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With digital taking over film and major manufacturers either getting out of the camera business (Minolta), dropping all but 2 film cameras (Nikon), or “considering” dropping film cameras (Canon); CNet is showing a slide show of film cameras from the past.

Well, figure it’s time to drop auto moderation of all the comments. It’s just too much trouble going through 400+ comments to find the 3 that are from real people when Akismet does such a good job.

Ok, so it really wasn’t a rainstorm. But ‘flowers wet from the sprinkler’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Buy.com has 1gb Kingston CF cards for $29.95 after a $9 rebate. I didn’t know Kingston was even making CF cards, but they’re pretty good as making memory so it should at least be decent.

The creator of the SimpleViewer Flash applet – you’ve seen it even if you didn’t know what it was called – has created another great one called Auto Viewer. It displays images in linear series, much like a film strip. There is an example on his site.

This is an image from last year that I found while going back through my images. The color version was lacking, so I had skipped over it on first pass. But after converting to black & white, I found I really like the image.

Ok, so I’m kind of in a rut. There’s something about black & white trees that really appeal to me. I think it’s the textures.

This one is from Bear Creek Park in Houston.

Pending regulatory review, Micron Technology is going to purchase Lexar in a stock-to-stock merger. According to the press release linked below this is being done to allow Micron to control their production of flash memory devices from design through sales.

Announced March 8, 2006, the merger is expected to end during Q3 of ‘06 and will make Lexar a subsidiary of Micron.

Link to the full press release.

Warning: This is a blatent plug for another site I’m developing.

I started a tutorial posting on ProPhotoForum – a site I’m a moderator on – on the steps required for building a web site from scratch. I’ve discovered that for most people new to web development, knowing where to start is the hardest part. So this tutorial was intended to walk through the steps required for getting a site up and running from start to finish.

What I realized is that this tutorial was going to be much longer than I originally thought. I hadn’t realized how many little steps there are to getting a site designed and running, and how confusing each of these steps can be for someone who has never been there before. So I spawned the tutorial out onto its own site and BobSmithPhotography.net was born. So after I catch up copying all the postings over there, I’ll be publishing future postings to both PPF and BobSmithPhotography.net.

CSS, HTML, web design, photography, photographer, Bob Smith

Here’s a quick video on how to create a mini seamless background setup from eBay.