Re: [ST] Ride Report - UK -> Slovenia

[Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Jun 2005, at 01:14, Matt Knowles wrote:

> >  What software did you use to create it? What
> > camera do you have?
>
> Just a wild guess here. Smugmug and an HP Photosmart C850. But  
> looking into my gazing ball, I also see that he is running v07.37  
> firmware.

Hello,

Sorry for not replying sooner - just been away for a couple of days  
and out of email contact.

Thanks to all for positive feedback.  Glad it is not too shabby a  
report.  Hope to be off on a couple more trips this summer, and will  
write them up too.  To answer the various questions...

STeve: 140mph was fun - scary to think I wasn't the fastest thing on  
road though (which were Audi and Porsche cars).  Was cold at top of  
Glossglockner pass, but not so cold as to need anything more than  
heated grips, a sweatshirt under my leather jacket and a buff neck  
warmer.  Main issue was the change from bottom of hill to top... and  
back again...

Rupert: The report was created in Pages - the word processing package  
from Apple (part of iWork if you follow such things), using one of  
their standard templates.  The photos were imported into Pages from  
iPhoto 5.0.2.  The photos were taken using my old HP Photosmart 850  
(a now out of print 4.13 Megapixel point and shoot... I think in the  
USA it was sold mostly as the HP 945, which had a slightly better  
resolution - 5.xx mega pixel I think).  As a camera 850 takes very  
clean photos (in natural light at least) but built in flash is pretty  
poor and battery life appallingly short: main reason I went for it  
(in late 2002) was it had a pretty good lens (in 35mm camera terms,  
35mm wide angle through to about 200mm telephoto, with f2.8 to  
f3.1).  Has quite a range of adjustments, but access to them is  
awkward (have to do via on-screen menus, not so good for quick fire  
shooting), and there is about a 1 sec delay between pressing shutter  
button and taking photo, which makes action shots largely  
impossible.  It is also fairly bulky (due to large lens mainly), so  
makes a good landscape camera, but less good for other things.  I  
also have a Nikon Coolpix 3200 - which is tiny enough to fit into  
jeans pocket. But pictures from Nikon are not nearly as good (lower  
resolution, major barrel distortion problems), so use primarily for  
snapshots.

A couple of the photos were massaged slightly in iPhoto 5.02, but  
most are unchanged from what was imported from camera.

Matt: You are absolutely right... Firmware installed is 1.01.06,  
which is latest version of firmware installer that you can download  
from HP (dates from 2003).  But when you check firmware you get  
screens of gobbledegook that means diddly to me, so it might well be  
that the 1.01.06 installer installs version 7.37...  And yes, the  
photos are hosted on smugmug - which I've not used before, but seems  
to be about a billion times more useful than anything else I have  
tried for this type of thing.

Anyhow - thanks again for the warm feedback and encouragement.  Much  
appreciated.

Best regards

Gavin Lawrie
ST'03
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