They say that a good camera is the camera that you have at hand. And it's true that, however crappy the camera of my phones are, a lot of surprising pictures wouldn't have been taken without it. Plus it allows for discrete taking of pictures without bothering the subject with noisy clicks, bips or whirrr. Here is a sample of pictures that I took on the way, without expecting to come accross a photo subject :

This sleeping kid. Or this very old Ford.Or the latest Lamborghini.Or even those involuntary goatse reminder ( I hope it is unvoluntary). Or this nice ad. This is a random sculpture I took on the way home. Or this bus for hell that i didn't take to go to work.

This pictures where mostly taken on the way to somewhere else, running errands or commuting. Half of the subjects are transient. I took cars waiting at stops or red traffic lights. Or from the bus. This crappy but handy cameraphone allowed me to stop all those instants. And unleash them on the unsuspecting flickr crowd ;)

So thank you very much to the person that added the first a camera to a cell phone. I just hope they make them faster to start and snap.

Nicolas, out.

Crazy what you can do with patience and autostitch ! Both picture here are made of 30 something picture. This are the "max flickr size" version so that flickr can do the thumbnails (max 15000px wide). I uploaded the originals too. They are 19800 and 22800 px wide, but have black thumbnails. Maybe someday I will dislplay them on a lot of screen using displayator.

click here to go to the original circular panorama

click here to get to the original 180° panorama

Bugs met during making of those pictures : I was using the demo of autostitch and had to set the size of the generated panorama to be between 75 and 80% of the original. Otherwise I got some out of memory message. The memory option was set to the max possible(-1.5G) and I have 2G of memory installed.
In flickr, picture with one dimension >= 15000px (or an uncompressed size >250MB) will not get miniaturized. Miniatures will be replaced by black placeholder. It seems to be a longstanding known bug. I found a 18month old thread about that bug on their forum.

I took those two pictures on monday (march the 19th 2007), a couple of days before Spring! And last week I was hopping around in T-shirt ! The flowers have been here for 2 week at least. Last week's weather was wonderful, sunny and with almost warm temperatures. And since Sunday it's been crappy: rainy or snowy, windy, cloudy. Today's weather is almost nice, with the sun peeking back. But the weather forecast says "not for long". Here are two pictures illustrating this contrast.

     
Both pictures were taken the same day, at the same place in geneva, with a 2 hours and a half interval (before and after doing the laundry ;).

UPDATE : It currently is snowing (2007, March 21 @ 9.14 am) in CERN prevessin (4 km away and 54 m higher than Geneva). Now that's Spring !!!

You can now get displayator 0.4. It introduce a new feature and a workaround for transmission errors. It's been done for some time, but I only got round to release it yesterday and post about it today.

• Aligning displayers : I added a contextual menu item in the manager so that you have two more options : align dispayers horizontally or vertically. This items affect all the displayers. It is planned that it will, someday, affect only a selection of displayers.

• Transmittion errors : Due to the fact that displayator still uses the default xmlrpc webserver, it happens that sometimes, a tile displayed in the displayer tiles is misplaced or damaged. You can re-fetch these tile by alt+click on it.

That's all for now.

Nico, out.

Now with some synchronized action !!!! You can now lock all the displayers together , so that you can drag one, and all the others will be dragged along. This is activated trough a contextual menu, accessible both in the displayers and the displayer manager.