An alle die es auf den anderen Kanälen wie Twitter oder Facebook noch nicht mitbekommen haben – ich möchte meine Kamera verkaufen und mir zum runden Geburtstag eine neue leisten¹.

Also: Ich verkaufe meine Canon EOS 350D mit Kitobjektiv Canon EF 18-55mm/3.5-5.6. Ich habe die Kamera im Frühjahr 2006 gekauft. Mittlerweile hat sie 20.000 Auslösungen gemacht. Kamera und Objektiv sind gut gepflegt, keine Kratzer oder andere Schäden.
Dazu gibt es 2 Akkus, Ladegerät für den Akku, Videokabel, USB-Kabel, Umhängegurt und ein Stativ von Hama.

Verhandlungsbasis 350 EUR – Preis verhandelbar.

Wer Interesse hat, meldet sich bitte im Kommentar oder über die bekannten Kommunikationskanäle.

Die Kamera ist verkauft. Viel Spaß Chris mit deinem neuen Spielzeug!

Photo credits: Ludovic Hirlimann

1. Sorry an alle, die es schon nervt, ich versuche alle Kanäle zu befeuern [↩]

An alle die es auf den anderen Kanälen wie Twitter oder Facebook noch nicht mitbekommen haben - ich möchte meine Kamera verkaufen und mir zum runden Geburtstag eine neue leisten ((Sorry an alle, die es schon nervt, ich versuche alle Kanäle zu befeuern :-))). Also: Ich verkaufe meine Canon EOS 350D mit Kitobjektiv Canon EF 18-55mm/3.5-5.6. Ich habe die Kamera im Frühjahr 2006 gekauft. Mittlerweile hat sie 20.000 Auslösungen gemacht. Kamera und Objektiv sind gut gepflegt, keine Kratzer oder andere Schäden. Dazu gibt es 2 Akkus, Ladegerät für den Akku, Videokabel, USB-Kabel, Umhängegurt und ein Stativ von Hama. Verhandlungsbasis 350 EUR - Preis verhandelbar. Wer Interesse hat, meldet sich bitte im Kommentar oder über die bekannten Kommunikationskanäle. Die Kamera ist verkauft. Viel Spaß Chris mit deinem neuen Spielzeug! Photo credits: Ludovic Hirlimann

We arrived in Hannover yesterday around noon. Dirk was on the same train as me, so we could travel together and the journey wasn’t that boring. Well the Sunday wasn’t that busy, since not so many business people have been on the fair, but therefore more “Beutelratten” – people who just go to the CeBIT to collect the most possible amount of free giveaways and gadgets. Our hall, the future parc, is not famous for giving away so many things, so not so many of this species have been attracted to come here and visit our booth. The others of our chair, who have been here since Thursday, were kind of glad to leave, being all day at the booth, talking to people, explaining things, celebrating legendary “Stand-Parties” seem to be a tough business (I guess I will learn myself the next days).
In the evening we were looking for a party to go to and went through _all_ halls (and I mean all!) – not finding anything, just some rare invitation-only parties, where we were not welcomed. Back in our hall, having bleeding feet and a stomach as tiny as a pea, we discovered that the Hessen-Booth was giving a party. *gosh* All that walking for nothing. Well it just wasn’t kind of our day, since they were ranning out of beer just as we arrived. We decided to take a taxi to go back to our hotel and go to a restaurant to eat something. Well fetching the right taxi was another story, but it’s too difficult to explain here. When we finally arrived in our accomodation in the lower-saxonian province, we met the landlord, who was a really funny looking guy (he had an inverted Hitler beard).
This morning we were a bit late since our taxi didn’t come on time to fetch us, but it was OK.
Finally some pics – again taken with my mobile phone, so dont bother me about the crappy quality

Iva and Feng

Dirk and Feng

At the computer graphics booth next to us. The guy with the moustache and the camera filmed the 3D fligt over Berlin on the screen, commanding Rico to zoom and such – very funny!

Our booth

We arrived in Hannover yesterday around noon. Dirk was on the same train as me, so we could travel together and the journey wasn't that boring. Well the Sunday wasn't that busy, since not so many business people have been on the fair, but therefore more "Beutelratten" - people who just go to the CeBIT to collect the most possible amount of free giveaways and gadgets. Our hall, the future parc, is not famous for giving away so many things, so not so many of this species have been attracted to come here and visit our booth. The others of our chair, who have been here since Thursday, were kind of glad to leave, being all day at the booth, talking to people, explaining things, celebrating legendary "Stand-Parties" seem to be a tough business (I guess I will learn myself the next days). In the evening we were looking for a party to go to and went through _all_ halls (and I mean all!) - not finding anything, just some rare invitation-only parties, where we were not welcomed. Back in our hall, having bleeding feet and a stomach as tiny as a pea, we discovered that the Hessen-Booth was giving a party. *gosh* All that walking for nothing. Well it just wasn't kind of our day, since they were ranning out of beer just as we arrived. We decided to take a taxi to go back to our hotel and go to a restaurant to eat something. Well fetching the right taxi was another story, but it's too difficult to explain here. When we finally arrived in our accomodation in the lower-saxonian province, we met the landlord, who was a really funny looking guy (he had an inverted Hitler beard). This morning we were a bit late since our taxi didn't come on time to fetch us, but it was OK. Finally some pics - again taken with my mobile phone, so dont bother me about the crappy quality ;-) Iva and Feng Dirk and Feng At the computer graphics booth next to us. The guy with the moustache and the camera filmed the 3D fligt over Berlin on the screen, commanding Rico to zoom and such - very funny! Our booth

(taken from train with mobile phone cam …)

It’s such a pity that I don’t have my big cam with me when I go to work. I can’t stop the train either (well I could, but I don’t like to get fined …), but the mornings these week have really been beautiful. Foggy meadows, the sun rising like a big fireball, immersing life in milky light.

(taken from train with mobile phone cam ...) It's such a pity that I don't have my big cam with me when I go to work. I can't stop the train either (well I could, but I don't like to get fined ...), but the mornings these week have really been beautiful. Foggy meadows, the sun rising like a big fireball, immersing life in milky light.

I had to go to work one hour earlier this morning. I catched the train at 6 am, being more tired than usual, since I got home from work yesterday at 10 pm only. I really hope this doesn't become a habit. To my suprise the train wasn't emptier at this early time of day, though the city seemed to be oddly deserted. I guess that there were many people returning from the nightshift.
We have a conference running at our institute these days and so many things need to be organized and managed. Yesterday was the grand opening with many important people, even the Donor was there (he stood half a meter away from me – exciting, isn't it). Photographers had really impressive cameras and equipment of lenses.
Another good news is, that yesterday my boss approved my holidays, so I will be off the last two weeks of August. Yeah! That's making me survive the rest of the week.

I had to go to work one hour earlier this morning. I catched the train at 6 am, being more tired than usual, since I got home from work yesterday at 10 pm only. I really hope this doesn't become a habit. To my suprise the train wasn't emptier at this early time of day, though the city seemed to be oddly deserted. I guess that there were many people returning from the nightshift. We have a conference running at our institute these days and so many things need to be organized and managed. Yesterday was the grand opening with many important people, even the Donor was there (he stood half a meter away from me - exciting, isn't it). Photographers had really impressive cameras and equipment of lenses. Another good news is, that yesterday my boss approved my holidays, so I will be off the last two weeks of August. Yeah! That's making me survive the rest of the week.

igal is a very nice perl script which creates html picture galleries. I use this script for my photos since it’s easy to use and I like the film reel effect in the galleries.
But there is one annoying point: It does not detect, if pictures are rotated (if they have a rotation flag in the EXIF header). So sometimes pictures appeared wrongly rotated in the gallery and you had to rotate them manually and recreate the gallery.
So I added the functionality to the igal script, which was not as hard as I thought first. It uses jhead, a program to manipulate the EXIF header of a JPEG file. If you run jhead on a rotated file, it gives you information like this:

kati@hitchhiker:/media/sda1/DCIM/132CANON$ jhead IMG_3263.JPG
File name : IMG_3263.JPG
File size : 830969 bytes
File date : 2006:04:01 20:00:26
Camera make : Canon
Camera model : Canon DIGITAL IXUS v2
Date/Time : 2006:04:01 20:00:28
Resolution : 1600 x 1200
Orientation : rotate 90
Flash used : Yes (auto)
Focal length : 5.4mm (35mm equivalent: 37mm)
CCD width : 5.23mm
Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80)
Aperture : f/2.8
Whitebalance : Auto
Metering Mode: matrix

