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After a long break through the summer I think it's time I resume the Slide Projector Series - there are some favorites I've had noted for a while to share. Last Spring I took a seminar on the Dutch Golden Age: glassy oils of still life canvases, coils of lemon rind and pewter pitchers so perfectly real, tables set with plentiful bounty, fruit and floral, all so exquisitely lush. And the genre scenes, with their interiors so wonderfully calm, the figures within so well poised. Amidst all this I can't say pure portraiture was my clear favorite, but this Frans Hals hasn't left my memory. There's such a delicious tension between restraint and gaiety. And the costume - the silken folds of deep black, the cream lace of the scalloped collar, the gray violet bow - is magnificently accented by cranberry blooms, like the rose that trails out of the frame. All of this, cast in a radiant light against the tawny dusk of the background, has almost a wintry quality about it, doesn't it?
Friday, November 6, 2009
Slide Projector: Portrait of Isabella Coymans
Labels: History + Art History, Slide Projector
5 comments:
- Katherine said...
I was not an art major, so I only had the pleasure of one art appreciation class (which was unfortunately in the wee hours of the morning - not optimal for staying awake), but I learned to love those Dutch portraits and all of their strange, bold colors and odd little attributes. That face in the background looks so sinister, doesn't it?
- November 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM
- KukasWorld.com said...
Cool blog!
- November 8, 2009 at 8:09 AM
- Bo said...
I think my favorite painting from the Dutch Golden Ages is "Gezicht op Delft" (View of Delft), Johannes Vermeer. The dark forground, and the lighter back give this painting a special kind of look :) and I like the self portrait sketches of Rembrandt van Rijn a lot! Thanks for such an inspiring post :) bye, Bo
- November 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Anonymous said...
You should check out Judith Leyster. A lot of the supposed Hals paintings turned out to be her work instead.
- January 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Lisa said...
Rachek Ruysch. Need I say more?
- February 5, 2010 at 6:00 AM


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Even on Black AIDS Awareness Day, black gay men remain on the margins
by Diana Scholl, Housing Works
Individuals and organizations across the nation marked National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Judging by many of the articles, press releases and events commemorating the day, however, you might never guess that the highest percentage of new HIV infections in 2006 was among black gay men.
Why, even on a day dedicated to black AIDS awareness, do black gay men remain a footnote?
"It's symptomatic of the problem we face of ridding our community of HIV in order to break the back of the epidemic," said Ernest Hopkins, policy director of the Black Gay Advocacy Coalition. "The most heavily impacted population by percentages is black gay men. If you want to talk about this epidemic you have to start there, and then move very quickly to black women, or you're not doing your job."
Two events that got advocates talking were the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA)'s forums in New York and in Washington, D.C. (the latter included black ministers from the D.C. area).
The New York forum extensively covered women, incarceration and drug use, while gay men and homosexuality were mentioned in passing and only as they related to women being infected by men who have sex with men. The theme of the BLCA event was "HIV/AIDS and Black Women," but the question remains why, on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, one of the highest profile African-American groups failed to address the most-affected black demographic.
"A lot of us left the session angry and we weren't sure why," said Kristin Goodwin, Housing Works Director of New York Policy and Organzing. "There was nothing wrong on the surface, but it was distressing the way the event made women seem like victims and didn't even account for gay men who don't have sex with women."
NBLCA President C. Virginia Fields told the Update that her speech at the event was intended to be broad-based. "I was focused on the community. I think when you talk about the disease, you talk about all people," she said, adding that there was particular focus on women and children because "that's the population I find often does not get mentioned." Fields also said that "it's crucial that black gay men be part of the conversation not just around AIDS, but making homophobia unacceptable."
Celebrity scandalette
Another Black AIDS Day dust-up involved Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), which solicited its board member, ER star Gloria Reuben, to write an op-ed for Huffington post about AIDS in the black community and the need for comprehensive sex education.
People were upset because Reuben didn't mention gay men, or men period, in her piece.
"HIV/AIDS in this country is a man's disease – about ¾ of the epidemic – most of which is among gay men of all races, and particularly among gay black men and gay Latino men. Not mentioning this fact in one sentence, or even a phrase, is absolutely unacceptable," Jim Pickett of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago wrote in a message to the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) listserv.
SIECUS Vice President of Policy Bill Smith responded to the feedback that Reuben couldn't be expected to speak for everyone, particularly in one 800 word op-ed. "She does mention homophobia specifically as a major issue. As per usual, we cannot and should not rely on a single voice to carry every angle of every message so we hope others can add their voices as well to these very important matters," Smith wrote in a message on the FAPP listserv.
By the numbers
Black gay men and black heterosexual women are at greatest risk for getting HIV. According to statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of the 27,107 reported HIV infections among African-Americans in 2006, 42 percent were among men who have sex with men and 26 percent were among women who have sex with men. (The remaining third was intravenous drug users and men who have sex with women).
Things were worse for black gay men than for gay men of other races, too. In 2006, black men between the ages of 13 and 29 accounted for more new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men than any other race or age group (young gay and bisexual men is the only category where new infections continue to rise).
"Given the news of 2008, HIV among black gay men is all we should have heard about on Black AIDS Awareness Day," said Kai Wright, publications editor for the Black AIDS Institute. The Institute released a report on Black AIDS Awareness Day with a section dedicated to black gay men called "Black Gays in Urgent Need."
All these stats are not to suggest that the epidemic among black women does not deserve urgent attention. While it is crucial to talk about black women being infected, many say that this is done at the expense of talking about gay men who are not having sex with women.
Charles Long, an advocate with the New York City AIDS Housing Network, said that on Black AIDS Awareness Day—and every day—when talking about AIDS in the black community, he often sees "homophobia addressed very generally." He says this general approach to homophobia happens in many black churches and homes but is particularly distressing when organizations that purport to address the issue won't explicitly talk about helping black gay men.
"Even this community that claims to be doing something is still not talking about black gay men," Long said. "We're willing to mention them but we always want to swing the conversation back to women. We need black men to confront institutions that need to analyze how they confront program efforts and treatment efforts."
Kenyon Farrow, national public education director at Queers for Economic Justice and policy fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, agreed.
He said, as an example, that when the Black AIDS Institute was presenting its report on AIDS in Black America at the International AIDS Conference in August, journalist after journalist prefaced questions in regard to men who have sex with men with the phrase, "I'm not talking about gay and bisexual men."
"There is sort of an inability and a resistance to talk specifically about black gay men and trans women," Farrow said.
