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Engadget has some videos and pictures heree: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/kindle-2-first-hands-on/
If you are into DRM that is.
I'm really not an Apple fan, but I really want a eBook iPod event. Meaning: A cheap device that will show all my PDFs. 800x600 just isn't good enough.
Maybe the cheap OLPC-like displays from PixelQI make something like that possible.
I am really not interested in paying Amazon for everything I read.
I already have the PDFs .. just give me a cheap epaper-like reader!
(And please don't mention reading on Phone/Netbooks .. it just doesn't compare. Just try ePaper yourself.)
What you (and I) are waiting for is this:
Shame it won't be available until 2010 though.
I have the first gen Kindle and it is a great. However, I think they should have kept the scroll wheel myself it is easier to get to the line you want to check a definition for a word in the dictionary. Hopefully, they will keep updating the firmware in the old one because the cost to upgrade is to high for me. I just wish college textbooks would be on the Kindle and it would save me the hassle of carrying a book bag.
I see in the video of the new five-way nub and it uses the e-ink screen which probably waste the battery more than the scroll wheel thingy.
I just don't see the point. From the pictures of the 1st gen and this one, the screen looks horrible, eInk or not, it looks like a very old lcd screen from way back when!
as a product I just don't get it. The ebooks they sell are just as expensive (or more so) than real hard copies that I can take anywhere, don't need batteries and I can lend to friends.
The newspapers: I can get them on my ipod, my phone, my netbook, my laptop or my desktop - But quite frankly, newspapers aren't something I read!
Sure I can have 100s of books on one device, but really, how often you NEED to have 100s of books to hand?
also and perhaps crucially.. it's damned expensive - I can buy a LOT of (more versatile) books for that price.
I got excited when I heard about the text-to-speech capabilities. Since it has a headphone jack, I could export books to mp3 and listen to them in my car while I drive to/from work, at the gym, or whatever.
Then I looked on the Kindle store for about 8 books I was interested in, and none of them were available on the Kindle. Reminds me of the old days of music download services - good idea, but needs more content. And the DRM doesn't help either. And like you said, getting college textbooks on this thing seems like a no-brainer, assuming they can pull it off.
Does the device itself have text-to-speech capabilities, or is this something you'd do on the PC before hand with text files? Can you do tts with the .azw files you download from Amazon? I must say if the device itself has tts my interest in it just spiked, otherwise... well, I can do the text file to mp3 stuff with my iPod Nano.
Just check the Kindle store:
Search for some books you're interested in reading, and see if they have 'Kindle editions'.
You are mostly missing the point.
1. Hard copy books:
- are not ecological (you could argue the same about ebooks, but I doubt that killing lots of trees is the same as mass producing electronics)
- have to be stored somewhere
- degrade, get dusty (old books are downright unhealthy if not perfectly stored)
- are not free (you can get loads of great free books from gutenberg.org for example)
- many times their availability is limited (don't think only about English )
- are more difficult to carry, especially when they are larger
- can't be marked non-destructively
2. Eink devices, albeit first generation, solve most of those problems.
Kindle seems nice, I own a Sony Reader, and it's ok, not perfect, but definitely nice
1. Hard copy books:
- are not ecological (you could argue the same about ebooks, but I doubt that killing lots of trees is the same as mass producing electronics)
Try recycling old electronics versus old books. Printed books are likely to have a longer usable life than ebook readers.
The text between the brackets was for nitpickers. And of course, one came along.
My point is that all those complaints are similar in concept to newspapers versus websites, magazines versus websites, sewing machines versus manual sewing. If ebook technology is promoted, hard copy books will go the way of the vinyl record: useful only for enthusiasts.
Avid reader and current ebook owner writing.
Read my comment between the brackets. And you don't really want to go into this:
"Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst identified International Paper as the 27th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, releasing more than 35 million pounds of toxic compounds into the air annually."
Plus, in less developed countries the policies regarding forest re-planting are relatively weak, so you have 2 evils: pollution by production and pollution by destruction
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1. Hard copy books:
- are not ecological (you could argue the same about ebooks, but I doubt that killing lots of trees is the same as mass producing electronics)
arguably it IS more ecological to use trees, as trees are heavily managed in woodlands and they have to replant when they harvest. - also there are way way less chemicals involved in paper production - it's biodegradable, way easier to recycle
ok this is a valid point
data also degrade - but arguably at a much faster rate - eg. the british library used to use laserdiscs for data storage but now can't find any players to read them.
Also - just try re-reading your floppy discs or even your 5-10 years old CDROMS - bet there is a good proportion of them that you can't read.
