I noticed the lens cap from the Ricoh GX200 is a top seller over at popflash.photo.
Category: arts and letters
Looking behind
I’ve always said that the best camera is the one you have on you, and I’ve mentioned that that cameraphones have a lot of versatility.
I haven’t been shooting seriously in over a year and my cameras are screaming for me to take this stuff seriously again.
Even my iPhone camera.
With my car finally back from the shop, my rear mirror finally repaired, me in the passenger side, and the latest burger from McDonald’s in my lap, I felt a lot of regret I couldn’t snap this with my Leica or Panasonic LX1. But then I remembered I was charging my iPhone…
Ferry Building
Embarcadero, Waterfront, San Francisco, California
Embarcadero, Waterfront, San Francisco, California
Apple iPhone 3G
f/2.8, 3.85mm (37mm)
Continue reading about iPhone as a serious photographic tool after the jump
Taibbi
“His description of the root causes of this financial crisis are about what you’d expect from a man who invoked The Great Gatsby to explain the mentality of the murderer of 4,000 people.”
— Matt Taibbi, on Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria
You have to admire Taibbi for his liberal outrage. Even if you don’t agree with him, his turns of phrases is a mastery of the intellectual smackdown.Then again, maybe I should admire Zakaria for carrying the kool-aid for his corporate masters.
History, after all, will not be kind on the latter.
Link juice from Ars
Ed politely informed me that Ars used a photo I took of him:
No rights were violated in the using of this photo.
The article might be very interesting to any Palm Pre developers out there. I’m just linking it because of the link juice. 🙂
Mild dementia
Reading this article on the new Voigtländer 50mm f1.1 Nokton, I was surprised to find out that the English translation of the Japanese word bokeh is “mild dementia.”
Definitely a Backstroke of the West moment there.
Check out the “mild dementia” on these two:
Mark Trammel
Citizen Spaces, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Citizen Spaces, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/16 sec, iso 320, 35mm (47mm)
Creamy smooth mild dementia
Scolding Veronica
Citizen Spaces, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Citizen Spaces, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/16 sec, iso 320, 35mm (47mm)
The mild dementia created by people in the background is busy but still manageable.
Bag rack
Why is it that a notebook computer is designed completely differently from a dSLR camera? To torment me?
Any other photo/computer geeks and nerds out there way too many bags?
And yes, I recently gave away four bags before this photo was taken.
A little about metering
Digital Photography School has an introductory article about metering modes. It’s a good start, but I thought I’d point out some issues with it.
Will
I have a friend and web developer who thinks I’m really smart, but he doesn’t think much of his own abilities. During a particular coincidence of both opinions, he asked me if I’d hire him if I was in a position to make such a judgement:
Me: Of course.
Me: Why do you ask this?
Him: I was just thinking that one day you will be atop the web
Him: And I want to be part of it
…
Me: In general, the thing I find is the #1 thing necessary for success is will. And you have will.
Me: Smarts is a result of will, not vice versa.
Me: So sure I’d hire you.
He tweeted that and someone liked that.
As someone who has leaned on his “smarts” a number of times to the detriment of his own personal development, I truly believe what I said. Every day, I’m starting to realize my inner Socrates:
It seemed to me … that the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence…
I reflected as I walked away: Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems to me that I am wiser than he is to the extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Obama’s Notre Dame commencement
I remember watching the second presidential debate in 2004, pissed with John Kerry. “Why?” someone asked.
“Because his answer to the abortion question fits right in line with the image of him as a flip-flop.” I replied. “He doesn’t have to answer the question about spending itself, and sure there are nuances to that issue you can’t address in the debate, but he can answer with strong language the morals that guides his decisions; the commonality we all have to minimize unwanted pregnancies. Some pro-lifer is going to see that answer and their perception of Catholicks and think he’s a hypocrite.”
Four years later, we have Obama:
Fink’d
Something strange I ran across reading a book last night:
Tom Fink was my roommate in college. He got me in trouble with the instructor when he got caught with my lab notebooks in physics lab. I’ll always remember him as the guy who didn’t know the difference between EGA and VGA. 🙂
BTW, this is the book that the above refers to. I see he’s written this book also. You have to gone to school with him to understand why we’re tickled pink to see this.
Or is that tickled Fink?