This inability only compounds the problems of homophobia affecting black gay men that lead to HIV and other problems. "People gloss over gay men period. That's one of the driving factors in this epidemic. Anything considered gay is considered white. The underlining factors really are social factors. Someone who feels they don't exist will do things that people do when they feel invisible," said Toku Osubu, executive director of Gay Men of African Descent.
What's being done
There are numerous efforts nationwide to stop HIV in the black gay community. Gay Men of African Descent has a campaign to address stigma and discrimination, and are working with service providers to confront homophobia among black gay men.
Hopkins said that his group, founded in 2006 by longtime gay black advocates, has been working with public officials at the CDC, Substance and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health to promote research into what fuels the AIDS epidemic among black gay men.
The Black AIDS Institute's next major report is going to be about black gay men. One of the problems is that research takes a while to spurn action. "A lot of the work that needs to be done to get on the ground now would have been had to be done by the NIH ten years ago," Hopkins said.
Long and other younger advocates are working to try to build leadership opportunities for young black gay men, so they have more opportunities to have voices in this discussion.
"There's no real transition of power to young men of color," Long said.

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Ikelite D70 housing AND camera body
Started by diverdoug1, Apr 25 2012 07:12 AM
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 07:12 AM
Ikelite D70 dSLR iTTL housing and D70 camera body. Both in very good shape. $750 plus shipping firm (my location is Sarasota Florida). $450 for housing alone. Includes housing, tray, focus ring, and D70 body with battery and charger. I use paypal for buyer and seller protection. Will not sell camera body without housing. Photos of items available on request. Thanks for looking, Doug
Posted 25 April 2012 - 09:06 AM
can you send me some pics of the setup... does it include ports??
Posted 25 April 2012 - 09:37 AM
can you send me some pics of the setup... does it include ports??
PM sent
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:02 AM
Hey Doug. Could you send me details/pics, if the housing is still available?
Posted 12 May 2012 - 09:09 PM
PM sent, no reply, still for sale.
Posted 30 August 2012 - 09:17 AM
Is this setup still for sale?
Posted 31 August 2012 - 04:19 AM
Is this setup still for sale?
Hello Brine Shrimp. I have a similar setup for sale consisting of:
Ikelite peli case (#3940.4) with two combination locks included
Ikelite D70 iTTL housing (#6807.1) with a leak alarm
Two Ikelite DS125 strobes (#4065) with arms and defusers
Two DS125 chargers
Two single iTTL sync cords (#4103.51)
One double iTTL sync cord (#4103.52)
Two manual focus/zoom rings with the lens gear (5509.28)
Ikelite 6" dome port (5503.55)
Spare o-rings and silicon greese
All with original manuals
Nikon d70 with 18-70mm AS-S Nikkor lens
Hoya +1, +2, +4 filters to fit above lens
Nikon Battery charger
Neck strap
Original manuals
I like to get $1,600 for the whole thing plus shipping from where I am which is Spain.
I have placed an ad for this in the Classifieds with pictures of the kit
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MLB.com sits down with Ken Korach
PHOENIX -- Embarking on his 19th season with the A's and ninth as the club's lead radio announcer, broadcaster Ken Korach is a treasured voice in the Bay Area.
Only the legendary, late Bill King has spent more years doing radio play-by-play for the A's -- the subject of Korach's first book, a vivid and compelling portrait titled "Holy Toledo: Lessons from Bill King, Renaissance Man of the Mic," released last year.
PHOENIX -- Embarking on his 19th season with the A's and ninth as the club's lead radio announcer, broadcaster Ken Korach is a treasured voice in the Bay Area.
Only the legendary, late Bill King has spent more years doing radio play-by-play for the A's -- the subject of Korach's first book, a vivid and compelling portrait titled "Holy Toledo: Lessons from Bill King, Renaissance Man of the Mic," released last year.
Korach is in tune with all things A's baseball, broadcasting most of the club's games each year. He has a unique relationship with manager Bob Melvin and the players, allowing him to provide exceptional on-air insight on the team's daily workings.
Korach graciously shared some of this in a recent sit-down with MLB.com in advance of Opening Day.
MLB.com: Obviously this is a team that's won back-to-back division titles, and there's thinking that they could be even better this year based on some of the moves they made in the offseason. Do you think that's the case?
Korach: I think it's possible. You just never know, as we sit here in Spring Training, how a season's going to work out. But I think the most important thing is that your fans have hope for the season. They've won back-to-back titles and have made this concerted effort to have depth, and that's tested right now, with the injuries to [Jarrod] Parker and [A.J.] Griffin. I like their club. I think the most important thing is looking forward to the chance that they're going to be in it the whole way.
MLB.com: How big of an impact could those injuries have on this team?
Korach: It's a great question. We won't know. It opens up opportunities. Those were two guys who had double figures in wins last year. They were very important to the team. It is a blow, but you know, with Bob Melvin it's kind of his mantra, when talking about when somebody goes down, there are opportunities. So I think they're fortunate with Tommy Milone, who won 25 games the last two years, to be able to slide him in there, and this is a great chance for Jesse Chavez, who, at the age of 30, might be a late bloomer. We'll kind of see how that goes.
MLB.com: Are you surprised at Chavez's emergence?
Korach: In a sense, because he was kind of on the fringes of just being a Major League pitcher. He had bounced around in several organizations, and when the A's picked him up a couple of years ago he was really struggling. His ERA was around 9.00, I think, during his time with Toronto, but he really turned it around. He's always had a great arm, and now he's developed confidence in his pitches. He has wonderful command, he has great movement and I think he's one of those guys that has always had the ability, and you just never know with certain pitchers when they're going to find it and turn things around. It's just a wonderful story I think and a chance for him to turn around his career.
MLB.com From talking with Sonny Gray, seeing him perform, what impresses you with the way he goes about his work?
Korach: He pitches beyond his years, or the A's wouldn't have chosen him to pitch the fifth game last year. I really thought that the second game of the playoff series, when he matched up against Justin Verlander, and Stephen Vogt won the game, that was maybe the most riveting game I've ever called, and for him to go toe to toe with [Justin] Verlander during that game, and I guess maybe it's easy to have confidence when you have that kind of stuff, because he has amazing stuff, and maybe the college experience from pitching at Vanderbilt in the postseason there, I think he just has a maturity that kind of belies the fact that he really hasn't even pitched a full season in the big leagues yet.
MLB.com: The A's have all these young guys, and then there's a guy like Scott Kazmir. They spent a lot of money on him this offseason. Based on what you've seen of him this spring and what he did last year with the Indians, what are you expecting of him this year?
