This is a warning for visitors using a slow dialup connection. I bought a D70 and my hard drive overfloweth with photos.
Aside from a fun photography class in High School almost two decades ago I've never really used an SLR. For that matter I wasn't really interested in photography until the whole web/digital camera thing came along. Adding photographs while doing the electric car conversion really sparked my interest. Soon I owned a Nikon 775 and later a Canon A70, both pocket sized point and shoot cameras.
This D70 is a whole new experience. First off there's that *whoosh* sound the helmet makes...wait, that's the buzz lightyear action figure. No the D70 has more of a, well, SLR sound. You know when it has taken a picture. It feels professional.
And the D70 is a photo taking machine. You can't take pictures fast enough. It's a highly tuned photo snapping machine. Autofocus snaps into place, status displays lock on, *snick*, ready for another. Which means it is also a storage media eating monster.
I'm a little intimidated by the size and coolness of this thing. Any second now a speeding car will pull up, a grizzled reporter will bark "get in the damn car!", and we'll be off in a cloud of dust to cover a breaking news story of a heroic dog saving a young boy's life. And me without a photographer's vest but you know how I like to photograph dogs.
With all of those pixels it's a shame to shrink the photos down to 600 pixels wide and maintain a reasonable download size. They cry out for 20" iMacs and high speed internet for all. In the meantime I'll try to restrain myself.
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What fun is *restraint*!? Let 'er rip!
That's a really great camera isn't it?
I hope it's a lot of fun for you, Jerry. Pretty sunflower.
lovely camera. How about providing some links to high-rez versions of some of your favourite detailed shots, if your bandwidth is up to it? say 1mb ish?
Good idea.
I'll post a couple once I figure out how to keep the search engines from downloading them nightly.
You could do it by adding some stuff to the end of your robots.txt file
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html
This would probably do it:
/robots.txt
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<stuff you already have... then>
User-agent: *
Disallow: /bigimage.php
would stop
/bigimage.php?1234
etc.
I'm sure you can work it out :)
and if your logs show some crawlers engines not honouring your robots.txt file you could add a user-agent check in the script to match against them and return a Location: redirect header to their IP address instead :)
Thanks.
I've had blocking hooks for php/mysql served images but haven't done anything for the robots yet.
There are a few almost full sized images in this entry:
http://jerryrig.com/log/a1977