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人鯊誌 from alexhofford on Vimeo.
Interesting movie. One small thing however: a part (from ~1:40 to 2:20) shows a few primitive fishermen doing small-scale shark-hunting and fin-cutting, which I think probably would not convince anyone that sharks are being over-hunted. This may be a little confusing, and I think it is important to get the [...]

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有同事最近歐遊，目的地之一是法國Avignon亞維農。我在2006年時到此一遊，印像深刻。同事在亞維農的相片不多，我有點失望，故此借這個機會重溫一下我自己當時所拍的，並將選輯放上網。

Euro Trip 2006 – Avignon

我對這個地方印像特別深刻，主要是因為它有趣的歷史。謹附主要是從維基百科上抄來的「功課」給大家參考。
教皇宮建築物內不准攝影，入口處的職員沒有講清楚庭院可以攝影，只管叫我們寄存相機，所以我一進去所有相機已被繳械，沒有在宮內拍攝。
當時城中正值「亞維農節」（著名一年一度的藝術節），各個表演單位日間在城內免費公開表演，吸引大家買票晚上進場。可惜的是，當時我們安排不到在城內的酒店住，結果在城外幾十里的一間酒店落腳，錯過了夜遊及晚上表演。

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In the film ages, armed with my faithful and soulful Pentax LX and FA*24/2 I was as happy as a clam. The package was solid, easy to use, relatively small and for my travel use (I was never into long range zoom lenses), versatile.
My present rig is a Nikon D300 and 18-70 kit lens. The package [...]

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Me and the Lady have just spent a long weekend in Beijing, and I have had the opportunity to use a friend’s newly bought Canon 500D. It’s compact and very light. The camera is snappy and the built-in flash works rather well as fill-in in standard program mode. Nice.
The only complaint I can think of [...]

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A Tribute to KODACHROME.
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,
Oh yeah I got a Nikon Pentax camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
KODACHROME (K64) was slow, but it has this most distinctive and pleasant colour palette, [...]

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Wetland Park 20090508

Jasper’s off today, so I took him again to the Wetland Park. 
Bumped into old friend from the NPC-era, Wilson Lee. He’s now a professional photographer doing rather well.
The Nikon binos I got for myself and Jasper are both very good, and very useful.
I got Jasper and myself our own “Nature Journal”, for jotting [...]

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寄件者 Random Photos

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We went to the Wetland Park again on Friday. Took the Lady’s ancient Nikkor 70-210 (something like this, but the older non-D version) from her college days with me to shoot some birds and bugs.

I have never done much nature photography. It is hard, takes a lot of equipment, time, patience and luck.
I think the good [...]

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Review記事本，方驚覺2008年尾山西河南之旅的資料，包括隨團「史官」的日誌，幾位團友和自己所拍的照片和錄像等等一大堆，完全未曾整理！事實上，在河南二里頭和偃師兩地招待我們的兩位中國社科院考古專家，亦已到港在掃管笏工作了幾個星期。之前與他倆相聚，幾星期之後又會再聚，甚善。
這個河南山西之旅十分之有意思，因為此地為夏商周三朝政治中心和統治階級的主要活動範圍，有極大量考古資料和出土文物可供研究。上次行色衝衝，所以很希望可以再到當地一遊，作一專門考古之旅，由西安一路向西，經三門峽，洛陽，鄭州，安陽等地，行程十日左右，定必快哉！
另外，在五月的粵東之旅前夕，我覺得有需要為每次考察在旅途上所收集的資料作一個比較有系統的處理，並加入適量的文字記錄及其他的metadata（例如GPS資料｝。
如果能夠設定一個workflow，在每次回來之後，應該不需要花很多時間就可以將資料處理。

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I picked up a Pentax K20D for cheap on Friday, and have been playing with it today.

It is supposed to be very good, and indeed has some very interesting features.
It is very well made, and is fully weather-sealed.
Image quality is not quite up to my expectation. I understand that the standard setting needs some tweaking.
My [...]

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五月五日至七日。 這裏有往年當天的記錄。今年戲棚也是在恆貴街和海榮道交界的政府空地。留意舞獅地點在三聖邨，離戲棚有十、十五分鐘的路程。
神功戲劇目及一眾演員。

寄件者 2009三洲媽天后誕

神功戲五月三日晚上七時十五分開始。

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Hardware H.264 encoder. Link via site and site.
Mac only thou, and I now use Sony Vegas Studio (Windows) for editing my AVCHD clips. The workflow still sucks.
(Looking at Elgato’s sales pitch, I think it is a little bit misleading. This USB dongle only helps in encoding the movie clip for final consumption. Importing the clip from the [...]

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I’ve put a couple of movie clips I took of archaeologists giving us a tour of the Yanshi and Erlitou sites as 480×272 MP4 files on the Internet for viewing by a few friends. James pointed out that some parts of the clips were “choppy”. I thought it was moderate frame-dropping caused by slow CPU, [...]

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2009年滘西洲洪聖誕醮

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寄件者 2009-02-08 SZ

在深圳博物館的鹽田的模型。

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2009 Spring Festival, Guangzhou
We went to Guangzhou with my parents and a friend during the Spring Festival. Great place, and I think my parents enjoyed the trip. We stayed at the White Swan Hotel, which unfortunately was a bit stuffy and the duvets were too think, so none of us really slept all that well. [...]

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Got my Fuji GA645 out and cleaned it up last night. Went out during lunch just now to get a couple of CR123A batteries (they last ages on this camera) and some 120 film (2 rolls of Fiji Pro 400H and 5 rolls of Kodak BW400CN). I didn’t get any slide films ‘cos I want [...]

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Just received info from the fine folks at Boinx on their new wicked software, BoinxTV. Simple description is, “TV station in a box”. A decent iMac or MacBook Pro, a couple of Firewire-equipped video cameras, a big green screen, some lighting, and you are in business.
Pity the system software on my ancient iMac Core Duo is too [...]

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I have been using Picasa on Windows to manage my photo library, and got around to try to geotag the photos I took for my Inner Mongolia trip. After some Googling, I found GeoSetter, as reviewed by the excellent Free Geography Tools website.
In Geosetter, you specific a directory where a bunch of GPX (or other [...]

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