Korach: Well, he's resurrected his career. He was on the back roads of baseball pitching in independent ball. I trust their evaluators, or they would not have given him the size of contract in the two-year deal. He's been great in the spring. I thought his first start in the Cactus League was midseason form. His fastball, 92 and 93, excellent changeup. I do think this: that in the American League West, especially, you've gotta have left-handed pitching. You look at some of the players that have come into the West in the last several years, going back to Josh Hamilton, who had a tough time against lefties last year, and now the additions of Prince Fielder and Shin-Soo Choo and Robinson Cano, so I think having lefties both in your rotation and also in your bullpen is critical in this division.
MLB.com: The division as a whole saw a lot of changes in the offseason. How do you see the AL West playing out this year?
Korach: Well I'm the world's worst prognosticator. I'd have to say you start with the A's and Texas. They battled it out the last two years. I think they're the two best clubs going in. There are a lot of question marks on the other teams, especially with their pitching. I think it's a strong division, and I like the fact that some of these stars have come to the West. I think, for me, bring it on, because I think it's good for the fans. I think the fans want to see a good attraction when they come to the park, and you're going to get that now because you play so many games against your own division.
MLB.com: And then you look at the moves the A's made this offseason. Which one stands out to you as maybe being the most impactful for this year?
Korach: Well I think you have to start with Kazmir, because he goes right into the rotation. Unfortunately we haven't seen Craig Gentry yet in the spring, but I know they felt very strongly about going after Gentry. The message that was sent when they signed Coco Crisp to his extension -- and they're not alone in this -- is that center field is really such an important position, and that could be very impactful if he's healthy and comes back from the back injury. To have a fourth outfielder who can play all three positions and can play excellent defense. He's a great baserunner, and I think, under the radar, that was a big move, but the two moves that garnered the most attention were Kazmir and Jim Johnson. It wasn't a trade in the truest since, because Balfour left as a free agent, but replacing Balfour with Johnson, it's not often that you can do that after losing a closer that was one of the best and get a guy that's saved 101 games over the last two years.
MLB.com: Now, there's hope that Josh Reddick and Yoenis Cespedes, they can bounce back from their down years last year and be the type of players they were in 2012. Do you expect that of them?
Korach: I think it's important that they do, and I do. Reddick may have gotten the Gold Glove already based on what he did against the Giants in the first Spring Training game of the year, when he robbed Michael Morse with two amazing plays in right field. So I think if he's healthy, he's going to be fine. I think you can almost write off his season last year because of the wrist injury. He's looked great in the spring.
Cespedes, I think, should have a bounce-back year, so if those guys are healthy and they're performing, it's a pretty good outfield.
MLB.com: Finally, I wanted to ask you about Bob Melvin. You've established a good relationship with him. What's impressed you about him during his time here that maybe fans don't see from the outside?
Korach: He's really a professional in every way. I think he just embodies what being a pro is all about. He has a wonderful presence about him. He's really a guy that engenders a great deal of respect in the clubhouse. You never hear any, even mumbling, from players about Bob Melvin. I think they all really respect him. He's on top of everything, and I think he's a guy who's kind of centered in his life, where I think he has things in a wonderful perspective, and that goes back to not getting too high or too low and keeping an even keel. I think he's been able to almost insulate the team from some of the outside influences, and it sounds like a cliché, but he's always preaching it, just that don't let what anyone else thinks affect you in going about your business. I've been around a long time. He's the total package. I don't know that you could have a guy that is better equipped to manage this team.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB.


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How does that affect the point that I made? (& in case you want more support for that point, Mt 5:44 should do.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Janice Matchett
To: George Murphy ; Vernon Jenkins ; firstname.lastname@example.com ; Carol or John Burgeson
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Another heresy
At 06:15 PM 12/10/2005, George Murphy wrote:
Yes, & you can find similar language from many of the great theologians (as well as many not so great) down through history. As one of my seminary profs pointed out, many theologians seem to have thought that the 8th Commandment (9th for most Protestants) doesn't apply to theological debate. It does. & that commandment does not just forbid lying in the elementary sense but also requires us to "put the best construction on everything," as Luther put it in the Small Catechism. (Unfortunately Luther himself didn't always observe this in theological polemic.) Theological error should be called what it is (& of course on the issues in question Athanasius was right & Arius wrong), but that is no excuse for personal ridicule, namecalling, attribution of the worst motives possible, &c. Insinuations that a person's Christian faith is defective or lacking because he or she doesn't agree with one on a peripheral religious matter is also included here.
### So what if I wrote: "..[so and so on this list] has copied the weak and effeminate character of [so and so], writing..." :)
How many do you know in today's feminized, politically correct, victimology-oriented society, who wouldn't call it "hate speech"?
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From: Janice Matchett
To: Vernon Jenkins ; email@example.com ; Carol or John Burgeson
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Another heresy
At 05:13 PM 12/10/2005, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
robust argument should not be interpreted as incivility, impertinence or personal malice. ASA, surely, is a forum for grown-ups - and one in which plain speaking is encouraged.
