More or less corresponding to the 2nd Google+ anniversary, I am happy to announce the launching of CDA Photo Google Page !!! (Some) brand new albums, news and technical posts or whatever the wind will bring !

Basically, just buy this sound sensor, stick it to an Arduino and with this cable trigger the flash (I did it through an optocoupler). Have fun !

As many many others, I also took a shot at the full moon from 05.05.2012.

Szemlohegyi Cave (Szemlohegyi Barlang) in Budapest - Hungary.

Budapest 2011 - Szemlohegyi Cave

From the wonders of Prague Zoo:

Prague Zoo 2011

UPDATE: Unfortunately the hot pixels can NOT be ignored when disabling the noise reduction, so unless you manually create a dark frame after the shot it's pretty much pointless. Proof, the following two images:

Crop from a 30 seconds exposure of the night sky

Crop from a "star trails" 1 hour exposure (hopeless indeed - the pink thingy isn't because of white balance :D, it's pure noise)

I've finally found a way (about an year ago but I was too lazy to post it here) to disable the forced noise reduction of my Samsung Gx20 camera - that I'd mentioned here. Many thanks to the guys from Pentax-hack.

As they say on their site, basically you have to create a text file in the root of the memory card (called "MODSET.454" for GX20 v1.01, v1.03), and enter the proper commands in the file ([DEBUG_MODE EN] Enables debug mode; [DEBUG_MODE DIS] Disables debug mode).

You will also need SYSPARAM.TXT file, in which various internal parameters are set (among which the ones related to noise reduction ;) ).
Here are the setting that I use:

>MODSET.454
[DEBUG_MODE EN]

>SYSPARAM.TXT
[FORCENR] 0@[DISABLENR] 1@[DISABLEBLC] 1@

For more info see: http://www.pentax-hack.info/index.html