Robin Edgar

Farshad Mohammadi Vigil In Front Of SPVM Headquarters Friday The 13th 2012

2012-01-14T00:24:00.005-05:00

Members of Occupy Montreal organized a silent vigil for Farshad Mohammadi outside of SPVM headquarters on St. Urbain Street on the evening if Friday 13 January 2012. Farshad Mohammadi is the homeless man who was shot to death by SPVM police officers in Place Bonaventure Metro station a week earlier on Friday January 6 2012.

Congolese Group Protests Against U.S. Support For African Dictators At The American Consulate in Montreal Friday December 2, 2011

2011-12-02T13:27:00.003-05:00

A QUAND LA RECONNAISSANCE DU GENOCIDE & FEMINICIDE CONGOLAIS?

Version Français - Manifestation Congolais contre l'appui Americain des dictateurs Africains

Une groupe de Congolais manifest contre l'appui Americain des dictateurs Africains devant le consulate des États Unis a Montreal vers midi vendredi le 2 decembre 2011.

Lady Gaga Telephone Music Video As Sung By A Busker Called Maisie

2011-11-30T13:37:00.001-05:00

A guitar playing busker known as Maisie sings a cover version of the Lady Gaga song 'Telephone' in folk music style in the tunnel leading to Berri Metro Station in downtown Montreal.

About one minute into the song a homeless man decides that he wants his 15 minutes worth of world fame. . .

Occupy Montreal Forcibly Evicted From Square Victoria aka Place Du Peuple Friday November 25, 2011

2011-11-28T15:30:00.005-05:00

SPVM police officers move in on Square Victoria

with boxes of orange "crime scene" tape. . .

Isis meditates in front of the statue of

Queen Victoria which was transformed

into La Déesse des Indignés de Montréal

A Montreal Occupier ritually smudges SPVM

police officers with the smoke of burning sage.

SPVM police officers moved quickly to dismantle

the symbolic tents representing other "Occupied" cities

that had been placed around the statue of Queen Victoria.

Quebec union workers arrived before the SPVM police

intervention to provide their moral support for Occupy Montreal.

City workers bundle up an Occupy Montreal tent.

A Montreal city worker identifies the bundled up and bagged

belongings of a Montreal Occupier aka un Indigné Montréalais.

A First Nations Occupier holds a dream catcher while

SPVM police officers dismantle tents in the background.

The SPVM ordered mainstream media aka "corporate media"

to leave the cordoned off area of Square Victoria or risk arrest.

All or almost all of the "corporate media" complied with this highly

questionable attempt to control media coverage of the eviction.

SPVM officers dismantle a small tent.

Two SPVM officers stand watch as a Montreal Occupier

collects his sleeping bag and prepares to leave the area.

A Montreal Occupier flashes a "peace sign".

Or is it the 'V' for Victory made famous by Winston Churchill?

Perhaps a combination of both meanings holds True here since,

by remaining completely non-violent and only passively resisting the

unnecessary forcible eviction by an SPVM police intervention soon

after they had already voted to leave Square Victoria voluntarily,

Montreal Occupiers proved they were as good as their word.

Batman aka the Caped Crusader aka The Dark Knight

is evicted from Square Victoria by an SPVM officer.

It is my understanding that Batman was later arrested

for having the temerity to hug a Montreal police officer.

Two Montreal Indignés meditate behind police lines.

Isis meditates in passive resistance to the SPVM eviction.

A female SPVM police officer chats with a Montréal Indigné

who has collected her belongings in preparation for leaving.

Montréal Occupier Paul talks on his cell phone while Greg

stands in the background with an Occupons Montréal banner.

More passive resistance by Montreal Occupiers

An evicted Batman strides past the entrance to

Montreal's World Trade Center minutes before

allegedly "assaulting" an SPVM officer with a hug.

SPVM police officers on "Kitchen Duty" as it were. . .

Occupy Montreal Forcibly Evicted From Square Victoria aka Place Du Peuple Friday November 25, 2011

2011-11-26T20:53:00.002-05:00

"And right now I see it all going to Hell Stephane. . ."

Occupy Montreal activist Greg speaks to SPVM mediator Stephane Eid as a large Montreal police force (SPVM) operation to forcibly evict Montreal Occupiers from Square Victoria aka Place Du People prepares to move in on the morning of "Black Friday" November 25th, 2011

Occupy Montreal General Assembly In Place Victoria METRO Passageway November 24 2011

2011-11-24T22:52:00.002-05:00

I do not want to go into any detail right now, but tonight's

Occupy Montreal General Assembly is moving in the

direction of a win-win situation for Montreal Occupiers

and the City Of Montreal. A peaceful and creative response

to the City's recent notification of the imminent enforcement

of Montreal city bylaws regarding the use of parks.

