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A tribute to journalist and colleague Sabah al-Bazee
Reuters correspondent Peter Graff in Baghdad writes following the death of journalist Sabah al-Bazee:
For those of us who work in the Baghdad bureau, it is always a shock to look back through the collected photos of one of our Iraqi colleagues. We think we are used to those old scenes. But seen one after another, the images compiled over eight years of carnage by a single journalist like Sabah al-Bazee still have the power to freeze your blood.
There's a photo that Sabah took showing the bodies of a family killed during a botched U.S. military raid on their home in 2005. Three small children wrapped in blankets, who look almost like they are sleeping, snuggled with their parents, their faces pale and lifeless in the dust.
The first word that colleagues around our office were using on Tuesday to describe Sabah, who died in an attack in his home town of Tikrit, was "enthusiastic". The second, heard from several and meant as a sincere compliment, was "almost childlike".
What's really behind Merkel's nuclear U-turn?
The consensus view in Germany is that Angela Merkel's abrupt reversal on nuclear energy after Fukushima was a transparent ploy to shore up support in an important state election in Baden-Wuerttemberg. If indeed that was her intention (she denies any political motive) then she miscalculated horribly. Her party was ousted from government in B-W on Sunday after running the prosperous southern region for 58 straight years. But what if Merkel was really thinking longer-term — ie beyond the state vote to the next federal election in 2013? After the Japan catastrophe she may well have realised that her chances of getting elected to a third term were next-to-nil if she didn't pivot quickly on nuclear. There are two good reasons why that is probably a safe assumption. First is the extent of anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany. A recent poll for Stern magazine showed nearly two in three Germans would like to see the country's 17 nuclear power plants shut down within 5 years. The nuclear issue was the decisive factor in the B-W election. And you can bet it will play an important role in the next national vote — even if it is 2-1/2 years away. The second reason why the reversal looks like a good strategic decision from a political point of view is the dire state of Merkel's junior partner in government — the Free Democrats. It was the strength of the FDP which vaulted her to a second term in September 2009. But now it looks like their weakness could be her undoing in 2013. Merkel probably needs the FDP to score at least 10 percent in the next vote to give her a chance of renewing her "black-yellow" coalition. Right now the FDP is hovering at a meagre 5 percent and it is difficult to see how they double that anytime soon. The nuclear shift widens Merkel's options in one fell swoop. Suddenly the issue that made a coalition between Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Greens unthinkable at the federal level has vanished. Her party set a precedent by hooking up with the Greens in the city-state of Hamburg in 2008. Now she has more than two years to lay the foundations for a similar partnership in Berlin. By then voters may see Merkel's nuclear U-turn in a different light. And only then will it be truly clear if it was a huge political mistake, as the Baden-Wuerttemberg vote suggests, or a prescient strategic coup.
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Standing on the warfront: when sport divides India and Pakistan
In the run-up to Wednesday's cricket match between India and Pakistan, passions are running high on both sides of the border and in the diaspora which is following their teams' progress in the game's biggest tournament.
How to demolish Pakistan was the title of a programme aired by an Indian television network where former players and experts discussed ways to win the high-voltage game that will be played in the northern Indian town of Mohali, within, in a manner of speaking, of earshot distance of the heavily militarised border with Pakistan.
Pakistan television in similarly wall-to-wall coverage ran a programme where one of the guests advised the team to recite a particular passage from the Koran before stepping out to play that day. There is even a story doing the rounds in Pakistan that an enraged Indian crowd put a parrot fortune teller to death for predicting a Pakistani victory, according to this report.
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India-Pakistan – cricket, spooks and peace
"Cricket diplomacy" has always been one of the great staples of the relationship between India and Pakistan. The two countries have tried and failed before to use their shared enthusiasm for cricket to build bridges, right back to the days of Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq, if not earlier.
So when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced last week that he was inviting Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari to watch the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup in Mohali, India, the temptation was to dismiss it as an old idea.
