It's just a D-SLR, only bigger than most of us use. - Brian Johns
That's just insanity. Will be great to whoever can shell out for it. - Tsega D
I liked the closing line on engadget "anyone who buys a 39 now can trade up to the 50 later for the difference in price and instructions on how to properly sleep on beds made of money" - Mel.Buckpitt
“What size memory card do you prefer and how many do you carry? I currently have an 8GB that stays n the camera and a 2GB backup. I gave my 2nd 2GB to my stepdad who only had one card.”
...a measly 1GB card and a 512mb reserve. - JA Castillo
I have a few 4GBs. I've seen a lot of people recommend lots of smaller memory cards (1-2GB) citing a "don't put all your eggs in one basket" philosophy. If one fails, you won't lose all of your photos from an outing. I think it all comes down of personal philosophy and preference on the risk-vs-convenience spectrum. - James Williams (willia4)
I have a 4GB card and a 512. I carry my laptop around and unload the photos on it when the cards are full. Obviously I don't do pro shooting just for fun :) - Alexandru Savu
It also very much depends on how you've configured the camera: if you shoot JPEGs, you might choose a different card strategy than if you shoot auto-bracketed RAWs. - James Williams (willia4)
I have two 8GB cards, and four 4GB cards. If I'm going to be somewhere with just my laptop for a while, I'll backup my photos from one card to the laptop and to another card that I keep on me on my keychain just to be safe. I HATE losing photos. It's only happened once, and I'm determined to not let it happen again. - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
1 x 1 GB and 1 x 2 GB only (both SD) because I had those before my camera. I need to step up to at least one 4 GB. Both of my current ones are the SanDisk Ultra II that snap in half to reveal a USB interface. - Kevin C. Tofel
One 2GB and one 1GB but I almost never use the 1GB. I only shoot RAW and haven't ever filled up the 2GB on a trip but I'm a hobbiest photographer and haven't had the opportunity to travel abroad with the camera yet. - Benjamin Golub
3 x 4GB, 2GB, and 1GB. I just bought the 3 4GB cards because there was a rebate from SanDisk. - Justin Korn
4 X 4 GB that I use - and then there probably are a few 2 GB in the bottom of my camera bag :) - Patty Hankins
I think I'd like to replace my backup 2GB with another 8GB but I worry about the "eggs in one basket" aspect. That is what keeps me away from the 16GB cards. I take tons of continuous shots trying to get that great action shot so I can fill a card when shooting JPEG + RAW. Before I got the 8GB I filled my 2GB one day and didn't know it until it wouldn't take anymore. Ack. - Becca
I have about 8 x 2GB cards. I prefer the smaller size. If a card dies during a shoot I'm limited to what I could lose (hasn't happened... knock on wood.) I can typically store about 120 RAW files on each card, which is plenty for me per card. Plus fast 2GB cards are cheap in the world of 8GB cards. - Mark Anderson
Becca -- Yeah. For me, a handful of 4GBs was the right balance between convenience of not having to change cards and peace of mind that if one card broke, I'd not be completely screwed. - James Williams (willia4)
I'm all for "not keeping your eggs in one basket" theory, but has anyone actually had a card die on them yet? - Justin Korn
Justin - I'm just as worried about losing them, smashing them in a car door, having the dog run off with them... - James Williams (willia4)
2Gigs in the chamber...1Gig in the hole...I don't typically shoot in RAW...but at some point I'll start and then I'll splurge on a big card... - Carlos Perez
An 8 gig in the Lumix for the HD movies and a 4 gig in the D40 for RAW+jpg. Maybe overkill have never filled either! - John Samuelson
Currently I have a 2GB and a 4GB CF. I won't go any higher then 4GB. - Mathew Ballard
I have a 4GB and 2 2GBs (friend has one right now). I shoot in RAW. - Phillip Jeffrey
1x8GB and 2x4GB. My first 8GB died the day before my 4GB arrived in the mail. Had to buy an another (expensive) 4GB to be able to continue shooting that day. No problems restoring the photos from the 8GB though. - Henrik Johansson
I keep a 4GB CF card in the D300, and carry a 2GB with me on shoots. I used to have an 8GB SD card for the D80, but never filled it up. - Cecily Walker
2x4GB and 1x2GB. I bought the 4GB cards for a trip to Peru, and I definitely subscribe to the "don't put your eggs in one basket" philosophy. - Stanton Champion
I don't go larger then 4Gig. I don't like relying on my card to store my photos and most often clear it after every shoot. - Stuart Forsyth
Two 8's and a bunch of smaller ones for my D300. It's only once in a blue moon that I actually shoot more than 8 gb at a time. Only once did I fill up the second 8 (that was a studio shoot where I was just snap snap snap for four hours straight). - Eric
I have 2 8gb, since I like to shoot raw with my D40x. An 8gb card will hold about 660 raw images. I also have a bunch of 2gb cards, which I usually use with my point & shoot coolpix L5 - Mike Cohen
“My son is asking another entrepreneur about his business. Makes me proud. Is asking same questions I would be asking: why would I use your service? What makes it special. Entrepreneur answers back "you sound just like your dad." heh.”