If what is being proposed, and apparently enthusiastically accepted

by most Montreal Occupiers, is formally adopted at tonight's GA,

Occupy Montreal and the City of Montreal will arrive at a

peaceful resolution that contrasts significantly with the aggressive

and even violent police interventions in other North American cities.

Occupy Montreal General Assembly In Place Victoria METRO Passageway November 17 2011

2011-11-17T22:27:00.000-05:00

Occupy Blob

Nous sommes les 99%

The Goddess Of Occupy Montreal aka La D'éesse D'Occupons Montréal

2011-11-06T20:21:00.000-05:00

Occupy Montreal Protest Victoria Square Sunday October 16 2011

2011-10-16T12:04:00.000-04:00

NOUS SOMMES LES 99%

WE ARE THE 99%

CANADA NOT MORDOR

WHAT ABOUT HAPPINESS?

PLACE DU PEUPLE

PLACE VICTORIA

PLACE DU PEUPLE

Occupy Montreal Protest Victoria Square Saturday October 15 2011

2011-10-15T21:19:00.002-04:00

DO THE FINANCIERS WANT OUR (COMMON) GOOD?

YES! ALL OUR GOODS. . .

JIMI HENDRIX RESURRECTED

McGILL UNIVERSITY STRIKERS

WALL STREET BULLSHIT

TAXPAYER NOT FREELOADER

RHINOCEROS PARTY REPS EXPLAIN
THE STOCK MARKET TO YOUTH

HISTORICAL REALITY CHECK

GUY FAWKES MASK PROTESTER TEXTING

NDP Leader Jack Layton Famous Last Words

2011-08-22T13:39:00.000-04:00

The above photograph is my small tribute to NDP leader John Gilbert "Jack" Layton who died earlier today after battling cancer.

Jack Layton's final message to Canadians, written just a day or two before he died, may be read on the Globe & Mail website.

RIPL&U Jack

Jack Layton NDP Rally In Montreal Saturday April 23 2011

2011-04-23T15:46:00.001-04:00

Maybe 'Happy Jack' by The Who should be the new NDP theme song. :-)

Nikon Mystery DSLR - Is Digital Photography Review aka DPReview Currently Testing An As Yet Unannounced Nikon DSLR?

2010-12-15T12:19:00.003-05:00

Today I received the 434th Digital Photography Review newsletter in my email inbox. It displayed a photograph of a blacked out Nikon DSLR with a large question mark superimposed on it and the text of the newsletter claimed that the good people at Digital Photography Review were "putting the finishing touches to two big camera reviews that we're hoping to bring you in the next week." It went on to say, "we're going to bring you reviews of two of the most exciting DSLRs on the market."

I would have thought that the Pentax K5 and the Nikon D7000 could be considered to be "two of the most exciting DSLRs on the market" but Digital Photography Review have already published their full-scale review of the Nikon D7000. . . and the blacked out "mystery camera", while having obvious Nikon styling characteristics, is NOT a Nikon D7000 or, to the best of my knowledge, any Nikon DSLR that is currently on the market.

For various reasons I will not post the image to the blog at this time but many DPreview subscribers must have recieved the same intriguing image in their email inboxes earlier today. I can however provide a direct link to its image location on the web. I will probably add detail to this blog post as more news comes to light. I am thinking that the image of the Nikon mystery DSLR, while possibly just a Photoshop job, *may* be an image of a compact FX format Nikon DSLR to replace the Nikon D700, possibly a "Nikon D800".

Creature At The Montreal International Jazz Festival 2009

2009-07-03T21:48:00.003-04:00

Using The D-Movie Mode Of The Nikon D90 For Photojournalistic Purposes At The COBP Protest Against Police Brutality In Montreal

2009-03-18T16:59:00.006-04:00

I have not made a lot of use of the D-Movie Mode of my Nikon D90 since I bought it last November, but I did use it fairly extensively this past weekend to take about 15-20 HD videos of the 13th International Protest Against Police Brutality Protest on Sunday March 15, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This is my first use of the Nikon D90's 720p HD video D-Movie mode for what could be described as photojournalism and/or "news gathering" documentary video purposes. Previous uses of D-Movie Mode were primarily for some family videos or videos of musical performances ranging from classical music concerts, through heavy metal rock concerts, to a Death Metal festival.

