Note to self: silk may be a little thinner and less shiny…
Tag: video
A wonderful video on a variety of things, including learning and teaching to see. Make sure to check out Edward Tufte’s website if you love such things. I learned a lot from his books (and I am still saving to attend a seminar).
New Zealand with a Nex-7

What kind of lenses do you take on a trip to New Zealand? The choices could be many, depending on the camera system. The good thing is that I have a Sony Nex-7.
There are not many lenses for the Sony E mount. That way the choices are not many. I have not many lenses either and chose to take two. The lenses were my two favorites at that time:
- Sony 50mm f/1.8
- Sigma EX DN 19mm f/2.8
You could take millions of pictures in New Zealand. Don’t panic. You do not have to watch them all. I selected some for you and offer a video (unstabilized and ungraded) as a short vacation for you.
BTW: Next time I would go for the Sigma EX DN 30mm f/2.8 and a 18-200 for video. Enjoy.
A rainbow in NZ by Stefan Steinbauer
Dead Sulphur Mill by Stefan Steinbauer
Sunken into by Stefan Steinbauer
White Island Sulphur by Stefan Steinbauer
Orange steel by Stefan Steinbauer
Rusty tower by Stefan Steinbauer
Leaving White Island by Stefan Steinbauer
Champagne Pool by Stefan Steinbauer
Craters of the moon by Stefan Steinbauer
I spit fire by Stefan Steinbauer
On the moon by Stefan Steinbauer
Everything orange? by Stefan Steinbauer
Flowery water by Stefan Steinbauer

I tried to find out what the impact of the ISO on video on the Nex-7, so I cycled through with the lens cap on. The noise was not that visible so I tried to do what you usually try to avoid. I added brightness and sharpening.
Let me know, what you think. For me it prooves my experiences, that videos start get noisy with ISO bigger than 800.
I was always fond of time lapses so I thought: Why not make my own?
I wanted to install the CHDKÂ – an extension for Canon point and shoot cameras which makes them learn new tricks – on my Canon Powershot S95 anyway and had the opportunity to play around one evening. After the initial installation and my first try I had the following lessons learned