Oct 22nd, 08
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Seems like the decent prosumer compacts are here with the LX3
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 Digital Camera – Review – The Imaging Resource!
The Panasonic LX3’s noise handling is significantly improved over the LX2. Noise performance was the single biggest issue with the LX2, its Achilles heel. On the Panasonic LX3, we’ve had a change of image processors but the detail and color the LX2 captured at ISO 200 is roughly equivalent to ISO 800 on the LX3. In both cases, that’s about where the detail starts to fall apart, although it’s still quite acceptable. If ISO 400 was the LX2’s limit, ISO 800 is the LX3’s, with ISO
It has a fast lense with little zoom 24-60mm equivalent. F/2-F2.8 which is awesome. It has a bigger 1/1.6″ sensor. It also shoots Raw.The Online Photographer: Canon G10 Review
Canon has done something amazing with all those pixels it crammed into that small sensor. In a well lit, well exposed photo taken at low ISO, the image quality is so good that I was caught off guard. I kept checking to make sure I was looking at the photos from the G10 and not my 5D or 1Ds. The images have plenty of detail, nice saturation, and definite “cropability.”
Oct 20th, 08
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Henry Blodget: Why This Recession Will Be A Doozy
The last recession was mild. The stock market and corporate profits tanked, but consumer spending–long the major engine of our economy–danced merrily on through. In recent decades, it has ever been thus: bearish analysts and strategists have been underestimating the voracious spending habits and resilience of the US consumer for 50 years.
Unfortunately, at risk of invoking the four most expensive words in the English language, “this time it’s different.”
Oct 20th, 08
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When you are shooting sports photos, the normal mode for the Canon 350D is pretty useless. It is by default set to according to the “tutorial”:http://creativekarma.com/ee.php/weblog/comments/exposure_modes_on_the_rebel_xt/
1. Program. which means it chooses the aperture and speed automatically. This is usually too slow for sports where you want it to be 1/500 second or faster to capture the action
2. Focus. Usually set to AI Focus which means it guesses and tries to figure out which one of the 9 cross hairs the object lives in
3. Exposure. Normally set to evaluative metering (the first selection).
4. AF sensors. Normally all 9 are turned on
The problem is that you don’t want any of these for sports where you just want to take a photo and have it sharp on what you are pointed at in the center, so you have to change all three modes:
1. Tv mode. Which means allow the aperture to vary and then set the exposure time. In bright sunlight, I normally set it at 1/500 sec. You need a fast lense or a high ISO to make this work. With a 100-400 lense that is pretty slow, it means lots of light shooting at ISO 400.
2. AF Sensors. Just make it the single sensor in the middle. You do this by holding the AF sensor button and moving the thumbwheel until you get one cross hair
3. Center-weight average (this is the last of the three modes and looks just like a squarish box) because with evaluative, if you only have one sensor on, it just uses this and you get bad exposures.
4. Focus. Pick AI Servo which when you partially press the shutter will keep the camera focused on the center AF.
Oct 20th, 08
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Qantas A380 maiden flight to Los Angeles | NEWS.com.au
The inaugural A380 service left Melbourne at 11.15 AEDT, and is scheduled to land in Los Angeles at 7.30am local time (1.30am Tuesday AEDT), where it will receive a star-studded welcome from Qantas Ambassador John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Qantas A380 maiden flight to Los Angeles | NEWS.com.au
Qantas will follow the Melbourne-Los Angeles inaugural A380 service with its first Sydney-Los Angeles service on Friday, October 24.
Oct 20th, 08
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How frustrating that the Japanese don’t use GSM anywhere. Right now there is not way to use your cell phone in Japan unless you won a Nokia N95 series or unless you have a 3G phone. I actually got my iPhone 3G to roam there, but couldn’t make any calls. There is the Softbank 3G network up and I got text messages but couldn’t make a call.
Oct 20th, 08
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http://www.miniusa.com/#/build/configurator/mini_convs-m now that is a cool looking car. 2009s are just coming out
Oct 14th, 08
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Every want to know how to pronounce an address like where the “Lakeville Regency”:http://local.jongo.com/yp/poi.do?pid=26150 is. Here is a good way to do it. Has both the pronunciation, the pinyin and the english names.
Oct 13th, 08
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Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list.
Oct 10th, 08
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Well, someone posted the Sequoia slide
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Oct 10th, 08
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< !http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AN227B_MARKE_NS_20081009223754.gif> Where will the market go. The thing that is wrong about the chart is that it is not inflation adjusted, the 1970s chart is really straight down on a real basis.
