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Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
This photo was made in September 1997 with my first digital camera. It was a SoundVision SVMini-2, and was made in the US!
www.dcresource.com/reviews/soundvision/svmini2.html
It had a CMOS sensor, a new thing at the time. Actual resolution was 960x800, and it saved the images on a small amount of internal RAM (Only 500 kilobytes, enough for about 12-25 photos!). It also had a slot for a physically large linear flash PC card, but those cards were VERY expensive back then, even if they were only of a MB or two capacity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Flash
Image compression was a proprietary "wavelet" format that was claimed to be better than .jpg, which was then converted in the computer to an uncompressed bitmap or .jpg. No LCD screen on the camera, so it was strictly a viewfinder to shoot- check 'em later on the PC setup. Fixed focus, fixed focal length lens. Serial cable transfer, no USB.
As you'll see from my photos, image quality was rotten. And I had a weird compression level setting problem with it, so I visited the company near Boston, and ended up back in their tech lab, talking with a boffin. They ended up being totally mystified by the problem, and gave me a newer, better model for my trouble.
Here are some specs on the camera:
www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraDetail.php?cam=73
It appears that the company may be defunct. Their website has not been updated for about five years, from the dates shown:
I did not keep it long, and did not buy another digital camera for a few years. The next one was a Nikon 800, which was a revelation compared to the old SV Mini.
While both of these men are deceased, while they were living, they could capture the attention of most anyone by their ideas on democracy and equality in America. They fully supported the philosophy that "all men were created equal."
Both of these men are now deceased. The man on the left is my wife'sday. He did not care for FDR. It had nothing to do with FDR'S Dutch-American ethnicity, his dislike of FDR was based on Roosevelt's ever-increasing Socialization of the USA. He liked IKE and would have love Reagan had he lived to see him elected. He died an unhappy man while Carter was President.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
I removed the hot shoe and the original solid wires that ran from the receiver's PCB to the hot shoe. I then drilled out the hole in the receiver's plastic body that was formerly occupied by the hot shoe center contact, so the new 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack would fit in it's place.
Stranded light-gauge wires were soldered to the PCB and the new phone jack, and the job was done!
The radio trigger set works perfectly like this, and is much more versatile, and safer to mount, too.
The previous photo in this set shows the outside view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
The wimpy on-camera flash did it's best, but at the Samsung D53's base ISO of 50, the flash is just too weak to expose the room correctly.
I could have boosted the camera's ISO as high as 400, but that would have introduced a lot of noise in the image. This is an unavoidable result with any of the small point and shoot digital cameras, due to the tiny image sensor they use. So take the seemingly high max. ISO rating you see advertised on a wee digital camera with about a pound of salt.
See the next image in the set for results with an off-camera flash added to the scene.
Why would churches deliberately mislead little children on who Jesus Christ was and Is today? Learn more at www.onug.us