Books on the other hand, (with care) will easily last for 200-300+ years
no, but I can go into library or pub (in the UK) and read or borrow books for free or my friends can give me their copy when they're done with it.
I don't understand, can you clarify this?
point taken and valid - also I'd add that it's way easier to search for words electronically than manually.
Kindle seems nice, I own a Sony Reader, and it's ok, not perfect, but definitely nice.
When your sony reader reaches the end of its life in, say 2-3 years (i'm guessing this) what will happen to the ebooks you've got stored on it?
You're looking at it from a British/Western point of view. In less developed countries/developing countries, I can hardly find places to borrow books anymore - they have all gone bankrupt after the moment when the state cut their funding. Selling books is not very popular (go figure ). At least with ebooks I can have access to lots of free electronic books, which I can read as easily as an ordinary book (carrying a laptop is much more annoying, plus the screen is not as well suited to reading *books*).
- many times their availability is limited (don't think only about English )
I don't understand, can you clarify this?
Amazon sells mostly English books. Or other International circulation language books. If I want Romanian books, sometimes I can't even pirate them, because I certainly can't find where to buy them. I don't mean translated copies of Harry Potter, but Romanian classics or international quality literature that isn't very popular. Therefore, because digital copies are more readily accessible, I can just get a copy and put it on the ebook. I know it's supposed to be piracy, but when I can't get a legal copy... what should I do?
2. Eink devices, albeit first generation, solve most of those problems.
Kindle seems nice, I own a Sony Reader, and it's ok, not perfect, but definitely nice.
When your sony reader reaches the end of its life in, say 2-3 years (i'm guessing this) what will happen to the ebooks you've got stored on it?
I'll copy them to my computer? It has a data cable, you know?
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In less developed countries people sure can't afford to spend $350 on a ebook reader and amazon's prices on ebooks.
Really. I'd say it's about normally popular around here (Manila). Buying a book sure beats paying $350 for a reader alone.
The Sony Reader was around $250, and you missed my paragraph related to free books found on the internet?
Anyway, you can look at current ebook readers like at the first generation of laptop: heavy, expensive, underpowered. In 5 years if the interest/market is there, we should see the netbook equivalent.
I bought one because I figured out that it will buy itself back in ~1 year.
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just a note... most books made in the last decade, unless from a really good source (easton press, etc) will hardly last 2-300 years, even with care They fall apart. It sucks I've had to buy new copies of some of my most read books because the bindings have just fallen apart on my older copies. It is pathetic, nothing is made to last anymore...
I don't know which one I'd rather have
It looks fantastic (I'd love to have one) but at the moment it's up there as a gadget for upscale gadget-lovers with deep pockets. One reason is that the average person buys only a very small number of books a year. So at present the Kindle and othe e-books are only a value proposition if you read many books a month and/or are very wealthy.
Divide the Kindle's price by four or five and the price of its e-books by at least two and you'd be getting nearer to something that might sell in the mass-market. That's because the Kindle sounds ideal as an addition to rather than a replacement for traditional printed books. Great for holidays, travelling or hanging around when you don't want to lug the weight and bulk of real books. Take mobile phones: people might buy a cheapo second one to take on holidays and trips but they don't buy an expensive second one that's as capable as their main phone.
Further afield, a guess is that the Kindle's main market may be as a give-away or subsidized item, from the big media combines. The hook will be delivering a Kindle-ised newspaper to your machine each morning via a wifi hotspot, mobile broadband or simply via your wireless router at home.
You can get a used PalmOS PDA on eBay for ~$50-75 bucks that has a relatively high resolution screen (like a Sony Clie with a 320x320 color or greyscale screen), pretty good battery life, and can read most popular text formats.
That is what I do. I don't see the point in buying a specific device like a Kindle when there are tons of perfectly usable older devices that will serve the purpose just fine.
heck, before I broke it, my Handera 330 was *the* best ebook reader ever. Easy to hold, 240x320 greyscale touchscreen display, handwriting recognition that works well, could use SD and CF cards, could use normal AAAs OR a Lithium battery pack, and I had battery times measured in weeks with constant use, and it had an indiglo blue backlight that was extremely easy on the eyes.
My good man, you need to join the consumption society. How else will we, as a race, move forward? If you use your head and buy old stuff you actually need you are letting the commies...errr...terrorists win.
Because the specific devices do a better job at that one purpose than a general purpose device.
