#camera

DIY Helmet Cam for Snowboarding & Skiing

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I ded­i­cate the fol­low­ing video to the homie Keno for sure! Haha…

He’s been think­ing of doing some­thing like this and usu­al­ly holds his Pow­er­shot with his right hand while going down the slopes. The only prob­lem with his tech­nique is that it some­what hin­ders his bal­ance. One the oth­er hand, the only down side to prob­a­bly hav­ing the cam­era on your head is that you real­ly got to be care­ful of how you ride, and not get into some sort of face plant, aka. kiss­ing pow­der =)

Here’s a live shot of it in use:

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Source via Greyscale Goril­la.

PS. Hor­ry cow—it’s still dump­ing in Tahoe since last week’s storm. Check out the con­di­tions via Snow Bomb.

The 70–200 Conversation

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So, I haven’t done one of these in a while. I was con­vers­ing with Juan about what gear to pack for my Big Island trip next week. Com­ing up with at least these:

  • 20D + SD400
  • 17–35/2.8–4
  • 28–75/2.8
  • bat­ter­ies + charg­ers

He then sug­gest­ed to bring the 70–200 as well. Now, for those non-shut­ter­bug geeks, this lens is huge and heavy but it packs a wal­lop.

Any­ways, here’s how it end­ed:

juan: (-) addi­tion­al weight w/ the above pack
juan: ?!?!?!?!?!?
juan: what good is work­ing out if you can’t car­ry an extra 10 pounds?!
juan: wuss
juan: I’ll fight you
*** “juan” signed off at Wed Jul 26 00:39:08 2006.

Oh man, that cracks me up HA! This guy keeps it real =p

The New Canon 30D

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Canon 30D

As I was doing my late-night news roundup, I stum­bled upon some inter­est­ing new Web 2.0 apps. The top two that are on my list to beta-test are Fold­era and Fly­spy. I can’t wait to see how Fold­era works, it seems that it’ll be use­ful at work and at home. As for Fly­spy, this thing should make it eas­i­er for those of us “remote­ly” work­ing from home. I hope it saves me a ton of cash so I may have some left for some oth­er good­ies lat­er this year. Not to men­tion, a cou­ple of expens­es dur­ing my big trips (Hawaii, Japan and P.I.).

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what i want for christmas

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christ­mas is a time for giv­ing. i just want peace and hap­pi­ness to all, young and old. no hat­er­a­tion as ms. blige (if you’re nasty) would say… but u‑n-i-t‑y as ms. lat­i­fah (if you’re nasty) would say.

how­ev­er, on the “mate­ri­al­is­tic” side of things… i’d like to get this bad-mofo: canon EOS dig­i­tal rebel. so get on it. i’ll be your best friend.