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The Awful Making of an Optimist is a book by American designer, photographer and writer James A. Reeves (aka kinosport). James drove around America and documented what he saw in the book through writing and photography. The back cover reads: "There was a time when the road to manhood was clear: go to war, find a job with a big company, wear a tie, and start a family. Then the wars got strange and companies changed. What does it take to be a man in America today? Here is an answer as sprawling and chaotic as the country itself… One day James realized he no longer understood his country or what he should be doing in it. He decided to go for a drive to clear his head. The Awful Making of an Optimist is a scattershot journey through the neon corridors and dark corners of America. Cattle auctions in Texahoma. Oil fires burning across the Venice Jump Basin. Kids collecting cosmic rays in the desert. Subway preachers in Brooklyn and security concerns along the Mississippi. Staring at... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

One more thing I noticed is that while I usually don't care much about white balance shooting raw - I can't really do that with video as it's already compressed when I get the video, and tweaking white point on the video is close to impossible to get weird color artifacts... I wonder if you can shoot video raw... :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Couple of cat's portraits i made yesterday. - prozacfield from Bookmarklet

"This chart was shown at the official NikonD3s launch event in Beijing – you can see the Nikon logo at the top right corner. Nikons pro DSLRs outsell Canons big time. Not sure if this data is only for China or worldwide. I am surprised by the large % of D3x sales (dark blue bars). I think in few months the D3s will make this graph look even worse (for Canon that is)." - Holger Eilhard from Bookmarklet

Did the D3x really take 40% of the pro market the first month it was available? As a Canon shooter, I hope this lights a fire under their ass to bring us something more appealing! - Brian Johns

"phoney optimism" - JA Castillo from Bookmarklet

haven't had the time to process anything yet. busy doing some other stuff :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

ok you know what, per your comment I checked out the HDD pricing and noted that you can get 1TB at <$100 these days?!?!?! OMG!!! Can anyone of you recommend any external RAID enclosure or similar? I currently have 4 external drives + 4 internal drives + 2 network drives and this is getting out of hand. I think that I should start thinking about other options, maybe a rack solution? Just something to keep everything tidy... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Did you update your Adobe RAW to the latest 5.5? It unofficially supports the 7D but it should open the RAW files up. - ronin

haha deleted it?! :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

...thanks to Scott Bourne for this; via Twitter... - JA Castillo from Bookmarklet

We call on the Government to abandon plans, announced on 29 October 2009, to allow free and unhindered reproduction of photographs without payment or credit on non-commercial websites. - Simon Curran from Bookmarklet

Going out to take some real photos now! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"These times are strange. Five years ago if you walked onto the set of a movie, TV show, or music video -- before you got kicked out by a strung out production assistant -- you'd have probably seen a bustling group of workers huddled around a giant camera changing out huge spools with Kodak or Fujifilm logos on them. The RED ONE camera shook up the industry when it was released two years ago and those cans of film were replaced with hard-drives and digital technicians. Now, we're in the midst of another monumental camera shift, and it's not the 3D revolution that everyone predicted. Nope, in 2009 we make our movies on DSLRs. Just how good are they? Well, the recently released Canon EOS 7D may just be the new Engadget workhorse. Read on for the inside scoop on our ridiculously cinematic new rig." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Altertnatively you can also consider: + Sony PCMM10/B $399.99 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc... + Sony PCMD50 $599.99 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc... + Sony PCMD1 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc... $1,999.95 - all of which does 24-bit / 96 kHz recording, and PCMM10/B in particular is tiny and easy to carry around but it does not have a built-in mic. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I want fly same the pelican too - Sinan AYHAN

Super psyched to open and play... will be away for the afternoon :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

no.. clearly I've always forgotten that when a new toy arrives it needs to charge! This is also the first SLR I bought where I've got the battery grip as I'm doing many vertical shots now and I thought that it'd be handy - interesting to note is that by using the battery grip I can also apparently get an AC adapter for continuing powering. Didn't know that before.. so I'm glad that I got it (but AC adapter is sold separately so I guess I'll have to get that also...) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

This is another shot from Yellowstone accompanied by a little video I shot with my Flip video camera. It’s not a high quality camera, and it’s awfully shaky. Sorry for that. But, I hope the content is good for you. I know people always like to know how many exposures I’m taking… this and that… so I’ve got all that info in there. - Michael Fidler from Bookmarklet

Check out the video! - Michael Fidler

"Hello and welcome. This is your favorite camera guru reporting to you live from my office here at Canon USA. I’m sitting here burning some really good ganja so there’s a lot of smoke in the room, and in fact visibility is so low right now I’m having some difficulty seeing my monitor. Yeaaahh mon. I figured I needed to relax after all the shit that’s been going on recently. And it’s either getting high and relax, or snapping and picking up my double barrel shotgun to do some serious damage around here." - Holger Eilhard from Bookmarklet

Not that I would be able to dish out the dough for the M9 any time soon but it's interesting to see the care and love invested in creating this beautiful piece of instrument. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

it's all marketing hype i tell you.... how does one explain the poor QC on a number of M8 bodies and some lenses in their line up.... but when the lenses are good they are good... - JediPein

@JediPein I've never own any Leica. I thought that it's too expensive to spend $2000 on a camera body - meanwhile I just bought a new 7D. Somehow Leica seems like a luxury item I cannot afford (something that was imprinted in my mind) whereas Canon appears to be affordable technology to me. Interesting branding / marketing imprints... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Does it need to be Canon? You don't have to compromise if you don't want to. The D700 has 51 AF points and is full frame. - Benjamin Golub

@Signal7 ??? Kawasaki + Suzuki are bikes no? :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML