Teh Blarg » Photos http://raybdbomb.com Incessant babble and otherwise blarg Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:53:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha en hourly 1 Recover Photos from unformatted Digital Camera Memory http://raybdbomb.com/p/recover-photos-from-unformatted-digital-camera-memory.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/recover-photos-from-unformatted-digital-camera-memory.html#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:51:02 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=1140 A friend recently gave me her Olympus Digital Camera, worried that she lost all of her photos on the xD memory card. She had recently taken a significant amount of photos, and at some point the camera marked the card as “not formatted”, and only gave the options to reformat the card, or power off the camera. Attaching the card to a computer via a memory card reader yielded similar results.

After some research, I found PhotoRec:

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is free, this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU Public License.

Very simple to use software, was able to not only find all of the images currently on the media card, but about 1GB of since-deleted images as well. Pretty nice software, I sent them a donation.

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Thanks Dustin!

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Tricky bastards.

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For awhile I’ve been pretty disappointed by the audio on my HTPC. The subwoofer never really worked, and the audio levels were pretty abysmal. I have a JVC RX-6030VBK 5.1 setup with a toslink cable going between my Mac Mini and the receiver. The subwoofer is behind a door in my entertainment center, so the already-quiet sound is muffled. I’ve been thinking of replacing this system for awhile, because the audio quality is very weak.

Last night, I played around with the configuration on the unit, and set the subwoofer to +10 audio and the other 4 channels to -10. I tested it with some bass tracks, and man it was ground-shaking great. The wife and I watched some TV on it and were pleased with the experience. I think I’ll keep this system after all (at least for awhile).

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/htpc-update.html/feed 7 Shooting Light Trails http://raybdbomb.com/p/shooting-light-trails.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/shooting-light-trails.html#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:00:51 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=962 How to shoot light trails. This is something I really want to do, I think it’s really neat.

This is something I played around with a little at 4th of July, but I really need to get some car motion or star movement pictures, those seem to be the most popular targets.

My best so far, some work with sparklers:

I realized afterwards that my color settings were off, hence the yellow hue. Oh well, it will be better next time.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/shooting-light-trails.html/feed 0 Lovin the Macro Lens http://raybdbomb.com/p/lovin-the-macro-lens.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/lovin-the-macro-lens.html#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:42:42 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=952 Purchased a really cheap 70-300m telephoto lens for my DSLR camera. I’m really liking this lens for macro photography. Of course I’m a noob at best, but I’m having a blast playing around with it.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/lovin-the-macro-lens.html/feed 0 Switch to Wordpress SVN && Remove FAlbum http://raybdbomb.com/p/switch-to-wordpress-svn-remove-falbum.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/switch-to-wordpress-svn-remove-falbum.html#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:23:16 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=946 I wasn’t seeing enough benefit to FAlbum, so I removed it. Too slow and confusing for my tastes.

Also, I got sick of the monthly updates to Wordpress, so I finally switched over to using the subversion method. Now an upgrade is as simple as an svn update and click the Upgrade button.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/switch-to-wordpress-svn-remove-falbum.html/feed 0 Purchased a 70-300m telephoto lens http://raybdbomb.com/p/purchased-a-70-300m-telephoto-lens.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/purchased-a-70-300m-telephoto-lens.html#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:45:42 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=944 When I went to Cleveland, I borrowed a buddy’s 70-300m telephoto lens for my Canon DSLR camera. I liked it a lot, so I wanted one. I just bought the Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras, the price was right :) .

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/purchased-a-70-300m-telephoto-lens.html/feed 1 Happy 4th! http://raybdbomb.com/p/happy-4th.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/happy-4th.html#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:17:21 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/?p=933 I recently picked up a tripod, so I was able to take some nice 3 or more second shots for the 4th of July.

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