Posts Tagged ‘canon’
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Well, check out the new signs at the corner of California and Front:
“Canon Takes 10,300 SF at 201 California: Glenborough LLC found a retail tenant to fill the vacant ground floor space at 201 California St. in San Francisco. Canon Business Solutions Inc. will occupy 10,283 square feet upon completion of tenant improvements. The 17-story, Class A office property totals 239,342 square feet in the financial district. Jessica Birmingham and Rhonda Diaz Caldewey of Terranomics represented the landlord for the retail portion of the building, while Canon Business Solutions was represented by Michael Taquino of Grubb & Ellis.”
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Oh, and speaking of companies what make cameras and whatnot, which version of Stanfoo-educated TerrorNomics deal broker Jessica Birmingham do you prefer?
Magenta?
Or not magenta?
You make the call.
Anyway, let’s all thank Canon for making the Financh look less like an arrested-decay ghost town during this Great Recession…
Tags: 201 California, 2012, bay area, Business Solutions, california, canon, Canon Business Solutions, Class A, financh, front, Glenborough, Glenborough LLC, Grubb & Ellis, Jessica Birmingham, jessica perry, LLC, Michael Taquino, Rhonda Diaz Caldewey, San Francisco, stanford, tenant, Terranomics, Terrornomics, university
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
This giant bird with a wingspan bigger than your outstretched arms has managed to stay well-fed on tiny crawdads in Golden Gate Park.
See? Nom nom nom:
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Hurray!
Tags: 1d, 2.8, 2011, 300mm, bay area, bird, california, canon, crawdad, Crayfish, great blue heron, heron, hunting, San Francisco, Stow lake
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Just try to use your biggish digital single-lens-reflex camera on the streets of Kuwait these days. It ain’t easy, brother.
Now, I don’t think that you could ban DSLR use in San Francisco. There’d be a rebellion or something.
Cause if something happens, it didn’t happen unless it was recorded somehow – that’s how we look at it.
Our Folsom Street Fair 2009 was a great day for walkies with the slave, past the guy with the Nikon, past the guy with the Canon, past the Leather Etc…(!) store…:
via mikey baratta PHOTOGRAPHIC
Just be on the look-out for this guy. I think he’s up to something:
Tags: ban, banned, bdsm, big, camera, cannon, canon, City, dslr, fair, folsom, interchangable, kwait, lens, lens reflex, lenses, mideast, nikon, police, privacy, single, slave, slr, street
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
That Catherine Bigelow, you know, she’s Everywhere You Want To Be. But she is probably taking photos for Social City using one of them stylish little digicams with the flash just above and to the side of the lens. That leads to red-eye, which needs to get fixed, as here (unless I’m mistaken and this fellow just naturally has coal-black, Simpsons cartoon eyes), and there are other issues as well.
Let’s get started, credit card at the ready:
Canon digital SLR – any type, it doesn’t matter. How about a Rebel XS (aka 1000D) for $449? Take off the kit lens and sell it on the craigslist or throw it at somebody you don’t like - just get rid of it.
Canon 35mm 2.0 lens – $320. (I paid $100 for mine, but it was used.)
Canon 580EX flash – $399
It will all look like this:
Then here’s what you do:
Put the camera in Manual Mode and leave it that way forever.
Set it for 1/100th of second exposure at f/2.5 with ISO sensitivity of 800, something like that.
Carry the camera and flash separately and then put them together at the event, making sure to lift up the white card thing on top of the flash.
Get your people together, hold the camera horizontally and press the shutter button - it will focus (with a gentle red light assist, if necessary) and take three shots, all within a second or two.
Then when you’re done, just take the flash off of the camera and they’ll both turn themselves off, ready to wake up as soon as you couple them again.
So yes, this approach is going to cost four figures and use stuff that’s a lot bigger and heavier than a $200 digicam. But it will produce images that complement the subjects and it will produce images that look good all the time, as opposed to just some of the time.
The primary benefit is having a soft flash coming from above the lens, as opposed to a sometimes-harsh flash coming from right next to the lens.
That’s my two cents.
Tags: Bigelow, camera, canon, Catherine, Catherine Bigelow, column, eye, flash, red, red-eye, San Francisco, Social City, Society, Writer
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hey do you have a Canon SLR camera made the past two decades or so? Sure, millions of others across the world do too. Well today is your lucky day – you can buy a 1200mm lens from New York’s B&H Foto and Electronics for just $120,000.
As soon as you get it, just click it onto your cam and start shooting.
SpookyVision enabled, click to expand
B&H doesn’t come right out and say it, but I think they’ve lost the tripod. Oh well.
