Today I took 24 shots with the Minolta SRT-101 a camera designed in sixties.

- First. I’m not sure the camera is working at all. I got it from fleamarkt yesterday for 25 euros. To spend one hour in photo shotting w/o being sure that will take at least one shot. For a digital photographer that’s inimaginable .

- With the lenses attached, It is heavy, Damn heavy. The grip is veerey bad. Putting the two together and adding “no optical stabilization” I would be happy if any of the shots taken with 135mm x2 and x3 will be sharp enough, even was pretty sunny today.

- When you press the shutter, there are big chances that you move the camera.

- It is not so easy to focus on 135mm. With the 58mm is better though.

- You think 10 times before you take a shot. I spent 15 minutes to try to focus a bee in a tree with 135mm and the 2x Tube attached. I took 2 shots and I’m not sure if I succeeded.

Conclusion:
My recommendation for digital photographers wannabes.

They should pick such a camera at least one time and try to do some shots with it.

They will most likelly reconsider the digital photo shotting.

40 years ago, three human beings – with the help of many thousands of others – left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the July 16, 1969 launch of Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard. The entire trip lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours – but they were surely historic hours. Scientific experiments were deployed (at least one still in use today), samples were collected, and photographs were taken to document the entire journey. Collected here are 40 images from that journey four decades ago, when, in the words of astronaut Buzz Aldrin: “In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind”. (40 photos total)

via Remembering Apollo 11 – The Big Picture – Boston.com.

Undeva in Italia, mai exact in Bolzano, exista un Institut de Mumii, care, normal, ca orice institut de mumii se ocupa cu studiul mumiilor.

Ei bine, baietii astia au avut o idee. Sa ne lase si pe noi sa studiem o mumie pana la cel mai mic detaliu, cu o aplicatie gen Google Maps.

Asa ca, spor la lucru (click zoom view)

via troniu