About us
The site combines two hobbies of the author of the site, computing and photography.
For the technically minded:
Pictures are taken with an Olympus e-300 Digital SLR camera, normally using a Zuiko Digital f4‒5.6 70‒300mm zoom lens; equivalent to a 35mm film camera lens 140‒600mm or using a f3.55‒4.5 40‒150mm zoom lens; equivalent to a 35mm film camera lens 80‒300mm.
The camera is capable of taking about two and a half full resolution
JPGpictures per second and at typical shows around 1000 pictures are taken using up to 11GB of Compact Flash memory. About half are used depending on weather/light conditions.All pictures are printed on an archival quality Epson R800 8-ink printer. Picture processing to thumbnails and previews uses new automated software and publishing to the website to viewable takes about 5‒8 hours to complete once started. Printing of the finished product uses many of the most powerful features currently available in picture processing. A second-hand duplicate camera has recently been purchased for "closer" ups.