Gentle HP 3000 listserv members,

I have placed a couple of pictures at the enclosed URL.  I suspect you have
never seen such pictures before.

Let me tell you about the pictures first, then I invite you to look at them.

I took the pictures when I was in Paris a few weeks ago.  I had a few days
available and I went visiting the city on foot.  I brought with me my new
digital camera  (or digicam), which is a Nikon Coolpix 990.  The resolution is
3.34 megapixel (2048 X 1536).  The images that it produces are too big to be
seen in their entirety even on my 21 inch monitor running at 1600 x 1200 32 bit
color, the highest resolution I can get from my laptop.  The original images
are over 565Kb in size (JPEG medium compression.)  Using Adobe Photoshop, I
have reduced the size of the image to 800X600 something that can easily be
displayed on something a little better than bare VGA.  It loses some of the
impact, but they are still interesting, IMO.

One of the reasons I bought the Nikon 990 is the fact I can add lenses to the
camera.  One of the lenses I acquired is a fisheye lens.  The pictures
mentioned in this message were taken with this fisheye.  The Nikon 990 has two
setting for the fisheye, which is what you will see.

The pictures are of the Eiffel tower, take right underneath, shooting upward.
 I walked to the exact center in the area underneath the tower and raised the
camera above my head and voila.
The first one www.hicomp.com/images/eiffeltower1.jpg is taken in full fisheye
effect.
The second one, www.hicomp.com/images/eiffeltower2.jpg is also taken with the
fisheye, but in another mode, that gives less distortion.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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