My 500 GB iMac SATA hard drive died the other day.  After replacing it, I wanted to have a little fun before discarding the drive.  See the disassembly photos after the jump.

Good news!  It looks like Canon is adding 24P video to the 5d Mark II.  Even more exciting, in my opinion, is that the audio auto gain control is being modified so users can disable this feature or manually set the gain.  If you’ve ever recorded audio on this camera, you will appreciate this feature.  [...]

This video was shot between 10:30PM and 1:30AM starting on 3/3/2010 from the Minneapolis Grain Exchanging looking east. Shots were taken at 10 second intervals and the final playback speed is 30fps.  A Sigma 50mm 1:1.4 was used at about f/2.8 allowing for 1/40th second exposures.  The frames were rendered in to a high quality [...]

I love taking photographs at night in the winter. I don’t the the process as much as the results. The cold dry air yields incredibly sharp results and when it is really cold out, the water vapor form building leaves a thick lingering streak in the sky. The video below was filmed on January 3rd [...]

Last night I was experimenting with an old laptop hard drive.  I used a USB to PATA hard drive adapter to recover old data off of a 2.5 inch 20GB Toshiba hard drive.  When I was done, I intended to destroy the drive to prevent recovery.  After a few seconds – I had a better [...]

Gallery and video after the break

A video I shot of a steam plant across the street from the Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN.  Taken during a foggy night in late October.  In the background are the Wells Fargo building and 225 South 6th A.K.A. the Capella building.

A few days a go I took a photograph that I am particularly proud of.  It was taken on Sunday October 25 at about 7PM and only minor retouching has been done to remove dust and a few hot pixels.

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Today I was hiking around St. Paul and I wanted to take a nice panorama of the city. This is still a work in progress but I wanted to share my first version of the 99-megapixel version of the city. The tiles still need to be adjusted to remove dust and chromatic aberrations but you [...]