Picture this: What if Athanasius was on this list. No doubt even he would be called, "unChristian" and offensive to some here:
"Arius himself has copied the weak and effeminate character of Sotades, writing the 'Thalia'. He has emulated the dancing of Herodias, dancing about and jesting in his slanders against the Savior. The result is that those who fall into heresy are perverted in mind, act foolishly, and exchange the name of the Lord of glory for 'the likeness of the image of mortal man'. Thus, instead of Christians they are called Arians and have this mark of impiety. (Ag. Ar. 1:2)
"How can non-Christians be Christians? Rather, they are Ario-maniacs! How are those who have shaken of the apostolic faith part of the Catholic Church? They are inventors of new evils; they have abandoned the words of Holy Scripture, calling Arius's 'Thalia' a new wisdom. They state this in fairness, for they are announcing a new heresy. Therefore anyone may have cause to wonder that although many individuals have written many works and the greatest number of homilies on the Old and New Testaments, a 'Thalia' is discovered in none of them. It is found not among the serious Greeks but only among those who sing such things with their drink, clapping and joking so that others may laugh. The 'marvelous' Arius copied nothing stately, not knowing the things of serious individuals. He stole the greatest number of things from other heresies and emulated the jests of Sotades alone. What was more fitting for him to do, wishing to dance against the Savior, than indicate in loose and dissolute songs his wretched words of impiety? As Wisdom says, 'A man is known from the utterance of his word.' Thus from Arius's words the unmanly character of his soul and the perdition of his thought should be known. (Ag. Ar. 1:4)
"But after this, as a successor of the devil's reckless haste, Arius wrote in his 'Thalia', "The Father is invisible even to the Son, and the Word is able neither to see nor to know perfectly and accurately his Father." . These are the words this impious fellow spoke. He said that the Son is distinct in himself and that in all respects he does not share in the Father. These are parts of the fables Arius written down in a laughable document. (Ag. Ar. 1:6)
"Who, hearing such things and the melody of the 'Thalia', does not justly hate Arius's jesting about such things as if he were on a stage? . And who, reading his words one after another, does not see his impiety as the serpent's error into which that clever snake misled the woman? Who is not astonished at such blasphemies? As the prophet said, 'heaven was astounded, and the earth shuddered at the transgression of the law.' . Will not all human nature be struck speechless at Arius's blasphemies and shut its ears and close its eyes, so that it would be able neither to hear such things nor to see him who wrote these things? (Ag. Ar. 1:7)
". is it not worthy to obliterate and expunge both the other words and the Arian 'Thalia' as an image of evil, filled with every impiety in which anyone falling 'does not know that giants perish with her and assemble at the trap of hell'? . They profess the patronage of friends and the fear of Constantius, so that those who join them through hypocrisy and promise will not see the filth of the heresy. Is not this heresy worthy of hate for this very reason? (Ag. Ar. 1:10)
"It is necessary that the nature of the image be of such a kind, such as is its Father, even if the Arians, being blind, would see neither the image nor anything else . Deprived of the thoughts of their hearts, rather than of their derangements, they take refuge again and again in the literal sense of the Holy Scriptures, but they fail, in their usual way, to understand even that." (Ag. Ar. 1:52)
"If a decision was made by the bishops, what concern had the emperor with it? Or if it was but a threat of the emperor, what need then was there of the designated bishops? When in the world was such a thing ever before heard of? When did a decision of the Church receive its authority from the emperor? Or rather, when was his decree even recognized? (The Monks History of Arian Impiety, 52)
"What hell has vomited the statement that the Body born of Mary is coessential with the Godhead of the Word?, or that the Word has been changed into flesh, bones, hair, and the whole body, and altered from its own nature? Or who ever heard in a Church, or even from Christians, that the Lord wore a body putatively, not in nature; or who ever went so far in impiety as to say and hold, that this Godhead, which is coessential with the Father, was circumcised and became imperfect instead of perfect; and that what hung upon the tree was not the body, but the very creative Essence and Wisdom? Or who that hears that the Word transformed himself a passible body, not of Mary, but of his own essence, could call him who said this a Christian? Or who devised this abominable impiety, for it to enter even his imagination, and for him to say that to pronounce the Lord's body to be of Mary is to hold a tetrad instead of a Triad in the Godhead?-those who think thus, saying that the body of the Savior which he put on from Mary, is of the essence of the Triad. Or whence again have certain vomited an impiety as great as those already mentioned, saying, namely, that the body is not newer than the Godhead of the Word, but was coeternal with it always, since it was compounded of the essence of Wisdom? Or how did men called Christians venture even to doubt whether the Lord, who proceeded from Mary, while Son of God in essence and nature, is of the seed of David according to the flesh, and of the flesh of Saint Mary? (Epistle to Epictetus, 9)
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After rank-and-file lawmakers balked at a 75 percent hike in the income tax rate, a new plan surfaced Monday that would raise it by 66 percent. The 3 percent rate now paid by individuals and families would rise to 5 percent in one of the largest state tax increases in Illinois history.
The Capitol crowd found itself multitasking, trying to piece together a tax and budget package while taking time out in the middle of the day to watch Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn get sworn into a full term. Many lawmakers then spent the evening dancing at the Illinois Inaugural Ball as the noon Wednesday deadline looms for the current General Assembly to act.
Also part of the plan is a 46 percent business tax increase. The 4.8 percent corporate tax rate would climb to 7 percent instead of the 8.4 percent rate previously sought. The higher rates would last four years, though how much would be temporary is still a subject of negotiations.
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Also being negotiated among top Democrats was the creation of tough limits on state spending increases, a move aimed at winning the votes of fiscal conservatives who oppose using any new tax money to create additional programs or added spending, said Rep. Frank Mautino, D-Spring Valley. Downstate lawmakers pushed for limiting state spending at a 1 percent level of growth or risk that the tax increases be rolled entirely back.
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Still under discussion was a plan to replace the state's current property tax credit for homeowners on their personal income taxes. An earlier proposal to drop the income tax credit in exchange for a direct $325 annual check was rejected by suburban Democrats who said it would shortchange some Cook County homeowners of a tax credit worth thousands of dollars.
Though Democrats will still control the new General Assembly that gets sworn in Wednesday, their numbers were eroded by Republicans in the November election. With virtually no Republican support for higher taxes, Democratic leaders contend it will be easier to gain support for a tax hike in a legislature with some retiring members no longer worried about facing the voters.
"We have to do something within the next 48 hours," said Sen. Donne Trotter of Chicago, the lead budget negotiator for Senate Democrats. Trotter noted the clock is "ticking, but the bottom line is we don't want it to explode."
Quinn's day illustrated the strange nature of goings-on in Illinois government. The governor privately lobbied some lawmakers on the tax-increase proposal in between being sworn into a four-year term at noon and taking the dance floor at the Inaugural Ball at night.
But Quinn only touched on the state's massive budget woes and did not use the words "tax increase" in his half-hour inaugural address.
The state "must deal with a fiscal crisis, and I'm here today to say that we will pay our bills, that we will stabilize our budget. We will strengthen our economy. We will do that, and we will do that very, very soon," said Quinn, who was sworn in by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, the wife of Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, 14th.
Quoting at various points from the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, "America the Beautiful," Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Illinois poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, Quinn alluded to the circumstances nearly two years ago that led him to become governor with the impeachment and removal of disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
"I'm here today to say that we've restored integrity and honesty in the office of governor," Quinn said. "We have replaced a government of deals with a government of ideals, and I believe that that ... must be our principle every day that we are alive."
It was Republican Judy Baar Topinka, who lost a 2006 bid against Blagojevich but was elected in November as state comptroller, who sounded the strongest financial alarm. Noting that Democrats and Republicans contributed to build a sea of red ink, Topinka urged bipartisan problem solving.
"It's time we got together to find the courage, the will and the civility to get us out of that ditch and make Illinois great again," she said.
Also inaugurated on Monday were other statewide officeholders including Democratic Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Democratic Secretary of State Jesse White and Republican Treasurer Dan Rutherford. About 2,000 people applauded after passing through increased security at the Prairie Capital Convention Center. There were metal detectors on hand, and police searched bags.