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
On Taliban talks and driving out al Qaeda
In the debate about the possibility of reaching a peace settlement with the Taliban in return for them breaking with al Qaeda, it has never been entirely clear how that breach would be defined. While on one hand the international community would expect the Taliban's break with al Qaeda to be public and irreversible, few expect them to turn on al Qaeda's leaders, preferring instead for them to leave the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.
Somewhere in there is a huge grey area that has not yet got the attention it deserves. The Century Foundation in its newly released report (pdf) calling for a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war has come up with a suggestion which at least forms the basis of debate. Its key point -- or at least the one that jumped out at me -- is that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would declare the jihad over:
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United States begins a new war, what happens to Afghanistan?
The United States has said the scope of its military intervention in Libya is limited, but it nevertheless raises questions about what happens to the two other wars that it is waging, especially in Afghanistan. The last time Washington took the eye off the ball in Afghanistan was in 2003 when it launched the Iraq war and then got so bogged down there that a low level and sporadic Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan grew into a full blown insurgency from which it is still trying to extricate itself.
The question then is will the U.S. attention again shift away from Afghanistan and to Libya and indeed other African and Middle East countries where revolts against decades of authoritarian rule are gaining ground, and unsettling every strategic calculation. Already U.S. Republicans are saying they are concerned that U.S. forces may be getting drawn into a costly, long-running operation in Libya that lacks clear goals. If it ends in a stalemate - a possibility recognized by Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen - how focused can America be on Afghanistan where you can argue that the stakes are arguably less now that al Qaeda has largely been pushed out, and the fight is almost entirely with the Taliban.
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
The "sound and fury" of U.S.-Pakistan ties
With the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, the United States and Pakistan have put behind them one of the more public rows of their up-and-down relationship. It was probably not the worst row -- remember the furore over a raid by U.S. ground troops in Angor Adda in Waziristan in 2008, itself preceded by a deluge of leaks to the U.S. media about the alleged duplicity of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency in its dealings on Afghanistan.
But it was certainly one which by its very nature was guaranteed to get the most attention - an American who shot dead two Pakistanis in what he said was an act of self-defence, denied diplomatic immunity and ultimately released only after the payment of blood money. Adding to the drama were two intelligence agencies battling behind the scenes.
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Keeping Raymond Davis and Lashkar-e-Taiba in perspective
According to the New York Times, Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor arrested in Pakistan for shooting dead two Pakistanis in what he says was an act of self-defence, was working with a CIA team monitoring the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
The article, by Washington-based Mark Mazzetti, was not the first to make this assertion. The NYT itself had already raised it, while Christine Fair made a similar point in her piece for The AfPak Channel last week (with the intriguing detail that "though the ISI knew of the operation, the agency certainly would not have approved of it.")
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Towards a review of Pakistan's blasphemy laws
After two assassinations, Pakistani politicians are finally beginning to address tensions over the country's blasphemy laws.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in an interview politicians should be able to reach a cross-party consensus on preventing the misuse of the blasphemy laws, as proposed by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, head of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) religious party. "Its misuse is being, of course, taken into account and the party leaders are going to sit together as proposed by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman ... and I hope this matter can be thrashed out, whenever this meeting takes place."
from Pakistan: Now or Never?:
Pakistan's debate on drones, lifting the secrecy
In a rare admission of the effectiveness of drone strikes, a senior Pakistani military officer has said most of those killed are hard-core militants, including foreigners, according to Dawn newspaper.
It quotes Major-General Ghayur Mehmood as telling reporters at a briefing in Miramshah, in North Waziristan, that, "Myths and rumours about US predator strikes and the casualty figures are many, but it's a reality that many of those being killed in these strikes are hardcore elements, a sizeable number of them foreigners."


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ALBUFEIRA, Portugal — "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be," the Beatles told us in "All You Need Is Love."
It's amazing the things that come up when your iPod is on shuffle. I was on the bus heading to our second game of the Algarve Cup, against Norway, when the above line struck me with great clarity.
