I've been trying to get a reliable answer on using CVS to backup my digital images to a linux box on the LAN and/or an external drive or RAID array. I'm certain there are more than a few solutions, but I have yet to find them.
What I have found is Using Digital Still Photography Devices with GNU/Linux, which has lots of info about mounting USB devices and media readers onto your linux filesystem.
This is all in preparation of my move into a larger room in this house, where I'll be able to set up my linux box. Right now it l
I'm not going to lecture about the wide variety of M42 screw-mount lenses. They're all over the place. You can get some amazing lenses, and for very little money.
What I'm going to talk about here is the practicalities of hooking one up to your Pentax *ist DS digital SLR.
First things first: In order to use an M42 lens, you'll need a K-mount to M42 adaptor. Pentax sells these, and I think there are a few other companies making them. I found mine at Jim's Used Cameras in Seattle, Washington. Search ebay and you'll find a dozen hits. Not hard to find.
The adaptor is a ring that snaps into the body's K-mount. Then you screw your fantabulistic M42 lens into the ring and start taking pictures.
Computer Darkroom is a decent collection of tutorials dealing with digital photography. Including a bunch of good info about Photoshop's File Browser.
I find it interesting that there are former ammo factories in, say, Belarus, which have been converted into plants for making photographic lenses.
The lenses are cheap and of decent quality (most of the time), and perfect for a good-enough-ian such as myself.
I don't have any of these things, but here's a review of the Peleng 8mm/3.5 fisheye lens. I'm interested in this lens because it's a relatively cheap way to get into immersive QTVR without taking a zillion overlapping pictures.
Also many links from that page to other articles about this lens specifically, and the Russian lens phenomenon in general.
Discovering groundglass.ca, which is a pretty spiff photoblog.
See this, and this. And this. And the rest of it, too.
I'm getting a lot of referrers from Google, looking for the Fremont Solstice Parade 2005.
Well, I just wanted to point out that my pictures of the Fremont Solstice Parade 2005 are linked from here. :-)
Also, a separate photo album for the west African dance troupe I was there to 'cover.'
So there ye go.
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