WhyWaitForever - London
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WhyWaitForever - London - Photos
Each pictorial theme is related to a walk around a particular well loved part of London.
Westminster Buckingham Palace through St James Park to Westminster Abbey. Whitehall past Downing Street to Trafalgar Square and on to St Pauls.
Thames Along the banks of the River Thames.
Piccadilly Piccadilly into Covent Garden, past the Old Curiosity Shop and on to Saddlers Wells.
London Eye Views from the London Eye on a clear day.
Hyde Park The glorious magnificent park in the centre of London.
Kensington Gardens 1 The beautiful park along from Hyde Park.
Kensington Gardens 2 The Diana memorial and monuments.
Regents Park To the north of the West End.
Shops West End famous stores on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Knightsbridge.
A visitor needs time in the city. A stroll at dawn or dusk is when the city is seen at its best.
Webcams - live camera links
It is a marvellous achievement that from anywhere in the world from the hotest corner to the most frozen of spots cameras reveal what is happening in this most cosmopolitan of cities.
- BBC Traffic
Over 80 web cams covering the streets of London.
- Bridge
FT live Webcam from the Millennium Bridge.
- Camvista
Live Webcams from famous sights in London.
- Dome
BBC live Webcam from the Millennium Dome.
- Leicester Square
The Capital Radio webcam from Leicester Square.
- Oxford Circus
A nice view and a slow update time excellent from home.
Camera makes
From the originals 200 years ago, through the "Leica" of the forties, the black and white "instamatics" of the sixties to the digital all singing and dancing models of today cameras record the lives of Londoners.
- Agfa
The German one that used to make "instamatics"..
- Canon
The Japanese giant..
- Fuji
The Japanese giant combining camera, mp3 and video..
- Hasselblad
The Scandanavian wish of every portrait photographer.
- Kodak
The US giant from New England.
- Leica
The German one which slumbered in the east.
- Logitech
Manufacturer of the QuickCam webcam.
- Minolta
The Japanese one that made minuture ones.
- Nikan
Another Japanese one.
- Olympus
A Japanese one with Ancient Greek pretensions.
- Pentax
The Japanese one which has a massive advertising budget.
- Panasonic
Camcorders from the giant Japanese general consumer group company.
- Samsung
Camcorders from the Korean general consumer group company.
- Sanyo
The giant Japanese general consumer group company.
- Sony
The giant Japanese general consumer group company.
Image standards
This links are for those interested in the technology that makes some of these marvels possible.
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Thoughts on Cameras
In the nineties the appearance of digital cameras heralded the end for cameras that used light sensitive paper to record images. Films no longer needed to be sent away to be developed. The dark room was closed. The dark room red light switched off for the last time.
Still digital cameras and camcorders take an increasing share of new camera purchases. They are simple, fast and convenient. Images and videos can be transferred onto a computer and processed using image editing software. Images in digital forms can be used in presentation software eliminating the need for 35mm slides and slide projectors with hot intense light bulbs that were very sensitive to the slightest mishandling.
Cameras can write to removable disk storage media that can also. These media can be accessed by computers. This removed an early constraint on the number of images that can be taken.