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Flying with the new 5-D mkII - http://brian-johns.com/blog...
Awesome. But honestly, RAW = 30 megs per shot? At what point do you consider not shooting RAW? - Stephen Mack
Yeah - I hear you. The problem is that I never know until afterwards if I'm going to really like the shot or not. I like to have the extra resolution and color information for shots that I really like. For shots I don't like at all I can learn to delete. The problem is the shots that I only sort-of like. For those shots, I'm still holding on to 30 MB forever. I guess I could downsample and only keep a smaller version... - Brian Johns
Just RAW, or RAW+JPG. You didn't need all that space on your 32GB CF Card, right? - Neal Krummell
I only shoot RAW, since I can make JPGs later. (shooting RAW + JPG would just make the problem worse!) And no, I don't have 32 GB cards! I'm thinking of upgrading to a pair of 16 GB cards but am holding off for now since it's not a real "need". - Brian Johns
The problem with RAW is that you can only take a few shots until you run out of space. The quality is great, but if you don't carry extra cards around you'll run out of film. - Davis Freeberg
"a few" being about 500 or 600 at this point. :-) The other part of the problem is the processing and storage after the shoot. But yet when you get that really great 5-star image and make a 20 x 30 print of it, it all feels worthwhile. - Brian Johns
So how many 20x30 prints have you made in the last few months? Just curious! - Stephen Mack
When I took the printing workshop from Charlie Cramer back in June, quite a few. (10 or so.) If I weren't actually making large prints, then the huge filesize would be a total waste of space. Many people like Nikon's approach better, which is making full-frame cameras with 12 megapixels. Better image quality and smaller files FTW. I wish Canon would stop trying to win the megapixel race too. - Brian Johns
I made a decent 20x30 print from my XTi at only 10MP. $10 a print from Costco made for a nice test run. - Neal Krummell
What I did this afternoon: http://www.brian-johns.com/static...
Wow! That looks like fun. - Stephen Mack
I am craving co-workers can of Blue Diamond almonds
Quick trip to Florida with the ThinkTank Airport Takeoff bag - http://brian-johns.com/blog...
is shooting a Halloween party with a new camera
U.N. to deliver food aid by text message | FP Passport - http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts...
"We've reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don't have access to food will have working cell phones:" - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
YouTube - Dumb Jeep Driver - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Dumb Jeep Driver
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Yeah, you could tell from the title frame that this one wasn't going to end well... - Stephen Mack
Bengals WR Ochocinco has iPhone app - Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/news...
The Last Laugh « AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com - http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009...
The Last Laugh « AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
Mean! - Stephen Mack
YouTube - Behind the Scenes Triathlon + Swimming Photography Underwater - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Behind the Scenes Triathlon + Swimming Photography Underwater
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We can all exhale now... (new camera) - http://brian-johns.com/blog...
*exhales* - Stephen Mack
Qualcomm Stadium worker seriously injured before Chargers game -- latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/sports...
I've stood in those boxes at Qualcomm and it's a long way down... I'll look for pictures later tonight. - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
AppleInsider | Apple profits surge 46% on record sales of 3M Macs, 7.4M iPhones - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
stock is up 7% in after-hours. - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
The Gregory Brothers again, on healthcare. - Brian Johns
Agriculture critic's appearance angers university alumni -- latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/news...
For the Cal Poly fans in the room... - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
YouTube - Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Auto-Tune the News #9: Nobel. health care. United Nations.
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Can you smell the hope? - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
Autotune the News #9 comes tomorrow morning!
YouTube - HELICOPTER BOYZ IN YOMIURI LAND - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - HELICOPTER BOYZ IN YOMIURI LAND
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Skip to 1:04 to see the cool projector stuff. - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Oh yeah - I forgot to add a caption. This video is all based on the new point and shoot with a projector built in. How cool is that! - Brian Johns
Brian is wearing his (now collectible) Friendfeed T-shirt today.
Sessions With Joey L, DVD Lighting and Photoshop Tutorial - http://www.joeyl.com/session...