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Courtside Seats: A Quick Look at the Wizards' 2013 NBA Summer League
By Kyle Weidie
Updated: July 19, 2013
Welp, the NBA Summer League is over… for me, at least. The Wiz Kids have one more game left in Las Vegas, a 3:30 pm PT (6:30 pm ET) affair against the New Orleans Pelicans. However, this afternoon the fiancee and I are moving on to San Francisco for a couple days, then Napa for a couple days, before returning to the District—it's a real vacation after what's been a working vacation here in Nevada.
There will be more summer league coverage to come… reviews, interviews, and the what-not. But until then, let's take a look at some of the pictures I snapped while sitting on the baseline.
Chris Singleton's inbounds challenger.
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The Politics of Anti-Semitism
What constitutes genuine anti-Semitism–Jew hatred–as opposed to disingenuous, specious charges of "anti-Semitism" hurled at realistic, rational appraisals of the state of Israel's political, military and social conduct?
There's no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of Palestinians and its influence on American politics.
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The Politics of Anti-Semitism lifts this embargo.
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Introduction: the Politics of Anti-Semitism
by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
1. What is Anti-Semitism?
Michael Neumann
2. Trivializing Jew Hatred
Scott Handelman
3. My Life as an "Anti-Semite"
Alexander Cockburn
4. Anti-Semitism Old and New
Lenni Brenner
5. Manufacturing Anti-Semitism
Uri Avnery
6. Words Hurt, Tanks Kill
Linda Belanger
7. Jews Like Us
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8. Why Does John Malkovich Want to Kill Me?
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12. Counterfeit Courage: Reflections on Political Correctness in Germany
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The OP had some good ones. I would add The Rock and Shawn Michaels to that list. Those were the first two names that came to mind when I read this topic.
I remember going to the fan interaction event in Hartford before WM XI. Shawn Michaels was a heel at this time, and he had never won the WWF title. However, he was easily the most over guy in the company at the time. Remember, this was 1995. The New Generation Era was in full swing, and the Attitude Era hadn't even begun to lay it's eggs. People in general, still cheered who they were told to cheer for. With all that being said, heel Shawn Michaels was so fucking over it was ridiculous. At the fan interaction event, each superstar had a table where they were signing autographs. The line going to Shawn's table was by far the longest. My poor mother stood in that line with me for an extremely long time. That goes to show how over he was. On another note, I know he was probably the biggest asshole backstage, but he was really funny and nice to me (because I was a kid lol). I remember asking him, "Where's Sid?" and he points to the random hot girl next to him and says something to the effect of "I don't need Sid, she's my bodyguard." Meeting Shawn Michaels made my entire year as the 8 year old kid I was.
I would put The Rock on this list for the opposite reason. While Shawn managed to get wildly over as a heel before becoming a top face. The Rock was always able to generate heel heat after being extremely over as a face. He initially built up that over-ness as a heel, then became an insanely over face for a little while as the People's Champ. Then he generated crazy heat by becoming the Corporate Champ. Then, he became as over as one could possibly be as a face, including having the best face year of all-time in 2000. He, then was able to take some people's frustration about him doing movies and turn that into Hollywood Rock, which generated a lot of heel heat.
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My name is Brandon Stanton and I'm a photographer in New York City. As many of you already know, several months ago I was approached by the fashion label DKNY, who offered me $15,000 to purchase 300 of my photographs. I politely refused the offer. But earlier this week, one of my fans discovered that DKNY was using my photographs anyway— in Asia. (Full Story:http://thebea.st/13ijYt6)
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On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember "change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse"?), but you clearly won't stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:
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The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called "misleading," "naive," and "dangerous" by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of "manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes." They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau's standards.
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By IC's own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can't seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they've ever known.
And as far as what they do with that money:
The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government's army and various other military forces. Here's a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People's Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is "better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries", although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn't been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.
Let's not get our lines crossed: The Lord's Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda's decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.
The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it's likely he will soon be caught, if he isn't already dead. But killing Kony won't fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn't end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is "a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence."
Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa's woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Some NMAP GUI ideas]
From: "Vipe Farcaller" <farcaller () gmail com>
Date: Tue, June 7, 2005 12:48 pm
To: "Candido Rodriguez" <kan () sugus eii us es>
Oh, I've got the idea. Yep, it is nice :)
2005/6/6, Candido Rodriguez <kan () sugus eii us es>:
sorry, maybe mi example is not enough good... for example, again, I have
the net 192.168.1.0/24 which it's my LAN. I could label in red colour
the computers of the commercial team, in blue colour the support team
and in the green colour the computers from the classroom. So, I could
filter by color to check a group of computers or you could list all and
see if a computer is in the support team. If you have a list of 100
computers, it could be help you! :D
Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
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This is a two-part question regarding a 1974 360. I've rebuilt a 360 for use in my '74 Ramcharger. The motor was align honed, decked, balanced, bored .030-inch over, the stock crankshaft was offset-ground, and the rods were reconditioned with ARP bolts. I used dished TRW forged low-compression pistons, as this was to be used primarily as a towing motor with some get up and go. Long story short, the truck got totaled and I still have the short block sitting around.
I want to use this motor in my '66 Barracuda bracket car. I know I need to change out the pistons to forged flat-top pistons to boost the compression. I know I will have to re-balance the lower end, but, will the stock crankshaft and rods be up to running 6,500 rpm? I am confident in the crankshaft holding up, but the rods I am not sure of. I know they use stock crankshafts and rods in stock-class cars, and they seem to hold up pretty well. Should I change the rods to Eagle SIR or Scat I beams for reliability? Also, I want to use Magnum heads on this engine. I know I have to use Magnum rocker arms and a Magnum intake. I am going to run a flat tappet hydraulic cam, do I need a set of custom length oil through pushrods.
Jesse Arias
Via moparmuscle.com
Jesse, I cannot offer an ironclad guarantee, but if it were my 360 I would have no worry about running those stock rods. The OEM forged rods used in the 340/360 were exceptionally good for a stock rod. If they were properly inspected, resized, and fitted with new ARP bolts, they rarely fail in an application such as you have described. I have built and run many small block engines at higher power output and rpm than you are contemplating using the stock rods without a failure.
As for converting to the Magnum heads, the intake, rockers and pushrods are all you need. If you are going to a stud mounted rocker, I would recommend upgrading the studs to with the 7⁄16-inch root instead of running the conversion studs with the factory 5⁄16-inch threads. Actually, for a moderate hydraulic flat tappet cam, the stock pedestal rockers work very well. One thing to be aware of is that the accessory mounting bolt locations on the Magnum are in a different position and the depth is different than those on the older LA series heads. This will foul the accessory mounting, especially for the alternator and air conditioning pump if so equipped. If you are handy at fabrication, the brackets can be modified to work.
On page 16 of September 2013 issue, you make mention of a custom-ground Comp Cam that is a hydraulic roller for a 360 Magnum crate engine. The specs are 224/230 degrees duration at .050 inch, and .573/.568-inch lift. Could you give me all the specs of this cam and also the part number? The dyno chart shows just the power/torque curve that I am looking for with my own build. This would be perfect.
Mike in Kansas
Via moparmuscle.com
Mike, Our camshaft is a custom-ground hydraulic roller, from Competition Cams, based on the XFI series of lobes. These are very fast acting lobes, with high lift for a given level of duration. The fast action of these lobes provides for maximum power and torque, with a comparatively favorable idle quality. We went with lobe numbers 3015/3036 on the intake and exhaust, respectively, which spec out to 273/282-degrees advertised duration, 224/230-degrees duration at 0.050-inch, and .573/.568-inch lift with the Magnums 1.6:1 ratio rockers. We specified a lobe separation angle of 110-degrees, and installed the cam at 106-degrees intake centerline.
Although this is a hydraulic with a very high rate of lift, what impressed us most about this grind was the outstanding high rpm stability. We pulled the engine on the dyno to over 6,000 rpm, and the valvetrain did not miss a beat. You can order an identical cam by contacting Competition Cam's cam line at 800/999-0853, and giving the technician your engine application, the lobe numbers listed above, the lobe separation angle (110-degrees in this case) and the amount of advance you want (four-degrees).
