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Салют и STARORīga

November 19th 2009

Вчера вечером поехали на салют и заодно посмотрели в какие новые цвета оделась старая Рига, было здорово что Рига полна Латвийскими людьми, а не лысоватыми ирландцами или британцами.
Во время салюта рядом с нами в толпе, стояла молодая семья, дети у них были до 7 лет, была коляска и в ней стоял торт. Меня некоренного латвийца, [...]

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Tell me a story about London in 1 minute

May 29th 2009

Пока некоторые пишут длиннющие рассказы здесь и здесь, я же ясное дело ленивый как черт, вряд ли смогу из себя клещами вытащить так много слов и букв, как вытащили они, Большие люди. Могу попробывать фотографиями, может что-то от этого выйдет. Лондон таким ка был, как есть так и таким и остается, быстрым и стремительным, темноватым [...]

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RAW update

July 23rd 2008

I decided to store RAW images in the DNG, I sacrifice additional operations to get DNG file from camera, but get support by mostly available programs. At this moment I’m trying to use Aperture 2.
Today I discovered one great feature. Aperture 2 creates thumbnails for the files, once files are added to library. What do [...]

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Olympus E-520, fighting with RAW

July 22nd 2008

New camera – new headaches.
Recently I purchased my first DSLR, I decided to store photos in RAW.JPG is easier and faster way to store and save images from camera, in terms of HDD space it’s few times effective. But camera provides options to save in RAW, why should I use JPG then ?
RAW takes more [...]

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New camera

July 4th 2008

Yesterday, I get new camera – Olympus E-520. My old Canon Powershot was good and honestly made good pictures for 4 years. All modern products have usage time limit, 4 years for point and shot camera is very good result.
I had looong looong time to select my first DSLR. Nikon, Canon, Nikon, Canon, Nikon, Nikon. [...]

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Spring ! Only in Latvia

March 18th 2008

Real spring came to Latvia.
Today in the morning I went to work by car and was wondered, that 1/3 of cars were with 5 cm of snow. There was an idea, that this was extreme flashmob to go one day to work with layer of snow. Indeed there was snow in specific city districts, but [...]

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Money "blackhole".

October 22nd 2007

Do you know the main advantage of point and shoot camera (Russian and Latvian languages have more ironic meanings “мыльница” and “ziepju trauks” ) ? It is ready to use since camera is unpacked from the box. Top models for point and shoot cameras are very strong opponent for dSLR cameras (digital single lens reflex).
The [...]

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