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Travel Photography–a marriage of words and pictures

A view from Big Bear mountain after a fresh snowfall. Captured on Fujichrome 100. Nikon F5. 50mm lens. Exposure was 1/500s at f11.

Every adolescent’s dream is to travel, see exotic places. So mine was no different.

I joined Singapore Airlines when I was 18, right after what would be in the 11th grade of high school here in the US, “O” levels in the British system of education.

That was when I caught the shutterbug, while traveling on the airline’s dime. Continue reading Travel Photography–a marriage of words and pictures

Digitizing Analog Video with your Mac

Connecting the hardware with Mac, external hard drive and vcr for digitizing

A while ago I created a tutorial on how to digitize analog videos using your Mac. Recently I had a client bring some VHS tapes which he wanted to include in a powerpoint presentation.

You would think once you’ve done it you can easily fire everything up, make all the necessary connections easily without a problem. Well, it turned out I couldn’t.

After a bit of fiddling, I got it to work. Always points to poor documentation by the Taiwan manufacturer of the bridge I bought.This piece of hardware DAC-100 is from Data Video.

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