I used to read books on my palmOS device and thought it worked fine. Then I saw the Sony ebook reader and realized how much better reading books on a dedicated reader actually could be. After that my palm didn't seem that great any more.
actually, the delay is longer than that... I know you can't flip pages very quickly in a real book but there is just something annoying about the delay, for me, on an eink display. Probably because I'm not doing anything in the intervening time besides staring at the display. With a book, at least, you have the act of physically moving the page.
Since the conversation has gone towards "Kindles are good for these reasons/books are good for these reasons/I'll just read on my other, cheaper handheld device," I thought I'd put in my two bits... bytes... more like a couple of kilobytes... but whatever, I'm being overly nerdy in saying that.
For me personally, I'd rather have a physical book to open and read. I'm an avid reader-- I love it-- perhaps this is why. Logically, the Kindle makes sense and I wouldn't mind having one, but even there I wouldn't waste $250 or $300 or however much they generally cost on a device dedicated just to reading books... and then I have to buy the books, too. I can't "rip" my existing paper books to the Kindle like I can with my CDs to my computer. If I'm really in need of reading something on the go, I either bring a book with me or read something online (blogs, news, whatever) or downloaded from Google Book Search on my $300 netbook or my $150 (used) PPC-- which both can also do a ton more than just read, so the price is more justified in my mind. I dunno. Reading is a treasure for me, and reading on a Kindle or a netbook or some handheld device isn't very enjoyable. The traditional way is the way to do it, in my opinion.
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"There are plenty of fish in the sea" is one of those clichéd phrases that I've never quite understood. It seems to me that in relationships, quality trumps quantity: most of us want The One, not the many.
The same can be said for Internet marketing. Sure, the Web makes it possible to cast a wide net. But as we've all experienced, whether you're marketing your neighborhood bar that attracts mostly locals, or an expertise in building chicken coops that attracts mostly – well, who does that attract? – you need a way to make your ad dollars buy advertising that will reach those specific people.
Here's where the comparison to dating takes a sharp turn: in marketing, once we've identified quality, we certainly do care about quantity – we want as many of those targeted leads as possible. The trick is to first find and be found by those targets, and then to give them an experience that makes them want to buy, recommend you to their friends and keep coming back.
Here are four tips for increasing your Internet "catch":
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Getting your website to appear higher in search results is great, but in the age of social networking, your site is no longer the center of your online universe. There are a variety of free and paid online communities and services that can expose your business to consumers, from social sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare to review sites like Yelp.
While it can be time-consuming to refresh each individual site regularly, there are tools that make it easier. One of my favorites is from a company called Posterous (www.posterous.com) because it allows users to use regular email to send social updates (perhaps notifying customers of a new coupon) and it will automatically post to all of the other social services.
As the analogy goes, the more lines in the water, the better.
Tip #2 – Link all of your pages.
So now customers can find you in Facebook, in Google searches, even within their mobile texts – but are all of your pages connected and saying the same thing? Nothing works better to convince a prospect to do business with you than making your unique value clear and consistent across every medium where a prospect may choose to interact with you.
If you build pages on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and then link all those pages to each other – visits to ALL pages usually will increase as a result. The more links you have to your information on multiple, popular sites, the higher your pages will rank on search engines, too.
Tip #3 – Update all of your pages.
No one likes to see "the same old thing" on the Web – and that goes for humans AND machines. Truth is, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and your prospects are looking for fresh, relevant information on your pages. It doesn't need to be Tolstoy, and it doesn't mean you need to constantly add new specials or offers (although consumers do love their coupons).
Write about changes going on in your business, your experiences as a business owner, or your thoughts on trends in your field – even link to other articles on other websites you think are worthy. Think of your business as a "hub" of information – advice, tips, promotions or offers (and perhaps a little humor to give it a personal touch) – and view the various social sites and location-based services as spokes with which to push this information out to customers or prospects.
The search engines will reward you for it by placing your pages higher in search results. And, better yet, prospects will think you are more credible. Keeping your pages updated, and actively contributing to your industry by sharing your expertise online, will build trust in the mind of consumers and lure more leads with fresh bait.
Tip #4 – Re-purpose.
If you read Tip #3 and thought, "When am I going to find time to write the content for all those Web pages?" … I have good news: other people can help you for free. There's a reason the term "retweet" (or RT) has become so popular – people love to pass along interesting tidbits to their friends. It's up to you to find that line between simply "interesting" and something that would ultimately help your business and/or reinforce your relationships with your customers.
