that my camera was OK, power-consumption-wise, before the three months were up. Luckily, my AF-woes seem to be over! For now anyway, who knows what's going to happen next time I buy a new lens? Ed: Yes, I know what you mean about Bauhaus. I don't know of a specific clock-face designed by any of the Bauhaus crowd - do you? If there is such a thing (which there probably is), I think it would be even simpler than this one, the lines and hands being straight - not tapered and obliquely pointed - and without the holes in the hands. Roberta: Thanks! I can't take all the credit - some must go to the designer of the clock (not anybody I know the name of or anything)!

Canon DSLR Challenge		24-Mar-2004 03:20
Olaf, Crisp and clean. Simple and effective. Roberta

Canon DSLR Challenge		24-Mar-2004 01:15
Bauhaus forever! -Ed Hahn

Canon DSLR Challenge		23-Mar-2004 20:27
This one probably would have compressed well as a PNG image. BTW, when your battery was wering down, were you doing a lot of focusing using a lens with IS? That will wear down the battery faster than simply shooting a lot of shots. -- Victor

Karl P		23-Mar-2004 19:45
jpeg will always do that to flat fields of colour :) It's the way it works. Not really much you can do about it I'm afraid :)