mini-scobleizer.com (not a real site) :) I saw Loic interview Daniel...Loic said something like it felt too limited, somebody else tried the same thing. He suggested that Daniel do something like organize teen communities for seesmic and he'd be first customer... - Pokai
Your son should have an account in friendfeed - MicroDump
Daniel is inspiring - he's living the life I wish I could have at that age. The next Ben Casnocha... - Jesse Stay
Yuvi: my son is into WoW, not blogging or FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Can I send him after Commissioner Tate? She's obsessed with "protecting children" - Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: Patrick hates people who try to censor what he sees. But you can't change the minds of people who see the world like that. - Robert Scoble
*sigh* so, so true...her fact checking is awful though...I've nailed her several times and she runs away from me in heels now. Protection != control. - Andrew Feinberg
Interesting scuttlebutt on Nikon's resurgence from Michael Reichmann: "Apparently, (at least according to my friend) in about 2005 Nikon's board had a break with the company's senior management. After some 50 years as a dominant player in the Pro camera market Nikon was losing not only marketshare but also "face", because of Canon's dominant position in almost every market segment, but particularly with regard to Pro cameras and Nikons lack of a full-frame competitor to Canon 1Ds series. In short – Canon had been cleaning Nikon's clock, and the board was pissed.
It seems (or so the story went) that the board removed some of Nikon's more conservative senior management and replaced them with more aggressive "Young Turks", along with a mandate to rebuilt Nikon's reputation and market position." - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet
"If Canon serves us up a warmed over 5D, with just the mandatory upgrades and a slightly higher resolution sensor, then they'll fall into Nikon's trap" - this is my concern, that it's back to the drawing board for Canon and 5Dii. - Jody Carbone
C'mon folks, it's not gonna be the end of the world for Canon if they don't blow our socks off with the 5DII just like it wasn't the end of the world for Nikon for the past however many years while Canon was having their way. Canon can cede the field to Nikon for this generation of bodies and gear up for the next round. Of course if they mess up the next round... ;-p - saeba
The article wonders if the D700 is a masterstroke or misguided because it will cannibalize the D3. I vote masterstroke. You don't worry about cannibalization if you're trying to make yourself relevant again, especially when the real money is in expensive add-ons (lenses, flashes, etc). - Stanton Champion
"1. WALL-E records audio from his favorite movie, XXXXXXXXXXX, putting in onto his own digital recorder (bypassing the macrovision DRM on the tape). A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
2. WALL-E archives the audio, he doesn’t merely time-shift it. He listens repeatedly! A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
3. WALL-E shares his DRM-broken music with his friend, another robot named XXXXX. A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61" - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
I knew there was a reason I liked that little guy! - Nathan Henderson
actually, since it's hundreds of years later all of that stuff would be in the public domain :-) - mathew ingram
If history is any guide, Disney's copyrights will never expire. - Kevin Fox
+1 for Kevin. They don't call it the Mickey Mouse Protection Act for nothing. - Cyndy
Since Disney owns Wall•E and Wall•E is violating Disney's copyrights (which never expire as Kevin points out), I'm hoping Disney would end up in some sort of lawsuit infinite loop and implode, leaving Pixar to make good movies. - Scott Johnston
As long as Pixar continues to produce hits, Disney will leave Pixar alone. Even better, Pixar's influence will be felt stronger in Burbank and animation will improve there too. BOLT! this fall is the first to have Pixar's Story Method imposed upon it. Look for much better results than recent Disney animation. - John Frost
Someone censor that movie before it becomes a threat to the MPAA et al!!!! - Roberto Bonini
Wouldn't some sort of reverse Statute of Limitations apply since he doesn't do any of this until the year 2815? - Ken Sheppardson