Sessions With Joey L, DVD Lighting and Photoshop Tutorial
Sessions With Joey L, DVD Lighting and Photoshop Tutorial
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The Associated Press: Dre' Bly apologizes for showing off - http://www.google.com/hostedn...
Parents of "chunky" infant weigh in on health insurance reform - The Denver Post - http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1353...
For Georgia, and everyone else talking about "the problems with healthcare in America" - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
That's horrible! How on earth can anyone in good conscious declare a 4 month old "obese"? it's a BABY! absurd. obscene. pathetic. UGH! - Erin "Wifey" Johns
:( - Stephen Mack from iPhone
Wow... major insurance fail - Georgia Diehl
pre-existing conditions just as bogus as this one underly the current health care crisis - its the why most uninsured ARE unable to get insurance - WarLord
Absurd! - Meredith
"Insurers don't take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy they are otherwise." So one out of 20 newborn infants is denied coverage outright just by their position in the curve? I didn't think it was possible for me to hate our health system more than I already do. - Stephen Mack
Imagine if insurance companies could just say "We only insure people in the 95th percentile of health"? - Kevin Fox
Kevin by the manipulation of Pre-existing Conditions Underwriting that relate to coverage they do that very thing or try very hard only to take "healthy" people in the "X" percentile of health... - WarLord
I wonder if they also bar infants below the 5th percentile, based on being underweight. If so, that would be 1 in 10 babies that get denied. - Brian Johns
Sophie is 4th percentile and has coverage, so I guess not. - Stephen Mack
I think the key to this is that these parents were changing to a new insurance provider. I'm guessing that Sophie has been with the same provider ever since she was born? I'm curious if it would be an issue if you tried to shop for new insurance though. - Brian Johns
Hmm, good point. Although they didn't try to deny her when she was born and being added to my coverage. - Stephen Mack
Lingerie Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
http://www.lflus.com/ <--- warning: Sound on website - Brian Johns
Watching The Office wedding episode.
The faster we play it, the sooner the painful parts will be over. - Brian Johns
Triple fast forward then? - Stephen Mack
Actually, we need to go back and re-watch the engagement dinner scene. It was so funny that I think we laughed over more than half the lines. This was a REALLY good episode. - Brian Johns
PDNPulse: Ralph Lauren: "Poor Imaging and Retouching" of Thin Model - http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009...
PDNPulse: Ralph Lauren: "Poor Imaging and Retouching" of Thin Model
The DMCA angle in here is interesting. - Brian Johns from Bookmarklet
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Public to monitor CCTV from home - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Public to monitor CCTV from home
Google maps, eat your heart out. - Stephen Mack
As creepy as this is, I kind of like it. It'd be even better if you could view recorded feeds to retrace the footsteps of a crime. With the right crowdsourcing you could catch a lot more bad guys. - Davis Freeberg
Apparently 2 people (a 34 year old and a 35 year old) died at the half-marathon this weekend.