I have uploaded 15 of the better video clips of the weekend anti-police brutality protest organized by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) to my YouTube channel, and I will embed two or three of the best one's in this blog post so that you can see how they look on YouTube. The "normal" YouTube mode has a distinctly "soft" look to it which does not do justice to the high quality 720p HD video that the Nikon D90 is capable of producing. The HQ mode is a *lot* better but of course the best quality is viewing the HD video directly from the memory card or hard-drive on a high quality computer monitor or HD TV screen.

Don't forget to click on HQ to view the video in YouTube's High Quality mode

At around 2:30pm, at the corner of rue St. Denis and Sherbrooke Street, some of the "provocateurs" in the crowd of protesters threw smoke grenades at the line of riot police blocking access to rue St. Denis below Sherbrooke Street. The first stun grenade or smoke bomb actually seen in this video goes off at the 21 second mark to the left of the line of riot police although one or two a heard to go off prior to this. At the 45 second mark a second smoke bomb is seen. At first I thought that this second smoke bomb was tear gas being used by the riot police to disperse the crowd, and one person exposed to the smoke affirms that it is tear gas when I ask him, however I don`t believe that it was actual tear gas and it may well have been another smoke bomb thrown by a protester rather than one used by the police. It is however possible that this second "smoke bomb" was a pepper-spray type smoke grenade used by the police as an alternative to tear gas.

This video, and all other videos of 13th International Protest Against Police Brutality Protest in Montreal, were shot in the 720p HD video of D-Movie Mode using my Nikon D90 DSLR with an 18-200mm Nikkor VR lens attached to it. I also took some very good still images with the Nikon D90 and my Nikon D300 which I may post here a bit later.

A "Punk" Sporting A Bright Red Mohawk Confronts Riot Police During COBP Protest

A street band plays in the middle of rue St. Denis during the Anti-Police Brutality Protest of The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality on Sunday March 15 2009

This video gives a good idea of the sound quality of the Nikon D90's monaural microphone which really is quite good. I was impressed with the decent sound quality of the videos I took of classical concerts. Still, those stun grenades going off in the first video were a LOT louder than the video conveys. They sounded like a small cannon being fired.

The Nikon D90 And D-Movie Mode HD Video Has Arrived

2008-08-27T14:38:00.013-04:00

Since Nikon has now officially announced the Nikon D90 DSLR, and has provided details about its D-Movie Mode which allows shooting 720p HD format HDTV video at the traditional 24 frames-per-second cinematographic frame-rate, I have decided to create a new blog post that deals with the verifiable facts about the Nikon D90, especially its groundbreaking D-Movie Mode, rather than rumors and speculation.

Nikon Canada is really pushing the D-Movie Mode of the Nikon D90 on it's web page announcing the Nikon D90 DSLR. The first thing that it has to say about the Nikon D90 is -

The D90 is the world’s first* digital SLR camera with an innovative movie shooting function that delivers cinematic results, creatively enhanced by the shallow depth of field made possible by the DX-format sensor. This is further refined by the optical quality and broad selection of NIKKOR lenses — the same lenses used by professional photographers. D-Movie images exhibit less noise than those of a typical camcorder, most notably in low light situations, thanks to the D90’s large image sensor.

It then goes on to talk about the Nikon D90's still photography features and capabilities. Here is the PDF format English language Nikon D90 brochure provided by Nikon Canada. Et voici le Nikon D90 sur le siteweb de Nikon Canada en francais pour mes amis francophones.

Nikon Imaging has posted a webpage explaining the new D-Movie Mode of the Nikon D90 titled World's first D-SLR movie: D-Movie.

Here is the official Nikon word from that page -

A new idea for D-SLRs, the D90 offers a movie function, allowing you to shoot movies in three different motion JPEG formats: 320 x 216 pixels, 640 x 424 pixels and 1,280 x 720 pixels. Now you can capture life’s moving moments with added drama by using many of Nikon’s NIKKOR lenses, including the AF DX Fisheye 10.5mm f/2.8G ED and the Micro-NIKKOR lenses. The shallow depth of field can give your movies a more creative and emotional impact. An additional benefit is the D90 image sensor, which is much larger than a typical camcorder for higher image quality and exceptional high ISO performance during low-light shooting.

