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February 25, 2008 5:56 PM PST
- Megapixel race inanity continues: Sony's 13.6-megapixel W300 - Sigh. Good thing it comes with adjustable nose reduction, because I bet noise is a problem. "Sony bumps up its point-and-shoot cameras to a new height of resolution with the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W300, the company's first 13.6-megapixel snapshot camera."
- Panasonic UK Offers 16GB Memory Card Free With L10 Purchase - Digital Camera Info - "Panasonic UK has announced customers purchasing its L10 DSLR through the end of April will receive a free 16GB SDHC memory card."
- Lens Test: Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S - PopPhotoFebruary 2008 - "This pro-level, superfast, full-frame Nikon zoom for the D3 is practically in a class by itself."
- To DNG, or not to DNG ... - Inside Lightroom - Some discussion and tips on using DNG and Adobe's DNG conversion software. "Not only is this a great format for archiving, its perfectly suited for your workflow within in Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, and Lightroom."
- Lens Test: Olympus Zuiko Digital 12-60mm f/2.8-4 SWD AF - PopPhotoJanuary 2008 - "Overall, this is among the sharpest and least distorting wide-angle zooms in recent memory."
- Apple's list of SLRs compatible with Aperture 2 tethering - Rob Galbraith - Links to Apple resources for tethered shooting using Aperture 2.0. "Notably absent are the latest Canon models, including the EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS 40D, among others."
- Adobe AIR on Linux: Pre-Beta Testers Needed - James Ward - "As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to also delivering a version for Linux." Interested testers may apply by email at helptesterairlinux at adobe dot com.
- OpenSolaris governance board gloom - Glynn Foster - "OGB made some good positive progress in some areas, it also feels like we lost the ability to talk with our community and proactively work on a plan for growth and prosperity for our community. It would be so, so easy to walk away after a year."
- The Pulse of Open Source - "This is the stream of collective consciousness from the open source community on Twitter." The 451 Group analyst Raven Zachary has set up a feed from various open-sourcers.
- Sun Microsystems to Provide Update on MySQL Acquisition - "Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) will host a conference call on Tuesday, February 26 to provide an update on the acquisition of MySQL. The definitive agreement to acquire MySQL was announced on January 16."
- terrific photo gallery: 34 views of total lunar eclipse 2008 - Some great shots taken all over the world of the Eclipse of February 20, 2008.
- Imagekind | Buy and Sell Art Online - Checking this out: "Imagekind is about three things: * Creating art from digital files; * Providing an online marketplace for selling art without any actual inventory; * Providing the world's largest online venue for shopping for unique fine art prints."
- Matusow's Blog : Microsoft Takes Next Step In Delivering Interoperability - Jason Matusow on Microsoft open-source interoperability announcement.
- Fairies should come out of the sky...a hilarious talkback post from a News.com cynic - "fairies should come out of the sky and make discs out of magical dust which is bonded together by love and happiness..." This in reference to a call for open-standard work with Blu-ray and other technology.
- World's tallest man saves dolphin - BBC - "The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards."
February 15, 2008 7:51 AM PST
- Rob Bearden of JBoss, Red Hat, and OpenSpan joins Benchmark Capital - Bearden was OpenSpan COO; before that, COO at open-source app server company JBoss, where "he helped architect and execute the company's business model, managed its worldwide operations, and played a key role in its acquisition by Red Hat Software."
- Take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression - Linux.com - "The mgzip tools that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression, while pbzip2 uses multiple cores for both compression and decompression." Interesting--I don't know how embarrassingly parallel compression is.
- Discover the possibilities of the /proc folder - Linux.com - "This special directory holds all the details about your Linux system, including its kernel, processes, and configuration parameters. By studying the /proc directory, you can learn how Linux commands work, and you can even do some administrative tasks."
- Edward Tufte on the iPhone - A famed observer of the best way to present information (Tufte wrote "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and later bashed PowerPoint) shares his iPhone thoughts. (Link to a video.)
- Processing Noise - Harold Davis - Photographer Harold Davis on shootinga at ISO 6,400 and then processing noise. "Noise can be used as part of the aeshetic of an image...However, I do find I need to selectively post-process for noise with these images."
- Generate KML With Google Spreadsheets - Anything that makes KML easier to create and manage is good news to me. Bring on the geodata.
