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Hardware used:
Most of these pages have been created on an X-Scale powered IyonixPC currently running RISC OS 5.13, bought from XAT in Oss. The images were transferred from the camera to the Iyonix using a cable USB connection. The Iyonix due to its greater speed (when compared with our StrongARM RiscPCs) was used for most of the image processing.
I have now started using Apple computers for some image galleries, and reprocessing MOV movies into a RISC OS friendly mpg format. Sometimes this is because we were on holiday with a laptop and had access to the internet. Other times it was to be able to generate web galleries that included video material. The webcam is and always has been run off an Apple mac mini.
Text for the travelogues is written mostly on a Psion Netbook whilst commuting. I have recently started taking a Psion Series5 on trips to see if I can do more with a trip diary. Thus some text is written en-route.
Our computers are connected to the internet using an SMC Barricade router supplied by RComp, together with some necessary software, coupled to a Motorola Cable and VOIP modem using cable broadband connection from Casema. This has been joined by a cheap SWEEX wireless router for the laptops in the house. In contrast to our ADSL line from Demon the Casema connection often drops. This is partly due to the fact that the cable modem seems to not like communicating with the SMC router. Also in the last couple of weeks we have had major outage of service (including telephone and TV). At the moment we cannot recommend Casema as an internet provider.
The camera used is an Olympus Camedia C-730 Ultra Zoom bought from Henk Booms Foto Electronicum in Amsterdam. This has been joined this year by a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS2 bought from Staffhorst's in Utrecht. This was being sold off cheap in the sales. I bought it as was so cheap it would matter less if I dropped it whilst taking pictures on the move. So far it has produced some great pictures although lacking the wonderful zoom and low light capabilities of the Olympus.
Other images are scanned in using an EPSON Perfection 1200S supplied by a company with whom we no longer have any dealings. The scanner is connected via a secondhand Cumana SCSI interface to an Acorn StrongARM RiscPC (RIP!) running various flavours of RISC OS 4. The SCSI card was bought many years ago from AJS Computers.
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