Saturday, November 05, 2005

Photography or Photoshopy !!!

Tushal had come down from Baroda, a meet was absolutely necessary. So we decided to meet/ride over some parathas.
Where?: default for our meets: Fauzi dhaba, ~50 kms from city on Nagpur highway.
When?: 7 pm

What?: Sweet milky chaai and mouth watering aloo parathas with dahi.

So apart from the usual talk we also happened to detail a lot about cameras, lenses and photography. Well I always wanted to own a Nikon F70 35 mm SLR with an ED lens or a Minolta Dynax 7D, but right now, it’s a thing of a future, considering my bank balance which dips exponentially towards the month end and rises on the last working day of the month ;)

But I have my share of 1's and 0's camera on my phone, N6230. So I decided to see what the VGA camera (<1 MPx) was capable of. First expression, bad light, but a fairly good snap. EOD, crashed into bed.

Next morning, no work, all friends outa town for Diwali and Eid… Oh yeah, wish you a happy, safe and prosperous Diwali and Eid Mubarak :) …As I booted my comp, bulbs flashed, tubelights lit bright $) So transferred the snap to the comp and clicked my way to Photoshop. Did some fiddling around, pretty good outputs.

Towards the end of the day I realized that more than the camera and the lenses, it’s the 1s and 0s that give us the power, that edge over chemicals and film. After all this, the F70 with the other gibberish has lost its importance, so now it’s a 5 MPx with a good optical zoom, somewhere around 10-12X, >1Gb memory, image stabilization and rechargeable batteries is all I need. Still sounds a bit on the higher end ;)

Photos speak louder than words, though they consume thousand times more memory and so leaving you with a few outcomes from todays experiment.
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Smile and keep clicking.

13 comments:

johnny boy said...

Heheh.. Nice one... I guess I should also try enhancing the snaps taken on my phone, using a photo editor.. BTW, still havent got the s/w upgraded on my phone :( You said its free at any nokia care centre right... Have to do that soon...
Hey wanted to ask, is N6230i a flop? I heard they were taking back the model from the market.. is that so?

Saraansh said...

Very hip Vinay, very hip :-)

Vinay said...

Hi Jon,
The Nokia care will do a firmware upgrade free of cost provided your phone is still covered under warranty. You can tell them that the snaps are dark, as if shot under low light. This is also corrected in the newer firmware versions. Apart from this the phone will support higher memory card capacities, i got 1Gig added and the phone has not lost on performance and am still getting good results outa the phone.

Regarding the N6230i, one batch of phones had a few booting related problems, but Nokia care will replace the phone for you. Personally, I still believe that the 6230i and its predecessor are great small packages.

Vinay said...

saraansh, thanks dude :)
heard a lot about your on stage activities. All da best for that.

swas said...

Last one too good! the one where no one can see your face...! Idle minds...

Vinay said...

swas, welcome :)
got that same comment from many off the blog :-D

Anonymous said...

I was showing Sajid all our blogs and woah! what do i see? Mr. Vinay Deep in color! Neat stuff.

When are you coming down to chennai?

Vinay said...

hey adel, welcome.
this post was an act of boredom ;) but ended up learing someting towards the eod :)
Some ride plans to Goa in the pipeling for this new year. Will be in chennai if those plans dont materialise. C ya guys there :)

Ram Subramanian said...

vinay, i want to know the name of that cd with all the ; ahem ahem " clips of actresses ".

"Science Experiments -1 " ??

vinay, u must have gotten lucky by now. after posting taht on the internet. Come on ..spill the beans

Anonymous said...

hey nice experiments with ur pix..though u look very different in person. guess where i found ur blog from! Google ! was just randomly searching for my name and ur last blog mentions it so here i am! sniffed u out dude!!

Vinay said...

Mr. RamanTheB,
That CD was named "Science Project -1 Da' All Timer"
SP-1

CD Disclaimer: Not for public broadcast and for home viewing only.

Disclaimer prohibits publicity and profit making. So there are no beans to share, as long as you weren't refering to the veggie. :-D

Vinay said...

Hey man TJ, welcome to my blog. And yeah, google is definately making the world a smaller place.
I look different in flesh and blood..hmm.. i just chose the right angle man. :)

Sameera said...

nice stuff...with the pictures...