1972 to 1988: Minolta srt-101 35mm.
1988 to 1996: Olympus XA 35mm.
1997 to 2000: Olympus Stylus Epic 35mm.
2000 to 2002: Canon s100 digital.
2003 to 2006: Che-ez Splash and Canon s200.
2006: Canon sd200.
2007: Lumix fx01.
I think it's interesting that each camera has lasted almost exactly half as long as its immediate predecessor, starting with 16 years for the srt-101 (which still works). At this rate I'll be using a disposable toward the end of next year. I don't think I'm being any harder on my equipment than I used to be, I think the equipment just isn't built to last any more.
Film scans on a wide variety of scanners including Photo-CD. Recently I've been using a HP S20. The Che-ez Splash requires USBStillCamera.dmg for use on the Mac. A few print scans but not many.
I don't travel much any more. All the security theater makes it too unpleasant. Changes include:
Changes include:
Still using the Thinkpad 240. Other changes:
Changes include:
On this trip I took two cameras, one digital and one chemical. For photos that I put on my web site while traveling, I take the photo with the digital camera, put the CF card containing the images in a Windows machine (OpenBSD does not yet support cardbus devices), copy them to a dos partition, reboot OpenBSD, manipulate the images with pbmtools, and copy them to the server using ssh.
When I get home I take the film from the other camera to Ritz and have them put the images on cd-rom, then put them on my web site. I clean these up with Photoshop.
Equipment inventory for this trip:
If this seems like a lot of equipment, it is. I normally travel light, and don't like to carry this much. But it does all fit in that little blue bag. All the other stuff I travel with fits in the black bag over my shoulder.
For connectivity I was depending on two new (to me) technologies. One is Merit Global Service. It almost completely failed me. The other is the modem in my digital Ericsson phone. This would have been extremely cool had it worked. My Pilot talks to the phone via infrared, no cables attached, and the phone works anywhere in the world (almost). But Omnipoint was unable or unwilling to sign us up for data service, because they and their successor, Voicestream, are both incompetent. So I was back to the old standby, calling long distance back to a modem in Ann Arbor.
Two and a half months and a dozen calls to Customer "Service" later, Omnipoint finally turned on my data service. A typical call to them starts in voice mail jail. Then, after entering the ten digit mobile number via touchtone pad, an operator comes on the line and asks for the number again. Then they want to speak to the person whose name the phone service is in. Then they claim the data service is already on. Then they admit that it's not and claim that they are turning it on as we speak and it should be on within minutes. Then they hang up. They never were able to figure it out. Eventually Ericsson fixed it for us, even though it wasn't their problem. They suggested we have Omnipoint turn data service off, then back on again. That worked.
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