Live Cam At Work

OK, the Live Cam is up and running again.

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DAMN elinchrom EL-Skyport

So I needed a wireless trigger system for my camera and flash. I dident know that much about this diffrent systems so I thought I go to a camera store and let them tell me a little more about them and recomend a system. They presented me this elinchrom EL-Skyport:

Fine, it was a system that you could add more recivers to later on. Came home and noticed that the cable that should go from the reciver to the flash was not included in the package. They did not say anything about that in the store... It dident have TTL... and the damn thing was broken out of the package. The reciver did not take any charge...

So I went back to the store and told my little story, they looked at me and started asking questions. I said that you are the seller, dont ask me. After a little back and forth (asking the guys in the office) it was ok for me to return it. Doh!

Anyway. I asked again. I need a system to trigger my flash wireless. With TTL and all the cables I need... ? Eh? OK, I would like the PocketWizard ( I had done a little research this time)

They told me that is more expencive. I dont care, I want something that works. Again a little back and forth he came out with this PocketWizard Flex TT5:

The store guy dident know if all the cables was included. Well, dont look at me!

After I open the package I told him that you dont need cables.

Tryed it out tonight after an easy update of the firmware, and it workes like a fucking sharm.

The nice thing is that it is both transmitter and reciver in the same gadget so you dont need to keep them apart. 

Also did some tests shooting some smoke. Flash is on the side 

I love it!

So many Games, so little time...

I have a problem. I cant deside on what game to play when the trigger finger is itching. Right now it is Team Fortress 2 or StarCraft II. I like them both and they have been with me for quite some time. But they are both very repeating games. Sure there are alot of maps and diffrent styles of games but the general ide is the same. I like TF 2 because it is fast, and you can jump in at any time play for as long as you like and then quit.

StarCraft II on the other hand is alittle more time consuming because you have to wait on other players to be able to start a game. Then it is all the preparation getting the buildings going and upgrades and so on. 

Humm, I tend to spend alittle amount of time with both of them so I dont forget the finesse about them. But to be realy good I should pick one game and practise like hell. But on the other hand, then it gets even more boring. I think I should stick to them both or just find a new game all together.

Back to the salt mine

So the inevitable happend to day. Vacation is over and it's just to head back to work. 

DAMN! I realy dont want to. Either I dont want to work or I want a new kind of job. It was so nice been free, doing what ever...

How lucky am I?

To day I found three four-leaf clovers at the same spot. Do I get to wish three times?

Samsung ML-1860

I needed a small laser printer to have a home, nothing fancy just black and white. So I was at Media Markt to day and saw this little Samsung, so I got it. The sale people there said that it was slow, but they was wrong about that. It is faster than all other lasers that I tested. I printed both text and pictures and it starts 1 sec after you hit "print out". The price dident give me a heart attack ether. At 555 SEK it was a bargen.

Picture from Samsungs website.

Greek food - Sweden vs Greece

We where at Rhodos some weeks ago, and there was greek food there. Yes I promise, it was.

I dident have that high thoughts about the food, infact I dident like it at all. They could not even make souvlaki that is the most greek food I can think of.

To day we where at a Swedish greek restaurant, and the food was fantastic. 

It could be that on Rhodos they only serve tourists and they dont giva a shit, but that is so wrong. I will never set my foot on Rhodos again just because they dont give a shit about the food they serve.

I dont get it?

We where eating at Levinsky´s in Kista Galleria to day. They have burgers, tex-mex food and alot of other greate meals. So what is it that I dont get? It is about the same price if not cheaper, it tast better, have a larger selection of food, huge plates, drink as much as you like, and there is not very much people there. So where are all this people? They are at McDonalds that is across the "street".
What is it whit people and McDonalds? I never eat at McDonalds if there are something else around, and there is almost always something else.

Image borrowed from hamburgare.org. First time I dont have a camera with me.

Tom Tits 2011

Tom Tits 2011, a photo by GeekJoan on Flickr.

Was at Tom Tits in Södertälje to day. We go there every year and it is alot of fun. Experiments for all ages.

Rhodos 2011

Rhodos 2011, a set on Flickr.

Totaly forgot to put up the pictures from Rhodos. That was one windy place. To bad the food was so damn crapy...

Sport - New Cathegory

Sport, a set on Flickr.

Added some photos.

So much to do, so little time...

OK, so I totaly forgot about this blog kind of thingie... But I try and be better from now on.

Anyway, I got in to the whole photo thing again. This time I wanted a new good camera so I whent for the Nikon D3s, and I also got some nice lenses to it.

So my Hebrew Trinity is the following:
14-24 2.8
24-70 2.8
70-200 2.8
and I also got the 105 2.8 because I wanted a macro lens.

Putting all my photos over at Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/62498250@N02/

Drobo

So I finaly got my Drobo and Droboshare and 8 TB of Samsung disks. I got about 5.5TB after the RAID was done with it's thing.

Partial Solar Eclipse

Today we had a partial solar eclipse here in Stockholm Sweden. I should have been about 80-84%. But I guess it was to much for my new phone to handle.