I’m a photographer, not a terrorist

Major street art exhibition in London

If you’re in London, are interested in the best in contemporary street art, and missed Mutate Britain’s One Foot in the Grove show last October, here’s your chance. 130 artists, showing stuff ranging from a heavily modified Royal Navy helicopter to a walking firebreathing scrapheap monster powered by a car engine to stencil art, graffiti and paintings. Here are some of my photos from last October:

http://burningcam.com/2009/one-foot-in-the-grove/

The exhibition is being restaged this December. It’s a few minutes from Ladbroke Grove tube station: W10 5YU, at the corner of Portobello Road and Acklam Road. Lots of opportunities to buy groovy art for that difficult to buy person on your Christmas list.

4 December to 20 December

Friday: 2pm - 10pm
Saturday: 1pm – 10pm
Sunday: 12pm - 9pm

300 Unmissable Events and Festivals Around the World

Whatsonwhen/Frommer’s have just released a new title describing “300 Unmissable Events and Festivals Around the World.” Two of my photographs of the Burning Man festival in Nevada have been included. Check it out!

Shunt Lounge

For those in London UK: the remarkable Shunt Lounge art space (in the brick vaults underneath London Bridge railway station) is closing this week. Here are a few of my shots of the vaults, for those unfamiliar with it:

http://burningcam.com/2009/shunt/

Interesting experiment

Can’t blame them for trying new things. Pentax have announced their new K-x digital body will be available in multiple colours. In export market it seems they’re going for 4 colours to keep SKUs (stock-keeping units) under control. But in Japan they have a crazy range of different colours for the body and grip, as seen on this Japanese-only Web page:

K-x 100 colors 100 styles customizer

Wave of the future or a fun but doomed experiment, like Canon EOS barcodes?

Does your EOS digital camera fire TTL flash units?

EDIT: Okay. I’ve got enough info, and it appears that the breakpoint was between the 400D and 450D, and the 30D and 40D. (in other words, consumer bodies before the 450D won’t fire TTL flash units at all, and the same goes for midrange bodies before the 40D)

Thanks!

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I’m trying to compile a list of which digital EOS bodies will fire TTL only (E or EZ) flash units at full power, and which won’t fire them at all.

It appears that the digital 1 series units will fire TTL flash units at full power, whereas earlier digital consumer bodies don’t fire them at all. However, at some point it seems Canon enabled full-power firing on consumer bodies.

So. If you’ve got a digital EOS body and a TTL-only flash unit (ie: any flash unit that’s NOT an EX model), could you tell me if the camera will fire the flash unit in TTL mode? The flash unit mustn’t be in manual mode, since all EOS bodies will fire Speedlites in manual mode. It’s important to mention what camera model and Speedlite model you’re using.

Please post a comment or use the feedback form.

Thanks in advance!

Holy mirror bounce

High speed video of a number of cameras in operation.

The Met’s official statement on street photography

http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm

Let’s hope that this information gets out there more and sanity prevails.

Tales of wrongful arrest

From the USA to the UK, this sort of madness seems everywhere. More of this bizarre and sick idea that somehow a person with a camera is automatically a suspect terrorist. Unlike, presumably, every other person in the country with a camera phone.

http://monaxle.com/2009/07/08/section-44-in-chatham-high-street/

Two terabytes

I’ve just upgraded the hard drive in my primary computer. It’s now got a 2 terabyte 3.5″ drive.

The first computer I used had a 5.25″ floppy drive that stored a princely 143K. Now I’ve got a drive with 2 147 483 648 kilobyte capacity.

Crazy.