moo/flickr cards

An acquaintance of mine gave me his "business card" that looked kind of funny. It was a bit more narrow, printed on good paper, and had a photo that he took on the back side. Being an amateur photographer I thought well that's kind of cool how could I get my grubby little hands on a couple of those. So he told me you could create them from the pictures you post on flickr.com and the company called moo prints them for you.

So, here is the result of the cards I got (only displaying the picture side). On the front side you can squeeze in 6 lines of text and an optional logo. The text can be read from the picture specs too (aperture, lenses, etc).

Ownuser E-510 battery grip

A couple of weeks ago I ordered an ownuser battery grip for my Oly E-510 camera. It helps vertical shooting a lot and is a verry firm grip. Built well (not the cheap plastic you would expect really).

The it has two buttons on the grip (for left/right handed) and it can pack two batteries (two BLM-1) or 12AA type batteries with a special battery holder.
The only problem is that it actually powers the camera through the mini USB connector on the back side so it is a bit clumsy, but otherwise works perfectly.

It takes a bit getting used to if you use a lot of manual mode like I do and have to turn the knobs all the time ;)

I'd rate it worth the money for an E-510 user (since olympus does not produce any official grips for E-510/E-520 models).

I have also ordered an GPS bluetooth module from E-bay, when that one comes in we'll dig into geocoding of pictures.

Vacation in Hungary

A couple of weeks ago around May 1st we went (by car) to Hungary specifically to Budapest and later to Siofok by lake Balaton. The trip was great. We really enjoyed the city, great architecture, monumental buildings, friendly people (most of all our CouchSurfing hostess there). I would recomend it to anyone who favors architecture and beautiful sites ;)

Also Balaton lake is very nice, and did I mention before the people were very, very nice? I can't seem to stress that enough ;)

I am attaching a slideshow of the Budapest



and Balaton pictures:




I hope you enjoy them but there is no supplement for the real thing.