Thor has been on the Internet checking out the XO activity by the children in Uruguay. He can't understand Spanish, but pictures are universal. This is his first message back to them.
To get this on Flickr, we converted the OGG .ogv file from the laptop to AVI using mencoder -idx input.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi on another computer. Don't know how to do that natively on the XO yet.
Having failed repeatedly making nice timelapse stuff with my webcam, I gave my trusty ol' 350D a go. And with much better results, IMHO.
Sorry about the slight focus problems - It's rather difficult to get right when you can't see though the viewfinder. (Note to self: get camera with live-view...)
This is day one of the bean germination experiment. As many have suggested, I am now making a movie of something growing, and I'll try to upload a movie of the beans each day.
No Microsoft products were used in the making of this movie.
The images are straight off the camera, nothing done to them except to create the video. I think there's a 1-pixel or so shift about half way through - not sure how that happened.
From the same place as the previous one. I managed to get my wee tripod to stand up with the N95 at the right aspect this time without going squint. Though this time I seem to have had more focus problems mainly due to the manky windows. Next time, I'll take the 400D.
This is pointing out of the front of the ferry. It would probably have been better if I'd been out on deck looking backwards, but I'll try that next time! My tripod wouldn't sit and stay straight with the N95 in landscape orientation, which I'd have preferred. Oh well.
All 8 frames combined to make a fairly reasonable final photo.
Combining several frames from a short webcam video in low light to get a nice averaged picture, using the command line tools mencoder, mplayer, and imagemagick... right on the N800!
