My parents and I took my kids to the Dewberry Farm this weekend. The kids loved it!
I took a TON of photos, which I have not done in a long time. Reminds me how muchI love being behind the camera.. Although there’s not one picture of me.. One day the kids will have all these pictures of themselves growing up, but none with their dad, ’cause he’s always behind the camera!
Was a long day but we had a blast. I’m still worn out 24 hours later hahaha.
Well I’m back from my trip to the Dominican Republic. I plan on writing up a big photo essay on the trip, I’ve just been backed up with work moving in the next 30 days! I’ll get to it soon!
In the mean time my quick flickr set from the trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedaddy/sets/72157605441066207/
Thanks Gene Arganese for being a wonderful host and a pure pleasure to be around!
The wedding went great! I took about 1000 pictures! Can’t wait to get home and check them out. It’s going to be a big job to get them all sorted and edited. I’m thinking about writing a shopping cart application with PayPal API to allow people to purchase and print online. I’ll write about what I come up with.
Four o’clock Houston traffic on I-10 really sucked… We arrived in San Antonio at about 8pm, about an hour late.
Ate dinner with the family and I busted out the camera with the new Stroboframe Camera Flip Flash Bracket
Breakfast is at 9:30am tomorrow, will probably be getting up for that, since I am shooting Sammi’s Uncle’s wedding tomorrow. Need to eat well so I can be on my toes for good shots. Hopefully I’ll get mass quantities of caffeine so I won’t drag my feet.
Kylie is getting so big. We went on a walk she had to wear her “dress up” shoes.. Of course she ended up taking them off, like I told her she would.
I’ve had a flickr account for a while now, but I’ve finally start of using it. It’s basically replaced my photoblog. You can see my flickr page here.
Reviewed by Michael Palmer
The Epson Perfection 2400 scanner is a USB 2.0 film/slide/print scanner for
the “Pro-sumer Market”.
I would only say the Perfection 2400 is a “Pro-sumer” scanner because it has
the ability to scan slides and negatives. Most casual users would only want
to scan prints.
I needed a new scanner that would still do prints, but also do negatives
and slides on a budget, while also supporting both Linux and Windows.
The Perfection 2400 comes standard with a good feature set.
Pulling the scanner out of the box, the first thing I noticed was the good
packing job, they used a ton of tape to protect the scanner from shipping problems.
Everything was real quick and simple. First, flip the ‘storage’ switch on the back to
unlock, then plug the light-lid into the scanner body,
next plug the power into the wall and into the body, last plug in the USB cable.
Windows:
Windows setup consisted of :
1. Put in CD
2. Follow directions by hitting next a bunch
3. Software loads and works
Image via Wikipedia
This was a super-simple setup, less hassle than WinAmp.
Linux:
Running Gentoo at home, things are super easy to install. To install this scanner, I did
need to recompile my kernel, currently 2.4.22. I needed to include “USB Scanner Support”,
in addition to the usual USB drivers necessary.
SANE: Next I just ran an ‘emerge xsane’ which takes care of all
the dependences. If I was running Slackware,
I would have downloaded both the sane and xsane packages from linuxpackages.net, or grabbed the source
and compiles according to the instructions in the README or INSTALL file.
Sane Setup was as easy as editing my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file and switching the port to “/dev/usb/scanner0″.
I’m not going to cover any more setup help, because I thought it was
super easy, If you are having problems, check some forums or something.
Right now, I’ve only got this: Sign Pic.
I will post more samples soon.
Epson meant for this scanner to only scan 35mm slides and negatives, however in Linux,
the software does not look for the transparency adapter when you are scanning using the
light-lid. I was able to get decent scans from 6×4.5cm negatives, but anything larger will
not fit. In windows, without the transparency adapter, the scanner sits for a while and then
will bring up an error.
The Epson Perfection 2400 is a great scanner for the money.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
I have to buy the Epson 3200 Photo, or locate an old (now discontinued) Perfection 2450.
A truck got hit by a train today while sitting on the tracks!
Nobody was hurt luckily. While listening to the driver talk to the local news channel, I picked up that he was sitting on the tracks and didn’t hear the train horn or the bells and lights. Crazy truck drivers.
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.
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