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I suppose running out of battery is the new equivalent to running out of film. Unfortunately you cannot just buy a new roll and continue shooting, either recharge or always have a charged spare battery.

Canon DSLR has found a new home and was virtually exchanged for a GR Digital. I am enjoying getting to know this little camera.

Doing more handheld LF practice today with the expired FP3000. Slowly getting better at it. Unfortunately I am giving a lot of the results away to my subjects, including a real good shot of a lady walking her two golden retrievers (got another chance, see the Flickr stream, but the other one was better).

I found this rather revolutionary. Put this memory card into your camera, and suddenly the camera is wirelessly connected and you can upload your pictures. Connected wherever there is a Wi-Fi access point.

The Eye-Fi card is a two gigabyte SD card with built-in WiFi capability. The provided Eye-Fi Manager software allows you to associate the card with wireless access points and choose to have images automatically uploaded to your computer and also any one of seventeen online photo sharing sites including Facebook, Flickr, Fotki and Picasa. Once setup you can put the card into (virtually) any camera supporting SD and have your images automatically upload.

Never mind that in reality this will probably increase the junk that’s already on Flickr et al, but the concept is pretty remarkable; the true Online Photographer has arrived.

We’ll see what the implications of this will be.