- Hyperic and Red Hat launch common management system - "The RHQ project aims to develop a common services management platform that will be used in future versions of each company's product offering."
- Google: The new Sourceforge? | Matt Asay - The Open Road - Google shows some impressive growth in open-source project hosting.
- Firefox 3 on Linux - Chris Blizzard talk - Lots of stats, Firefox 3 details. "Hope to have a Mobile Firefox by end of 2008."
- Bookmarking: The red-haired stepchild of social media - Gordon Haff - "Bookmarking seems to have remained a backwater...In fact, I'm struck that essentially nothing has changed since (2004). 3+ years is an eternity in Web 2.0."
- Marc Fleury going to JBoss World, likes Black Tie project - Fleury still is a big JBoss fan--no surprise, since it's his baby. Now he's cheering BlackTie, which he calls "a binary drop-in replacement for (BEA Systems/Oracle) Tuxedo."
- onOne Video Tutorials For Genuine Fractals Photoshop Plugin - "onOne Software has announced the immediate availability of its Photoshop CS3 compatible Genuine Fractals 5 and Genuine Fractals Print Pro 5 Photoshop plug-ins." I just love all this free online training. This kind of thing used to cost money, but now it.
- Reuters photographer unleashes "The Beast" - The perils of using a 1200-1700mm f5.6 IF-ED Nikon zoom lens to photograph Sarkozy during Bastille Day.
February 11, 2008 9:53 AM PST
- Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 is now available - OpenSolarix X Debian--Elatte release of Nexenta, which hybridizes OpenSolaris kernel code with higher-level tools from Debian and Ubuntu. Includes Xen, ZFS-compatible apt-clone, CIFS, zones, and live upgrade support.
- Fedora 9 alpha is out: "Sulphur"--New: (http://jkeating.livejournal.com/53326.html): "Disk resizing during install (incl. NTFS), encrypted block devices, simplified install method choosing, gnome 2.21 development release, KDE 4.0 builds, Firefox3 Beta2 builds, PackageKit, kernel 2.6.24"
- Barracuda Networks re. fight against Trend Micro re. open-source ClamAV patent issue--"Barracuda Networks believes that the patent is invalid due to prior art and further believes that neither its products nor the ClamAV software infringe the patent. "
- YouTube - 5000 Web Apps in 333 Seconds at SimpleSpark.com--A convulsion-inducing exercise in brand awareness.
- Neatorama » The Evolution of Tech Companies' Logos--Some nice tech history crossed with logo history. Alas, this post undermines my ability to wow people with the knowledge that LG once stood for Lucky Goldstar. I knew about Kwanon for Canon, but not what it meant.
- Canon offers encouragement for JPEG XR | Crave : CNET's gadget blog--My colleague Lori Grunin got the scoop on Canon's newly expressed fondness for JPEG XR, aka HD Photo, the file format Microsoft hopes will replace or at least augment conventional JPEG.
- Zooomr: Please hold while your online photos are shipped overseas--Apparently 10 terabytes of the 20 on the photo-sharing site were moved to the new data center in Japan. The other half is en route and should arrive by end of the month. "We regret the situation this has posed to our users and ask for forgiveness."
- Flickr sets, sets, sets, and more sets--What to do if you like to arrange your photos into endless little piles and have a gargantuan monitor. Also, it helps to be a good, prolific photographer like Thomas Hawk. If you have good metadata, you ought to be able to construct these sets on the fly.
- Embedded Linux company Wind River Systems reorganizes, cuts jobs, outsources--Four divisions: VxWorks, Linux, tools, device management. "Certain non-critical, redundant or administrative positions will be eliminated, and staffing of development resources in low-cost geographies will be accelerated."
- New Canon U.S.A. EVP of imaging--"Canon U.S.A., announced that Tamotsu 'Ted' Nakamura will become executive vice president and general manager of Canon USA's Imaging Systems Group."
- Flickr supports OpenID « Flickr Blog--"Yahoo launched its "OpenID Provider service" in beta... it includes Flickr support! You can now use your photostream URL to log into sites which support OpenID." Yahoo announcement: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/01/yahoo-openid-beta.h
- Canon EOS 40D underwater housing from Sealux--"Sealux CC40 has an aluminium housing, milled of monoblock CNC, hard-anodised and specially sealed for highest seawater resistance."