“The Canon 1200/5.6L USM, the longest fixed telephoto lens ever built by Canon, contains 13 elements (2 Fluorite) in 10 groups and focus’ down to 49.5′. With an angle-of- view of about 2° on a full-frame 35 mm camera, calling this lens a ‘tele’ is like calling King Kong a monkey.
Built-to-order by Canon from 1993 to 2005, each lens was hand-crafted at the rate of about 2-per-year and a delivery time of about 18 months. Only a dozen-or-so were ever made. Who bought them? National Geographic magazine and Sports Illustrated are known to own a couple, the Feds probably have a few squirreled away somewhere, and a few well-heeled photo enthusiasts.
This particular lens is extremely clean inside and out. Included with this lens is a leather slip-on ‘lens cap’, the original fitted aluminum trunk case, a custom trunk case with wheels that holds the original trunk case, and a prodigious measure of ego satisfaction. Weighing in at over 36lbs and an overall length of 33 inches, a sturdy tripod and pan/tilt head is highly recommended.
Pack mule not included.”
Don’t delay, buy today.
Tags: 1200mm, b&h, canon, canon eos, eos, f/5.6, lens, new york, slr, used
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair 2009 went down last month, but when you shoot film(!), as photographer Mikey Baratta does when he uses his Hasselblad(!) camera, well, it takes a while to get prints back from the FotoMat and scanned for uploading.
As here. It was a great day for walkies with the slave, past the guy with the Nikon, past the guy with the Canon, past the Leather Etc…(!) store. Click to expand:
via mikey baratta PHOTOGRAPHIC
Ah, memories.
Tags: 2010, area, camera, canon, etc, fair, Festival, folsom, Folsom Street Fair, leather, master, mikey baratta, nikon, photographic, San Francisco, slave, soma, south of market, street
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Does this look like San Francisco? It must, because that’s what it is, or at least this is how SoMA looked last night when the Harvest Moon* started rising in the sky around sunset.
Can you spot the full moon? And what’s behind Door 17? Click to expand:
That’s from a fish-eye lens. Here’s the same moon a little later with a zoom lens.
Has it been 40 years since Whitey first set foot on the silv’ry orb?
Use the new Google Moon to keep track of the High Rollers who’ve made it up there.
*Or Fruit Moon, if you want to play it safe
Tags: 100-400, 11, 17, 2009, 5.6, 7th, 8th, apollo, area, Blue, brannan, canon, chrystal method, d60, door, full, harvest, high roller, midwestern, mm, moon, pink, pwn, rei, Sea, sky, soma, sout of market, street, sunset, townsend, tranquility
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The recent conjunction of Venus and Jupiter over San Francisco was certainly memorable.
But now comes ohad* For The Win:
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Well played, good sir.
Tags: canon, conjunction, jupiter, moon, San Francisco, sky, timelapse, venus
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Just what is this tiny figure embedded in the top corner of all one dollar bills in circulation in the United States?
Some people think it’s a Great Horned Owl, but others say it’s a spider. You can see for yourself but that might strain your eyes. Let’s take a look using a Canon Macro Photo MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x lens at five times lifesize:
Not as owly-looking. Here’s a closer view:
You’d have to call that a spider. Or a spider/owl. Or a Spowl.
In this age of conspiracy theories, let’s assume a secret organization put on our currency a little figure, one that sometimes looks like an owl and sometimes looks like a spider.
Who cares about spiders and owls? The Bohemian Club, that’s who. Check out this scary two-hour movie, Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove, to learn more. We’re through the looking glass here, people!
Beware the Spowl.
Tags: 65mm, bill, bohemian, california, canon, club, dollar, dollar bill, figure, global elite, grove, KRON, macro, new world order, owl, San Francisco, Sonoma., spider, spowl, summer fire festival
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
This poor red-tailed hawk was minding its own business in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park just before an aerial assault from a couple of American crows.
Of course, part of the business of hawks is raiding the nests of crows and ravens, so this kind of harassment is understandable.
As always, click to enlarge:
Canon 400mm f/4.0 DO IS Diffractive Optics lens at f/8.0. (Too expensive, overrated, has weird bokeh at times, needs to be stopped down, lacks a focus preset ring, but aside from that a decent lens I s’pose. I got a good deal on a used copy then I later sold it for the same price, so I guess that’s Even Steven. Canon’s 300mm 2.8 IS design from the 1990′s remains superior. Canon would have been a lot better off investing resources devoted to the Diffractive Optics program on something else, it would seem…)
Tags: 400mm, canon, crow, diffractive optics, golden gate park, hawk, raven san francisco, red-tailed
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