This is not just limited to Twitter. You can re-post, re-purpose, or reuse all sorts of content from other people on your pages. Keep your antenna up for anything that reinforces the identity you want to create for your business. Retweet a positive statement about your business made by one of your customers. If you read an interesting article that talks about your field, add a quick sentence that points out the section(s) you liked and link to it. If you see a Top 10 list made by someone you respect (people love lists), find a way to relate it back to your business and post it.
The point is: being a curator of useful information can be just as powerful in drawing prospects as being a creator of content.
To continue the fishing metaphor: the more lines you have in the water and the more enticing your bait, the better the results.


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Former NHL winger Tony Amonte joined 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Rich to discuss the Game 4 win in Toronto, the way this Bruins team is performing and the possibility that this series ends on Friday.
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Trooper the cat, found frozen to a driveway in Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland, is recovering well from his leg amputation surgery in Charlottetown Friday.
When Trooper was found he was stuck so solidly in the ice rescuers had to use warm water to free him. He is recovering at the Atlantic Veterinary College.
"The incisions are healing well. He is starting to try to stand up now on three legs. Apparently he hasn't stopped purring since yesterday morning and he is rolling over for belly rubs," said Gwen Samms of the SPCA in Stephenville, who accompanied Trooper to Charlottetown.
"One leg had to be amputated due to severe frost bite. They repaired the broken bones in his pelvis and that and they also neutered him. I knew he had it in him to come through this."
Trooper has also had some problems with his bladder.
Donations to help with Trooper's medical bills continue to come in, said Samms. At this point she doesn't know how much the final bill will be, or when Trooper can be released.


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Consultatory Bodies
Most Reverend Daniel E. Thomas
Bishop of Toledo
Reverend Monsignor William J. Kubacki, VG
Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia
Serving as Moderator of the Curia, Msgr. Kubacki chairs the Senior Staff and coordinates the activities of the Diocesan senior directors as well as the operations of the Pastoral Center. On behalf of the bishop, he coordinates issues involving temporalities throughout the diocese such as property, construction, and insurance. In addition to this, Msgr. Kubacki advises the bishop on parish matters and diocesan personnel appointments.
Reverend Monte J. Hoyles, JCL
As Chancellor, Fr. Hoyles serves as senior director of the Office of Chancellor and the Department of Diocesan Pastoral Services. This position includes responsibility for the preparation and notarization of official curial documents and their preservation in the diocesan archives. As delegate of the bishop, the Chancellor also grants dispensations, marriage sanations, and clergy faculties for the Diocese.
Reverend Monsignor Marvin G. Borger, JCL
Senior Director of Clergy, Consecrated Life & Vocations
As senior director of the Department of Clergy, Consecrated Life & Vocations, Msgr. Borger provides special pastoral services on behalf of the Bishop of Toledo for the priests, deacons and religious in the Diocese, including clergy formation, continuing education, faculties, sabbaticals, retreats, convocations, study days, senior status clergy and chairing the Priest Personnel Board and the Deacon Personnel Board.
Deacon Joseph N. Malenfant
Senior Director of Discipleship & Family Life
Dcn. Malenfant is responsible for strategic leadership of the Department of Discipleship & Family Life to serve parishes by providing resources, training and specialized expertise so that parishes can develop specific programs and events to reach their parish faith communities.
Mr. Vincent de Paul Schmidt, Ed.D.
Senior Director of Catholic Education
Mr. Schmidt is responsible for maintaining the day-to-day duties and responsibilities of the Department of Catholic Education.
Mr. Rodney O. Schuster, MBA
Executive Director of Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo
As senior director of the Department of Catholic Social Services, Mr. Schuster is responsible for strategic planning, vision and oversight of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Toledo, including the development of outreach initiatives focusing on care for God's creation, human trafficking and immigration.
Ms. Kelly Donaghy
Senior Director of Communications
The senior director of the Department of Communications is responsible for the development and implementation of external and internal marketing/communications strategies and plans for the Diocese. He/she also guides the media relations and messaging of the Diocese to effectively convey and support the pastoral and administrative priorities of the Office of the Bishop of Toledo, the vision and mission of the Diocese and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
This is my Commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. (John 15:13)
God's presence is found and reflected in our love for him and for one another. It is through faith and love that the mission of the Church—to preach the Gospel—is accomplished. When we are in conflict with each other, and with entities that seek to serve the common good, there is a fundamental spiritual and social need to resolve such conflict.
The Office of Conciliation and Arbitration serves individuals and entities that are in conflict, but who seek reconciliation in a manner fitting for disciples, in keeping with the Scriptures, the principles of Catholic social teaching, and the Church's canonical norms governing hierarchical recourse.
In fulfilling its mission, the Office of Conciliation and Arbitration recognizes four key principles of Catholic teaching: the value and dignity of the human person, the common good, participation, and justice. By applying these principles, we seek to restore a harmonious relationship among individuals and organizations.
In seeking to resolve conflicts, the Office of Conciliation and Arbitration encourages all participants in these processes:
To acknowledge and call upon God in this process, in discourse and in prayer:
To be respectful in speech and manner of acting;
To open their hearts to the needs and voices of others, in the spirit of good will and justice;
To recognize that no law can be as compelling as Christ's commandment to love one another; and
To recognize that the ultimate goal is to find Christ and His Love for us through a process of reconciliation with each other.
The Office of Conciliation and Arbitration offers its services as a simple and readily accessible response to human conflicts with the hope that it will help the people of the Diocese of Toledo to live as true disciples of Christ in a manner that gives witness to the Kingdom of God.
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Wes Anderson films are usually described as "quirky." Or "whimsical." Or "idiosyncratic." To some folks, all three terms are synonymous with "something I don't want to see."
Anderson's reputation is well deserved, but that's no reason to avoid his latest, "Moonrise Kingdom."
This is not one of those movies that makes dog-whistle sounds that only critics can hear. Yes, said critics have given it a 94 Tomatometer score, but the audience score is 92, with an average rating of 4.3 (on a scale of zero to 5). And it's doing healthy box-office business despite showing on only a screen or two per market.
In San Antonio, it's playing only at the Santikos Bijou, which is at least showing it almost a dozen times a day. Friday, it expands to a second Santikos multiplex, the Embassy.
I'd humbly suggest you give it a chance, even if your taste in summer movies begins and ends with Marvel Comics characters. And I'm not even a big Wes Anderson fan. I haven't seen "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" or "Bottle Rocket" — the three films that earned him his loyal fan base. I loved the stop-motion-animated "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and wished Anderson had been sitting beside me while I watched "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" so he could have explained it to me.
The synopsis really doesn't do the movie justice, but here it is, from the studio, Focus Features:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, "Moonrise Kingdom" tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Reading that, you might think this was some vintage kiddie flick or an after-school special. Rest assured it's not. Instead, it's a visual feast that tells a moving, magical story of two misfit kids on the cusp of adulthood determined to make a stand. The title refers to their secret hideaway in a secluded cove.
Their story is told via a vivid palette that sometimes resembles a Blue Bell ice cream commercial — outdoor scenes are bathed in warm, golden tones. Anderson's composition is both painterly and photographic; there are no wasted scenes. Each is so carefully set up, it looks like a prize-winning photograph that came to life. One critic called them dioramas.
And yet this isn't a case of style trumping substance. Anderson's characters are just as colorful and believable, which helps. The two kids, Sam and Suzy (Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), are no-nonsense and single-minded in their determination to be together. They seem to be on the same mental and emotional wavelength, even though their idea of what's necessary for their adventure is dramatically different. Sam the expert Boy Scout has gear to set up camp; Suzy brings her kitten in a wicker basket, a record player borrowed from her brother and a suitcase full of books. And she's hiking in her Sunday-school shoes.
The grownups also have holes in their lives that they're aching to fill, from Bruce Willis as the lonely sheriff to Frances McDormand and Bill Murray as Suzy's worn-down parents, to Edward Norton as the straight-arrow Scout leader. It's also a nice touch that the woman from Social Services (Tilda Swinton) who's checking up on Sam (an orphan living with foster parents) doesn't have a name — she's just Social Services, which makes a nice comment on faceless bureaucracy.
And few movies have a soundtrack that's equal parts Benjamin Britten and Hank Williams. Sam and Suzy meet during a children's production of Britten's "Noye's Fludde" (a 1957 opera based on the story of Noah) in a church a year earlier; Williams' mournful and appropriate "Kaw-Liga" is playing on Willis' car radio in an early scene. Both works foreshadow later events.
Roger Ebert calls "Moonrise Kingdom" "whimsical magic realism painted on a gorgeous palette." Uh-oh. Whimsical. There's one of those scary words again. Maybe this will help — I liked all the latest Marvel movies ("The Avengers," "Captain America" and "Thor"), and I'd like to see "Moonrise Kingdom" again.
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Kimi Raikkonen must quickly get on terms with his Ferrari teammate, countryman and fellow world champion Mika Hakkinen insists.