- Photoshop of horrors embarrasses Memphis weekly | www.tennessean.com--Don't believe everything you see on the blogosphere. That bumper sticker used to say "Tax 'n' spend," not "Confederate Values"
- B&H Photo Video selling a 1200mm Canon mongo lens--This is one gigantic telephoto. B&H said somewhere bewteen 13 and 19 were built since 1993. "The hard part is figuring out what you're focusing on because the angle of view is so narrow."
- Rick Lehrbaum, Ampro's co-founder returns as CTO - MarketWatch--Lehrbaum has kept tabs on use of embedded Linux over the years. Now he's going back into industry.
- K Desktop Environment - KDE 4.0.1 released--Fixes to Konqueror Web browser and other issues. Download site: http://download.kde.org/
- Scientists Say Mummies' Lice Show Pre-Columbian Origins - The New York Times--Columbus and other Euros apparently aren't to blame for the spread of lice to the New World. It was a pre-existing condition, as the insurance industry might say.
January 25, 2008 8:14 AM PST
- VueScan Scanning Software - Software for getting more out of your scanner, including high bit depth DNG images. A useful thing if you want to use your scanner as a camera.
- Naked Light 1.0 beta due this week - The programmer behind this Mac-only image-editing application seems a little taxed, but he says the 1.0 beta will ship this week. He's on a leave of absense to write it now, though.
- YouTube - Pentax K20D - A useful video intro to the Pentax K20D from Pentax. I wish my camera had a built-in intervalometer.
- YouTube - Pentax K200D intro - A useful summary from Pentax of the features of the new K200D.
- Camera Lens Rentals - Online Lens Rentals for Canon Cameras - Another online lens rental outfit springs up. For example, $87 for two weeks with Canon's 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM or $20 for a week with the 1.4X or 2.0X extenders. Canon lenses only at this point. Another threat to higher-end local camera retailers.
- Nikon D300 False Low-Battery Warnings=Worthless DSLR - Notebooks.com - A Nikon D300 owner unsatisfied with the camera's quality. Bogus low-battery warnings, plus mysterious intermittent dark frames. Store exchanged it for a new one with no hassle, but the writer says, "It's time Nikon recognizes this as a serious quality control issue."
- Hands On: Zeiss ZF Macros for Nikon - PopPhoto - Warm words for two manual-focus f/2 macros from Zeiss, 50mm and 100mm.
- Canon Powershot G9 Review - Luminous Landscape - For when you have to travel, it's pretty good. "The only great camera is the camera that's there with you when the light happens." It won out over the guy's Leica M8, which is saying something, but it's not quite a "keeper."
- A custom grip for the Canon PowerShot G9 - This grip sticks on with an adhesive strip. Interesting.
- Lensmate - lens adapter accessory for Canon PowerShot G9/G7 - More aftermarket goodness for Canon PowerShot G9 owners. This lets you attach various lenses to the high-end compacts.
- Samsung GX-20 brief hands-on: Digital Photography Review - A quick look at the Samsung GX-20, which with some minor variations is a Pentax K20D.
- Guess the Title: A multi-player Flickr photo guessing game - This is amusing. Makes me feel bad about some of my lousy photo captions. _IMG-0123.
- Super Techies: Video interview of Brendan Eich on ZDNet.com - JavaScript creator speaks out on history. Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems "got it" that there should be a programming language for the masses, as opposed to the high-end Java, thus the "marketing scam" name of JavaScript. Interesting history from the Mozilla CTO.
- What's a better name for Fedora 9, Bathysphere or Chupacabra? - Voting on names is about as superficial as it gets, but what the heck, it's fun. I'd go for "Chupacabra" because a friend of mine thinks New Mexico is teeming with them.
- Xen 3.2.0 released--significant new features - Among the updates: PCI pass-through for better performance, Xen security modules, suspend to RAM, support for more bootloaders (probably important for getting along well with Windows, Mac OS X, and other operating systems).
- Andy Rouse Review - Nikon D3 - A Canon shooter likes the D3 for wildlife photography.
- Agence France-Presse to leave Canon, buy Nikon - It's supposedly moving to Nikon D3 SLRs. Interesting, though I couldn't find confirmation after a quick search.
