Application pour l’hyperfocale pour iPod Touch et iPhone / Hyperfocal distance application for iPod Touch/iPhone

Je me suis acheté pour calculer la distance hyperfocale un petit logiciel au iTunes App Store qui fait très bien l’affaire. J’en ai comparé quelques uns et visuellement, celui que j’ai choisi était plus facile à comprendre et direct que les autres.

La dernière chose que je veux faire quand je prends des photos est d’utiliser quelque chose qui me prend encore plus de temps que d’installer ma caméra en fonction de ce que je veux photographier et de bidouiller avec les settings. Alors, le petit logiciel en question est DOFMaster. 1,99 $, c’est tout à fait justifié.

Mes vieilles lentilles 35mm (film) avaient cette info sur le baril des lentilles. Les lentilles d’aujourd’hui n’ont plus ces tableaux qui étaient si pratiques. Est-ce par souci esthétique ? Ou encore pour sauver les coûts de production des lentilles ? Enfin, je vais pouvoir enfin jouer avec mes prises de vue et expérimenter… Une fois que je me serai procuré une lentille à grand angle. Celle que je convoite pour un achat en 2010 est la Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF]. Elle devrait très bien faire l’affaire.

I just bought myself an iPod Touch/iPhone app to help me calculate Hyperfocal distance in my shots. I compared all the apps I could find on the iTunes App Store that give this info and visually, the one I chose stood out and made something a bit complex, if you take the math route (not exactly user-friendly when you’re out on the field), and make it very simple. The info it gives is concise and very easy to understand.

The last thing I wanted was an app that would make it longer to gather the info than setting up the camera for a shot. So the app in question is DOFMaster. At $1.99, it’s very reasonably priced.

My old 35mm film lenses gave all that info on the lens itself but the modern lens don’t have this anymore. Is it for esthetic reasons? Is it to cut production costs? Anyway, now I’m back to really knowing what I’m shooting and I’ll be able to experiment… Once I get a wide angle lens. The one I have my sight on for 2010 is the Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF]. That one ought to do quite nicely.

Plus sur Snow Leopard / More on Snow Leopard

Suite à mes posts sur Snow Leopard ici, et ici et bien que je n’ai toujours pas encore acheté ou installé Snow Leopard sur mon iMac Intel 3.06 GHz (j’utilise encore Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8), n’en demeure pas moins qu’au fur et à mesure que je lis sur les nouveautés que referme le plus récent système d’exploitation de Apple, j’ai bien hâte de me le procurer.

Les plus récentes découvertes que j’ai faites sur le web le rendent très attrayant. Les articles que j’ai trouvés sont malheureusement en anglais alors…

Cet article parle des petits et grands raffinements à l’interface apportés par Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard UI roundup. Quelques uns sont très subtils mais bof, c’est toujours le fun de savoir ces trucs-là.

Ce post-ci de TidBITS décrit certains raffinements qui sont un peu plus cachés aux yeux de l’utilisateur, Even More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard.

Et en tant qu’amateure de photographie digitale, cette nouvelle caractéristique me plaît énormément beaucoup : en fait, ne serait-ce que pour celle-ci, je crois que je vais trouver que Snow Leopard est un véritable petit bonbon. Mac OS X 10.6 Update: Image Capture.

En bref, cet article parle du logiciel qui s’occupe de récupérer les images téléchargées de caméras numériques faisant partie de OS X, Image Capture. Les codeurs chez Apple l’ont rendu plus mature en lui ajoutant une superbe caractéristique qui fait que ce logiciel est maintenant capable de faire la distinction entre différents appareils qui sont branchés. Ce qui veut dire que disons j’ai un Canon PowerShot SX20 IS, en plus de ma Canon EOS 50D, et que je préfère que le logiciel qui gère les clichés issus du SX20IS soit iPhoto, mais que ceux qui proviennent de la 50D soit Photoshop, je peux maintenant régler les préférences en ce sens.

Et ceci fonctionne pour d’autres périphériques comme le iPhone aussi. Pas mal du tout !

Following these posts of mine on Snow Leopard here, and here, and even though I still haven’t bought or installed it on my iMac Intel 3.06 GHz, it remains that the more I learn and find out about Snow Leopard’s new features I’m getting more and more anxious to get it as soon as possible.

The more recent finds I did on the web make it more and more appetizing to me.

This article talks about big and small refinements to the GUI in Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard UI roundup. Some of those are quite subtle but hey! It’s nice to know this stuff, to me anyway.

This TidBITS post describes certain refinements that aren’t all that much apparent to the casual user, Even More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard.

And this one is the best for me because I love digital photography so much and, if only for this feature, I’m pretty sure I’ll love Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.6 Update: Image Capture.

The article talks about OS X’s built-in software that downloads images from your camera and then launches the appropriate software to edit and store those downloaded photos, Image Capture. The Apple programmers have been hard at work to make Image Capture much more mature and capable. Image Capture can now make the distinction between different devices that you take pictures with and that you plug into your Mac to download the images you have taken. Which means that you can now link different software for the different devices!

Say I have a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS as well as my Canon EOS 50D. Say that I want all photos coming from the SX20 IS to be handled by iPhoto, but images provided by my 50D be treated by Photoshop. Well Image Capture’s preferences can be set that way.

And this works for other peripherals as well, such as the iPhone, for example. I find it very cool.

Crazy post in a forum

So I click on an old forum where I used to be a mod some time ago. It’s now a ghost town, only spammers join and post crap all around the place. I won’t go into how and why I left but what is happening now, they fully deserve it. Anywho…

It had been a couple of months since I had lurked there and I went to have a look yesterday. Lo and behold I stumble upon this crazy post that made me laugh uncontrollably for minutes. It’s by a newbie calling himself angryich and here how the post goes:

The Greatest iPhone App That Ever Was and Ever Could Be

Let me just cut right to the chase, the iPee iPhone app saved my life.

I work very hard as a Wal-Mart greeter. After being verbally and physically assulted by a roving group of tween girl scouts I was left a hallow shell of a man. The biggest damage to me was psychological, which is hard to believe considering that I am a Scientologist, but I’ve come to accept and understand the damage to my mind. I could no longer urinate. Not just in public restrooms either. When I try to use the hole I dug in my back lot outside of my shed I cannot even get a trickle. My wife left me, she said a real man can cover our dirt lawn in urine whenever the mood struck him.

I started loosing teeth, my hair on my head but regrowing it on my back and worst of all the built up urine started to appear as boils on my face.

Then one night Jesus came to me in a lifted pick up truck and gave me his magical iPhone with iPee installed. With this application I was able to virtually urinate. After training myself to digitally pee I finally graduated up to using my penis again. When I was able to release my little yellow pants army for the first time in seven months a gaffle of angels appeared and the leader walked out dressed in leather pants and rocking the most bitchin’ mullet I’ve ever seen starts belting out Freebird on his flying-V guitar. From then on, my life has forever changed.

Now I can attract all the honeys at my local Wal-Mart, I have a tribal tattoo and have moved from greeter to night security. Nobody messes with this man and his large, black flashlight.

Thank you Jesus and thank you iPee. I am now getting iPee tattooed across my neck and an iPhone inserted into my chest.

There, it makes me laugh all over again.