When Hakkinen left McLaren at the end of 2001, he urged Ron Dennis to sign the young Sauber driver Raikkonen, famously telling Ron Dennis: "If you want to win, get the Finn."
Indeed, Raikkonen went on to win 20 career grands prix and the title for Ferrari in 2007.
But since he returned to Maranello for 2014, the now 34-year-old has struggled at the wheel of the F14-T car, also piloted by Fernando Alonso.
"Kimi has problems and they need to be resolved," Hakkinen told Hermes.
"At the moment Alonso is utterly dominating him — the difference is not small," 45-year-old Hakkinen, the title winner in 1998 and 1999, added.
"There have been four races and I would have expected him to settle in by now. His car is not so catastrophically bad that he can't do anything about Alonso," he continued.
"Kimi needs to do something, and he needs to do it very soon."
Notoriously, Raikkonen is no fan of driving simulators, but Ferrari's new facility is state of the art and Hakkinen urged him to use the gap between China and Barcelona wisely.
"The simulator is a good tool," he said. "You can try out all sorts of setting changes.
"But I don't want to be giving Kimi advice, because I'm assuming that a world champion is already concentrated on solving his problems so that he can beat his teammate and deliver decent performances," said Hakkinen.


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Doctors Episode 14 Eng Sub
Doctors Episode 14 English Sub and RAW has been released broadcast by SBS network air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00.
Drama Detail
Title: 닥터스 / Doctors
Chinese Title: 醫生
Also Known as: Doctor Crush
Genre: Medical, Romance
Episodes: 20 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2016-June-20 to 2016-Aug-23
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00
Yoo Hye jung (Park Shin Hye) was a tough bully in school with a prickly personality and always goes wayward. She had many scars from her childhood and through self-preservation, Hye Jung keeps her heart shut away from other people. However, she changes after meeting her mentor Hong Ji Hong (Kim Rae Won) who plays a key role in transforming her life from a helpless gangster to a compassionate doctor.


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|Volume 11, Number 13
|19 June 2009
Welcome to the 256th edition of the Imaging Resource Newsletter. Love is in the air. We print big with the new Canon Pro9000 Mark II. Then Shawn falls hard for the Olympus E-P1. Finally, we take a look at Joe McNally's latest book on lighting it up with strobes. Have fun!
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(Excerpted from the full review posted at https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRINT/CP9KII/PRO9K2.HTM on the Web site.)
Canon introduced two Mark II printers in March. The $850 Pro9500 Mark II uses 10 pigment inks and the $500 Pro9000 Mark II uses eight dye inks. Both make 13x19-inch prints.
When we reviewed the original Pro9000 we applauded its "vibrant color, fast printing and versatile media handling that challenges not just the i9900 but pigment-based 13x19 printers."
And now it's three times faster, printing a bordered 13x19 color image in 1:23, according to Canon. Canon's FINE print head technology and large 6,144-nozzle print head using ink droplets of two-picoliters are harnessed to an enhanced double encoder system for media control to make quality prints at that level of performance.
We'll look at the specs before discussing what a big printer can do for you. And then do it!
Highlights of the Pro9000 Mark II's features include:
Less persuasive perhaps are these features:
- High Resolution Printing. Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering technology with two picoliter ink droplets achieve 4800x2400 dpi printing.
- Faster Printing. The Pro9000 Mark II prints approximately three times faster than its predecessor. It prints a 13x19 image in the same time as the original Pro9000 prints an 11x14.
- Individual Ink Cartridge System. The eight-color dye-based ChromaLife100 ink system uses individual cartridges for each color. Using Canon paper and ChromaLife100 inks results in prints with 100-year fade resistance when stored in an archival photo album.
- Two-Way Paper Feeding. Up to 150 sheets can be loaded in the rear tray. A front tray accommodates single sheets of fine art papers too thick for the rear tray.
- USB 2.0 Hi-Speed. As fast as USB 2.0 gets. Cable not included.
- Rollers. The back of the hefty unit has rollers so you can lift the front and roll the printer away from the wall for front feeding.
- Canon Generation Green Technology. Generation Green is Canon's environmental initiative which includes printing multiple images on one sheet; individual ink tanks to reduce waste; Energy Star compliance that's 25 percent more efficient than "conventional models;" RoHS compliance restricting the use of hazardous materials in electronic products (no cadmium, mercury, lead, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls or polybrominated diphenyl ethers; hardware recycling program; and a refurbishing program for recovery and salvage of Canon products.