Quinn attended a morning church service accompanied by Monica Walker, who was described by a spokeswoman as the governor's "guest" and "friend." At the evening ball, she was to be Quinn's partner for the first dance.
A little less than 6,000 were expected for the ball at the convention center, where the main hall was covered in blue drapes. Billed as a cost-saving measure, instead of a seated dinner, there were food stations, including ones for tacos, pasta and burgers. There were no floral arrangements, as there were in years past.
The ball was paid for by donations from interest groups and corporations including ComEd, Comcast, Union Pacific and the Illinois Hospital Association.
Todd Wilson contributed to this report.


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Demonstrating our more than century-long engagement as a Pacific nation and underscoring the Obama Administration's ongoing regional rebalancing of resources, the United States had the largest, most diverse, and most vibrant foreign presence at the celebrations. I led an official President Delegation appointed by the White House which included Admiral Cecil Haney, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Other American dignitaries came as well including my friend Ambassador Frankie Reed (the current American Ambassador to Suva and former Chargé d'Affaires at Embassy Apia).
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In terms of substantive business, Prime Minister Tuilaepa and I signed a Shiprider Agreement which will allow the Government of Samoa to place Samoan law enforcement officers on American Coast Guard and Navy ships passing through Samoan waters. The officers will direct the interdiction, arrest, and fining of foreign vessels engaged in illegal commercial fishing, trafficking in persons, and trafficking in prohibited substances, serious problems in parts of the Pacific.


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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Aras and Vytas: Cain and Abel
I'm baaaack! And I'm going to fly through this cast pretty quickly this year. To the video!
Aras is about as exciting as a lukewarm glass of chamomile tea. Never mind the fact that I've seen every episode of Survivor and still have no idea who the hell he is. Vytas, on the other hand, has deception in his eyes. Deception, chicanery and, dare I say, a dash of charisma?
I expect jealousy and an overwhelming sense of frustration to consume Aras' every waking thought. The raging green envy juice will course through his veins until one day he'll bludgeon Vytas to death and chuck his lifeless corpse into the formerly sanitary water well. Poor Vytas, we hardly knew ye.
So what do we think of the Biblical Brothers? Will Vytas overshadow Aras? Is the rooster in the background crowing a warning to Vytas? Comment it out bitches and have a great day!
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I hope your muse is well rested, for I feel she may be required to do a lot of heavy lifting this season. I don't blame you for flying through the first impressions.
Vytas is my pick to win. I get the Cain and Abel thing, but I think you have the envy flowing through the wrong veins. Aras won once; Vytas will be desperate to outlast his younger brother and collect a million for himself.
Aside from being a great name for a band, Vytas' veins directly relate to another reason I'm backing him: he's an ex-heroin addict. When I first saw the promo video for Blood vs Water, way before the cast was announced, the blood blooming into the water reminded me of the Velvet Underground lyric "...when it shoots up the droppers neck". Months later, when I read Vytas' bio on CBS.com, I thought 'PORTENT!' It was enough for me to back him anyway.
Admittedly, I'm always seeing portents where other people see simple coincidences, but I have backed the last three Survivor winners, and my BBAU pick is looking pretty good too.
It's kind of a drag seeing portents around every corner though. My doctor prescribed Xanax for my constant anxiety, but every time I venture out of the house to fill the prescription, an ominous black car passes by!
I really should move out of central London.
On the tvgn special both Parvati and Probst said Vytas was their pick to win.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you don't remember him either. I even watched the finale on YT the other day and still don't remember him. :/ReplyDelete


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Am I wrong or does the elevation entry in a waypoint have any bearing on the accuracy of your position? I have noticed since using GSAK for transferring my waypoints into my Meridian, that I need to enter the elevation on site at times in order to get an accurate reading. I used to go to Google Earth to gather the elevation info of the area, but once I started using GSAK, I stopped bothering. Could it be that the extra time it takes for me to enter the elevation onsite allows the GPSr the time to receive a more accurate reading? I could be wrong, but I am sure that the Waypoint moves when the elevation is adjusted even to Manitoba's meager altitude.
Because of the reflective position of Manitoba versus the Equator where (I think?) most of these satellies reside, would elevation not play a part in accuracy? Or should I turn off 3D and live in the Homer Simpson 2D world? I seem to only get WAAS readings when I am in 3D mode, I have yet to see WAAS pop up in 3D.
Do you actually get WAAS adjusted signals? My Garmin Etrex Legend sure doesn't! I understood there were only two WAAS satellites - one over the Atlantic and one over the Pacific - pretty much over the Equator (I don't have a globe in front of me so that may not make any sense) and you'd be lucky if you got WAAS on the EastWest coast in Canada.
The elevation should have no effect on the accuracy of your position. Your GPS determines your position by calculating the distance that you are from each satellite. Each satellite sends out a unique radio signal which is detected by the GPS. There is a time delay between when it is sent from the satellite and when it is received by the GPS unit. That time delay is what is used to calculate the distance that the signal travelled. Remember your high school physics class? (distance = velocity * time). The signal travels at the speed of light.
Now think about drawing a sphere at that distance around a satellite. The GPS unit knows that you are located somewhere on the surface of that sphere. Once it has calculated the distance to 3 or more satellites, it can determine your position as the location where the spheres intersect. This is similar to triangulation, except there are no angles involved so it's called trilateration (ok, more information than you needed to know, right?)
The GPS satellites actually orbit the earth twice each day. They are constantly moving, which is why your accuracy will change depending on the time of day. You will achieve the best accuracy when the satellites you are tracking are evenly dispersed across the sky.
The WASS satellites are two geo-stationary satellites. That means that they are always located in the same position over the earth. They are at the equator - one over the Atlantic Ocean and one over the Pacific Ocean. It is unlikely that you will be able to pick up a signal from the WAAS satellites in Manitoba.
Hope that helps.
Holy Smoke, Junglehair! Well done. That is basically what I was able to determine. But thank you for that. Yours was easier to understand than most of the text I was able to find.
I am getting WAAS with some regularity. This morning for instance in St. Vital Park. I have a Magellan Meridian. The signal I have been getting is really strong even when I am in the bush. My unit usually shows less than 10m EPE when WAAS isn't working, and good old Magellan always zeros in on the right location (It's just my eyes that sometimes aren't so good). There's probably some kind of radiation leak in my GPSr that is causing this and I will likely develop some sort of a tumor soon.
It's cool that you can pick up the WAAS signal. I'll have to check next time I'm in Winnipeg.