best wishes for you, your book is great - you'll have a blast spending morte time with your kids - Maggie Longshore via twhirl
Congratulations on your decision and best of luck. Enjoy your improved work/life balance! - Adam Sherk
Good luck in your career! You were very informative at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008. I enjoyed your presentation at the Social Media Strategy workshop - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl
Best of luck! I liked that post about reinventing your job every 18 months. - Jeff Woelker
Thanks everyone for all of the good wishes. I'll be blogging again soon and will let everyone know when and where I re-surface. - Charlene Li
Charlene, best of luck to you and your family. We will all miss your insights and analyses. - warren sukernek via twhirl
Good luck, and thanks for being so public about wanting to strike a balance between work & family. Working parents of both genders will be cheering you on! - Dylan Tweney
Best of luck, Charlene. You're leaving big shoes to fill. I look forward to reading you again soon. - Christian Anderson
Congratulations on your decision, and best of luck! - Steve Bauer
good luck with your future endeavors! looking forward to more of your social technologies insights online. - ~C4Chaos
Charlene, sounds like an enlightened and well considered choice. Congrats. Let us know if we can do anything to support your next-next steps. Be Great. Cheers! silva - mark silva
"As has widely been reported around the net, today marks the introduction of the new Nikon D700. In my eyes, this release pretty much seals the deal that Nikon is back in the game and in a huge way. More to the point, the domination that Canon has enjoyed since 2000 in the mid to high-end digital SLR market is well and truly over. To be sure, Canon isn’t out of the game yet and no obituaries need to be written. But, a big and fundamental change has happened." - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet
Canon must wow people this year or else they're going to face a serious brain drain of customers. I'm not even sure they're doing that well in the low-end consumer market, like the article suggests. People I see with SLRs are 2 to 1 carrying Nikons. - Stanton Champion
Yup, I'm seeing this trend too. Amazing turnaround, I'd love to know how they got it done. I wish Microsoft would learn from Nikon. They are facing similar challenges. - Robert Scoble
If the D700 has similar low light capability (to D3) it will be significant -- but it is still going to be priced way above the 5D according to most reports (and a new 5D is due out soon). I think some waiting is still in order to declare that Nikon has a winner here - Brian Sullivan
Of course the D700 is priced way above what the 5D costs now. The 5D cost $3k too when it first came out and is now 3 years old. The D700 will still be a great camera no matter what Canon does with the 5D successor. And that 5D successor better be all that and then some if Canon expects to slot it in at the same price point. - saeba
It seems as though the torch has been passed, and Canon is now the follower after many years as leader. I hope this is not the case, and Canon release some announcement of new products soon to counter what will inevitably be a jump in the prosumer market from Canon to Nikon. Since my trusty old Nikon F2 kit was stolen 7 years ago, I've been without SLR. Recently I've overcome my disgust from this event, and want to dive back in. Canon's superiority in CMOS and image quality makes me lean in this direction (for 5D successor), but if no announcement comes by September and Photokina, Nikon will be firmly established as today's DSLR leader, and my choice will have been made. - Jody Carbone
As a 5D owner, I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the D700. My only hesitation with moving to Nikon would be what seems to be a dearth of prime lenses on par with Canon's L's. But I don't know the Nikkor line-up or terminology that well, so I could be mistaken. - Jason Chen
And let me guess, by the time you made it through security, your flight had fully boarded and you were running to the gate with your shoes in your hands? - Stanton Champion
I'll go first. I'm Stanton, and I'm the marketing manager for uTest. I just started recently, taking a lot of the work off of our founder's plates. Prior to uTest, I was a product manager at Rackspace. My favorite food is chocolate...and tacos...never together. - Stanton Champion