These latter features seem particularly misplaced in a high-end printer. Ambient Light Correction is only available under one supported operating system but also shouldn't interest anyone intent on selling their prints (where the lighting, after all, should be secondary to the image). Auto Photo Fix is something the average user of a $500 printer can not only live without but should certainly mistrust. And PictBridge printing may be convenient but it, too, is not the sort of unoptimized printing we expect users to do on this kind of printer.
- Ambient Light Correction. Available under Windows Vista only, color output can be adjusted for viewing under a variety of lighting conditions.
- Auto Photo Fix. Images are optimized as portrait, scenery, night scenery, snapshot with scenery or snapshot with night scenery. Canon claims backlit, underexposed faces are automatically brightened and color casts removed.
- PictBridge. A front-accessible PictBridge port lets you print directly from your camera. Cable not included.
The effect of these last features is almost to give the impression this is a low-end unit designed for people who have no idea what they're doing. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The more you know about printing, the more you're going to like the Canon Pro9000 Mark II.
Our Installation Gallery (https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRINT/CP9KII/gal-unbox/index.html) and our Software Setup Gallery (https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRINT/CP9KII/gal-software/index.html) show you how to unbox the printer, set it up and install the software. You can use the View menu to see the images as a slide show or walk through them in gallery mode.
We were surprised, on opening the box, not to find an installation poster. But Canon has provided an installation booklet instead. That has the advantage of focusing your attention on fewer steps at a time.
You might be tempted to skip the book and just rip off the packing materials and the orange tape, install the print head and pop in the cartridges, but there were points along the way where the booklet came in handy.
The printer manages to align the print head by printing two sheets of letter-size paper. You don't have to evaluate anything because the printer checks each line as it is printed, rolling the paper back into the printer just a bit.
Software installation was a breeze. Just pop in the CD and select the Easy Install option. We did manage to screw it up, though. We accidentally skipped the alignment segment entirely because we automatically clicked the lower right button (which is usually OK but in this case was Next). Easy to remedy, as our gallery shows.
The ChromaLife100 eight-color dye-based ink system in the Pro9000 Mark II features Photo Cyan, Photo Magenta, Green and Red inks in addition to the standard Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow. Each cartridge is $14.99 with an eight-color set bundled for $104.99 ($119.92 otherwise). A four-pack of just Black, Cyan, Yellow and Magenta is available for $52.99.
Usage depends on your images, of course, but don't be alarmed to find yourself replacing the Green and Red cartridges less frequently than the others. And expect the Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta to run out more frequently, as well.
We were a bit surprised by how long the Canon cartridges lasted. Our screen shot of the ink supply status shows how things stood after printing eleven 13x19s, one of them predominately magenta. And in the shot, you can see that just Photo Magenta shows any use.
We were so surprised, in fact, that we took the cartridges out to confirm their ink levels. And indeed they were still nearly full, except for Photo Magenta.
That's pretty impressive, considering we were printing on some pretty porous sheets (like Museum Etching). It's even more impressive when you compare that performance to HP's $300 13x19 printer, the B8550. After just one 13x19 and a few 8x10s, we'd exhausted those cartridges.
Canon supplied us with the $49.99 DAP-101 Digital Art Paper Variety Pack of 13x19 paper. That includes five sheets each of textured Museum Etching, Hahnlemuhle Photo Rag (100 percent acid-free cotton rag), smooth Premium Matte and velvet-textured Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss. Printing on thicker art papers is one of the joys of using a big printer and Canon supplies a variety of art papers to try.
Packs of 20 sheets of these 13x19 papers are available for Museum Etching at $99.99, Hahnlemuhle Photo Rag at $69.99, smooth Premium Matte at $54.99 and velvet-textured Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss at $42.99.
And, of course, the full range of Canon papers at small sizes is also available.
But before you ever click the Print button, there's some work to do. We won't go into the process of optimizing your images. There's not much special about that process for printing 13x19s except to note your sharpening may be a bit different because you're not going to be rubbing your nose into the print like you would a 4x6.
One other thing worth noting is that you can send a 16-bit channel image to the Pro9000 Mark II for printing. The main advantage of this would be to maintain your tone and color options if you don't like what you see in the print. Typically, you would reduce 16-bit channels to 8-bit before printing.
That does send a lot more data to the printer, which takes longer, but the printing didn't seem to take much longer. The only way we could slow the printer down was by printing monochrome. Our magenta flowers or a black and white image did print somewhat slower than full color, although the black and white (using the Grayscale option rather than full color) printed much faster than on the original Pro9000.