Regrettably the official Nikon Canada brochure indicates that higher frame-rates than 24 FPS, such as 30 FPS or even 60 FPS as provided on my Samsung NV24HD compact digital camera, are not available on the lower resolution video formats of the Nikon D90. It is the traditional cinematographic frame-rate of 24 frames-per-second all the way. . . The video format is AVI with Motion-JPEG compression. The sound is monoaural only, presumably as provided by the built-in mic on the front left side of the Nikon D90 as seen in this close-up photo of the D90 courtesy of the Nikon Rumors blog. I guess if people want high quality stereo sound with their D-Movie video they will have to record it separately and dub it in later when editing their video.

It would have been great if Nikon had gone all the way and provided full 1080 HDTV HD video capability on the D90 but high quality 720p HDTV from an APS-C size CMOS chip is a fine first effort. Presumably subsequent Nikon DSLR cameras will provide full 1080 HDTV video capability. Things will really get interesting when Nikon provides D-Movie Mode on a full-frame FX sensor Nikon DSLR, this scenario may not be too far down the road judging by Nikon's current onslaught of new and improved DX and FX DSLR cameras. . .

More in-depth information and discussion about the Nikon D90 DSLR and it's D-Movie Mode will be posted here later.

Update Wednesday September 3, 2008 - I had a chat with the staff of a couple of Montreal camera stores that I buy from about when the Nikon D90 will actually be available in their stores. In both cases they spoke about late September but more realistically October. I just discovered that Best Buy Canada is offering the Nikon D90 with the 18-105mm VR lens kit for pre-order on BestBuy.ca at $1449.00 with a "release date" of September 30th. It thus seems that it is unlikely that the Nikon D90 will actually be available in Canadian stores before the beginning of October. Hopefully the supply of Nikon D90 kits will be quite plentiful in November and December. The price difference between the Canadian store prices for D90 kits with full warranties from Nikon Canada and American kit prices is so small that there is little point in Canadians buying the Nikon D90 from non-Canadian suppliers.

Nikon D90 DSLR Camera Is Finally On The Way!

2008-08-13T20:37:00.039-04:00

Photo courtesy of NikonRumors.com

I am going to place the most recent updates about the Nikon D90 DSLR "rumors" at the top of the page here to save repeat visitors the trouble of having to scroll through the whole blog post to find out the latest available information about the new Nikon D90 digital camera. When a new update is posted the current one will be moved to the bottom of the page -

Update Wednesday August 27, 2008 1:30pm: Nikon officially announced the Nikon D90 DSLR on its websites last night. A search for "Nikon D90" in Google News currently turns up 28 results but there will be a lot more articles about this groundbreaking Nikon DSLR soon enough.

Here is the Nikon USA webpage for the Nikon D90. It provides a link to a demo of the Nikon D90's "D-Movie Mode" which provides 720p HD video capability.

Here is the Nikon Canada webpage for the Nikon D90.

Here is the excellent Digital Photography Review blog's preview of the Nikon D90.

end of Update

I have been expecting this new Nikon DSLR to appear for months now, but the D300 and D700 got there ahead of it. The much awaited Nikon D90 DSLR should be one great Nikon digital camera. Probably the best bang for buck yet. I remember paying about the same amount as the "rumoured" $1299.00 price for a Nikon D90 DSLR camera with a new 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR kit lens on it for my late lamented (i.e. stolen) Nikon D70s with the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G DX high end kit lens back in the summer of 2005.

What a difference three short years makes in the DSLR business!

Here is what PhotographyBLOG has to say about the new, but as yet not officially announced Nikon D90 -

We don't usually feature unsubstantiated rumours, but when one of the best known Nikon-related authors decides to publish the key specs and a release date, it's pretty clear that the Nikon D90 is on its way. David Busch, creator of the popular Nikon Digital Field Guides series, has revealed that the D90 will offer a 12 megapixel sensor, Live View shooting mode, "larger" LCD screen than the D80's (pictured) 2.5 inch model, 4.5fps continuous shooting, HDMI connectivity, video recording (!) and GPS compatibility. Busch states that the price of the Nikon D90 with a new 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR kit lens will be $1299, something that's also verified by recent stock listings at Best Buy and Circuit City. Finally, August 27th will apparently be the launch day according to Busch.