- Luminous Landscape's Olympus E-3 Review - Generally favorable review by Douglas Brown, but: "clumsy, poorly implemented physical interface."
- Baltimore winter photo gallery - I know, I'm biased, but I just like photojournalism better than most photography. I used to shoot wild art for a newspaper occasionally, and I loved it.
January 23, 2008 8:11 AM PST
- Apple crippled DTrace: Sun DTrace cocreator Adam Leventhal -- Dampened delight that Apple ported Sun Microsystems' DTrace from Solaris to Mac OS X. It's blocking DTrace from probing processes which exempt themselves. "This is antithetical to the notion of systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the spirit of open source."
- A gripe about Adobe Lightroom documentation -- I've introduced a few folks to Lightroom, and I agree the state of documentation and tutorials is chaotic, in part because Adobe revved the software so often. Better than no updates, though. I also sympathize with the paralysis of hierarchy, DNG, etc.
- John Nack: Community-powered Lightroom help goes live -- Don't like Lightroom documentation? Fix it yourself with this quasi-open-source documentation effort.
- Free noise reduction plug-in for the GIMP | Photodoto -- John Watson likes this free noise-reduction filter for the GIMP.
- Harold Davis lurves his Nikon D300 -- "This is the first digital single lens reflex that I've used that approaches what a dSLR should be, and maybe even the Platonic ideal of a dSLR." Likes 14-bit raw, low noise.
- Nikon D3 Review Diary -- Nice shots comparing D3 performance at various ISO settings.
- David Pogue's SLR turned away at the door -- Pogue can't get his Nikon D80 into a motocross event. A harbinger of trouble. This goes hand in hand with all the issues about who owns broadcast rights--including text-messaging an update to your pal--of NBA games.
- Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form -- Lightroom's feature request form.
- Getty Images up for sale, could fetch $1.5 billion - The New York Times -- Getty on the block? Hello private equity.
- Pentax K20D Sample Images | Photography Bay -- More rumors of Pentax K20D and K200D
- Photoshop Insider » What I'd Love to See in Lightroom 2.0 -- A Photoshop guru's Lightroom wish list. Wedding album export templates, networking, tethered shooting are among his desired pro features.
- A developer of Windows on cruft in the Registry -- This is my single biggest beef about Microsoft Windows. Pathetic that insider advice is "don't try out new software." One reason I use virtual machines is to try out new software. What a sorry state of affairs.
- GPS Tracklog: Garmin Colorado 300 in stock -- A new line of outdoor-oriented GPS units from Garmin. Not cheap.
- FormatMessageW Error in Lightroom Export Plug-ins -- Some good sleuthing on why Jeffrey Friedl's Lightroom Flickr Export plug-in can break on Windows. I have this problem often. Looks to be a timeout-related problem.
- Bibble 4.9 Pro raw conversion software review -- A review of Bibble's latest software. "If you're neither working with RAWs or processing lots of images, Bibble may not be (right), but for if you're looking for lots of speed and some of the sharpest results around, there's nothing better at this price."
- Corel PhotoImpact X3 Announced -- An upgrade to a consumer-level photo-editing package.
January 18, 2008 7:25 AM PST
- Picasa Web Albums Uploader for BlackBerry--Upload to Picasa Web Albums from a BlackBerry smartphone. Bonus: automatic geotagging if your BlackBerry supports it.
- Jeffrey Friedl offers "Piglets": Plug-ins for Lightroom Plug-ins--This time, Friedl has built Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify export plug-in so it can be used as a subcomponent of Friedl's Flickr/Zenfolio/SmugMug/Picasa export plug-in. First time I've seen the word "fourth-party" used in a while. World's longest dialog box too.
- ImageReporter: Extract data from Lightroom database--Analysis tool for extracting information from the metadata stored in Lightroom's catalog. It's a free download.
- 5,000 Flickr photos lost to a phishing scam--This fellow lost his Flickr identity to a phishing scam that meant all his photos, comments, and online conversations were deleted. "How does one download all the metadata? Flickr should have an export feature that creates a .flk file on your PC." I don't think it's as clear as that.
- BreezeBrowser Pro supports 1Ds Mark III, D3, D300, E-3, A700--Raw files from the latest SLRs are now supported. That includes Canon's 1Ds Mark III, Nikon's D3 and D300, Olympus' E-3, and Sony's Alpha A700.
