johnridley: (Casey eye)
This hack software for the Canon Powershots is going to be a LOT of fun. I tried playing with it with a "motion detection" script running this evening, and results are promising. I screwed up in that A)I had the ISO set to 800, so the results are unacceptably grainy, and B) it was set in RAW mode (normally not supported by this camera, but capability added via the software and I must have bumped the setting while crusing menus). So the results weren't that great, but still, it's nice to just point the camera at a feeding area, turn it on, and go inside while the camera shoots whenever something gets in front of it. And that's just one script that someone wrote for this addon. You can pretty much do anything you can think of. Heck, they put some games in while they were at it.

I'll try again later with better settings and more light; this was taken in the evening.
johnridley: (Calvin vs Bike)
I see rabbits and hawks every day, woodchucks, possum, buzzards and raccoon once a week or so, and a couple of times, fox. But for some reason, though I know they're around and have heard them, I have only seen coyote around here from a distance.
OK, this photo is from a distance too; he bolted from the bushes at the side of the road and stopped probably only 30 feet away when I first saw him as I rode past, but he was probably 300+ feet away by the time I snapped this photo. For some reason, coyote are nervous about weird people wearing fluorescent lime colored shirts looping back and stopping on the road and pointing things at them; they tend to run off.


100% crop @ 6x zoom from a 7MP camera set to ISO 400 to try to get the fastest shutter I could (I feel grain is better than blur if I have to choose).
johnridley: (Calvin vs Bike)
Possum. They move like cats with short legs.  I had to slow down to let him by.  At least they just keep going at a steady rate, instead of getting confused and reversing.
Too bad my handlebar-cam is useless in low light. Anyway...

johnridley: (Calvin vs Bike)
My normal route home is a semi-popular bike route during the summer.
But I've noticed for the last few weeks, the horses along the way have started watching me, even trotting over to the fence. They did that the spring I first started riding, but quickly stopped. I thought they had gotten used to *me* but I now think it's bikes in general.
(edit) Of course, the bike does *sound* funny with the studded tires, that could be it as well.

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