Video Shooting the Moon Setting on Canon 550d with Tamron 300mm lens

It’s been always a dream to see Moon from very close distance. Every earthling can not dream of being Neil Armstrong or Edwin Aldrin, but you definitely like to see these celestial objects from convenience of your home or city. Now that DSLRs are becoming cheaper and other 3rd party lenses are also becoming affordable, you can think of doing at least Moon Gazing from your home.

The reasons we can not see those details of Moon with naked eye is that our eyes can not adjust as per Moon light intensity and our Eyes and basic cameras have limitations of zoom capability.

I had also attempted with 10x optical zoom 9 mega pixel Canon camera but failed to get details of craters on the Moon. This time I tried with Canon 550D SLR. The lens which came along is 18-55mm lens and does not give zoom capability. There are cheaper alternatives for Canon, Nikon and Sony SLRs. These are manufactured by SIGMA or TAMRON. Buying these lenses is like price to performance compromise to some extent. Original lenses by Canon, Nikon or Sony are lightweight, fast and even work in low light condition. Many of them already come with Image Stabilizer. If you can get lens with Image Stabilizer for shooting MOON, then it is better, but I didn’t had that choice. My Tamron 70-300mm lens is without Image Stabilizer. And Tripod is must for shooting MOON.

This video is shot with crop view mode feature of Canon 550D with full 300mm zoom and manual focus.

For Post processing, Audio Loops are generated using Apple GarageBand and Video Mixing and Editing is done using Apple iMovie.

Unboxing Apple new iPad 3rd Generation in India

Apple launched new iPad 3rd Generation in India on 27-April-2012. There are 6 new models to choose from:

Prices in India:

Model Wifi WiFi+4G
The new iPad 16 GB Rs.30,500 Rs. 38,900
The new iPad 32 GB Rs.36,500 Rs. 44,900
The new iPad 64 GB Rs.42,500 Rs. 50,900

 

Unboxing new iPad 3rd Generation

 

New iPad gives these advanced features

  • Ratina Display gives you 2048 x 1536 resolution, 44 percent greater color saturation, & 3.1 million pixels in the same 9.7-inch display
  • A5X chip with quad core graphics processor gives four times the pixels compared to iPad 2
  • You still have 10 hours of battery life with so many advanced features.
  • iSight Camera with 5 mega pixel still capture and 1080p HD video. Also includes new optics with IR filter for sharper pictures.
  • Latest advances iOS 5.1 operating system.
  • iCloud with 5GB space to sync your mails, contacts, apps, books and music purchases.
  • Dictation capabilities (SIRI is not available on new iPad yet)
  • Airplay to play iPad content on your large screen HD TV
  • New Advanced apps specially for new iPad 3rd generation
  • Multi touch 9.7 inch LED backlit glossy screen
  • Built in speaker, microphone
  • Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor & Gyroscope
  • Wifi, Digital Compass
  • Assisted GPS and GLONASS  (only in 4G models)
  • Use internet through data cards with 2g, 3g or 4G mobile towers (only in 4G models)

Twitter App Code for iOS 5

Coding an application with Twitter API use to be a lot of mess prior to iOS 5. There was no inbuilt support from Apple side. For even basic message tweeting, you had to integrate third party libraries like SAOAuth and  MGTwitterEngine.

Apple has realized Twitter is very important functionality for any App to proliferate in Social arena. Twitter being Simple and open source project is perfect choice for Apple to integrate in iOS 5.

With Twitter APi integration you can let your friends know when you scored highest in the game, when you clicked that nice photograph or when you have a website URL for reference.

Twitter is now very integral part of iOS 5 Architecture. Lets see how to build a basic Twitter Client App for Apple iOS 5 API without any frills.

Twitter_App_For_iOS5

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Writing SimpleColorPicker App for iPhone

Simple Color Picker App

UISlider is such a tempting object which you don’t get in HTML web pages. Although HTML 5 gives this capability to some extent, Apple iOS provides nice UISlider objects. UISlider object can be used for selecting min and maximum values. Very first thought which comes on your mind is to build useful Color Picker Application. This application is really fun to deploy on iPhone. You can almost develop this in less than 5 minutes.

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Buying an iPhone 4s in India

Apple iPhone 4s

Aircel Logo

There are so many ways in which you can buy iPhone in India. iPhone is very costly mobile phone. Officially for buying 16 GB model you need to pay Rs. 44,500. You do have many choices to save. iPhone 4s comes bundled with great features like 8 MP camera, support for iOS 5 and iCloud. You must be careful while spending so that you take advantage of these features.

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Writing Calculator for iPhone iOS in Xcode

I believe, to learn any language with GUI capabilities one must take Calculator as an assignment. I’ve build that in FoxPro, VB 2.0, Oracle Power Objects, Java AWT, Swing and JavaScript. Now it is time to build the same for Apple iPhone using iOS Programming. What I am surprised to see is that this is really not challenging. It will not take much of your time to build Calculator to basic Level.

This calculator program is capable of taking input of any number with number buttons, Clear the screen, Perform Addition Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. No Negative numbers yet.

To keep it simple I’ve not gone into decimal calculations or scientific formulas. This code is written to learn the GUI capabilities of iOS and Xcode. There is lot of scope for improvement, but idea is to start very simple.

Developing Calculator Program in iOS

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My First Music from Apple Garage Band

This is My First Garage Band Music Production. I hope you’ll Enjoy this. Also posting this as podcast using podpress plugin in wordpress.

Garage Band Music

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New Xcode is based on iTunes interface

The way new Xcode 4.2 is designed, it seems the changes are done very much on the lines of iTunes. Now Xcode is single window layout. Apple is trying to bring consistency across the layouts of two of the best tools. Idea seems everyone on Mac is widely using iTunes for playing music, why not leverage the tool awareness to proliferate Xcode.

  • All the Action is communicated in top center rectangle with different background color.
  • Not only both have similar play buttons, but they are also positioned on the same side of screen.
  • Left Pane in iTunes shows the Music Library or Project hierarchy in Xcode is the way to access core features.
  • Both have + button in bottom left side. In iTunes to add a playlist, in Xcode to add a file.
  • Bottom center shows status bar. In iTunes gives statistical details of songs hours and space on disk, in Xcode gives exist code by program.

Apple iTunes 10 Screenshot

Apple iTunes 10 Screenshot

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