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Ditto what Jay and Miserere said: where are the photos?!
I was curious at your mention of seeing the floaters in your eye. The way you write this implies that they're common; I'd always thought they were pretty rare. I have a prominent one which I can always see, and have had it for 25 years or more, but I've never met anyone else who's even heard of floaters.
Here Comes the Sun
By Ctein A couple of weeks ago, Paula and I bought a small solar telescope. It just kinda happened. Paula became very interested in getting a solar telescope several years ago when she had a chance to look through one and got to see solar prominences live and up close for the first time. I was le...
As soon as they make a sensor module with a four-thirds lens mount on it, this system is going to kick butt.
Mike and Ctein Discuss the Ricoh GXR Announcement
- [UPDATE: You can pre-order the GXR body shell , A12 50mm ƒ/2.5 Macro GR Lens with APS-C 12.3-MP CMOS Sensor , or S10 24–72mm ƒ/2.5–4.4 VC Ricoh Lens with 10-MP CCD Sensor at Amazon.com. Amazon has an information page about the system too. It will be interesting to see if anyone actually orde...
Mike, I didn't answer the poll because the answer for me depends on whether I'm buying a compact or an SLR, and the question didn't specify this. FWIW, my answers would have been 400 and 3200, respectively.
High ISO High Noon
Entirely by chance, both Ctein and I, unbeknownst to each other, were writing short essays on the same topic at the same time. So I thought I'd put them up together. This wasn't planned, it just happened. I took the short term, existing-technology view of high ISOs, and Ctein (at least at the en...
What's more annoying than reading something that displays the distinct lack of basic writing skills of the author?
When the author is the CEO of the company you work for, and he makes about 20 times your salary.
That just isn't fair.
(I do realize how irrational the previous statement is. But still.)
A Beef Pea
A brief plea to our readers who would comment: We very much appreciate hearing from you, but please read your comment over one time after you write it, to make sure it actually says what you think you wrote. Thank you, Signed, The beleaguered Comment Triage Committee - (P.S. I have to admit...
Your description of the New Yankee Workshop cracked me up, Mike. Spot on. I am one of those guys with the cramped, messy workshop in which I stand for several lonely minutes at least once a week wondering how I can make room for a table saw and all the rest.
I recently counted all the power tools Norm used during one episode - it was 17, and only 2 or 3 of them were the portable kind we mortals are familiar with. And he wasn't even making an especially complex project.
Shunners of Sunlight
I got some good chuckles this morning over an article called "Tears in the Stop Bath" over at Idiotic Hat: ...People who have come to photography since the advent of digital imaging have little idea of the realities of doing your own developing and printing in the days of 'wet chemistry,' and th...
wtf? where do they get off stopping people from buying what people want to buy? i mean, nuclear warheads, okay, but nappies? gross or not, people should be free to make that decision on their own.
To challange ebay on their new policy...
The best I've been able to find at this point is this page http://pages.ebay.com/help/newtoebay/suggest.html from which you can Send us your suggestion to improve the eBay site. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have time to come up with something to say, but for now you could just say, bring back second-...
I don't know why we stress about achieving stuff. Eventually we'll just be dead and it won't matter if we did or didn't write a novel by 40, sell a work of art, or learn French.
By the time I'm forty...
Last week my mum reminded me that I don't have to do everything in life in the next few years. Or specifically that I don't have to work myself into a professional writing gig and out of the public service right now. Actually I think what she may have been thinking was that I could put off the h...
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