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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:46 AM

On Scanners, Cameras and their USB modes, and lifting the lid on how they can be scripted.

Long title, and I’m afraid I’ve been on a bit of a voyage of discovery about some of the things Windows 7 (and Vista) can do with photos and first thing I wanted to cover here was something I’ve been trying to ignore: Cameras have two USB modes. In “Mass
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:46 AM

Story of a photo.

My last two working days were spent at a team “off-site” – and these things tend to bring out the curmudgeon in me (as I’ve said before ). Past experience sends me in braced for a combination of people mumbling their way through 10,000 word PowerPoint
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Monday, September 14, 2009 4:09 PM

How to view RAW image files on Windows 7 (and Windows Vista).

My photography posts appear to be a bit like busses. I don’t make one for a while then two together … Some while back I wrote a tale of two Codecs bemoaning the patchy support for RAW files. Basically we (Microsoft) don’t provide codecs for anything other
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:00 AM

Vulcan hunting: a mini case study in social media

I’ve described some of my activities over recent weekends as the biggest hunt for a Vulcan since Star Trek III - The Search For Spock . The Vulcan I’m after isn’t the pointy eared kind but XH558, the only flying example left of the V Bomber. It’s very
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Friday, July 24, 2009 8:40 PM

Seventh Heaven

As I mentioned recently I have bought a new Camera – the Pentax K7 : as a proper photographer I’m bothered more by lenses than camera bodies and last year I acquired Pentax’s beautiful 77mm Limited series. All those 7s and a new version of Windows...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:16 PM

A tale of two codecs. Or how not to be a standard.

I’ve just bought a new digital SLR camera. Being a dyed in the wool Pentax person, I’ve upgraded to their new K7. Being fairly serious about (some of) my photography I shoot quite a lot in RAW format.(In case you didn’t know higher end digital cameras
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 3:16 PM

Virtual Windows XP … picking myself up off the floor.

Someone gave me a definition of insanity as “trying the same thing over and over again expecting different results”.  I guess trying something you expect to fail is somewhere between insanity and scientific thoroughness. Anyhow, that’s how I came
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Monday, March 16, 2009 11:38 AM

A day out with Divers

I spent yesterday at the DIVERSE – the South Eastern area conference for BSAC (the British Sub Aqua Club) : officially I was there to speak about why Windows Vista (and 7) are so good at handling pictures. Unofficially as a diver (though not a BSAC member)
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:25 PM

Windows 7 : Photos, Gallery and AutoCollage.

When I first started using Windows Vista it was the better experience for photographers which really hooked me in. Most common image formats use the EXIF standard for embedding data about the picture (everything from the camera model and settings, to
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:10 PM

It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization

Yesterday Microsoft UK had its company conference in Brighton, and I always have mixed feelings about these affairs. We transported 1000 people 100 miles and told and with no sense of irony whatsoever we told them about what the company was doing about
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Monday, August 25, 2008 4:30 PM

Photosynth - follow up

My post last week on Photosynth was best with gremlins - first I managed to link to PhotoSyth (missing the N). The www.Photosynth.com stopped re-directing to www.photoSynth.net . Then the interest was so high that the servers couldn't keep up and more
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:32 PM

Photosynth - 3 words. Create Your Synth

I've mentioned Photosynth a few times , and I had a mail this morning which said we've have gone live with a public version. You can read the press release here , but really just go to http://www.photosynth.net/ . Have a look at what others have done,
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Monday, May 05, 2008 9:52 AM

Something for the photographers: Silverlight Deep-zoom formerly "Sea-Dragon"

With all the other stuff I've been doing lately I'm champing at the bit to get out and take some more photos. Still here I am slaving over a hot laptop. Search suggests haven't mentioned Sea-Dragon before - but I've talked about Photosynth , which is
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:37 PM

SD cards (again)

I was about to say some things about Vista and TV when I realized I had actually said them a few months ago When your TV programmes are FILES there's a different psychological relationship to them compared with TAPE . VHS cassettes were something you
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:51 PM

Testing Pictures

[UPDATE] I've been refining my EXIF Library for .NET, and the blogging utilities I wrote in Powershell. Now I have Upload-BlogFile (on community server which hosts this blog it will only upload pictures) and NEW-blog post . Getting pictures which match
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