Digital, Landscape, Nature → Dee estuary HDR
April 6th, 2009 by admin
An HDR image of a salt marsh and the Dee estuary taken from parkgate on the Wirral, looking towards Wales
Posts Tagged ‘image’
news → New look for system-x.info
February 23rd, 2009 by dan
System-X has now moved over to using wordpress, rather than a custom CMS, as I no longer had time to maintain the code of the old system due to work commitments. if you are looking for the old site you can find it at old.system-x.info
All of the old content is on there, but comments, tagging, and trackbacks have been disabled, so I no longer have to do any maintenance on it.
Most of the image based content from the old site has been migrated over to wordpress, and I am currently working on porting over all of the text from the old site to the new wordpress site.
I’d be interested to know what people think of this change.
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Architecture, Digital, Landscape, Photo, trees → Speke Hall Grounds Hdr
January 30th, 2009 by admin
An HDR Image of the grounds at the front of Speke hall
Communist Cameras, Digital, Photo → Seagull205a
January 30th, 2009 by admin
The Seagull 205a is a fixed lens 35mm rangefinder produced in the mid to late 1970′s in the Peoples Republic of China at the original Seagull factory in Shanghai. It is a fully manual camera with no automation at all, and doesn’t have a light meter built in, meaning that for accurate exposure one needs skill at judging lighting conditions and appropriate settings, or an external lightmeter.
The lens is a Haiou-45, which has a focal length 38mm with a maximum aperture of f2.8, it produces very sharp and contrasty images, it also produces highly saturated colour in images taken with the camera.
Communist Cameras, Digital, Photo → Seagull4a109
January 30th, 2009 by admin
The Seagull 4A-109 TLR was designed and produced by the Shanghai General Camera factory – located in Song Jiang county in the Peoples Republic of China. It is a fully manual medium format twin lens reflex camera.
The 4A-109 has two fixed lenses, the bottom one is used for taking the image, and the the top one is used for composing the image and focusing on a fresnel screen at the top of the body, inside the fold up hood.
The taking lens is a 75mm Haiou SA-99 with a maximum aperture of f3.5, the top viewing lens is also a 75mm Haiou SA-99 but it has a fixed aperture of f2.8. Due to the camera using an leaf shutter inside the lens assembly, it can synchronise with a flashgun at any speed, up to and including the cameras fastest shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, making it very adaptable for flash photography.
Communist Cameras, Digital, Photo → Lomo
January 30th, 2009 by admin
The LOMO LC-A is a 35mm compact automatic camera manufactured in St. Petersburg from the early 1980s up until production ceased in 2005, to take a well exposed picture all you need to do is press the shutter release and wait for the camera to click twice, the images it takes have a certain dreamlike quality to them, thanks in part to the long shutter times it uses when light levels are low, it can produce extremely long exposures if there is very little light, and it responds instantly to changing light conditions, making it amazing in nightclubs where strobe lights produce spectacular effects.
The lens also contributes to the dreamlike quality of the images produced by the LOMO Kompakt Automat, the lens is a 32mm “Minitar 1″ f/2.8 lens which produces spectacularly colourful and highly saturated images and is a true gem of the lens designers craft.