Canon 5D bodies are down below $1500 today. If Canon ever announces the 5D successor, you can probably expect them to drop below $1k. - Jody Carbone
Just to clarify, my 3-5 year prediction was for prices of new, upcoming products. Yeah you can find used 5Ds for $1500+ (I have yet to see any below $1500) but new? Not yet. - saeba
New bodies are out there at that price point. Whether I buy from those vendors or not is a different story! - Jody Carbone
Yeah, I was thinking both "new" and in the 40D price territory. I guess the better question is "when will there be a full frame DSLR that is in the same pricing block as the 40D?" - Stanton Champion
Heresy! Who will represent the Canon Nation on TWIP? ;-) - Jeremy Brooks
Hell, if I could afford to just go out and drop cash on a nice full frame camera and new matching lenses, there would be little guilt involved in brand jumping too. - jerry
@Taylor he answers the "why" question in the post... - Aaron B. Hockley
He found the perfect combo for what he shoots: D3 + 200-400. Not a bad reason. - saeba
Yes, the post makes sense. There's really not a wrong choice -- Canon and Nikon both make great gear. Just have to find what works best for you. - Jeremy Brooks
Canon really seems like they've ignored their customers. There's some Canon gear I need, but I almost want to hold off buying and wait and see. If Nikon manages to leapfrog Canon and stay ahead, the less I have to sell to switch the better. - Stanton Champion
Not having read the report, my initial reaction to the headline based on my experience is that it is probably the outreach strategy, if that headline is true. - John Cass via Alert Thingy
My thought is that many corporate blogs push their agenda, without considering the readers first. - Jeremiah Owyang
before Corporations blog, they need to understand (a) the clue Train Manifesto and (b) the market is luaghing, at them !! - Peter Dawson
The power of social media isn't so much in giving the leadership an online megaphone, but to economically service niche parts of a company's business. If a blog doesn't generate some arbitrary number of comments... WHO CARES!?! If the blog is about an arcane technical topic... WHO CARES!?! Does it reach the right people? Does it get the job done? - Phil Gomes
I'm sure they're unimaginative, but are they really failures? The blogs may be dull and provide little new information, but at least corporations are blogging. Isn't that a step in the right direction? - Brent Newhall
Nice to have an employer which gives me pretty complete access to Forrester material. Mmmm, feel the learning :-D - Justin Guy Souter via twhirl
I read a reasonably good article somewhere that said the problem is that instead of finding the internal blog champions, companies push blogs out through their same constrained traditional marketing and communications channels. Also, I liked the Greg the Architect video, even if it is viral marketing for TIBCO. - Richard Akerman
agree w/ richard that the companies that do blogging via their traditional marketing/communications group don't normally do a very good job of it - mike "glemak" dunn
now for my reaction to this article - ben worthen of wsj did a terrible job on this one, title is linkbaiting, the report he references and that makes up most of the content is from forrester and is related to b2b companies only - i'm sure its a valid report based on a valid study but how ben could then extrapolate this into all corp blogs (including b2c companies) is beyond my comprehension - do journalism much ben? boy i wish i could get back the 3 minutes it took me to read his fluff piece and write this - mike "glemak" dunn
I've been foloowing EMC's efforts at enterprise 2.0, as blogged by Chuck Hollis, VP Tech Alliances. He gives great detail about how they're doing it. In this blog post, he talks about grooming internal employees as bloggers, and graduating them to interact externally. Also some very good thoughts about corporate blogs. http://chucksblog.typepad.com/... - Hutch Carpenter
What's really ironic is that Forrester puts itself out as THE social media analyst firm. Which begs the question: WTF are they doing? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