I am having problems with my Charger's Six Pack center carburetor's fuel bowl going empty after the car sits for a while. This requires cranking the engine to fill it before the car will start. The carbs are the 2300 Holley series; outboards are PN 4672; center carb PN 4670. I sent the carbs to Promax to be modified as per your article several years ago. They were told about the problem with the center carburetor, and put their own metering block on it and checked it for any problems. They modified the outer carburetors for mixture control, and installed new lower shafts. They perform very well, without any bog when the outboards kick in.
I have checked all the obvious, no leaking fuel lines or fittings, the fuel pump is ok, and the filter is clear. It will start fine, once the center bowl is filled. Left sitting over two days requires cranking to fill the bowl first. I know an electric fuel pump will solve this problem but would prefer to fix it correctly. I wonder about the bowl vent on the center carb allowing evaporation?
Richard Foote
Via email
Richard, it sounds like you have done a thorough inspection for leaks and have found nothing leaking. If the bowls are dry when your car has been sitting for a while, and there are no leaks to be found, the most likely problem is simply fuel evaporation. Today's fuel blends are designed for sealed fuel systems that operate at high pressure all the way to the discharge point at the fuel injector. Fuel in a carburetor is just sitting there, vented to the atmosphere and at atmospheric pressure. Put a hot 440 under it when pulling into your garage and the gasoline in the bowls will evaporate in no time. You can't change the formula of fuel being sold, so the best alternative is to add that electric booster pump.
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I like this image. The nebulous quality, including the fogged-out face, adds to the image, inducing viewers to use their imagination in their interpretations.
Regarding the commentary here, let's just stick to what is relevant to the purpose of the forum.
Way too much noise for my use. What was gained here?
jdc562: All these images would deserve derisive critiques in today's photo forums. Nearly all these photos violate the Rule of Thirds. Cindy Sherman's shot #96 is mangled: one shoulder is cut into, the other arm is incomplete, and the top of of the girls' head is chopped off--very sloppy framing. Gursky's horizon in the L.A. shot isn't level. His Rhein II shot is soft. Both Steichen's and Prince's images have unacceptable levels of noise--they shouldn't bother us with their images until they've learned more about exposure, ISO, and photo processing. In addition, Prince's composition would have been much better if the cowboy were riding into the frame, not out of it. The images in the Gilbert & George piece are all too soft and badly exposed. I hope these photographers haven't quit their day jobs thinking they might have a future in photography.
On second thought, I'm glad the replies bought into the ridiculousness of my parody, even though the last sentence of my post is totally contradictory to the subject of "most expensive photos"--and should have been a dead giveaway. It further demonstrates how willingness to go along with authoritative assertions subverts reason.
To B Craw: I AM thinking about the kids. My parody is directed at the mindless imposition of rules over freely expressed art in many forum comments. What could be more destructive to new minds? See the detrimental effects of imposition of dogma in any K through 12 art exhibition. Creativity and unfettered expression clearly declines with grade level. The creativity of the older kids is increasingly crippled as they progressively succumb to the dogmatic rules of how art should be done.
jdc562: All these images would deserve derisive critiques in today's photo forums. Nearly all these photos violate the Rule of Thirds. Cindy Sherman's shot #96 is mangled: one shoulder is cut into, the other arm is incomplete, and the top of of the girls' head is chopped off--very sloppy framing. Gursky's horizon in the L.A. shot isn't level. His Rhein II shot is soft. Both Steichen's and Prince's images have unacceptable levels of noise--they shouldn't bother us with their images until they've learned more about exposure, ISO, and photo processing. In addition, Prince's composition would have been much better if the cowboy were riding into the frame, not out of it. The images in the Gilbert & George piece are all too soft and badly exposed. I hope these photographers haven't quit their day jobs thinking they might have a future in photography.
