About

Mike Franklin.

senior developer of some sort of the Lab Of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

cheeky, thanks to andrew, and grin, thanks to my dentist and six months of fun with plastic brackets and nickel-titanium wires.

Avid photographer

Equipment (links lead to tagged flickr photos)
cameras
Rolleiflex TLR
Nikon N90s film
Nikon D80 as of 12 sep 2006

Nikon D70 sold 12 sep 2006 after 16 months & 27000 images to Luke
various Minolta Maxxums (sold/thrown out)

lenses
Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G Fisheye
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 D
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D
Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G VR Micro
Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D
lensbaby 2.0

Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF sold to Adam
Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D Micro sold to Adam

flash
Nikon SB-600

software
on a dell, since retired:
Picasa until I started shooting RAW: picasa deleted EXIF data.
Photoshop great, but not so good for managing

on macbook
lightroom which was really quite excellent through its betas (and presumably 1.0). sadly, when I migrated apps to my new imac, LR stopped working on macbook; uninstalling/reinstalling failed to fix the problem. 1.0 works fine, but I’ve switched to aperture.

on macbook/imac
Apple Aperture also quite excellent.

hardware
13.3″ core duo 2.0ghz 2gb apple macbook
24″ core 2 duo 2.16ghz 2gb apple iMac
infrant ReadyNAS NV+ RAID NAS with 4 x 320gb drives (about 860gb of storage)
dlink DGL-4300 wireless router, for the gigabit ports.

film speeds
asa: 25, 50, 64, 100, 125, 160, 200, 400, 500, 1000, 1600, 3200

digital speeds
iso: 100, 200, 400, 500, 800, 1000, 1600, 3200

last.fm listening: