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Hello everyone, how about shooting star trails today? Sounds exciting!

Here’s a video that I am going to share with you. But before that, let’s talk a bit about shooting star trails. First of all, you will be shooting at night – you know that, right?

The exposure will be very long, usually a number of minutes so it’s crucial that you use a tripod (of course) and a remote shutter release would be great.  As you would be shooting at night, it might be a good idea to set up your camera beforehand.

Things you need to set up are shutter speed, for example, and you would set at Bulb. I am not going to reveal all the information from the video, you just watch it yourself and enjoy.

So, without further ado, let’s watch the video

Can you imagine an 80 Gigapixel image? What about an 80 Gigapixel image of London?

80-Gigapixel panorama of London is an image (or actually a series of images put together) by a photographer Jeffrey Martin. And this is not his first one! He has already created a panorama of Prague before.

The 80-Gigapixel panorama of London consists of 7,886(!) high resolution images. 80-Gigapixels means 80 billion pixels, which is an amazing amount of detail! According to the owner of the image, this image is the largest image ever to be created and if printed, it would be 115′ long!

He took three days to shoot all the images and the images were taken from the 36th floor of the Centre Point Building in Central London (in case you don’t know the building, it’s next to Tottenham Court Road Tube Station. To put all the images together, he had to use some massive computer processing power. Fujitsu Technology Solutions provided the Fujitsu CELSIUS workstation that has a dual 6-core CPUs, 192GB(!) of RAM, and a 4GB graphics card that did it in 18 hours. Total processing took about six weeks.

Here’s the link to the image:

London 80 Gigapixels on 360 cities.

Enjoy and see you tomorrow!

Have you ever wondered how Memory Cards are made? Now you can see it!

I’ve found a video where Lexar shows how they make memory cards! A very nice video!

Did you know that a room where they manufacture cards is 100 times cleaner than a hospital room?!

Did you also know that the cards are assembled using solid gold thread and that it is just a bit larger than a human hair? Very nice

So sit back, relax and watch!

Hello everyone, all photographers!

How big cards are you using while shooting with your digital camera? 8GB? 16GB? Good 8GB cards cost quite a bit and you need to be careful when you buy them… Never buy cards from China! Beware! What you may end up with is a cheap card with a “brand” sticker on it and when you start using it on you camera you notice how slow it is…

Lexar has just released a brand new Lexar Professional UDMA card – 32GB!
That’s a lot of storage for your images and video from your digital camera!

It “Leverages UDMA 6 technology to provide industry-leading 600x (90MB/s) guaranteed minimum sustained write speed*” (quote from Lexar).

It is so fast that it is perfect for shooting Raw and videos on your DSLR. I have been using Lexar cards (and Sandisk) for a few years now and they never disappointed me.
The card also includes downloadable Image Rescue™ 4 software to recover lost or deleted photo and video files.

More details on Lexar website – link below:

Lexar 32GB

Enjoy!