hutch & richard - those are two good links to thoughtful well done posts/articles on corp blogging - hope ben finds this thread so that maybe next thing he does for wsj is more like those (thanks brian btw) - mike "glemak" dunn
For me it's "Marked as Read", but beyond that... once you hide an individual post, you have access to the best hidden feature of FF: the "See options for hiding other items like this" link. Once you hide an item you can hide all the posts from that user on a particular service, hide them unless they have comments... plus a bunch of other context sensitive options. Very, very, very handy. - Ken Sheppardson
What do you want to hide? Just do not read it if you are not interested. - Igor The Troll
fbrunel: we often hide redundant stuff, or whole services. I, myself don't use it that much actually, but many people can't use FriendFeed without it - directeur via NoiseRiver
Igor: it's not about "censoring". It's more about managing your reading page :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Ah, hiding is not available from the iPhone version. - fbrunel
Honestly I think it is a good experience for users to see he whole picture. But I understand what you mean especially if you are new. - Igor The Troll
Igor: Well it's a choice... noone has the same time availability, nerves, mood as you and me :) I believe, like you surely do, that the user's experience should the center of any service or UI - directeur via NoiseRiver
That's a big FAIL. I would've expected hides to apply to all output generated for a user stream. - Dewald Pretorius
Nope. hiding's not available anywhere but on the FF site. That's the point of directeur's post. :-) - Ken Sheppardson
do you mean the ability to hide without going to friendfeed? because the api already has a "hidden" field for each entry, though I haven't verified if it works. - klecu
Kevin: I'm already using that field in NoiseRiver to hide the already hidden entries. The problem now is to be able to hide in the client app (NoiseRiver, FFToGO...) - directeur via NoiseRiver
here, here, would love to see hide in FFToGo. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, Thomas :) Follow the link and add your voice please ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
added it in the link as well! Seriously. Hide is such an important feature. It sucks not having it in the API. Why don't they have this in the API by the way? What's the logic or reasoning? - Thomas Hawk
Thanks Thomas! You're right! They should at least add the very basic "hide" like Ben said. - directeur via NoiseRiver
call your cell , phone, tell whoever picks it up to ship it back to you collect and tell h/her that you will send them some SWAG of FastCompany.TV :)- - Peter Dawson
I'm going to leave my cell phone in a cab next week...it will help me to rationalize the iPhone purchase ;-) - George Lee via twhirl
I hope this doesn't turn into the same situation as when Paris Hilton lost her cell phone... :D - George Lee
Nice excuse for a bright new shiny iPhone Robert! hehehe! sure ya lost it! ha, ha! Excellent timing! - Susan Beebe
@brian, iPhone are backed up automatically when you sync it with iPhone, so it doesn't really matters. More concerns about your adress book if you haven't locked it. - fbrunel
I'm sorry for both of you Robert and fbrunel. - directeur
Wow. Imagine losing such a pretty and expensive piece of technology. That's gotta hurt. - possible248
ask yer brother in law for a new one or better yet blog about it :) - Prolific Programmer
Somehow I think it's funny that you sent out your phone number to all 27,889 of your Twitter followers. That's a lot of trust. Or really good call screening skills. - Stanton Champion
Gee - just noticed that the token card to our intranet is missing from my key ring. I am going to be really out of touch until I get back in the office. Is there some phase of the lunar cycle for tech displacement? - Loretta Donovan
Someone needs to develop an iPhone app that twitters you its current location every hour or so, so that if you do loose it, all you have to do is wait for it to twitter its location to you. Now that the iPhone has A-GPS, location services and all. - Nick Humphries
Sorry dude. Does make the cause for a new I-fon. I have to say it, you rawk! Honesty and full disclosure makes Mati happy! :) I honest to g-d did not think Robert would pick up the phone yet he did. PASS w/flying colors. I will be looking for th Qik video shortly. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
