Be Aware 6
by Adrian Hanft, (8 comments)
Be Aware 6 has arrived. They don’t call us Group A for nothing….
Donovan Beery - Web Tips
JPEG vs. GIF or Why I stopped worrying and send people their logo in a GIF format even when they request a JPEG
The general rule of thumb is that line art, text and solid shapes work better as GIF files, and photographs work better as JPG files. GIF files also hold the advantage of allowing transparency and animation (well, sometimes that’s an advantage). For those who never trust a good rule of thumb, learning how the two image compression methods work will explain it better.
Travis Gray: TypeWatch
Adrian Hanft: Alternative Photography
This week I finished building my newest camera: a medium format pinhole lego camera. What should I call it? LegHole? Pinholego? Pinhole Lego? Anyway, this camera even has something that my Holga doesn’t - a film counter! You gotta love legos. I will tease you with a picture of it for now, and check out FoundPhotography.com later this week for a tutorial and some of the pictures I took with it…
David Kadavy: Design and Technology
I recently attended a “Mobile Web and Wireless” presentation put on by the Silicon Valley Web Guild, and it seems that the mobile web is growing at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, the rise of mobile web is bringing with it a vast array of operating systems, browser types, and screen sizes to develop and design for. Those of you who have been breathing a sigh of relief over the success of the web standards movement, take a breath because web development won’t be getting any easier, and how hard is it going to be to purchase one of each of these mobile devices to develop for?
Comments (8)
jan said:
fabulous post! especially the lego camera. would you mind sharing the how to? love medium format!!! looking forward to seeing the photo’s!
Posted on October 2, 2005
Adrian said:
Thanks, Jan. I just finished the tutorial. You can read the how-to here: http://www.foundphotography.com/PhotoThoughts/archives/2005/10/mediumformatp.html
Posted on October 2, 2005
Raval said:
As to the web tips section it should be noted that gifs stand up to replication and re-savings(As long as it is gif->gif) far better than a jpeg. You can whore up a gif all you want and there should be little data loss, and again this goes back to how data is stored using hash tables, yes even jpeg data is stored in a hash table. Where a gif will just copy the repetative data sequences a jpeg will continually compress (Removing the amounts of data least needed to make the picture from our hash table), even if you set it to highest quality there will be compression which equals loss of data, which leads to not so neat images (with the nasty blur crap on what was once nice edges). For most web content (Simple sleek imaging .. etc) gifs are Indeed your best choice. When using complex images such as mentioned photo’s and complex and pretty artwork jpeg is Indeed the way to go.
Posted on October 2, 2005
jyoseph said:
Brilliant camera mod, seriously awesome man.
Posted on October 3, 2005
Bennett said:
Travis, I am becoming hooked to TypeWatch. I take it you do the research yourself? Very nice. Keep it up.
Posted on October 3, 2005
Travis Gray said:
Yeah. I do all the research for TypeWatch. It takes a while to do but Myfonts.com “What The Font” feature helps a lot.
Originally for this time I was going to break it out into the top 10 fiction and top 10 nonfiction but there were some fonts I couldn’t identify before the post.
Posted on October 4, 2005
Ethan said:
An image format guide that is a bit deeper for those interested: http://www.r1ch.net/img-formats/
Posted on October 6, 2005
Adrian said:
Thanks to MetaFilter and BoingBoing for recognizing my Lego camera!
If anyone is interested in seeing some photos from my first roll of film, just follow these links: self potrait, my shoe, my son’s toy car, electrical plug
Posted on October 10, 2005