I've decided to switch blog hosting services. I'm now going to be using Posterous, and I've imported all my old blog entries into the new blog that I've created there, and I won't be posting here any more, so if you want to follow me here's where to go:
Pentax has released a firmware upgrade to the Pentax K-5. This allocates more RAM to be used when you use continuous drive mode so you can do longer bursts before the buffer is filled up and the shooting speed slows down.
With the 1.00 firmware you get about 7-9 in RAW format (with either PNG or PEF), but after the upgrade you get around 25, which is a big difference (1 second to 3 seconds of burst). With JPEG I got the same amount, and with RAW + JPEG I got 25 as well.
I used the SanDisk Extreme III 4GB card which I get 20MB per second from when I copy the pictures and videos to my PC via a card reader, the small one that came with the cards (I've got three of these cards). I'll be upgrading and buying a few SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/p Edition 16GB which should, as the name says, be 50% faster, so I'll do a new test then to see if this changes the frame count in continuous drive mode since the camera then might be able to empty the buffer memory faster. This of course depends on what write speed the camera has to the SD cards, if the cards are faster.
Also, on the 4GB cards I have room for about 117 RAW files or 5:25 of 1080p video in full quality, so the 16GB cards will let me photograph or record video longer before running out of space.
The Norwegian photographer Lise Sundberg has a small competition on her blog. There are two themes, fall and winter.
I want to take part in this competition, so here are my photographs for these two themes:
So I went to Midnattsrocken 2010. But I got sick on the second day and had to go home, it was very sad! Hopefully I'll be back stronger next year!
I did get to record a couple of songs in the festival cafe HardJoik Kafé. The band playing was Violet Road and they played their songs Seek the Rain and All is Lost:
But as I had to leave early, I got no pictures this year. So here are some pictures from Midnattsrocken 2008 and 2009.
I've been one week in Kjøllefjord photographing for Arctic Coast, a tourism company that takes tourists traveling with Hurtigruten on various expeditions and guided tours during both winter and summer.
I also had some time to take pictures for my self during my spare time, and those you can see here.
These are some of my pictures. Click on them for a larger versoin!
The rest from this trip can be seen in their album here.
I just got my new Zoom H2 Handy Recorder sound recorder today. It's a small and indeed very handy recorder. Here is the unboxing of it. Later I'll post some videos with showing the sound quality it has and compare it to the built-in microphone of the Pentax K-x.
I took my new bike trailer on a trip to Lathari (first proper trip witht the trailer btw.) and at about 02:30 this morning I took some pictures of the birds there doing their thing in the morning sun, which soon hid behind a cover of clouds.. Still, lots of birds to photograph and it's always fun to practice follow focus on fast moving objects.
(click the images to see a bigger version)
See all the pictures here (a total of 10 pictures).