Although I agree that this "rumour" about the brand-spanking new Nikon D90 DSLR may as yet be "unsubstantiated", it is almost certainly a highly reliable "rumor". If Nikon Digital Field Guides author David Busch has a web-page dedicated to the Nikon D90 on his website it is unlikely that this rumour is not every well founded and highly accurate about most of the specs of the Nikon D90 camera. Here is some of what David Busch has to say about the Nikon D90 digital camera -

Nikon D90. At 12 MP, and with the list of cool features I outline below, the D90 serves three purposes in the Nikon line. It's easy enough to use to serve as a first dSLR, and won't overwhelm anyone who wants to move slowly into more advanced features. And yet, those features are in there, ready for you when you're ready for them. It also makes a great upgrade from the D80, and works as a backup camera for those with a D300 or other more advanced Nikon body. Other than the flexibility you get with the D300's four Shooting banks/four Custom Setting banks, you don't lose much by going with the D90. I'll know more when I can compare sensors and high ISO image quality between the D300 and D90. I expect to see the D90 sell for about $999 with the 18-55mm VR lens, which makes it only about $50 more than the current price of the D80 with that lens. If you read on, you'll see just what you get for that extra fifty bucks.

Read on about what David Busch has to say about the Nikon D90 digital camera by following the embedded link to his Nikon Guides website. Here is what I have to say about the Nikon D90 based on its rumoured specifications -

I am posting now for the benefit of those who may be interested in the Nikon D90 and want to check out the "rumour" on the two linked photography blogs. I will add my two cents worth here within a short time. Hopefully later tonight or tomorrow but I need to get some food into me now.

Update: OK It is now 11:36 pm in Montreal and I downed a hamburger, glass of Coca-Cola, and some chocolate coconut date cake made by a Tahitian chef I happen to know to fill the void. Healthy diet eh? Did I forget to mention that I had some Häagen-Dazs® vanilla swiss almond ice-cream with the cake and washed it down with a cup of coffee? ;-)

I have been scouring the internet for the latest rumours about the Nikon D90 and it does seem that this time around the latest rumours are "unsubstantiated" only in that Nikon has not officially announced the launch of the D90 just yet. The power of the internet may well cause Nikon to make the official announcement sooner than they had originally planned to. When there are digital photographs of computer screens at Best Buy and Circuit City stores showing the order information for the Nikon D90 kit with the new, but as yet unannounced, 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR kit lens selling for $1299 U.S. it is hard to believe that at least those elements of the Nikon D90 rumors are not highly reliable and accurate. In fact, the Nikon Rumors blog has some seemingly very credible posts on it with some interesting reader polls. It has even posted what would appear to be a genuine photo of the left front side of a Nikon D90 camera. I have snagged that uncredited photo and posted to illustrate this blog entry. As I said on my StumbleUpon blog earlier this evening,

"I would be happy to credit the photographer who took this image but I expect that he or she would prefer to remain anonymous. . . ;-)"

One of the main things that I intended to blog about here is the rumored video capability of the Nikon D90 camera. As it turns out there was a poll about that rumored video capability on the Nikon Rumors blog so I voted and submitted the following fairly extensive comment there -

I am very surprised that about half the people voting think that having some sort of video capability available as an option on the Nikon D90 or any other DSLR is "a horrible idea". My Pentax K20D has a 20 frames per second lower resolution still shot capability that is so close (yet so far away. . .) from 24 fps HD format video it's not funny. Why Pentax and Samsung didn't go all the way and add a microphone to the K20D with functional 24 fps 1080 HD format video is beyond me.

For the record I am a semi-retired professional photographer with over 20 years of experience who is something of a traditionalist. For those who think that it's "a horrible idea" to have some form of video capability on the Nikon D90 all I can say is you don't have to use that function. I don't use many of the functions on my DSLRs or compact digital cameras. Heck, most of the time I am shooting in manual exposure mode and barely looking at the light meter in my Nikon D300 or Pentax K20D. Autofocus does come in handy though.

I just bought a Samsung NV24HD compact digital camera in part because it can shoot 720p HD video at 30 fps. I am having a blast with it and would be only too happy if the Nikon D90 has similar capability. In fact I will be somewhat disappointed if the D90's video capability is limited to 640X480 VGA quality. I would want at least 720p HD video but 1080i or 1080p would be better, even at a lower frame rate. Of course a lower resolution high frame rate video capability would be great too. Let's say 60 fps at 640X480 for example. But I'll take 60 fps at on 720p HD video if Nikon will be so kind as to provide it.

