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4 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a 50mm Lens » Photography Bay | Digital Camera Reviews, News and Resources - http://www.photographybay.com/2009...
Ronald, Chip Mayhugh, Mr Saturday Morning NFG and 33 other people liked this
"When we buy our DSLRs, chances are that we mostly shoot and grow with using just the kit lens provided for us by the manufacturerers. What some of us DSLR users don’t realize until we’ve grown enough is just how wondrous and useful a good 50mm lens with a wide aperture is"
- Mel Buckpitt
from Bookmarklet
What about a 35mm? I just bought the Nikkor 35mm f1.8 and I've been told that lens as well as the 50mm are the top two "must have" lenses for DSLR
- Johnny
Johnny: You make a good point. The main advantages of a 50mm is its almost the FOV as the human eye on a full frame camera. The 35mm FOV is closer to the human eye on a cropped sensor camera.
- Mel Buckpitt
Mel: So it would make more sense to go with a 35mm on a DX and a 50mm on a full-frame
- Johnny
Yep!!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Would there be any benefit to buying a 50mm for cropped sensor camera?
- Johnny
I think so, the 50mm lens tends to suffer less from distortion than the wider angle lenses. They are great fast lenses and also cheap, although the Nikon pictured in the article is not. I use both but keep the 50mm on the camera because I feel comfortable with it. I shoot with a D300
- Mel Buckpitt
The 50mm on a DX is amazing for portraits.
- Johnny Chadda
Johnny, I don't have a full-frame camera and I still adore my 50mm.
- joey
What does the wide aperture part mean again? Educating myself on FF.
- Steve C
Actually the bigger the number the greater the depth of field, the smaller the number the more light gets in. Also the shorter the lens the greater the depth of field at the same F Stop.
- Jeffrey Stephen
Cecily: I agree but get too close with 35mm and most will distort, particularly faces. Everything is a compromise I guess
- Mel Buckpitt
The only problem with a 50mm lens (a regular one that is) is it really isn't a true 50mm lens on a digital camera. I would go a little bit wider if possible. I did buy a 50mm myself, but would like something closer to human vision, as it were. However, I love the clarity that comes with fewer pieces of glass in the lens, so I still would recommend it. Not to mention, considering how much lenses cost, a 50mm is one of the very cheapest that you can buy, they easily pay for themselves in the end...
- Danielle Closs
Keep an eye on it! Or two? - http://img18.imageshack.us/img18...
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HealingBrush, Jemm, Morton Fox and 21 other people liked this
Or 3...
- Tanath
lens kayması :)
- Mutfak Sirlari©
ewwwww
- johnpiercy
oh...nightmares now, thanks :(
- Stephanie Segel
Me and my kids are sitting here just repeating, "Ew, that's gross!"
- Admiral Anika
Let's see them put THIS on those Geico commercials. "I always feel like somebody's watching meeeeee"
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Creepy!
- Barbara
that is creepy
- (jeff)isageek
The awesomest coffee maker you'll ever see http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Cecil, Michael R. Bernstein, mikepk and 5 other people liked this
found via http://www.geekalerts.com/manga-r...
- Dee S.
I still don't like coffee. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is determined to not fall for such tricks =P
- vijay
lol but you have to like that coffee making robot! it's too cool! Maybe it can make you tea if you teach it to? ;)
- Dee S.
Yes, this is the Awesomest.
- Mark Krynsky
Dee, that would be better. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oxygen on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/4433312
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nice way to teach : beautiful, entertaining, and educational
- Olivier
from Bookmarklet
How many points of view can a half-full glass have? - http://site.despair.com/blog...
Walt Ruppar, Phoenix, Lainie and 12 other people liked this
LOL.
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
they're neither half full or half empty.. they are 50% of capacity!
- alphaxion
You know, that'd make for a great t-shirt...
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
good one:)
- Chris Farrugia
Chris, LOL.
- Kol Tregaskes
So this Twitter phishing thing, isn't it driven by the fact that people are used to logging in to all kinds of weird sites with their Twitter credentials? It doesn't raise flags when someone wants them, we've all been trained to give them out on request. AKA, Twitter design and ecosystem FAIL!!!!
Jared Smith, Tyson Key, Cecil and 7 other people liked this
absolutely, there needs to be a pushback at twitter to incorporate OAuth so that applications that use the API do not need the actual login credentials but merely need to be authorized to use the provided services
- Nathan Eckenrode
My pushback at Twitter takes the form of not using it anymore.
- Dave Slusher
The Twitter guys have put up a warning about it on the website. But since not everyone uses the web UI, not everyone will see it.
- Joey Gibson
You may as well say NOBODY uses the web UI
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rahsheen, I use the web UI sometimes from my oh-so-slow iBook, when Twhirl or Tweetdeck are not usable (because the iBook is oh-so-slow.
