DPReview has an excellent review of the 18-200mm Nikkor travel kit lens, a lens I happen to own.
I wait for Pizza with my Nikon camera (from side)
Patxi’s Pizza, Palo Alto, CA
Lumix DMC-LX1
1/3 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6mm (28mm)
One criticism missing from the review is how annoyingly long the lens extends when zoomed—I’ll miss the [...]
The other day someone asked me again about what I thought about jQuery, and I’m getting tired of repeating myself for almost a year. jQuery actually is fodder for an interview question I sometimes ask:
What’s wrong with the jQuery $() function?
[Showing you the money after the jump.]
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While researching the previous article, I came across this hilarious quote:
This is a far cry from 1966, originally the Klingons were scotch tape Asians (Fong, 176); White actors given slanty eyes. The Klingon race incarnate all the characteristics that most scare White America. The Klingons are violent, ill tempered, lustful, and drunk. [...]
“Gotta say, it’s kind of breathtaking what Bush has done to you, the awakening is something to behold!.”
—rafaelh, “Well, Of Course.”
The slow transformation of political blogger, John Cole, from a Bush supporting Republican to “Noam Chomsky” really is that. In the linked article, he points out the “settling in for a longer term confrontation with [...]
Recently I think I’ve met two other people who have purchased Leica M8’s and on both those cameras, I think I saw a Cosina-Voigtländer 35mm f/1.2 Nokton lens. If so, that’s a strange coincidence because it is a very obscure lens.
Leica and Cosina
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, Canon 500D close-up filter
1/40sec [...]
I stopped by XYZ Bar to say bye to Joel B. Sacks, formerly of AdBrite and CNET. I came late and couldn’t stay for long.
Joel gets all the hotties
XYZ Bar, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, 14-24mm f/2.8G
1/6 sec @ f/2.8, iso 6400, 24mm (24mm)
Andrei left me my SB-800 so I did get to [...]
“Personally I find that the price tag of Euro 1200 for a new piece of glass and the exchange of a few springs and cogs in the current shutter mechanism is on the high side. But we all know we are in Leica territory.”
—Erwin Puts on “The Significance of LUP”, Februrary 13, 2008
The article [...]