I look forward to owning a Nikon D90 in the coming months. It may even relegate my D300 to back-up use. Seriously, I don't need most of the features of the D300 and it is just a tad too big and heavy for my liking. I expect that the D90 would become my primary Nikon body if it has decent video capability. I know it is asking too much to have an articulated viewing screen on it but it sure would be nice if Nikon and other DSLR manufacturers made it possible to attach an articulated viewing screen as an optional accessory on future models of DSLRs.

You can chase down the latest rumours about the Nikon D90 on the Nikon Rumors blog by following this link to all the Nikon D90 rumors posted to it.

More later. . .

Update 14.08.2008 9:15pm - Well it looks like the 1001 Noisy Cameras blog has kindly directed some readers my way so I guess I had better add what I can to this post although it's not doing too bad so far. I will definitely be adding to this thread rather than starting new ones so do check back every now and then. I will notify readers when it is wrapped up. For people interested in finding recent posts about the long rumored Nikon D90 camera I would suggest running a simplified Google search on the Nikon D90 with the 18-105mm DX VR kit lens. Doing this will bring up the most recent posts and separate what is probably wheat from a whole lot of old Nikon D90 chaff. . . It seems that there is a fair bit of chatter on French language web sites and blogs. A lot of posts don't provide all that much information, quite a bit less than I have already posted here, so I will try to save you some trouble by making a point of updating this post and making it as comprehensive as possible over the next several days if not a week or two. Still nothing new about the D90 on Ken Rockwell's blog or the excellent Digital photography review blog but do check them out from time to time.

Update 15.08.2008 12:30pm - An alleged photo of a Nikon D90 viewing screen in video mode was been posted to the Nikon Rumors blog earlier this morning. I notice that neither the selected video resolution nor frame rate is displayed on the viewing screen so I remain skeptical about its authenticity. I will say that, in that Nikon does not currently market any video camcorders (unlike its rivals Canon and Sony) it has little or nothing to lose by incorporating a very advanced video mode into its future DSLRs to say nothing of its compacts. To be honest I was rather disappointed that Nikon chose not to provide HD video capability in the new CoolPix 6000 digital compact.

Update Sunday August 24, 2008: The Nikon Rumors blog has just announced that the Nikon D80 is no longer listed on the Nikon Europe web site. This is a strong sign that the Nikon D80 is being discontinued and that the forthcoming Nikon D90 camera is soon to be officially announced by Nikon.

Update Monday August 25, 2008 7:00pm: The Nikon Rumors blog has posted sales photos of the Nikon D90 and this thread in the online forums of Chasseur d'Images magazine's web site has posted the same or similar photos.

Update Tuesday August 26, 2008 1:45pm: Thanks to a heads up from the Nikon Rumors blog it has come to my attention that CircuitCity has jumped the gun on Nikon's official announcement of the Nikon D90 DSLR camera and has listed it on its website for pre-order. The product information regarding the D90's video capability says -

HD movie mode: Capture your surroundings in cinematic quality. The D90 features the D-Movie mode, which shoots HD movie with sound at 24fps.

This product information does not specify that the Nikon D90 has full 1080 HD format video capability but I would be surprised if it is not full HD. As I mentioned earlier, Pentax came so close to, yet so far away from. . . providing the equivalent of full 1080 HD video at 24 FPS on the Pentax K20D with its reduced resolution 1.6 MP 20 FPS Burst mode. Admittedly this Burst Mode on the Pentax K20D only allowed for a couple seconds of silent "video" in JPEG format but it was kind of fun. The Nikon D90's HD video D-Movie mode will be much more interesting, even if it does not have great audio capability which is likely to be the case.

Update Tuesday August 26, 2008 2:35pm: Well that didn't last long! CircuitCity promptly removed its webpage that offered the Nikon D90 DSLR for preorder before Nikon had officially announced its release. Scroll down to the bottom of this blog post to read my earlier update that provided CircuitCity's product information about the Nikon D90's HD video D-movie mode. I added three screenshots of sections of the CircuitCity webpage at the bottom of this post. Just click your mouse on the low-res images to see full resolution versions.

Creature Stikes Again!

2007-02-03T13:28:00.000-05:00

Alexander Calder - Man

2007-01-14T19:46:00.000-05:00

Well I didn't have much luck catching comet McNaught but I did get these nice night shots of Alexander Calder's sculpture 'Man' on Ile Ste. Helene when I went comet hunting.

Creature Live!

2006-12-17T22:48:00.000-05:00

Happy Hanukkah aka Chanukkah or however else you care to spell it. . . ;-)

2006-12-17T21:58:00.000-05:00