Keychain Light
I’m playing with a Blackberry Tour on Sprint’s network. The network is fast, the camera an improvement over my Curve 8900, and it has image stabilization! This was taken from 6 inches away in a moving car, after several cups of coffee!
Posted on April 13th, 2010 in digital | No Comments »
EIA-TIA Cabling Specifications
| Crossover Cable | |
|---|---|
| RJ-45 PIN | RJ-45 PIN |
| 1 Rx+ | 3 Tx+ |
| 2 Rc- | 6 Tx- |
| 3 Tx+ | 1 Rc+ |
| 6 Tx- | 2 Rc- |
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| Straight Through Cable | |
| RJ-45 PIN | RJ-45 PIN |
| 1 Tx+ | 1 Rc+ |
| 2 Tx- | 2 Rc- |
| 3 Rc+ | 3 Tx+ |
| 6 Rc- | 6 Tx- |
Use a straight thru cable assembly,568B on both ends when connecting Hub to Xcvr or NIC Card. When connecting hub to hub, Xcvr to Xcvr, or NIC to NIC, the wires must crossover at the opposite end of the cable assembly,use the 568B on one end, 568A on the other end.
Interconnecting Your Hubs, Transceivers, and NIC Cards
A crossover cable is required when connecting a Hub to a Hub, or a Transceiver to Transceiver, or NIC to NIC card, or Transceiver to NIC card. When connecting a Hub to a transceiver or NIC card, a straight through cable is always used. Please Note: Some products are equipped with internal switches that can internally cross the twisted pairs.
10BASE-T Crossover Wiring
When connecting two twisted-pair MAUs together over a segment, the transmit data pins of one eight-pin connector must be wired to the receive data pins of the other, and vice versa. The crossover wiring may be accomplished in two ways: with a special cable or inside the hub.
For a single segment connecting only two computers you can provide the signal crossover by building a crossover cable, with the transmit pins on the eight-pin plug at one end of the cable wired to the receive data pins on the eight-pin plug at the other end of the crossover cable and vice versa.
FIGURE 5.2 10BASE-T crossover cable
However, when you are wiring multiple segments in a building it’s much easier to wire the cable connectors “straight through,” and not worry about whether the wires in the jumper cables or other twisted-pair cables in your building have been correctly crossed over. The way to accomplish this is to do all the crossover wiring at one point in the system: inside the multiport hub.
The standard recommends that the signal crossover be done internally in each hub port. If the crossover function is done inside a hub port, then the standard notes that the port should be marked with an “X.”
Posted on April 11th, 2010 in blog | No Comments »
Cheap Coffee of the Week, On the Road — McDonalds Value Menu
McDonalds has put their small (12 oz.) coffee on their dollar menu. Looking for a quick decent cuppa for your morning commute? Look no further.
See my earlier post for more on McDonalds efforts to break into the coffee biz.
Posted on April 10th, 2010 in blog | No Comments »
Standpipes
Playing around with my LOMO LC-A+, Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.
Posted on April 4th, 2010 in art, film, lomo | 1 Comment »
Four Chairs
Four Chairs.
Penmax toy camera, generic 200 ISO film. The Penmax is rapidly becoming one of my favorite toy cameras; it’s very similar to the “TIME Magazine” 35mm cameras. Shutter speed is approximately 1/100th second, a 2-blade diaphragm adjusts to f/8, f/11 and f/16 – and makes truly weird bokeh.
Posted on April 3rd, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »
Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide
Have you downloaded Hipstamatic from the iTunes store yet? It turns your iPhone into a retro camera with a number of effects. There are lens effects, film effects and flash effects that can be layered on top of each other.
A HUGE number of effects. Effects with bewildering names, like Kaimal, Helga (we can figure THAT one out), Dreampop, Kodot, Roboto, and my favorite, Jimmy.
Thankfully, the folks at Photojojo have come out with PhotoJojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide, showing examples of all 336 possible layered effects.
[via photojojo ]
Posted on April 2nd, 2010 in art, digital | 1 Comment »
Ciao, digital. Hello, unpredictable art.
