Sunday, April 25, 2004

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Paintball Dueling I recently read a long article about the famous Burr-Hamilton duel. That article reminded me of some things that I had half-known about duels, including the fact that they were most often not fatal, often even didn't result in injury. I hadn't thought any more about it, until my department organized an upcoming paintball tournament. That made me think--what a perfect thing to do in paintball! Especially since, apparently, rifled muzzles (i.e., something more accurate than a 17th-century firearm) were prohibited. Sounds like a paintball! 11:33:46 PM    comment []

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Needed: software for fast review of multiple shots, using tiling (burst) Since getting my FZ10, I have become addicted to burst mode. The problem is, now I have SO many more photos to wade through (4-7 for every click of the shutter). In theory, I would quickly eyeball the set, select the one I like, and discard the rest. There are two problems. One, the software I have is somewhat slow to switch between pictures. The bigger problem, though, is that I would like to be able to look at the set side-by-side on my big monitor. So I would like software that lets me specify a number of pictures to show tiled (4, 6, etc), and then renders them very quickly, and also lets me flag the ones I like very quickly, and efficiently delete the rest. The key here is FAST. Of course, thumbnails won't do, I am trying to make subtle distinctions beween shots, I need the full resolution. I have plenty of RAM to dedicate to the process. I would even be okay if I had to pre-select the photos, then wait a few minutes for a caching process to run. I use PhotoTools iMatch for image categorization, and love it, but it is on the slow side. I am also a Photoshop newbie, but I don't think it has exactly this kind of feature. Fotana almost seems to fit the bill. It is VERY fast. But it doesn't AUTOMATICALLY create the 4x, 6x, etc side-by-side views I crave. 11:25:01 AM    comment []