- Joey Gibson
Rah, I do. It's all I use.
- Rochelle
It's my understanding that it isn't a 3rd party service but a classic phish where they DM a link and suddenly it looks like you're logged out of Twitter. There was a seperate incident where a 3rd party service sold all of it's users credentials for $1200 and that is a fail on Twitters part for not using API keys.
- Paul Reynolds
Twitter needs to add a remote application key to its API, or maybe OAUTH, but handing your TT login credentials to a third-party site always struck me as problematic.
- .LAG liked that
The other question here is what's the value proposition of a Twitter phishing scam? Even if you get some credentials, then what?
- Dave Slusher
I forgot to say earlier "Death to Twitter."
- Dave Slusher
Absolutely, Dave. Handing over primary credentials is such an obvious antipattern today, yet here we are. I haven't tried many 3rd party twtr apps for this very reason.
- Micah Wittman
Could you help me see the difference between providing Twitter credentials to a Twitter app and providing email credentials to an email app (Mail.app, etc)...or even just signing into any site via any browser not branded by the service you're accessing?
- Garrick Van Buren
@garrick: good question. here's my take: Gmail, Mail.app and Twitter are all applications. You put in your credentials in order to use them, as yourself. In all three cases, you're in control of what the application does. When you give your Twitter credentials to a third-party Twit-app, you're essentially handing over control of your Twitter account to someone else, presumably in return for the services that Twit-app provides. Does that make sense?
- .LAG liked that
LAG is on the right track. I can't tell if you are just trying to be agent provacateur on this question or you really can't see the difference between using a password on a client app and giving the login credentials for one site to an entirely different site. If you don't see the difference, I'll create a bank account visualization app. All you have to do is give my your banking logon and you'll get all kind of neat tools. Would you use it?
- Dave Slusher
PS - Even though I know you personally, there is not one chance in hell I would ever log in to Cullect via all the 3rd party logins you allow. I'm not giving site A my login to Twitter as site A's credentials. Imagine how all the people stumbling across the site for the first time feel. It feels deeply sketchy.
- Dave Slusher
I wasn't sure of Garrick's angle, either. I don't mind giving my credentials to his Twitter URL shortener because it doesn't appear to save them: http://culld.us/shorten... and if I were really paranoid, I'd use this version http://culld.us
- Paul Reynolds
I think the FriendFeed compromise of giving partial credentials that validate some use of the account but without full control is the most wildly sensible I've seen. I've never given Culld.us my credentials to make tweets for me.
- Dave Slusher
Agreed, Dave. Since the FF remotekey is both quickly revokable and easy to re-create (in addition to having limited privs), the danger in using it at a relatively unknown site is fairly low. I'm MUCH more willing to do that than I am to just dump my pw credentials into a form. In addition, for many people (though not for me), the sharing of passwords across accounts creates an additional danger. They may be sharing the pw they use for lots of things!
- Ken Kennedy
Here's another vote in favor of the FF remote key. I've never seen anything like it on any other service, and it makes just incredible sense. Here's a chance for things like identica to get another leg up on Twitter (though winning hearts and minds will still be tough).
- Jared Smith
Year in Review (LOLcats Style) - SF Weekly - http://sfweekly.com/slidesh...
Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕, Cecil and AJ Batac liked this
"You’re not supposed to admit to liking LOLcats, just as you’re not supposed to openly champion year-in-review issues. But in the pages ahead, we have combined two of our guiltiest pleasures into one shamelessly superficial summary of an incredibly historic year."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Amazon.com: MP3 Downloads: 50 Album for $5 Each - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
embee, Brandon Titus and Cecil liked this
With smiles like that they must be...stoned / TruShu - http://vi.sualize.us/view...
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Cindy Gan, Phoenix, Bob Gannon and 4 other people liked this
این چیه بابا چندش اوره
- ژوکر معترض
The Decline of Civilization - http://img370.imageshack.us/img370...
Cecil, Christopher Harley and Nicola Quinn liked this
;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
added 4 more videos from the 5DII http://phillprice.smugmug.com/gallery... http://phillprice.smugmug.com/gallery... http://phillprice.smugmug.com/gallery... and http://phillprice.smugmug.com/gallery... (still processing but its a good long one - keep checking!)
Cecil liked this
Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking - http://www.43folders.com/2008...
Michael Hocter and Cecil liked this
When You See This, He'll Stack Bricks... - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jan Dawson and Cecil liked this
I Voted - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Tanath, Cecil, mjc and 39 other people liked this
"I Voted" sticker wins.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
My polling station didn't have boobs for distributing the "I Voted" stickers. :-(
- Joey Gibson
only the left voted? the right must be so jealous.