One of the problems in written posts is that sarcasm isn't always apparent. My comment is really about the mindless dogma typical of forum reviews and not about the 10 most expensive photos. I should have done what Howard did... <sarcasm on/off>
All these images would deserve derisive critiques in today's photo forums. Nearly all these photos violate the Rule of Thirds. Cindy Sherman's shot #96 is mangled: one shoulder is cut into, the other arm is incomplete, and the top of of the girls' head is chopped off--very sloppy framing. Gursky's horizon in the L.A. shot isn't level. His Rhein II shot is soft. Both Steichen's and Prince's images have unacceptable levels of noise--they shouldn't bother us with their images until they've learned more about exposure, ISO, and photo processing. In addition, Prince's composition would have been much better if the cowboy were riding into the frame, not out of it. The images in the Gilbert & George piece are all too soft and badly exposed. I hope these photographers haven't quit their day jobs thinking they might have a future in photography.
For photographers the beautiful Retina display on the Ipad can be very useful for checking camera images in the field. However, the Ipad also has some severe deficiencies that make it frustratingly inefficient for this purpose. The problems are probably all fixable in the operating system and apps.
1. There is no direct way to read SD cards larger than 32GB.
2. After downloading the images from a 32GB SD card, there is no simple way to batch remove the images. A 32GB load of more than 1000 images is too much to remove one-by-one. This deficiency is extraordinarily short-sighted--no other computer system lacks this basic capability.
zakk9: Thousands of photos have already been published of this fiasco of a war. Why show more shots from what was little more than a giant killing spree, organised by a gang of misguided politicians and generals? At least a couple of million innocent Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians were killed during the the event and the three involved countries are still suffering from the results of the bombings and the killings.
One photo is called "Charlie Haughey poses with a group of Vietnamese school children." How many Vietnamese school children were killed by American bombs during the Vietnam War? Nobody probably knows. I guess a smiling American soldier with the kids looks nicer than tiny corpses mutilated by bombs and napalm.
Zakk9, You miss the profound meaning those photos have acquired by what is now established truth. Your comments belong to photos of Nixon, Westmoreland, and other perpetrators of the war. Nearly all the people shown in Haughey's photos did not freely choose to be in that conflict and were lied to by morally corrupt American and South Vietnamese politicians. This was the time of the draft: the U.S. grunt soldiers were forced to serve. The children could not flee. They all endured a time of profound stress, being maimed, scarred, tortured, and killed. The very facts you state underline the horrible irony in Haughey's photos of smiling people--for an incongruous moment.
Haughey's photos put real faces on the Americans , Vietnamese, and others killed and injured in this war. More than 58,000 of these American soldiers were killed outright. The numbers include the MIAs. More than 303,000 Americans were wounded, not counting the profoundly psychologically wounded. According to the latest American analyses, this war killed approximately one million Vietnamese men, women, and children. Look at the people in Haughey's photos and extrapolate to all these numbers. Remember this war was not like WWI or WWII; the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was tragically prolonged by presidential politics and political misrepresentations. And all those young American men you see in the photos? In those days, most did not freely choose to be in the military. Instead, they had to make a coerced choice of the draft, enlist, jail, or to become felons by fleeing the USA. And the million dead Vietnamese--what choice did they have?
ProfHankD: Looks great, but then so does my NEX-7.... ;-)
The really big question is: How does this handle legacy lenses? The inclusion of focus peaking is great, but I really want to know two things:
1. What modes will work with unchipped legacy glass?
E.g., does it allow A as well as M, also allowing multi-shot modes?
2. How does SSS deal with unchipped lenses?
The old answer was assume 50mm (I want to tell it focal length).
Since I have a number of Minolta lenses, performance with legacy glass was critical for me. When I received my A99, I tested it with my Minolta 600mm f4 lens by shooting several hundred images of flying and swimming birds. The focus is as fast as with any previous Minolta and Sony cameras, and the images were very sharp. Sony notes that certain advanced "assist" focus features only work with their newer lenses. However, after trying the advanced features with the new lenses, I still prefer the standard AF-C focus features that I have always used by panning with the moving birds--shotgun style.