So sad. The SJ Merc had a story about it on B1 today. One man, one woman. http://www.mercurynews.com/news... - Stephen Mack
That sucks. I saw the woman, kinda scary as both were around our age. - Dario Gomez
I would really like to know what they died of. - Brian Johns
Presumably heart failure? - Stephen Mack
That's one possibility. This is the Internet, so let's just speculate and call it a fact! ;-) - Brian Johns
I just confirmed it was terrorists. You can believe me, I'm a doctor. - Stephen Mack
More evidence that exercise is bad for you. - Kevin Pedraja
I was going to say "At least they died doing something healthy," but thought it might be in bad taste. However, now I don't feel bad anymore. - Cristo
I realize the chances are they died of heart failure, near the end of a multi-hour exercise session. I'd love to know if this was one of those freak things where ultra-healthy people have heart attacks, or if they weren't physically prepared, or if this was something else, like they felt woozy and tripped and died of head trauma, etc. - Brian Johns
I will say though that the race seemed very well supported. Tons of cops and ambulances hanging around, waiting for something to happen. If you were going to have a heart attack, this was as good a place as any to have it. - Brian Johns
Too bad none of those cops or paramedics could save either life. I feel for the families of the deceased. - Stephen Mack
Stephen, nice attempt to redeem yourself. :) - Cristo
When I saw the woman, CPR was being administered and the ambulance was on it's way. The woman looked thin and healthy. Judging by the speed Sparky and I ran at, she probably was running a 10 min mile clip or less. She must have been in good shape (if I recall correctly) I think it was past the 10 mile mark that I saw her. I didn't actually see her collapse. I'm not a doctor but heart... more... - Dario Gomez
San Jose Half Marathon: Completed
YAY!!! Congrats!! - Rachel Lea Fox
Well done, Sparky! - Stephen Mack from iPhone
That's awesome. Congratulations! - Faraz Mullick
Congratulations! - Anne Bouey
You passed me towards the end! - Dario Gomez
Where? Was I muttering anything??? - Brian Johns
So grats to Dario too :) - Stephen Mack
Awesome Dario! - Rachel Lea Fox from iPhone
Thanks Stephen and Rachel. No I looked up our times. You started 6 minutes after me and finished seven minutes faster than me. Ergo, you must have crossed the finish about a minute ahead of me and passed me somewhere towards the end. Just strange we didn't see each other. - Dario Gomez
VALHALLA AC POWER CORD - 1 meter long power cord for $2,700 - http://www.musicdirect.com/product...
VALHALLA AC POWER CORD - 1 meter long power cord for $2,700
ROFL...hahahaha - Alex Scoble
Darn, backordered. Could use these to go along with the $500 Ethernet cable: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-A... - Neal Krummell
I have a buddy with a stereo that has power/speaker cords like those, but his are at least 1.5" in diameter... I was like, "there's no way that's necessary"... within 8 measures of the first song... I could tell I had never heard a stereo sound that good. Not my cup o' tea, but wow... incredible. - SAM
The 2 meter version is only $300 more. So does that mean the cable is $300 per meter and the parts/labor for the connectors is $1,200 each? - Brian Johns
Wait, I understand wanting good sound, but why is the cord so expensive? - Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel: Welcome to the world of high-end "audiophile" cables, where reason and science go out the window, and scams reign supreme. - Tudor Bosman
A good stereo has more to do with the amp & speakers than the cabling. There is such a thing as a crappy cable, but the law of diminishing returns (on "quality") applies here. SAM, did he show that using both good and "not as good" cables that the quality was demonstrably better? Without that test (at a minimum), your anecdote doesn't prove his 1.5"-diameter cable was necessary to achieve the sound you heard. - G. Sigh
That's true. He lives in that world as a professional jazz drummer though and spends hours a week dedicated to looking into these types of technologies. I don't believe he would have spent the money if it wasn't worth it to him. (He's also a frugal guy, sans his audiophile tendencies.) All in all, I think these purchases can seem extreme or foolish to some, but are quite worth it to the folks that are into it. - SAM
Also, his system had a "power converter/cleaner" whatever that means, and the over-engineered cordage was specifically to ensure it's effectiveness. (I'm sure you could get within a gnats @$$ going another direction but that's his deal.) - SAM
*reads and facepalms* - Joe Silence is not dead
I have this and it works really well. - Cristo
thanks, Cristo, i needed a laugh. - Joe Silence is not dead
no, this stuff IS foolish. i've been a musician and recordist (not gonna say "engineer" cos i don't have an EE degree :P) since the early 1980s. this stuff is snake oil, pure and simple. - Joe Silence is not dead
copper is quite expensive though... - anna sauce
I thought copper was going for about a penny these days. - Roger Nang
Modern pennies have very little copper. - Andrew C
Today's pennies are mostly zinc: http://coins.about.com/od.... - G. Sigh
and.. the numismatists kill the pun. or maybe the google-ists ;) - Roger Nang
Does Ride of the Valkyries play spontaneously when it's plugged in? If not, I would ask for a refund. - Micah Wittman
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