...I bought a second hand but refurbished EOS 350D from ebay, with warranty and stuff!
I'll do the astrorigging myself, means exchanging the built in IR-blocker with clear glas. Then one of my greatest dreams will come true: taking emission line images from space nebulae without worrying about light pollution!
(explanation: space nebulae emit light at very specific wavelengths - one of them is 656 nm. I have a filter that transmits only this very wavelength, so light pollution is vitrually completely eliminated. Unfortunately the built in IR-blocker of DSLRs also block that 656 nm line, that's why people like me rip out that built-in filter and replace it with clear glas. To use the cam for common photography again, that built-in filter can be "emulated" by using a screw-in filter in front of the lens or a clip-in filter which fits between lens and mirror. Of cause if you take images at a single wavelength, you only get monochrome results. Somday I'll buy other line filters (they are pretty expensive), if you combine the monochrome images every filter takes, you get a scientific and also aesthetical colour composit. The hubble does it that way and that's my goal also.)
Of course those filters only work on gas nebulae. Stars and galaxies emit all wavelengths continuously and therefore no filter will ever exist that blocks 99% light pollution while transmitting 99% of the starlight. Sadly.

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Still not he major breakthrough yet, but I managed to adapt an old 50mm lens reversed to the compact cam (Lumix DMC-FX10).
I have been pretty pleased about what this cam can do but as I like macro very much, I had the urge to put a lens in front of it as long as I can't afford a real DSLR. I'm stunned by the results of that silly adapter. Unfortunately it can't photograph itself lol, so I can't yet provide an image of that piece of engineering of mine . First test shots were made on a clematis flower. Look how sharp it is (actually I applied a small very blur after doing a large scale unsharp mask for contrast enhance on some images) and note the exposure times - the shots are freehand with wind!
Optical camera zoom is mostly at maximum, I'm lucky that my adaptor puts the lens so close in fromt of the built in lens, that I can zoom out a little bit also, without getting distortion or vignetting .







I might get more active again now .
...and I always seem to get the most favorites on images that I consider to be not so good. And vice versa Oo .

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MAAAAH! Vista doesn't like the old Graphire 2 Tablet *cries* ! Does anyone know how to get a Graphire 2 working with Vista x64? The stupid Wacom driver installs some strange newish applications but doesn't make the tablet being accepted in the device manager. It's still like it has no driver. And it doesn't extract any folder for manual driver installation. The exact kind of my Tablet is ET-0405-R.

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Aww, half a year no journal O_O . Time for another silly question chart xD

Level 1
(x) Smoked A Cigarette
(x) Smoked A Cigar
( ) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
SO FAR: 2

Level 2
(x) Are / Been In Love
(x) Dumped someone *still feels sorry -.-*
( ) Been Fired
( ) Been In A Fist Fight
SO FAR: 4

Level 3
( ) Had A Crush On An Older Person
( ) Skipped Class
( ) Slept With A Co-worker
(x) Seen Someone / Something Die
SO FAR: 5

Level 4
( ) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your deviantART / sheezyart Friends
(x) Been To Paris
( ) Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
(x) Thrown Up From Drinking
SO FAR: 8

Level 5
( ) Eaten Sushi
( ) Been Snowboarding
(x) Met Someone Through Internet
(x) Been in a Mosh Pit
SO FAR: 10

Level 6
( ) Been In An Abusive Relationship
(x) Taken Pain Killers
(x) Liked/loved Someone Who You Cant Have
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x) Made A Snow Angel
SO FAR: 14

Level 7
( ) Had A Tea Party
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
( ) Gone mudding
(x) Played Dress Up
SO FAR: 17

Level 8
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
( ) Gone Sliding
( ) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
( ) Fallen Asleep At Work / School
SO far: 19

Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
( ) Felt An Earthquake
( ) Killed A Snake
SO FAR: 20

Level 11
(x) Been Tickled
(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized
( ) Been cheated on
(x) Been Misunderstood
SO FAR: 23

Level 12
(x) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
( ) Had Detention
( ) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident
SO FAR: 24

Level 13
( ) Had / Have Braces
( ) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
( ) Danced in the moonlight
SO FAR : 24

Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Look
( ) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(?) Questioned Your Heart
( ) Been obsessed with post-it-notes
SO FAR: 25

Level 15
(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
( ) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
(x) Felt Like You Were Dying
SO FAR: 28

Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
( ) Played Cops And Robbers
( ) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
( ) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins
SO FAR: 30

Level 17
( ) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls
( ) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
(x) Kissed In The Rain
SO FAR: 32

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
( ) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach Or Anywhere
SO FAR: 35

Level 19
( ) Crashed A Party
( ) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People (and a dog)
(x) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey
SO FAR: 36

Level 20
( ) Worn Pearls
( ) Jumped Off A Bridge
( ) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"
( ) Swam With Dolphins
SO FAR: 36

Level 21
( ) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cubes
( ) Kicked A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
(x) Sat On A Roof Top and watched the stars
SO FAR: 38

Level 22
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
( ) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
(x) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
( ) Recently stayed up for a while talking to someone you care about
SO FAR: 40

Level 23
(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
(x) Climbed A Tree
( ) Had/Been In A Tree House
( ) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone
SO FAR: 42

Level 24
(x) Believed In Ghosts
( ) Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes
( ) Gone Streaking
( ) Visited Jail
SO FAR: 43

Level 25
(?) Played Chinese Chicken
( ) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
( ) Broken A Bone
(?) Been Easily Amused
SO FAR: 44

Level 26
( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
( ) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
(x) Caught A Butterfly
( ) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed
SO FAR: 46

Level 27
( ) Mooned/Flashed Someone
( ) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
( ) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
( ) French Braided Someones Hair
(x) Gone Skinny Dipping
( ) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
SO FAR: 48

Level 28
( ) Rode A Roller Coaster
( ) Went Scuba-Diving/Snorkeling
(x) Had A Cavity
( ) Black-Mailed Someone
( ) Been Black Mailed
SO FAR: 49

Level 29
( ) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs
( ) Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone
(x) Licked Someone
SO FAR: 52

Level 30
( ) Been shot at/or at gunpoint
( ) Had sex in the rain (woot)
( ) Flattened someones tires
( ) Rode in a car/truck until the gas light came on
( ) Got five dollars or less worth of gas
TOTAL: 52





Prints requests:

Please anybody who bought my prints let me know how they look (does the preview resemble the actual print?), since I never saw one of my own prints printed -.-



The Blobb within my Message Center:

512 deviations and 207 messages -.-

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dA gallery version 2.1
(since I checked it out...)



EOS 350D:

Umm, well, at the same time I got a lot of money, I had to spend al lot too for some kind of fee. So the DSLR still has to wait . But I got a compact cam for present...lokk into my scaps: the mouse and orion constellation are shot using this cam. I think it has potential althoug its so small. But it's of course no exchange for a 350D .



Prints requests:

Another thing I want to mention is that I recently receiced my first payment from dA respective from all you girls and boys who purchased my prints. That means much to me and I hope you enjoy the prints and that they are what you wanted (I never saw one of my prints in a printed form but I take much care to ensure that they should look like intended and like shown here in the preview!). Thanks to all of you and not at least to all the others who visit my gallery, especially to those who do it more or less frequently .



The Blobb within my Message Center:

380 deviations and 125 message -> 489 deviations and 191 messages. -.-

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