One issue missing in the comparison of the Sony A99 to its peers is initial quality. The Canon 5DmkIII's had light leaks. The Nikon D800's had left focus problems. So far there are no reports of systemic manufacturing defects in the Sony A99.
marike6: Sony made a big gamble by dropping the OVF on all their cameras. A top level pentaprism OVF will always be the state-of-the-art, while in one or two years time, the A99 EVF will be old technology, superseded by new models. Just ask Fuji X-Pro1 users how they felt when the X-E1 came out with a higher specified EVF.
So perhaps one of the negatives of adopting an evolving technology like EVF is an increased need to upgrade. Whereas a 100% OVF of a 5D3, D800 or A900 will always be about as good as it gets.
What you're saying is that optical view finders can't get any better than they already are, while electronic view finders can keep improving. Since the A99's electronic view finder is already superior in many ways to optical view finders, future improvements will increase the advantages over the optical view finders. How is this a negative?
aarif: one thing has been overlooked as a con. battery only 300 shots now that is very poor
I have been using the A99 for six weeks of intensive shooting. I always get more than 400 shots per charge--which covers my day of shooting and leaving more than "40%" of the charge. Fewer shots per charge may result from more reliance on the LCD, or setting the LCD to be illuminated for longer periods of time before auto shut-off. Since the amount of remaining charge is clearly displayed, and the battery can be replaced in a few seconds, I don't see a serious problem here.
I have been using the Sony A99 intensively for about 6 weeks now, doing critical tests during the first 4 weeks, when I could return it in exchange for a Canon 5DmkIII or Nikon D800--which I planned to do if the A99 didn't meet my expectations. I do a lot of wildlife photography, mostly flying birds. I found that I prefer the electronic viewfinder (EVF) over optical ones. Sony's EVF is as sharp as optical versions (it's not some grainy screen), plus it gives me a live preview of the image, including exposure, contrast, etc., spelling the end of mistaken settings for exposure compensation. The "peaking" function in the EVF highlights the parts of the live view image that are in best focus--great for manual focus, including focus stacking. I get many more than 400 images per battery charge--easily covering a day's worth of shooting. The Sony Zeiss and Sony G lenses are excellent (see the independent tests). The A99 has done very well. So, I'm not switching to the Canon or Nikon.
bossa: People here using the word 'rules' need to list them. And please, while you're at it, list just who it is that carved these 'rules' in stone and made them so immutable. I've been an artist for over 30 years, lectured in colleges, exhibited and sold work and I can assure you, there are no rules, just conventions.
Here is a test of the necessity of the "rules" for successful composition. Make a set of the 100 most revered paintings and photographs, and score the number of them that followed the "rules." I've tried this with a smaller set, and most of them did not conform to the rule of thirds, uncentered composition, golden rectangle, and the other touted "rules." So, even the word "convention" is an overstatement. Instead, it is clear that the artistry is not dependent on the overall geometry.
jamesfrmphilly: rules? rules! we don't need no stinkin rules!
As more accurate pedantry, the banditos in Huston's film were speaking in Spanish dialect, where a double negative is a stronger negative, not a positive. In English we might reply to this rules nonsense in a double positive: "Yeah, right."
Obviously the "rules" have some inherent psychological basis in explaining aesthetic appeal. However, to see their horribly destructive short-comings, try using these "rules" to judge classic paintings and photographs: "We're sorry Mr. da Vinci, but your centered compositions are amateurish. And Ms. Lange, Dust-Bowl Dotty, whatever your name is, your subject, sans make-up, is smack-dab in the middle of the frame--you need to familiarize yourself with the rules of composition. On to you, Mr. Adams: you wasted all of those huge negatives and darkroom efforts on snapshots that ignore the aesthetic beauty of compositional basics. You should have placed that waterfall on one of the 3rds intersections. And, saving the worst for last, Mr. Weston! My God! That bell pepper is dead center in the frame. And that woman, is that her driver's license? Not only is that Mexican looking out of the frame, you chopped off part his hair! What did he say? 'We don need no steenking rules'? "
Dan Ortego: Lately I'm bi-polar when it comes to cameras. I have gone from hitting the buy button for the D600/D800 and then the A99. Every time I read something else on-line about one over the other I'm then convinced it's the one I want. Currently, I have the A900 and it just works! I also have a new 'blue-logo' lens for it so logic would suggest that I stay put.
