Purpose-driven

DA 50-200


DA 50-200


DA 50-200


DA 10-17 fisheye... at 17.

and my favorite of the batch:

DA 50-200.

I took the 43 with me but used it on only one picture that didn't work very well. Who needs normal?

Thoughts on 24mm

I did my walk today, as I had said. I took a kit consisting of 14, 24, 43, 50 macro, and 77 with me (all fitting within my crumpler 3-slot bag... fear the Pentax system).

Of those lenses, I only used three - 24, 50, and 77. I forced myself to use the 24 more than the others, I think, at least for a more widely varied range of situations.

I will be posting a gallery, hopefully tomorrow, with all of the shots from today that weren't horribly blown out for not paying attention to metering. Some of them turned out quite nicely, I think, but I'd like critique on the basic: considering how I prefer abusing wide-angle lenses, what do you think?

More coming as it develops (ha ha get it it is a photo blog)

[edit] MORE HAS DEVELOPED! The picasa gallery is here.

Some highlights from the 24:

Something for your trouble

Have an early morning skipper, courtesy the 77mm lens:

Macro at the Wildlife Refuge

And finally:


I like that last one, but I have to admit, I cheated. I wanted to take a picture that was just the silhouette of the spider against the background, but I wasn't happy with the way it turned out. On a whim, I decided to drag the blacks control all the way to 100 before deleting it and I think I'm really happy with the result.

Here's the rest. The only two lenses I took were my 16-45 and my 50/4 macro, and only the first 3 were with the zoom.

Some things to catch up on

So let's see...

Geese from early Februrary, then a gull from one of those same two trips. Then a Delmarva Fox Squirrel (one of four I saw that trip) from March (I think). Finally cherry blossoms through the 14mm and some ants and weird nymph bugs on a pine bush.

I guess it hasn't been a terrible year, altogether.

See the whole thing here.

Open Source

In an unrelated note, I embarked yesterday on trying to get mozilla Firefox and Gaim 0.78 to build on my mac. I failed miserably, but only because firefox won't build as anything but mozilla 1.6 and gaim has some serious problems with the international locales not matching each other or something. I'm thinking about contacting the maintainer of the fink-gaim package to see what he does to get it to build, but hell, who knows. Anyway, I figured that putting the list of packages I needed to put together to build GTK+ 2.4.2 and the preliminary dependencies for Mozilla and Gaim.



Open Source Software compile notes.



Build system information:

Power Macintosh G4/400 (sawtooth)

Mac OS X 10.3.4

Xcode 1.1 (gcc3.3)



Unnecessary compiles:

render-0.8: ok;

xrender-0.8.4: ok;

libxrender-0.8.4: ok;

renderext-0.8: ok;



Initial dependencies for GTK+2.4.2:

pkgconfig: ok;

libpng: ok;

libtiff: ok;

libjpeg: adjusted;

copy from /usr/share/automake-1.6:

config.guess;

config.sub;

pass into ./configure --enable-static;

build ok;

gettext-0.14.1: ok;

freetype-2.1.8: ok;

expat-1.95.7: ok;

fontconfig-2.2.2: ok;

libXft-2.1.6: ok;



GTK+-2.4.2 packages:

glib-2.4.2: ok;

atk-1.6.0: ok;

pango-1.4.0: ok;

xcursor-1.0.2: ok;

#note: can and probably should be moved to prelim deps.

gtk+-2.4.2: adjusted;

added line "#include " to

/usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h

#note: I did this on a backup.

build ok;



firefox-0.8:

libIDL-0.6.8: adjusted;

since GLIB 2.4.2 didn't install glib-config, I had to

copy this file over from fink.

build ok;

firefox-0.8: ok;

#note- used "--with-x" to configure

gaim-0.76:

aspell-0.50.5: ok;

gtkspell-2.0.5: ok;

#note: used --enable-gtk-doc=no to work.

tcl-8.4.0: ok;

tk-8.4.0: ok;

libxml2-2.6.9: ok;

libao-0.8.5: ok;

audiofile-0.2.3: adjusted;

may have needed --disable-shared then --disable static;

build ok;

esd-0.2.8: unneeded;

nas-1.6: bitch to build, going without;