- Yolanda
Caroline definitely wins the "I voted" sticker meme competition
- Brian Sullivan
She voted with her heart
- RAPatton
i should have asked for two stickers.. but you do bring up a good point i'm a lefty so i put it on my left.. on my heart awww.
- Caroline
Suddenly my ability to get work done got seriously hampered.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
damn RAP you beat to it.
- Caroline
but jason do you have a sudden urge to service your country?
- Caroline
Keeping abreast of politics
- Anna Haro
Caroline wins teh internets!
- Tad
Wowzas!!! Thank you for your service!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Caroline ohhh, i'm not going there. :)
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Sticker location wins
- Amit Morson
Democracy is a wonderous and magnificent thing, isn't it?
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Another boob voted
- johnpiercy
I would like to suggest that more of FF's beautiful women do something similar.
- Tad
Tad, I received no sticker so I unfortunately cannot participate.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Feel free to draw your own sticker Tina. I'm sure many of the guys here on FF would be happy to whip something up for ya!
- Tad
I'm such bad person for loving this.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
it was cuz i saw this ----> http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Caroline
All of FF thanks you Caroline! You are a true patriot!
- Tad
Forgot your ID at the booth? Hey, whatever works.
- Josh Haley
Tad, you cad! =P
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm just sayin... ;)
- Tad
anyone notice that it was all dudes who "liked" that. lol
- Joshua Schnell
who is the boob that voted ?
- johnpiercy
from twhirl
No.
- Derrick
clearly I put my sticker in the wrong spot
- Erin @queenofspain
Caroline? If FF turns into Myspace, I'm blaming you!!
- Mona Nomura
8O...um...so...thank you for voting?...
- David Cook
Hey, from an aesthetic standpoint, can you use your hands to shove them together and then retake the picture? Just, you know, center them in the frame, thanks. Purely aesthetic, yup.
- B. Hatin
support the vote?
- Jim Goldstein
Tad, I've just always wanted to say that because it rhymes. Thanks for the opportunity =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
There was a sticker?
- Dave Roth
Mona, what happens on myspace? apparently cleavage ... sorry mona i have a boob problem..
- Caroline
Vanity Fair's "The 25 Best News Photographs" WARNING: These will break your heart and make you feel insignificant. - http://www.vanityfair.com/culture...
Muge Cerman, Aykut Karaalioğlu, Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF and 61 other people liked this
ooof. Warning is appropriate.
- AJ Kohn
I still can't breathe from some of these images...
- Mona Nomura
beautiful. makes me miss when there was passion in the world in some of them. but oy, vanity fair's site is such a cause for "nothing below the fold" - no sites should be below the fold - or they should be JUST below. ecommerce has done studies on it. it been proven to help drive traffic and keeps visitors stickier.
- Patricia
I don't buy Vanity Fair (not interested) but their online publication is phenomenal. If they were to print these, I would purchase without a doubt.
- Mona Nomura
Oh, the humanity! Amazing pics.
- Vincent X
Absolutely amazing. Thank you, Mona.
- Ladybug Heather
My pleasure... these are breathtaking. :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona. Thank you for sharing that link. *cries*
- Yolanda
I know, Yo. :(
- Mona Nomura
These are gut-wrenching and creepy. Imagine being the person who took the photo! Mona, thanks for sharing tho, these events can't be forgotten.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
First time I've ever had a "Warning" be accurate. Some of these are tough to see. Thanks for the link.
- Michael Pardee
The one that *always* gets me is the jumper from the Towers. I'll always remember those folks.
- Yolanda
Wow... these are...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Man down! - http://i36.tinypic.com/kasig2...
Jeremy Campbell, Shayanlinux, Igor Poltavskiy and 6 other people liked this
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Moving Big Rocks - http://j-walkblog.com/index...
Cecil liked this
Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.
- Olivier
Ladybug Heather, donato, Joe Dawson and 8 other people liked this
Found via Mitchell.
- Kol Tregaskes
Who is that, and why is she not having my children?
- LarchOye
Hee - loving the schoolgirl plaid miniskirt action there. Are those boots, too? I understand that miniskirt + boots is supposed to be the hottest look ever.
- Ladybug Heather
YouTube Sarah Palin channels the South Carolina beauty queen - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Cecil, Eric P, Steven Perez and 3 other people liked this
Made me laugh hard!
- Vox
from Bookmarklet
LOL
- Alan Le
Yeah but Miss Teen South Carolina can't see Russia from her house, can she?
- Eric P
watching the city / wvs - http://vi.sualize.us/view...
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Cecil, Mahdi Ebrahimi and Phil G liked this
nice...makes me miss toronto...
- Trent Olson
show da natureza - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Cecil liked this
Lightning in super-slow motion... this is pretty awesome.
- Eric P
la liberté est une fleur - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Shawn Duffy, Cecil and Olivier liked this
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