The appearance of the A99 looks pretty aggressive to me, and I like it. If it handles and works better than the A900 while maintaining the 'ease of use' of the A900, then I'll want it. The down side is that I don't really trust Sony to support their gear like Nikon and Canon. Once you buy a Sony you're pretty much on your own. It's also hard to find a decent pro-level user forum since most of they're following is a bunch of snot-nosed kids.
I also like my A900. However, like the other new generation cameras, the A99 performs better at higher ISOs. Among other things, this allows action photography earlier in the morning and later in the evening. For me this means more opportunities to shoot flying birds and rodeo events at higher shutter speeds in dim light. This is one reason I would replace my A900 with the A99.
j900: I own an A900, I would be all in the A99 for better focusing.
However I see that they have done it again, the same APS-C AF and layout used in a full frame camera, same as they did with A700-A900.
What a pity. A top-notch AF system that forces you to focus and recompose each time you do off-center composition. Not to mention the issues with moving subjects.
Oh well, I guess my turn will come with the A99 successor. It seems that Sony listens to customers as they have implemented auto-iso in M mode this time. So next time Sony, PLEASE IMPLEMENT A DEDICATED FULL-FRAME AF MODULE WITH SENSIBLE LAYOUT. Please.
Sorry j900, I have to correct you and Richard Butler's DPreview article on the focus statements. I use the A900 extensively for action photography (flying birds, rodeo events, active children). The A900's focus tracking is not "undermined by the amount of time taken to engage it." To the contrary, the A900 immediately locks into focus tracking by half pressing the shutter button while in continuous focus mode. There is no need "to focus and recompose each time you do off center composition." The A900 continues to follow whatever object was selected with the initial half-press. The tracking is superb and works for objects in dim light (e.g., flying birds after sunset, geese flying at night across the moon), objects changing trajectories (e.g., rodeo barrel racers, two-year old hyperactive nieces), objects rapidly accelerating (e.g., birds taking off), objects moving in multi-directions (e.g., bucking bulls), and so on. Change focus mode to solve problems focusing the A900.
mavic: Hi,
I'm quite a big fan of the Sony Alpha system (and own an Alpha 55) but this body makes no sense to me.
Which professional would be jumping on a Sony Alpha FF body just reviewing the line of FF compatible glasses (either from Sony or Tamron or Sigma). There is only a very few as most of those lenses has been designed for APS-C bodies. Why should I limit myself?
Are there any plans / rumors for more lenses in the A-mount domain?
The only two limitations I see are at the extremes: no very wide angle (<20mm) and no super telephoto at 600mm and above. The Sony 500mm is prohibitively expensive at more than $15,000.
I use a Minolta 600mm f4, which works great, but they are hard to get.
Between these extremes the lenses are great. The FF Zeiss lenses for Sony do extremely well in lab tests and field performance. And the professional reviewers rate the FF Sony 70-400 SAL G lens above the equivalents from Canon and Nikon.
If the A99 lives up to its specs for high ISO performance (fast shutter speeds in dim light), focus speed, and fps, it will exceed the Nikon D800 and Canon 5D mk4 for sports and wildlife photography--my favorite things to shoot. If no mirror flop means quieter shooting, that will also be a big asset for photographing skittish wildlife.
For four years I have been using the Sony A900 to photograph wildlife, especially flying birds. In this preview of the A99, the DPreview writer errs in describing the focusing tracking system of previous Sony cameras as a complex, multi-step, process (in Section 4 of the preview). To the contrary, in continuous focus (tracking) mode, focusing on a moving object is simply a matter of partially depressing the shutter button to lock on the object. There are no time-consuming multi-steps as described in the preview. The A900 is superb at initial, instantaneous lock-on, then tracking the moving object, even in dim light when the object is moving toward the camera, which is where other cameras fail. If the A99 focuses better than this, it will be fantastic for photography of fast-moving wildlife (and sports). The A99's reduced noise at high ISOs will expand its use into the early morning and late evening when many animals are most active and fast shutter speeds are essential.
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