20 GOTO 10: ANSI (part 1)

[foxgrrl]

20 GOTO 10: ANSI There is an art show dedicated to ANSI Art, currently taking place in San Francisco until Jan 31, 2008. I was at the opening last night, and these are some of my favorite photos from the event. photo, art gallery, ansi, demoscene, Jan 12 2008, 20 GOTO 10, 679 Geary, San Francisco, CA, USA Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008
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There is an art show dedicated to ANSI Art, currently taking place in San Francisco until Jan 31, 2008. I was at the opening last night, and these are some of my favorite photos from the event.

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[foxgrrl]

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention: The auto-focus works much better on the D300 than the D200. Especially in low-light with a lens with a very shallow depth of field. Mostly... The really really annoying thing that the D200 used to do, was when you had everything in focus, and then go to release the shutter, and the D200 tries to refocus, and sweeps over the lens's full range, stopping at either infinity, or the one foot distance on the lens. So, you refocus again and it locks on, and you go to release the shutter, and is refocuses the lens again, over the whole range, stopping at the totally wrong focal distance. Repeat ad infinitum, or until you switch over to manual focus, (or auto-focus on something else, a close distance to the subject.)

(Actually upon considering the number of auto of focus shots from 20 GOTO 10... but I believe those were cases where I was impatient, I set my D300 to release-priority, rather than focus-priority, because in low light sometimes, the D300 will think that it's not in focus when it really is, and will lock the shutter - really not cool for most situations I shoot under. Focus-lock IS really useful for doing macroscopic work, but with manual lenses focus-priority doesn't work.)

Oh, that also reminds me of one of the other things that makes macroscopic photography much much easier: Live-video mode. Which locks up the mirror, and displays whatever light that falls upon the CCD [CMOS] on the LCD display, with only a slightly noticeable lag. It works surprisingly well in really low light too; Like when I have my bellows set to f22, in daylight (shade), I can still preview the image for what will be a one second exposure at ISO200. (I haven't done the math yet on just what the ev range is.)