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[Events] Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DCANN.lu
Posted on 20-Oct-2003 14:00 GMT by Nate Downes26 comments
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Pictures from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC can be found here The Pegasos had a great show last saturday in Washington DC. You can read the show report from Daniel Miller here as well.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 1 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 20-Oct-2003 12:28 GMT
thumbs are all broken ..

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Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 2 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 12:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Anonymous):
Sorry about that, we're correcting the issue now.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 3 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by dammy on 20-Oct-2003 12:42 GMT
Looks like a small turn out. :\

Dammy
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 4 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 12:44 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Wayne Hunt):
Fixed.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 5 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 12:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (dammy):
Dammy,

Remember, these are not full-fledged shows, they are Technology events. The distinction being that on Fridays, the systems are usually shown and demonstrated to local and government businesses who might have a reason to want to view and consider the possibilities. Saturdays (if it's a two-day show) are usually open to the public. From what I understand from the last few events, the Official days are usually considerably larger.

I would have been at one or two events, but have been busy putting together web pages :)

Wayne Hunt
Genesi USA
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 6 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by DaveP on 20-Oct-2003 12:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Wayne Hunt):
Someone needs to turn on anti-redeye on the camera, and if its a digital camera get it
checked out some of the pictures are alarmingly underexposed.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 7 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 12:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (DaveP):
@DaveP,

These are not professional photographers taking the pictures. In most cases, the pictures are submitted to us by show attendees. :)

Wayne
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 8 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 20-Oct-2003 13:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Wayne Hunt):
Wayne,

you should let them take pictures first, and then beer, not the other way arround ;)

Cheers
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 9 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by dammy on 20-Oct-2003 13:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Wayne Hunt):
What were the official door numbers then for Sat and Sun?

Dammy
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 10 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Kermit on 20-Oct-2003 13:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (dammy):
There aren't any official door numbers - people just came in and out as they pleased. We had two formal presentations - the rest of the time people could sit down, actually use a Pegasos/MorphOS or Pegasos/Linux or Pegasos/MacOnLinux machine for themselves or corner any of of us at the event for a chat.

You can get a good idea of the event from Dan Miller's write up - he did a nice job on that.

Kermit

Regardless it
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 11 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 14:09 GMT
More photos, specifically two from official meetings are available at the following URL:

http://www.pegasosppc.com/images.php?f=gallery&id=75
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 12 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by dammy on 20-Oct-2003 14:17 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Kermit):
What was the estimated attendence then for the two days?

Dammy
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 13 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Wayne Hunt on 20-Oct-2003 14:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (dammy):
A bunch? :-)

To be honest, the pictures from the DC technology event look more "crowded" than just about any Amiga show this year.

Wayne
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 14 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Nate Downes on 20-Oct-2003 14:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Wayne Hunt):
Senstor Reed will be getting a Peg II? Wow.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 15 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by dammy on 20-Oct-2003 14:27 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Wayne Hunt):
> A bunch? :-)

A bunch is what, two handfuls? ;)

Dammy
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 16 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 20-Oct-2003 15:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (DaveP):
"Someone needs to turn on anti-redeye on the camera, and if its a digital camera get it
checked out some of the pictures are alarmingly underexposed."

I think people expect cheap tacky digital cameras to work better than cheap tacky 35mm cameras. They don't. Sticking a "Digital" label on something is no guarantee of quality, or even minimal functioning.

Hence underexposed images with redeye, and much lower resolution than 35mm.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 17 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 20-Oct-2003 16:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Don Cox):
> Someone needs to turn on anti-redeye on the camera

You don't want to try that at AOS4 events.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 18 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by gary_c on 20-Oct-2003 22:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Don Cox):
Don Cox wrote:

> Hence underexposed images with redeye, and much lower resolution than 35mm.

Although the advantage of digital is that you can easily do some post-processing yourself. I think someone should have taken a few minutes to work over some of these photos with an image program, correcting brightness, sharpening some, fixing the red-eyes. You can compensate somewhat for dodgy originals.

-- gary_c
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 19 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by strobe on 21-Oct-2003 04:58 GMT
This is only going to fuel rumors that Bill Buck is an FBI agent
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 20 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by BrianK on 21-Oct-2003 11:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Don Cox):
Don Cox wrote -"I think people expect cheap tacky digital cameras to work better than cheap tacky 35mm cameras.
...
Hence underexposed images with redeye, and much lower resolution than 35mm."

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I'd hope that people do some research and find the camera that best suits their needs. However, we know that isn't the case. I know myself I tried to buy the best digital camera I could afford and a few years later after some more experience and savings I bought the camera that made the most sense for my purpose.

Underexposed images could be problems with the camera and processing or could be the selections the user made.

Red-eye is a problem quite a few cameras have. Many newer cameras strobe their flash to help minimize it but it can still happen. It seems that most digital cameras I've seen tend towards red-eye creation.

As for lower resolution then a 35mm there's nothing wrong with that it all depends on what your purpose is. If your purpose is high quality Newspaper quality photography then yes you'll be needing a high Megapixel, friends I know use a 12Megapixel camera for this purpose. However, if your purpose is 1"x2" images for websites viewed at monitor resolutions, 72dpi, a 2Megapixel camera can be overkill and is definitely under 35mm resolutions.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 21 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 21-Oct-2003 14:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (gary_c):
"Although the advantage of digital is that you can easily do some post-processing yourself."

Almost every film processing shop will make you a CD of JPGs from the film at a low price. But it would be better to get the exposure right in the first place.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 22 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 21-Oct-2003 14:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (BrianK):
"Underexposed images could be problems with the camera and processing or could be the selections the user made.

Red-eye is a problem quite a few cameras have. Many newer cameras strobe their flash to help minimize it but it can still happen. It seems that most digital cameras I've seen tend towards red-eye creation."

Both of these are caused by relying on dinky little flash units built into the camera. These flashes are just toys.

What is needed is a fast film or a digital camera with a more sensitive sensor. So far digital cameras appear to be less sensitive than fast films.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 23 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 21-Oct-2003 14:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (BrianK):
"As for lower resolution then a 35mm there's nothing wrong with that"

There is if you want to enlarge part of the image.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 24 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by BrianK on 21-Oct-2003 15:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 23 (Don Cox):
Yes if you want to enlarge part of the image there may be a problem with not doing 35mm. Once again it depends on how much larger and for what purpose. If you want to enlarge a part a LOT then 35mm may be insufficent.

Don did you read the last half of the sentence you only quoted the first half? "...wrong with that it all depends on what your purpose is." Or did you read the few lines after that which essentially explained your statement already?
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 25 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by Gallop on 21-Oct-2003 17:34 GMT
Cripes, it looks like there were under 10 people there. Why didn't you just hold the event at a garage sale or something? At least then you would have had a few more people in the background.
Photos from the Pegasos Technology Demonstration in Washington DC : Comment 26 of 26ANN.lu
Posted by cecilia on 23-Oct-2003 20:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 25 (Gallop):
what are you guys complaining about???? not enough people....bad pictures...jesus!

everyone there was happy to be there and enjoyed seeing the peg. and sorry if ansel adams didn't take the pics!
shesh!
:)
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