[Photo-SIG] Lunar Eclipse

[Dave Lundy]

Did any of you get to see last night's Lunar eclipse?  I forgot about
it until about 8pm.  I think some of it should have still been 
visible, but the sky here was as thick as pea soup. :-(  But I was 
having fun playing with my new toy(1), so I wasn't *too* upset. ;-)

I searched for Lunar eclipse March 2007 on Flickr and found several. 
The ones I like best so far are 
<www.flickr.com/photos/fftang/409243354/>, 
<www.flickr.com/photos/skyburst/409252308/>, and the sequence 
<www.flickr.com/photos/jonasthomen/409556078/>.

(1) Yesterday afternoon I bought a Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite 
<www.digitalfoci.com/picture_porter_elite.html> at the PPO show from 
Cord Camera.  It's an 80GB portable multimedia display / backup device 
that has a 3.6" 320x240 display, can display JPG and RAW photos, can 
play MP3, WMA, & WAV audio files as well as certain video files, 
includes an FM tuner, which can be programmed to automatically record 
certain stations at specified times, and is about $300 less than the 
similar Epson P-5000 <www.snipurl.com/1byn7>, which has a 4" 640x480 
screen.  If you really want WOW! factor in a portable multimedia 
display, the Epson P-5000 is the one to get, but it's also $300 more 
expensive and doesn't have as many features.  The FM tuner in the 
Digital Foci seems to be astoundingly insensitive.  I couldn't pick up 
a single station.  Maybe using earphones would work better - it might 
use the headset wire as an antenna.  So I need to decide in a few days 
whether to keep it or spring for another $300 for the Epson, which has 
a stunningly beautiful display.  Think of the Epson P-5000 as a 
diminutive Apple Cinema Display. ;-)
-- 
Dave Lundy <www.dma.org/~lundyd> <www.flickr.com/photos/lundyd>