I can use this information to detect if the pic is rotated by searching for the orientation flag and read the value (90 in this case). The Perl code in the igal script for detecting and autorotating is this:

print "Check if rotation is necessary ";
for($i=0; $i < $nfiles; $i++)
{
print ".";
$file=$imgfiles[$i];
my $result = `jhead $file | grep Orientation | cut -d \" \" -f5`; # return as list, one line is one element
if($result!=0)
{
chomp($result); #cut the \n at the end
print "Rotating image $file for $result degrees ...\n";
system("convert -rotate $result $file $file" );
#exif-rotation tag deletion
system("jhead -norot $file" );
}

}
print " done!\n";

All images that shall appear in the gallery are in an array $imgfiles which I can iterate. I get the jhead info for every file (image), grep for the string “Orientation” and cut the last substring which is the orientation value (delimiter of substrings is a blank \” \”). This value is stored in the variable $result, chomp deletes the return character at the end. It is used with the convert script (this one comes with the imagemagick package, it’s a command line script for image manipulation), which actually performs the rotation of the image. Last it runs again the jhead script and deletes the Orientation tag since the image is not rotated anymore. That’s it. Here is the complete igal script.

If you like to add the information from the EXIF header in the slides of the gallery, check out this posting on how to hack igal for doing so.

igal is a very nice perl script which creates html picture galleries. I use this script for my photos since it's easy to use and I like the film reel effect in the galleries. But there is one annoying point: It does not detect, if pictures are rotated (if they have a rotation flag in the EXIF header). So sometimes pictures appeared wrongly rotated in the gallery and you had to rotate them manually and recreate the gallery. So I added the functionality to the igal script, which was not as hard as I thought first. It uses jhead, a program to manipulate the EXIF header of a JPEG file. If you run jhead on a rotated file, it gives you information like this: kati@hitchhiker:/media/sda1/DCIM/132CANON$ jhead IMG_3263.JPG File name : IMG_3263.JPG File size : 830969 bytes File date : 2006:04:01 20:00:26 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon DIGITAL IXUS v2 Date/Time : 2006:04:01 20:00:28 Resolution : 1600 x 1200 Orientation : rotate 90 Flash used : Yes (auto) Focal length : 5.4mm (35mm equivalent: 37mm) CCD width : 5.23mm Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80) Aperture : f/2.8 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix I can use this information to detect if the pic is rotated by searching for the orientation flag and read the value (90 in this case). The Perl code in the igal script for detecting and autorotating is this: print "Check if rotation is necessary "; for($i=0; $i < $nfiles; $i++) { print "."; $file=$imgfiles[$i]; my $result = `jhead $file | grep Orientation | cut -d \" \" -f5`; # return as list, one line is one element if($result!=0) { chomp($result); #cut the \n at the end print "Rotating image $file for $result degrees ...\n"; system("convert -rotate $result $file $file" ); #exif-rotation tag deletion system("jhead -norot $file" ); } } print " done!\n"; All images that shall appear in the gallery are in an array $imgfiles which I can iterate. I get the jhead info for every file (image), grep for the string "Orientation" and cut the last substring which is the orientation value (delimiter of substrings is a blank \" \"). This value is stored in the variable $result, chomp deletes the return character at the end. It is used with the convert script (this one comes with the imagemagick package, it's a command line script for image manipulation), which actually performs the rotation of the image. Last it runs again the jhead script and deletes the Orientation tag since the image is not rotated anymore. That's it. Here is the complete igal script. If you like to add the information from the EXIF header in the slides of the gallery, check out this posting on how to hack igal for doing so.

Lately I became interested in photography. Maybe flickr egged me on or all the other fantastic photo sites on the web, I don't really know. But I know that I want to adhere all those fantastic moments in life. So I bought a used camera at ebay, a Canon EOS 500N. Yes it's analogous, oldfashioned, with a film in it, very retro But it was kinda cheap, a good camera for trying things out and learning. Plus I cannot afford a digital SLR. Now I need a nice little photo scanner so that I can share my pics with you out there. If anyone has a suggestion for a photo scanner (doesn't need to be a new model), don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Lately I became interested in photography. Maybe flickr egged me on or all the other fantastic photo sites on the web, I don't really know. But I know that I want to adhere all those fantastic moments in life. So I bought a used camera at ebay, a Canon EOS 500N. Yes it's analogous, oldfashioned, with a film in it, very retro :-D But it was kinda cheap, a good camera for trying things out and learning. Plus I cannot afford a digital SLR. Now I need a nice little photo scanner so that I can share my pics with you out there. If anyone has a suggestion for a photo scanner (doesn't need to be a new model), don't hesitate to leave a comment.