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Mon, 03 Aug 2009
Not that we're producing any posters for Penguins, the upcoming late-night show at Annex Theatre, but I had this idea for a poster. At the photo shoot yesterday, I got a couple of the actors to pose in about the situation I'd imagined, and today I spent a few minutes dinking around in Photoshop. This is the result:
Penguins opens on Friday, August 14th, and runs Fridays and Saturdays at 11, and Sundays at 8, until the 28th. You will kick yourself if you miss it.
Posted at 14:27 permanent link category: /theater
I recently bought an 8 GB compactflash card for my camera. I'd run through the 4 GB card before, and wanted to not have to repeat that experience, particularly when I was shooting RAW images, which are 5x the size.
So, I bought this one:
No problem, I thought. Good stuff.
It got put in the camera bag as a backup for when I'd need more space. That occasion arrived yesterday, in the form of a press photo shoot for Penguins, the show for which I'm designing props.
So, I set the camera to shoot RAW for maximum flexibility, and went at it. My usual habit is to shoot a series of 5-10 pictures, then review them quickly to see if I got anything good. I tried, but when I hit the "play" button to go back and review, the screen showed "Busy..." And it stayed like that. For a long, long time.
Finally, it started playing back pictures for me, but the little CF light (which indicates activity either reading or writing to the memory card) was on solid still, and it was sluggish. Pictures I knew I'd taken weren't showing up.
I realized the card must just be desperately slow to write. Over the course of the shoot, it was absolutely agonizing waiting for this thing. I'd swear my 4 GB card wasn't this slow.
So just now I did a test. I shot 5 RAW images in quick succession, and timed how long it took until the CF light turned off. For the new 8 GB card, it took about 39 seconds. For the old 4 GB card, 15 seconds.
Seriously? What the hell did you build this card with, Kingston, molasses? I bought the card in part trading on the Kingston name, which I'd generally thought trustworthy. It's rated for 133x speed (aka 20 MB/s), which is in theory faster than the 15 MB/s rated 4 GB card. Obviously not the case. I think this one's going back to the factory, if Amazon will take it without the original packaging. If not, it's going to some worthy charity. I certainly don't want it cluttering up my life.
Posted at 09:15 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater