Still recovering from yesterday’s amazing events. Also worthy of note is that one of J.’s students has graduated on hardware solutions aimed at blind photography. I’m really curious, so I hope to get some more (perhaps hands-on) knowledge of that too. Experiences: it was mind-blowing to be able to review an image on the LCD using vOICe. It has a talking colour identifier built in, so I could use that to check for tonality, and I guess that if I set it for white, I can check exposure too, in a way. There’s a special setting for skin tone, so it might come in handy for portraiture too, but I’ll have to experiment. Other than that, I need to find a way to handle both the cell-phone and the camera. I’ve been thinking about taping the N82 to the 1Ds, but perhaps I can adopt a scanning-then-photographing workflow too. All in all, I was impressed, I had never suspected that it would expand my possibilities in quite this way. I found I could even check some of a photograph’s properties in Lightroom. This means it has an impact on my processing workflow too. So, a bit of experimenting and learning is in order. Formerly, when I bought a new camera, or a new lens, it was as if I was photographing with new eyes. Now it’s the same. The cool thing is that this is not an expensive adaptation, in fact, for most phones, it’s free. I consider that to be part of Peter Meijer’s genius. I’m using vOICe for traveling too. Yesterday, instead of having to search for an open train door, vOICe let me see it. I nearly started crying as I got on the train.
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exciting!
I am completely hyper
Maybe clip it on the the hotshoe like an old rangefinder, or the voigtlander optical viewfinders for wide angel lenses..
even the n82 is quite sizable: that would be quite a contraption. at the moment i’m wearing the n82 on a lanyard, not a very good solution, but at least I have my hands free. I could cut up a holster (or use a plastic one) and velcro that to the Ds. Hmmm, bastelstunde!
no, i’m rethinking this: i’ll use the sigma: can both hold that and the n82 in one hand. and its slowness doesn’t matter because I’ve got a 1 second lag anyway because of the scanning. I’m charging the battery NOW.
This is very exciting, both your discovery and the narrative of the discovery. I am looking forward to further installments.
I’m really wondering about the aesthetics of the images, once I’ve got a workflow figured out. I do know, that some sound patterns sound better than others. Lots of detail, in grid form, gives a rippling effect: large shapes have spikes of sound. I like the former pattern better. Variety, lots of things going on in the frame. That hasn’t changed, then. [smile]
After having seen your recent batch, style is consistent over the senses
Reminds me of Pete Eckert who said: I’m a visual artist; I just can’t see.