I didnt seem to be receiving WAAS so I turned it off to save battery. After hearing other success stories, I'll turn it back on again and see if I have any luck. Great explanation Junglehair.
For any Garmin owners:
Did you know that you are receiving WAAS when you see "D"s on the Signal Strength Bars. The manual says :The "D" stands differential connections and denotes a WAAS Satellite.
I got WAAS. I re-enabled WAAS on my Etrex Legend and it started working for the first time yesterday evening. 3m accuracy. I've had it turned on for the last three weeks or so, so I'm not sure what changed yesterday, or maybe conditions were just right.
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RX100 - strobe recycle time
Posted 16 November 2012 - 01:51 AM
How do you find the internal strobe recycle time when used as trigger for external strobes?
The bluwaterphotostore review mentioned that it was clearly slow, but got better when used with the Sea & Sea strobe SY-D01.
This sounds very strange to me, but i guess this could be true if used in TTL mode.
Can you confirm that experience, and how is it when used in manual mode?
PS: It would have been such an easy tiny little firmware fix to add a low level strobe mode to only do a minimal power flash (Like the Olympus ZX1 does at 1/64th of the power)
Posted 16 November 2012 - 01:37 PM
Posted 16 November 2012 - 03:02 PM
I am not into UW photography much at all but I have Inon Z240 just in case I want to take photo.
So if my test method is wrong, my apology.
A favor for you Oskar, I took the trouble to test specifically for you.
Parameter :
Camera in MANUAL MODE, 1/160sec, F5.6.
Focus mode made manual for faster allowed shots for this test.
Object/target is static
Inon Z240 in sTTL mode. If I go FULL POWER on Z240, I will go blind !!! doing this test. Anyway I am testing RX100 and not the strobe. Battery is fresh in Inon.
Possible delay/cycle RX100 could give to user for flash operation :
AA. Preview setting, how many seconds ?
BB. Focus mode
CC. Battery not fully charged
DD. Setting of RX100 flash. I set to FILL flash
121, you have the RX100, its odd that you believe what people say in SB without testing it ?? Just fire the camera with flash and that's it, without or without external strobe it makes no difference since RX100 strobe is what we want to test.
If a user has a crappy external strobe and get delay, too bad.
Come on, I am not an UW photographer but I use my logic a lot.
How can a master strobe called RX100, which can not communicate with external strobe ( slave ) and can only fire thru fibre optic as a command to trigger a slave/external strobe, get delayed by an external strobe ? The only way the delay occurred is because user/tester did not see flash fired from the small FO window of the housing and only looking at external strobe behavior and assumed RX100 did not fire. So when a faster recycling external/slave strobe being used and user/tester felt that the delay is reduced, it is then assumed the problem lies with the master strobe aka RX100. Hello ??? Fiber optic triggering is a one way command to external strobe, there is no handshake, no verification whatsoever an external strobe could instruct back to master strobe to alter the behavior or performance of the master strobe.
Video : To see the real live test. 48 seconds. Only 48 MB. My boss would want me to prove it , if he is the one asking the strobe re-cycle question ha ha ha.
https://rapidshare.c...n Z240 test.mp4
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The average is approx 1.548 seconds per cycle. 48 seconds divided by 31 cycles. 31 is used and not 32 because the count down starts with 1st firing recharge cycle which is not part of the total 48 seconds test duration.
If under 2 seconds is slow for a baby sized camera, I probably am more UW photo dummy than I thought. I thought 2-3 seconds recycle is decent for baby sized camera with no capability to reduce flash power like Oly EM-5.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 03:21 PM
So if you have a strobe that is not powerful the internal flash will stay on longer and end up dumping lots of energy and needing more to recharge
If you have a monster strobe, your Z240 is very good, the power will be such that in no time the internal strobe will say enough turn off, and take less to recharge
The other question of the OP is around using the strobe in manual mode as the RX100 has TTL also in manual mode (advantage but also disadvantage) non TTL strobe can give strange results,
in those cases it would be better to use the internal flash in manual minimum setting and then turn the power on the strobe knob to set power however the RX100 does not offer a manual flash mode so this mode can create problems with a non TTL strobe
Edited by Interceptor121, 16 November 2012 - 03:22 PM.
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Posted 16 November 2012 - 05:06 PM
As I said I am not into UW photography much.
What I gather from Oskar post is :
How do you find the internal strobe recycle time when used as trigger for external strobes?
1.548 seconds average I get, with setting as FILL flash. Inon set in sTTL mode.
I do not understand this statement of yours 121......
The other question of the OP is around using the strobe in manual mode as the RX100 has TTL also in manual mode (advantage but also disadvantage) non TTL strobe can give strange results, in those cases it would be better to use the internal flash in manual minimum setting and then turn the power on the strobe knob to set power however the RX100 does not offer a manual flash mode so this mode can create problems with a non TTL strobe
Since RX100 has no hot shoe for data transfer to external strobe nor the setting of its internal flash has any menu called TTL, what TTL data output are you talking about from RX100 ? I am sure its metering of exposure either in ambient light or flash assisted is thru the lens aka TTL ( what else will it use ?? ) , but how the true TTL data can be transferred to an external strobe ?? How ?
When one speak of TTL for a strobe, it is TTL data for the strobe from the camera being the subject, hence you confused me with your statement which implies RX100 has TTL data to pass on to a strobe.
As far as my limited knowledge on strobes allows me, the true TTL of a camera body which can communicate with an extrenal strobe, must be transferred electrically by hard electrical wire and those using Fiber Optic are simulated TTL by the strobe itself. Inon sTTL is not a true TTL but intelligent it is YES and to use that intelligence , we must set the camera for pre-flash function. That is what Inon literature stated.
Hot shoe connection from camera to external strobe, without a strobe able to read or understand each and every proprietary TTL data from the camera, will be a simple ON trigger only. Like a dummy trigger. Inon Z240 can read Nikonos TTL, the film type. I do not know if it is any different TTL for Nikon digital camera of today.
Inon Z240 does not have electrical TTL data converter capability aside from that Nikonos TTL film type Inon Japan mentioned. I know my friend told me that, if using Sea&Sea electrical cable to Inon using Canon 5DMK3, it is merely a dummy trigger just to fire the Inon Z240 and no Canon's specific TTL data can be forwarded to Inon Z240.
I know Ike has TTL converter and Sea&Sea too and these are true TTL, allowing camera body and strobe do speak to each other sending exposure data, at least this is my understanding of a true TTL. How accurate each brand so called TTL converter is, I don't know, I don't own any and will never buy any in the day of age of Z240 being so intelligent.
