Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Tips on organizing your computer multimedia files
Step 1
Acquire the data from your camera(s) and place it in a folder called 1-Transit.
This data is stored here until you act upon it.
Step 2
Sort the data. While you sort be sure to move to another folder called 2-Sorted
Here you can categorize, convert and process your information.
Step 3
Make a backup copy somewhere else and after doing so move files to a folder called 3-Save
This way you can quickly identify which data is already a copy versus data that needs to be copied
Step 4
Make a second copy and remove the originals or move to a folder called 4-Temp
This allows you realize some disk savings by removing without risk of lost data.
Please post comments, this is WIP.
- anony
Acquire the data from your camera(s) and place it in a folder called 1-Transit.
This data is stored here until you act upon it.
Step 2
Sort the data. While you sort be sure to move to another folder called 2-Sorted
Here you can categorize, convert and process your information.
Step 3
Make a backup copy somewhere else and after doing so move files to a folder called 3-Save
This way you can quickly identify which data is already a copy versus data that needs to be copied
Step 4
Make a second copy and remove the originals or move to a folder called 4-Temp
This allows you realize some disk savings by removing without risk of lost data.
Please post comments, this is WIP.
- anony
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Rocket Fuel Dump
While taking out the trash one night I noticed what I thought to be a VERY bright comet. Excitedly I tried to get online to identify. My family got excited if only by my excitement and upon returning I found it moved VERY far relative to the background stars. Confirming this with some binoculars I grabbed my camera, a Canon XTi with the following settings for the attached shot.
10sec
f/5.6
ISO 1600
200mm fl
The URL has an animated sequence in shockwave format which was taken with the same setup and these settings:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3z3ymndt0mn (~20MB in size)
10sec
f/4.5
ISO 1600
28mm fl
Keep in mind this is probably not an artifact as it was tripod mounted. You see a tree branch in the upper left that doesn't move from frame to frame and the object moves different than the hazy and clouds do!?
Could this be a glowing gas caused by a meteorite? Direction of the *object* was relatively in the NW of my local area and it seems that the 'tail' heads back to the zenith / east?
Time of sequence was ~2007-12-10T07:05:26 to 2007-12-10T07:12:41
My local lat & long is ~ 78W by 35N
Good reference: http://www.cloudynights.com
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