Using Filters on the Canon SX10is

 

Typecast, not images, sent from the typewriter.  Wouldn't it be neat if we could send images other than those typing kind from a typewriter?  NO, that would make it something other than a typewriter.

Polarizing filter, slightly more blue sky

No polarizing filter

No filter shows more reflection from the leaves

Polarizing filter reduces reflection from the leaves and may brighten the roses a bit

Yellow with custom white balance

Blue.  I forgot my lens hood is for a 36mm lens and the native focal distance on the SX10 is 28mm (35mm equivalent)

Green did not work very good, red was worse,  I knew in color I'd get the filter color.

Blue with custom white balance.  I wonder is the sensor blue sensitive since correcting WB caused over exposure of the cloud edge towards the sun.

Unfiltered sky

 Red and green did not do much with custom white balance so I did not post them. I need to try some other white balance adjustments to see if they can be made work on color images.  

 

First CHDK image showing my ultrasloppy desk.  

I did some early morning typing and minor repairs before the typecast

I like typing outside.  I often go to a park or type on the table on our deck if I don't type very early.  Very early does not happen in MI after September when the sun does not rise until 0630.  Now it is more like 0740.

Time is relative. Here I am at the far end of the Eastern time zone so we are nearly an hour behind sunrise from where I lived in PA and about 1 1/2 behind when I was on Cape Cod.  VA was not much different than PA, and FL was about the same and got about the same amount of sun year round with sunrise hardly ever much earlier than 0530 summer or 0630 in winter. 

The Webster needed a newer ribbon so I stole it from the other Webster along with the spring that fits in front of the vibrator.

I reattached the torsion spring for the paper tray, replace the broken front spring, and installed a better ribbon.  Then I typed 2 pages of nonsensical random thoughts while listening to one of my Zenith Trans-Oceanic radios.  The ZTO requires a separate typecast/

I also enjoyed some Presbyterian tobacco in my E.A. Carey pipe, could also spawn another typecast.
 

Believe it or not the temperature is 72 degrees F since I got up at 0400.  This is like summer. 

Macros and Monochrome and Moonshine

Macros

 

 

 

 

 When you want to imitate Ansel Adams, use Monochrome

Needless to say...I am NOT as good, or ever will be anywhere near as good, as Ansel Adams; even using my view camera.

A few more Macros

Flight of the Buzzard. I saw this Buzzard soaring and zoomed in on it.

The caption under the buzzard is NOT a link. I did not choose 'make a link' Google does it on its own.  I removed and reinserted the image and caption several times.

 So far, I think comments work on this blog. I do know I cannot comment on many blogs due to some kind of bug in Blogger.

 

MOONSHINE

Moon. SX10- fully optically and digitally zoomed to 80X

Jupiter above the moon.  This was only visible one morning.

Not too bad for an old digital camera. The fuzzy looking crescent is not distortion or out of focus, it is craters.

Here is one I did not expect.  Planets in focus.  I happened to trigger the shutter not knowing anything was within the frame.  Jupiter is barely visible at the bottom, Mars iin the middle of 2 smaller stars or planets and a tiny planet or star near the upper right corner.

Moon images with this camera are very challenging as the SX 10 auto focus likes to cycle from near to infinity to near to infinity and will not stay at infinity.  At least with a little work moon images are possible. I do not know if the self timer will work as focus keeps cycling.  My Kodak P850 will stay at infinity, but I do not recall if I was ever able to get any images of the moon. I may give the SX10 a try next full moon after messing with CHDK.

Such great weather, I typed outside on the tailgate of my overly loaded pickup truck.

 

Wish I had a star filter that will fit the SX10.  There will be some filters arriving soon, but I forget if I ordered a star.

BTW Canon likes to hide the fact that 52mm filters fit the camera.  My suspicion is that the early Canon autofocus will not work properly with a lens filter as the SX10 has quite odd AF compared to all the other early digicams I used.   AF is where I hope CHDK will help.

More Asylum Lake From the Canon PowerShot SX10is

 

Robin Wong

 
 Having fun with a camera, that is what I am hoping to show with the SX 10. 

 In the first post from Asylum Lake I forgot to caption the first image. It is the small lake just off of Parkview Ave.

I should have posted this image of the swans with the one showing them encircled.  Click to enlarge and see the swans better.

28mm, f5.6, 1/1000S, ISO/ASA 400, Auto

 

These are the swans zoomed at 560mm, f5.7, 1/1000 s, ISO/ASA 400, AUTO

 

Geese from shore closest to them shot at 250mm, f5.7, 1/1000, ISO ASA 400, AUTO

 

I wanted to capture the moss on the log.  No matter what setting for metering or focus, the SX 10 would not focus on the log.  

Another log where I wanted to show the moss and fungus.  No luck.  This camera will not focus on logs, different focal length, different ISO, different camera modes, nope, now way does this SX10 focus on logs.

The SX10 would not focus on this fungus in macro or normal mode.  This is the better image in normal focal mode.  The dark brown should be focused sharper.

The SX10 liked this one.

and this one.

I had to tweak the exposure for this one, but it focused fine.

I'll say good bye to the lake for now with this little feller, a black squirrel who just stayed there and left me take my time to capture his cute little face highlighted by sunlight on his shoulders.

I have 2 of these.  I thought they would be used for gifts during Type-ins.  Then we've not had any Type-in since.  Both are nice typers and need proper cleaning. Platens are hard, but I am not going to get them recovered.  One platen would be worth more than both typewriters combined.  The beige (Deluxe) one is an elite and the blue (regular) one is Pica yet both have the same Pica index on the bail.  both have fixed tab spacings.

What's different between a Corsair Deluxe and a Corsair?  The TAB key top.  The Deluxe space bar has Error Correct on the left end.  It's a gimmick because all it does in 1/2 space same as holding the space bar down on the Corsair (and many other typewriters) to make a correction.  Oh, and when new one paid extra for the Deluxe to get a nice aluminum trim name plate on the type bar / ribbon cover.