Someone asked on Flickr how you get waterblur in your photographs. You can go into aperture priority stick and stop down to f/22 to get waterblur, but you are hitting the diffraction limits of the lens and losing sharpness. (Remember, if you have a polarizer hanging around, it doubles as an 2-stop ND filter. If […]
I think what Frey did was wrong and probably potentially harmful to real drug addicts out there, but it wasn’t that interesting until I read that Oprah put her stamp of approval on it—“essential emotional truths†my ass. We live in a world of political double speak, where even the big O thinks she is […]
LA Times reports on a California lawsuit concerning “Intelligent Design.†Since Intelligent Design as a science was universally shut down, the idea this time is to nominally call Intelligent Design “Philosophy of Design†while teaching it as a science or religion course. It’s a lot like a long car trip with your older brother in […]
MacRumors reports in passing that the new Intel Macintoshes are using EFI (Official page, wikipedia).
Robert Gordon, a Yale Law School Professor, writes the most interesting summary of the case against the Alito nomination I’ve seen.
Ethan pointed out to me this press release from Nikon UK that points out that Nikon Japan is getting rid of most 35mm SLR film bodies, all large-format lenses and enlarging lenses, many manual focus 35mm lenses and related accessories. I emphasize the word “most†because many people are reading this as “all†when, in […]
Huffpost mentions that the Governator doesn’t have a motorcycle license. Am I the only person who dislikes Arnold Schwarzenegger being Governer of my state who doesn’t understand the political importance of this? Is this a felony or something? Sounds to me that he was just being stupid.
Moritz Petersen took this wonderful photograph on Flickr: “sunny blossom” by mortiz™ This sparked a discussion on C.A.F.E. on how he managed to get the wonderful star pattern on his night shot.
Someone asked on Flickr if they should delete their camera raw files after converting to Adobe DNGs. Certainly you can see a strong pressure from Adobe to do so in order to save some hard drive space. I don’t.
Drew mentioned that Apple released an update to Aperture. This is probably the first of many though don’t expect anything major: White balance adjustment accuracy and performance Image export quality Book and print ordering reliability Auto-stacking performance Custom paper size handling Aperture depends on the ImageIO Framework to do the file handling and Core Image […]