From SFGate.com comes this article about the 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show at Rayko Photo in Francisco.
Plastic cameras are cheap, prone to light leaks and unpredictable. Which is why a lot of photographers are drawn to them in the digital age of pixel counts, precision focus and Photoshop.
“You don’t know how the image is going to turn out when you shoot with a plastic camera. The unpredictability is a big part of the draw,” says San Francisco photographer Carlos Arietta, one of the many artists whose work is on view in the RayKo Photo Center’s 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show.
Posted on April 1st, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »
Cheap Coffee of the Week — MR. COFFEE DARK ROAST
I didn’t know Mr. Coffee sold coffee! This was on closeout at Walgreens, and brewed be a surprisingly nice cuppa. Medium to dark body, not overly bitter, and a nice punch to it – I made one cup to get me awake at oh-dark-hundred and made another cup in my travel mug for the road.
If you hurry, Walgreens still might have some left.
What: Mr. Coffee Dark Roast
Where: Walgreens
$$$: $3.99/10 oz.
Rating: 2 cans.
Posted on April 1st, 2010 in blog | No Comments »
Filament
Filament. Blackberry Curve 8900
Posted on March 31st, 2010 in art, digital | No Comments »
ZANINE
Mezzanine. Vivitar plastic camera, Generic 200 ISO film.
Posted on March 30th, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »
Fire-Water (Happy Accident)
Here’s a happy accident -� I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film. I then (a) thought I was done after exposure 24, and (b) opened the camera back while forgetting to rewind the film first, exposing the film.
Posted on March 29th, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »
Guanajuato, tilt-shifted
Posted on March 28th, 2010 in digital | No Comments »
Barbed Wire, Dogpatch
photo credit: DaveFayram
Posted on March 27th, 2010 in journal | No Comments »
Thrift Store Finds
Olympus Mju (Stylus). I always wanted one!
I picked up an Olympus Mju (Stylus) today, for the unheard-of price of $3.99. Several years ago, most people needing a compact camera bought point-and-shoot cameras with long, soft, slow zoom lenses.
Posted on March 25th, 2010 in film | No Comments »
STOP HAMMERTIME
photo credit: Rich Anderson
Posted on March 24th, 2010 in journal | 1 Comment »
3 Streetcars
3 Streetcars. Illinois Street MUNI yard, San Francisco.
I took a little PhotoCrawl on my lunch hour today, first to Kitchenette for lunch and then to see what’s changed in Dogpatch.
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 in art, digital | No Comments »
Shoehorning a digicam into a Leica M
Leica has gone nouveau-retro with the digital Leica M series. Other companies, like Vivitar, have come out with digital cameras featuring current tech, but designs reminiscent of retro rangefinder cameras.
This retro camera beats them all. The maker shoehorned a Sony DSC-WX1 digital camera into a Leica (or, more accurately, what appears to be a Soviet FED Leica copy) rangefinder body. The text and video are in Japanese, but a picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Posted on March 20th, 2010 in art, digital | 2 Comments »
Act Like Ya Know
Act Like You Know. Mystery plastic camera, 99 cent store ISO 200 film.
Another WTF moment walking around San Francisco. Sutro Tower, Magnum, the Bay bridge and Abe Lincoln FTW!
Posted on March 20th, 2010 in art, film, journal | No Comments »
Tableau
Tableau, LOMO LC-A+. Expired Fuji Superial Reala 100 film.
This roll of film sat in my freezer for several years before being shot in my LOMO LC-A+ last year, then it sat in the bottom of my 6 Million Dollar bag
Posted on March 19th, 2010 in art, film, lomo | 1 Comment »
Signpost
Signpost. Mystery toy camera, expired fuji superia reala 100 film.
Recently, I’ve been shot most of my street candids portrait-style. I don’t know where this is coming from, maybe I should buy a square-frame medium format camera to cure myself of this? Or am I just looking for an excuse to buy a Holga, Diana or a Lubitel?
Does anyone have a favorite, obscure medium format toy camera I don’t know about? Let me know.
Posted on March 18th, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »
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