Homeland Security and Photography

Check out The Artist’s Statement, Ian Spiers, had a runin with local law enforcement and feds while taking pictures for a college assignment. It’s a shame that the government wastes their time on people who pose no threat, yet the real threatening people pass through the governments wings everyday.

July 12, 2004 · 1 min · 49 words · Michael Palmer

Epson 2400 Scanner

Well, I returned my Epson 2400, I decided to upgrade to the 2450, because the 2400 was not meant to handle medium format. I’d much rather use a scanner that for sure will handle all the medium format negatives my heard desires. I will review the 2450 and compare it to the 2400 when it arrives. I bought the 2450 on ebay refurbished with a 1 year warranty for about $170 (Circuit City sells it for $299 brand new). ...

January 15, 2004 · 1 min · 79 words · Michael Palmer

Epson Perfection 2400 PHOTO

Now that I’ve gotten into photography much more, I decided I needed a scanner that not only would do prints, but also my slides and negatives. Wrote up a quick review on it. Read it here.

January 5, 2004 · 1 min · 36 words · Michael Palmer

Ritz Digital Cams Hacked

As seen on slashdot, RevJim, has hacked the Ritz Point and shoot one time use digital camera! Time to buy one and see what it can do.

November 13, 2003 · 1 min · 27 words · Michael Palmer

Truck/Train Wreck

On the way to work, saw a truck got hit by a train, and I stopped for pics.

November 10, 2003 · 1 min · 53 words · Michael Palmer

26 Things #2

Cool! The new 26things project started! Time to get started now, before I get stuck doing it in the last 4 days like last time. 26 Things is a fun photographic game – no winners list, no prizes handed out. On a given date, 26 items are posted on the website and participants set out to photograph each item in their own interpretation. Read More : 26 Things : The Photographic Scavenger Hunt ...

November 2, 2003 · 1 min · 73 words · Michael Palmer

Canon Digital Rebel.

mmm. I want one. Now only if about $1100 fell out of the sky this morning. Canon has today announced the EOS Digital Rebel (US name) / EOS-300D (Rest of world) / Kiss Digital (Japan name). This six megapixel digital SLR is essentially a feature reduced EOS-10D in the EOS-300’s silver body (plastic). It will have a body only priced of $900 in the US, Read More : Canon EOS-300D / Digital Rebel: Digital Photography Review ...

August 29, 2003 · 1 min · 76 words · Michael Palmer

New photoblog

Ok, so I decided I’m going to start trying to get at least one good shot of something every day of the year. So I started a photoblog to record all of the images at. Check it out. => http://www.mikedaddy.com/photoblog

August 8, 2003 · 1 min · 40 words · Michael Palmer

26things Scavanger Hunt

Wow. Finally finished the 26things Scavenger hunt. Was a lot of fun. This is my favorite picture. Click the link from my project page at the top to view all submissions. As of right now, there are 166 entries.

August 1, 2003 · 1 min · 39 words · Michael Palmer

Cool Image From Doc

I was browsing Doc Searls’s Weblog and noticed this picture he took while flying over Colorado. That is a picture of Copper Mountain on the right, and you can even see Breckenridge on the left. Pretty cool that I’m seeing an ariel view of some place I went, once in my life thats about 1500 miles away from home.

July 3, 2003 · 1 min · 59 words · Michael Palmer