So if Oskar is asking how fast an RX100 can generate a flash for a signal to trigger an external strobe, whatever brand is the strobe used and whatever the mode used on the external strobe..............the answer lies with what external strobe he uses, it got nothing to do with RX100 being slow as 1.5ish seconds per cycle is not slow. Again as I said, RX100 is the master strobe, it can not be effected by whatever slave/external strobe used if we are talking of RX100 own internal flash recycle speed based on the fact that we can choose the fastest RX100 flash recycle mode. I don't know if FILL flash is actually fastest or not. I so happen to test it with FILL flash because my logic tells me it is most likely the fastest for flash recycle speed based on RX100 menu of :
So if Oskar is sort of confused............
The bluwaterphotostore review mentioned that it was clearly slow, but got better when used with the Sea & Sea strobe SY-D01.
This sounds very strange to me, but i guess this could be true if used in TTL mode.
.......... I too will be confused reading such review as there is no logic to it if we are discussing RX100 internal strobe.
No suprise Oskar started the post in the 1st place, he need to verify the logic or truth of that information.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 08:35 PM
As for the fiber optic trigger not being a 2 way communicating system, it is a feedback communicating system, where the pre-flash of the internal flash, communicated to the external strobe, which lights up the imaging sensor of the camera where it calculates how long to light up its internal flash for proper exposure. The camera does not even know that it is triggering a slave strobe. It thinks it is getting all of its flash lighting from its internal flash.
Recycle time with the YS-D1 could still be slow if your subject is far away/f-stop small/ISO low where it requires the YS-D1 to shoot in full power in DS-TTL mode. For the DS-TTL to shoot off in 1/500 sec burst (or whatever its max duration is), your internal flash has to shoot off its internal flash at that duration, which only occurs in max flash power, and in those situations, your camera will likely recycle for 7 seconds or so.
Posted 17 November 2012 - 04:22 AM
Your explanation on the feed back style of fiber optic based TTL is also what my senior friends explained to me. They been amazed at Inon Z240 sTTL intelligence for close up shots, where they been using manual on other strobes of theirs for a long time previous to Inon Z240.
For wide angle, sure they used manual all the way.
They said 9 out of 10 Inon Z240 for close up or macro is a hit and that is awesome for shy critters.
I will try my RX100 using 1/500 sec at F8, Manual mode, FILL flash and see how slow it will be.
Posted 17 November 2012 - 09:58 AM
If you want to do max recycle time test, all you have to do is cover the external strobe's face with your hand and everything set to TTL when testing (in a relatively dark setting I guess). So when the pre-flashes goes off, the camera does not see any of the pre-flash coming back, thus it thinks it will have to give off a strong blast.
When I first moved to shooting with with a digital P&S around 10 yrs ago, I was surprised that things like emulation of the camera's TTL capability via fiber optics cable were not avaiable on external strobes. The best they had were manual strobes with pre-flash cancellation with top end strobes. I kind of asked around back then here:
So I gave up on shooting with external strobe for many many years and instead opted with playing with shooting with internal flash whiel optimizing ISO/shutter speed, or just alot of white balancing.
After a long while, I realized more and more digital P&S cameras in the camera buckets had strobe attached to it, and thought it might be time to get back in the game. This is when I realized it is not the same world anymore. Although most of those strobes in those buckets were of the type with the light sensor on the strobe head (so 1970's in the camera world), I did realize some had really advanced almost to the level I really wanted with the Inon's sTTL and Sea&Sea's DS-TTL.
Inon's sTTL and Sea&Sea's DS-TTL were hailed as a breakthrough when they came out since the idea is real easy. Utilize an optical trigger to fire off the external strobe, but in reality, I guess was much harder, given the way the energy and light released over time by the external strobe's capacitor can't have its own profile (as in eletrical triggered TTL where the camera knows it is getting light from an external unit). The sTTL and DS-TTL has to emulate the pre-flash and main flash's lighting profile of as many cameras as possible, otherwise the exposure would be off some of the time. Emulating energy release with capacitor dumps was not as easy as it seemed.
I am still waiting for sensor or flash shutoff for TTL w/o pre-flash though. Maybe that will come in another 10 years?
Posted 17 November 2012 - 10:48 AM
What we are talking about here is DS-TTL digital slave ttl
This mechanism follows the camera own auto flash mode to start and stop the strobe
The rx100 has a pathetic 7.2 flash recycle time using the internal strobe at full power for a medium exposure at 1/60
Now what Scott was saying that if you have a monster strobe ya-ds1 or inon z240 the high guide number makes the camera ttl content quickly the internal flash doesn't fully discharge and you can recycle in 1.5 seconds which is what SPP is experiencing
A strobe with less than gn20 will be received as less powerful from the camera and the internal strobe will go at full power for longer increasing the recycle time
I have the YS-01 and the rx100 although ibsidnt use them together I can give it a go to check
This strobe is the companion on a canon s95 that has a 6 second flash recycle time but I have never seem the camera not ready to shoot within 2 seconds
Posted 18 November 2012 - 04:59 AM
I never actually test my Inon z240 much till this post comes around.
I went to Mr Google and I found this :
One of the best Inon Z240 101. Since z240 user manual is totally crap.
I even played all the way to 1/2000 sec shutter speed......he he he. Indeed Inon Z240 intelligence is mind blowing. Stupid me, I kept thingking of shutter sych speed limitation which applies to my D800 because it has real shutter blades and RX100 doesn't have shutter blades ha ha ha.
I took various close up subjects of 50ish cm, a few subjects with various color and reflectivity on a sofa with sand color fabric. Camera directly on top, microscope style..........I use center weighted and multi mode metering. I shot many different positions of the RX100 metering target box in respect to subject's position, some I aim half background of sofa fabric ( light color ) and some half of object in target box ( dark black RX100 no 2 ) to create AE confusion.........bloody hell, now I know why the said sTTL of Inon is really intelligent. It is as good as RX100 own AE with flash............amazing.
I also test 40cm away object 10 cm tall, on a bed where the bed has a dark wooden headrest 2 meters away on its end.
I was hoping to create distance and AE confusion ( the bed sheet, white with blue stripe light color ). Testing of center weighted and multi metering mode , SPOT metering I did not test. Camera flat as low as possible on bed, this way the bed sheet being the flat horizon and light color , all the way from near to far will/may/should confuse the AE. The Inon was spot on !! I guess the feedback to RX100 was spot on. From RX100 video camera section behavior I have learned, RX100 center weighted metering, if in video......... is rather small, more like spot but not that small. Once I placed target box of RX100 a bit high as to get 30% on the 40cm away object and 70% on 2 meter away dark bed headrest, the RX100 and Inon decided to take the dark headrest as AE parameter............great !!
I did test RX100 without Inon, set to 1/2000sec F11 in MANUAL to get darkest image and shot a 4 meter away subject, it is dark for sure as flash can't keep up at that distance and exposure, the result of 7.5 seconds flash recycle it is not, it is 5 seconds with fully charged battery. Auto focus play an effect here , so I went to manual focus and repeated firing away once I acquire good focus.
Indeed exciting to see how we can pull off faster RX100 flash recycle with the assistance of that Inon mode called Advance Cancel Circuit even at 1/2000sec F11.
So RX100 user if they use Inon Z240, it will be super fast flash recycle for macro or close up if the Inon is set properly even though RX100 at 1,2000 sec F11 for a 40cm away subject, assuming there is a need for such fast shutter speed. The black-out is nice on this kind of shutter speed though. I did not test REAR or SLOW, I only use FILL flash mode of the RX100.
I did read more on Sea & Sea new baby D1 too. Poor soul, user are getting overheating when used on land repeating shots during test. Good thing the Inon did not overheat at all. I did so much test I can tell the various intensity of the sound of the flash firing between low and high power ha ha ha, it made a loud "blub" sound from the capacitor discharge in FULL power.
I recalled, I used to dismantle external Vivitar strobe to get its high voltage output when I was 14, to "shock" my friend ha ha ha, no Taser gun back then. Its much less shocking than my car beefed up ignition's coil output which could made me "soft" for a minute.
This strobe test is fun man.....Thanks again Lwang.
Posted 19 November 2012 - 09:00 PM
As mentioned above, it can be improved a lot by turning the RX100's strobe to it's lowest power setting.
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Posted 20 November 2012 - 08:34 PM
interesting results. Although I don't know if the Inon is doing any brainwork here. It is more or less like a giant optical repeater. If your camera has really bad TTL metering, then even with a Z240/sTTL or YS-D1 and its latests DS-TTL, it will not improve your picture (maybe it would, by allowing bounce/indirect lighting capability, but that is another topic).
Shooting at 1/2000 sec would allow the background to stay dark in your picture, but then it limits your camera's max flash duration to 1/2000 sec (maybe its max duration is already less than 1/2000 sec). I don't know what the max duration of strobes like the Z240 or YS-D1 are, but I remember some of my big land strobe had a duration of 1/500 sec. The main point is that the advertised GN of the strobes might be limited by how long the max flash duration is on your camera. If you got a little toy one that has a max flash duration of 1/8000 sec, and another camera that has max flash duration of 1/1000 sec. When you hook up the Z240 to either of them, the setup with the latter camera could power the Z240 to 2 stops brighter. This is one of those spec that is mentioned in camera's built in flash or external UW strobes, so there is no definitive answer.
I use to have one of those static remover for records (zerostat) when I was a kid, and I can zap people unspspectly. It use to also wreak havoc on electronic equipment, thus I would play pranks on people playing those arcade games and I would just point it at a metal bolt or nut and pull the trigger. The game would go nuts, sometimes reset and other times the screen would flip upside down, they would flip out, not knowing what was happening and have to continue while the screen is completely distorted.
Posted 21 November 2012 - 10:32 AM
I did not know there is such anti-static gun. I saw they have A-S brush too.
Do you think this A-S gun and brush can help me make my housing more dust free ?... I mean the sealing area where the o-ring is.
I currently use UV lamp to spot fine contamination from cloth and sometime our dried skin !!!
UV lamp is sooooooo good to use.
Anyway, here is the video of a test I did again for Inon TTL response to RX100 metering system.
The only different method this test is compared to previous, the RX100 is raised this time for the bed shots and not flat or on level with that fake strawberry cake. I also can not use my 2nd RX100 as black target, so idive video Pro4 is used instead.
Who knows some may find it useful. Center weighted average is used for metering. No EV compensation on INON. No external focus assist light used. RX100 no 1 is in housing. The one outside is my 2nd RX100.
As my Boss always put it "Show me, don't just speak about it".... ha ha ha
Edited by SPP, 21 November 2012 - 10:33 AM.
Posted 21 November 2012 - 09:34 PM
So how do you lower RX100 strobe power? Do you dial down the fash exposure compensation i suppose, how low can you make it and what's the recycle time then?
Interesting discussion. I have used the Rx100 strobe to fire optical fiber strobes in manual mode. The camera's strobe has a slow recycle time.
As mentioned above, it can be improved a lot by turning the RX100's strobe to it's lowest power setting.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 01:26 PM
Do you think this A-S gun and brush can help me make my housing more dust free ?... I mean the sealing area where the o-ring is.
I currently use UV lamp to spot fine contamination from cloth and sometime our dried skin !!!
UV lamp is sooooooo good to use.
There were brushes that had p01iu^^ at the base of the brush, which constantly shoots out alpha rays, which attaches to excess electrons and neutralizes static on whatever particles they are on.
In optical TTL mode, one possibly to lower camera's internal flash power is to dial the flash exposure compensation on the camera and dial up exposure compensation on the strobe, so at the end, they balance each outher out. Although not all external strobes has that feature.
So how do you lower RX100 strobe power? Do you dial down the fash exposure compensation i suppose, how low can you make it and what's the recycle time then?
Edited by Lwang, 24 November 2012 - 01:40 PM.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 06:01 AM
But maybe not, I think the camera "compensates" if the flash is completely obscured.
Anyone of you with a RX100. What's your strobe rcyle time if you just dial down flash exposure comp to minimum and take a series of photos with your hand covering the flash?
In optical TTL mode, one possibly to lower camera's internal flash power is to dial the flash exposure compensation on the camera and dial up exposure compensation on the strobe, so at the end, they balance each outher out. Although not all external strobes has that feature.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:26 PM
Good you guys sorted out the issues while i was away for a few days ;-)
So how do you lower RX100 strobe power? Do you dial down the fash exposure compensation i suppose, how low can you make it and what's the recycle time then?
Yes, flash compensation, 3rd page of the shooting menu.
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 10:28 AM
do dail down the comp to -2.0 so you can increase the camera flash recycle time?
Yes, flash compensation, 3rd page of the shooting menu.
Posted 29 November 2012 - 01:39 PM
do dail down the comp to -2.0 so you can increase the camera flash recycle time?
I do dial it down to -2. It clearly decrease the cameras strobe recycle time.
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 04:12 PM
Have you tried various Fev settings for the same close focus wide angle subject to compare results?
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