BATTERIES: Some reet tasty wee McNair’s fer ye
SomeΒ extraordinarilyΒ high resolution “McNair” batteries for you, which weigh in at an impressive 4000 x 3000 resolution – a resolution made all the more impressive by the EXIF data revealing they were taken using a mainstream consumer handbag oriented Canon IXUS 100 IS.
“Having lurked around the site for a while I have been feverishly keeping my eye out for some batteries which I haven’t seen on your site before. Here they are. Dunno if they are exciting enough. You can decide.”
“Used the highest res I could on little Canon and also included the rechargeables for a bit more excitement. They came bundled with a cheap wireless keyboard and mouse kit.”
“Nice Scotch (*snigger*) name for Chinese battery I thought. I’ll send over several emails so they don’t bounce. Keep up the good work” – Zim.
Sorry about not keeping up the good work, Zim. We can only assume you initially wrote this email in early 2006 before the “work” around here turned to “shit”.
filed in BATTERIES! on Nov.02, 2009
November 2nd, 2009 on 11:07 am
That’s some rather perplexingly shallow depth-of-field for macro at f3.2, and yet remarkably shitty bokeh at the same f-stop.
Those boys at Canon, they sure do know how to make a compact-camera jpeg engine, eh?
Pity they don’t make batteries. Canon’s batteries would be top-of-the-line, too, if you could compensate for them with rendering software.
That is why we love ExtraLast, it is reporting on the core technologies that no-one can get away with lying about. Which is batteries.
November 2nd, 2009 on 11:52 am
Certainly exciting enough for me.
I’m just excited there are still others out there taking battery pics and it’s I’m not the only weirdo out there enjoying them…
I also like how the rechargeables say “Do not disassemble, short circuit”… Anyone else have batteries that reference ’80s Steve Guttenberg movies?
November 2nd, 2009 on 11:58 am
…and before someone from the department of redundancy department wants to question me about the phrase “80s Steve Guttenberg movies”, 3 Men and a Little Lady was made in 1990 according to IMDB.
November 2nd, 2009 on 2:08 pm
Giger, you should be ashamed of even bringing up 3 Men and a Little Lady. True Guttenberg fans don’t count that movie and neither should you. I reject your anti-redundancy stance.
Have at him, redundancy department on redundancy
November 2nd, 2009 on 2:57 pm
battery porn in picture 3, yarrrr
November 2nd, 2009 on 3:08 pm
I didn’t say it was a good movie.
Just that it’s a movie, and Guttenberg was in it.
I in no way implied that 3 Men and a Little Lady was on a par with any of the Police Academy series (1-4), Amazon Women on the Moon, Cocoon, Cocoon: The Return, The Bedroom Window, Short Circuit or even High Spirits.
Hell, even The Day After’s more fun.
Back to the point though, anyone got any batteries that reference any of those films? I shall be checking my collection (of batteries, not films) this evening
November 2nd, 2009 on 5:07 pm
Christ on a bike, there’s a lst of shite films though eh? You don’t see that every day… Even ITV4 would be too ashamed to run through that load of pap as their 10.00pm movie. Bleurgh.
That makes my DVD collection look fantastic. And that’s saying something as my DVD collection contains Ang Lere’s HULK and ALL THREE Matrix movies :(
November 2nd, 2009 on 6:26 pm
You need to add some ‘ironic’ shit movies to your collection like Attack of the killer tomatoes or Battlefield Earth so you can try and make out it’s intentional.
Add a few unwatchable ‘classic’ arthouse movies like something by Γ bout de souffle or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead or anything by Werner Herzog or half the stuff on the Criterion collection or Tartan Films catalogue and you’ve pretty much covered both ends of the spectrum and you can get away with pretty much any old shit you bought on impulse by either saying you appreciated such and such factor in it’s making or it falls into the so-bad-it-had-to-be-seen-to-be-appreciated category.
(I’m still not certain where Dario Argento’s oeuvre fits into these categories though.)
Although, having all the Matrix movies rather than just the first and maybe the Animatrix dvd is pushing it a bit I reckon.
November 3rd, 2009 on 4:28 am
According to IMDB, 34 movie titles were vomited up following a search involving batteries, including the 1913 smash, ‘The Fish With A Storage Battery In Its Brain’.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1169980/
Not a film per se but a documentary short.
November 3rd, 2009 on 10:12 am
Conversation moved on a bit, but Canon do make batteries. I have one in my EOS 50E.