- CoastalOpt 60mm UV-VIS-IR 1:4 Apo Macro lens--Transmits ultraviolet and near-infrared light with no chromatic aberration. "The 60mm UV-VIS-IR 1:4 Apo Macro lens achieves unprecedented correction...by combining fluorite and quartz with elements made from carefully selected high-transmission glasses."
- State of the Art: Marilyn Wars:The Empire Strikes Back--Who's allowed to sell images of Marilyn Monroe? Copyright vs. rights of publicity.
- Thomas Hawk: Copyright Schmopyright--Provocative words from a compulsive (and good, in my opinion) photographer. "Fair use? Who the hell cares. The images need to be captured. And they need to be presented to the world in new and exciting and fun ways."
- Paleo-Future: Bearded Men of the 21st Century (1939)--Dang, and here I just shaved my beard off. I guess I just am too cowed by authority and missed the revolt.
- Rusty Russell gripes about git--A Linux kernel programmer ascends the learning curve of Git, the source code management system Linus Torvalds wrote to manage the kernel programming project.
- Call for community testers for Intel driver--Intel wants outside help testing its open-source graphics drivers. The "Intel team is not able to cover all hardware configurations, hence not able to reproduce or verify some bugs." Sign up at Intellinuxgraphics.org
- Havoc Pennington leaving Red Hat--A longtime coder is departing, but he's not saying yet what his new gig is.
- Intel 965 chipset blacklisted in Ubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron--Programmers couldn't get good 3D support out of the new Intel graphics chipset.
- Ohloh Goes Open Source--An open-source command line tool to identify the language a program is written in and count how many lines it's made of. It's under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).
January 14, 2008 8:32 AM PST
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac to ship in second quarter 2008 - Adobe previously said "early 2008," (http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9783661-39.html) but now it's second quarter. Not a big deal since Mac folks get iPhoto. Why bother offering pre-order months early? Answer: to make it not look like a delay.
- More Canon 5D Mark II Rumors | Photography Bay - Some guy's Canon rep said to expect an announcement of the new low-end full-frame camera at PMA (which starts January 31, but Canon's announcement looks like January 24).
- Tighter intellectual property restirctions at iStockphoto.com - iStockphoto is tightening restrictions on permissible photos; Previously, no face, no model release required. Now, if subject could recognize him- or herself, needs a release. Also out: recognizable cars, cruise ships.
- SimCity Source Code under GPL - The original SimCity is now under GPL, called Micropolis for legal reasons and refurbished somewhat.
- Mainframe: Will Microsoft Windows be next on System z? - Back in the 1994, IBM figured out how to boot Windows on a mainframe, but legal machinations between IBM, Microsoft, and Bristol Technologies killed it. "We'll never see a day when Windows will run natively on the mainframe."
- The Online Photographer: The Arc of a Forum Exchange - An amusing parody of a typical forum. Look for the hidden original definition (now probably obsolete mostly) of a prime lens.
- Peachpit: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Resource Center - A big collection of book chapter excerpts, videos, and other useful Lightroom training material.
- Holy moly--Nikon D3 SLRs spotted on the NFL sidelines - Canon has such a lock on pro sports photography that it's news even if just a handful of Nikons are in use.
- Shortcuts You Must Memorize - Inside Lightroom - I agree--this is a great list of very useful Lightroom keyboard shortcuts.
- PDF: Now an ISO Standard - Let's hope this will make "export to PDF" more common. It really is a useful format, despite its hassles and annoyances.
January 11, 2008 4:18 PM PST
- Nikon still leads Canon for SLR market in Japan - It's not the whole world, but Japan is a very important market. Pentax is a distant third.
- Novel GPS widget geotags photos on your flash card - This is a great idea: you insert your camera's flash card into this GPS device and it handles the geotagging from there. A much simpler work flow. But does it work with raw formats?
- Wacky Microsoft Popfly live-action demo - Putting something of a human face on an obscure coding exercise.
- Dan Heller's Photography Business Blog: Gaming the Creative Commons for Profit - Upshot of a three-part series: "The Creative Commons just doesn't fit in the photo world...no teeth for well-intentioned photographers...sharp and dangerous teeth for those who want to abuse the system and entrap anyone into paying big settlements."
- Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3 | Ubuntu - Details of Alpha 3 of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron release, due to ship in final form in April 2008.
- Flickr: The Photophlow emotes pool - For setting graphical emotes during Photophlow chats
- Flickr Set Manager - A tool to automatically create sets based on parameters such as tags.
- Economist uses CC-licensed photos on its Web site - This blog quotes a photog unhappy to find the Economist used his Creative Commons-licensed photo on its Web site. Sure sounds like commercial use to me, which the photog had precluded.
- 30-minute Olympus E-3 Promotional Video - A loooong Olympus promotional video with detailed descriptions of the E-3's abilities. Some nice illustrations of why a swiveling LCD is useful. Painful background music.
- Penguinistas hack Android onto real hardware | LinuxDevices.com - Programmers get Android working on Sharp Zaurus and various other devices.
January 9, 2008 6:46 PM PST
- Field of view diagram from Digital Photo Professional magazine - A nice diagram showing what kind of focal length is required to get a 47-degree field of view with various cameras, e.g. full-frame, APS-C, medium format, Four Thirds. (Judging by the Four Thirds logo, this might be from that Olympus-led group.)
- Leaked? The Samsung GX-20 DSLR - 1001 Noisy Cameras - Roundup of links to GX-20, presumably derivative of a new Pentax model. would-be photo, specs here: http://www.aronsen.no/default.asp?ArtID=428
- Getty Bolsters Its Web Presence (subscription only) WSJ.com - A longish look at Getty's attempt to remake itself through royalty-free photography, including iStockphoto.
- Washingtonpost.com on snitching photos from Flickr etc. - Bloggers to the rescue? "What's noteworthy in each of these cases, Lessig says, 'is that bloggers, a community typically associated with piracy, are rallying in support of copyright.'"
- OLPC Tells Nigerian Court: We Don't Use LANCOR's Keyboard - Groklaw - OLPC answers the patent-infringment complaint.
- Novell's top lawyer is leaving - Joseph LaSala, who's been involved in litigation with The SCO Group and the controversial patent deal with Microsoft, is headed for Discovery Communications. Novell said deputy general counsel Ryan Richards will take over for now.
- Olympus E-3 Review - PhotographyBLOG - Generally favorable review. Modest jabs about its size--so much for one of the advantages 4/3 cameras have over Nikon and Canon. "The amount of time you'll spend penitently wading through the manual will reward you with some seriously good images."
- ExifTool by Phil Harvey - a photo tag editing utility - Perhaps this will be the way I transfer geotags from one photo to others. Looks like a pretty powerful utility, and it supports DNG and various raw file formats.
January 8, 2008 7:00 PM PST
- Wide-ranging Nikon DX VR lens en route? - Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 16-85mm DX SWM VR ED IF Aspherical. With the D3 now out, Nikon customers have joined Canon's in the "Should I buy only full-frame or small-frame lenses for better future-proofing?" dilemma.
- Flickr hiring senior user interface designer - I hope to see some big Flickr user interface improvements. Such as being able to cycle through larger images if I want. And cleaning up the preferences. And making it less unpleasant to add contacts, friends, and family.
- Michael Reichmann's Nikon splurge - Luminous Landscape - Michael Reichmann describes what Nikon gear he bought and why. Not really a review. What would you buy if you were starting over with a budget of something like $20,000? Jeesh!
- A scary dissection: Inside the 18-70mm DX lens - He didn't get the fungus out, but he did put the lens back together again.
- LR/Mogrify - Timothy Armes Photography - A Lightroom export utility based on the open-source ImageMagick command-line image-processing tools.
- Flickr: Photos tagged with amazingcircle - A fun polar-coordinate geometric transformation effect. I like the ones where you can see the original image posted below, for example this one of tiles: http://flickr.com/photos/24124155@N00/376865074/
- Barron's Online : What's Up With Shutterfly? - Fears of a price war in photo printing now that HP Snapfish cut prices.
- Sony's $700 Alpha A200 dSLR looks like a contender - CNET Blogs - Looks like a modest update to the A100--faster processing, faster autofocus, better screen, tweaked body. Looks like Sony is getting its footing to me.
- DIYPhotography.net | Photography and Studio Lighting - Do-it-yourself tips.