While you can print glossy and semi-glossy sheets with a full bleed at 13x19, the art papers require a border. Canon provides a paper size with a border for its art papers, which you should be sure to select when using Printer Setup to set the printer and sheet size.
Once you're ready to print, you should do your output sharpening. We use Nik Sharpener Pro, which lets us specify the kind of printer (inkjet), the paper (fine art) and the resolution (4800x2400). Our images don't require any local (or creative, as Nik puts it) sharpening but if you're doing portraits, it's a nice feature.
At the print dialog box, make sure you indicate that the application has control of color, not the printer. Then select the correct ICC printer profile from the popup list. Look for the Pro9000 Mark II and the paper (SG1 for semi-gloss in our screen shot) both.
After dismissing the print dialog box, check the printer driver dialog boxes for quality and color options.
Quality should show the correct paper in the media type field and you might want to confirm the print quality setting as well (which tends to be Standard more often than High).
Color options should be set so the Color Correction field is None. You want the color to be controlled by the application, not the printer.
Using those settings, we printed a variety of images from close-ups to landscapes in natural and artificial light. While JPEG images printed very well (you can't tell them from the prints that started life as a Raw image), we had a lot more fun manipulating the Raw images. Nothing we did to them was beyond the printer.
We especially liked printing on the non-glossy, matte papers. They were ideal for the baby pictures we printed, giving the image a softness a glossy sheet would not have been able to deliver. We wanted to reach out and touch those baby prints. Likewise the close-up prints of flowers. We really thought we could smell them, the illusion was so compelling.
And the crispness of our landscapes just astonished us. Trees lining a sidewalk showed every leaf, every blade of grass. Nik had a lot to do with that. Raw images are notably softer than their JPEG equivalents, which can be confusing to novices used to images sharpened by the camera. But that's part of the fun of working with Raw files.
The Pro9000 Mark II's resolution is so fine that even under a loupe we couldn't detect a dot pattern on any of the papers we used.
The Canon Pro9000 Mark II is a faster Pro9000. Its dyes deliver a brilliant range of color that, under proper storage, will outlive you (which is all that counts). And yet the printer is capable of subtle variations in tone and color that, printed on a variety of fine art media, simply astonished us.
While you can certainly print smaller size images on the Pro9000 Mark II, the real thrill is dawdling over an image to print at 13x19. The printer's grainless resolution, quickness and fidelity (using the ICC profiles provided with the paper) make printing as rewarding an experience as pressing the Shutter button. That makes the Canon Pro9000 Mark II our favorite printer.
By SHAWN BARNETT(Excerpted from the full review posted at https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EP1/EP1GALLERY.HTM on the Web site.)
I'm in love. I can't tell you just yet whether I'm in love with the Olympus E-P1 or the idea of the E-P1. Seems like that's how it goes sometimes. Only time will tell whether we're meant for each other, but my brief interlude with the E-P1 revived feelings I haven't had for 30 years.
She sits on my desk and stares at me, her 17mm lens glistening in the light of the desk lamp. What is it about form that pulls at us? When is the last time I saw a form like this? It would have to be my first dance with the OM-1 as a teen back in the 1970s. I'm too young and too American to have experienced the Pen F, the half-frame film camera whose size and lines the E-P1 are modeled after. Not many Olympus PEN cameras made it stateside because Kodak refused to support the half-frame SLR; but they were big in Europe and Asia thanks to support from Agfa and Japanese film makers.
But there's a little of the OM-1 in that top deck. Even the 14-42mm kit lens has the sliver ring around its base like so many OM Zuiko lenses from the past. I flash back to the days of the wired rotary dial phone; when the microwave, if you had one, was called a radar range; and my Dad activated the television remote control by saying, "Shawn, get up and change the channel."
Seeing a camera like this on my desk, I can only think of dropping it into a bag with a change of clothes, then jumping into a friend's VW Bus bound for Joshua Tree National Monument for the weekend to hike and photograph one of God's greatest playgrounds.
It's still not perfect, but the E-P1 is the closest we've seen to the high-quality take-anywhere digital camera that so many of us keep waiting for. It has a larger sensor, the Micro Four Thirds sensor (which is actually the same size as the original Four Thirds sensor) and the option of choosing the lens type and quality you want for the price you want to pay. You can even use old OM lenses with the optional OM adapter.
In person, the look of the E-P1 is quite a bit more retro than it seems in pictures. Silver and black on the version we received, white and tan with chrome accents on the white version. From the front, the E-P1 is quite simple: a lens lock release on the body, a soft, leather-texture grip, a lamp for the self-timer and stereo speaker holes left and right of the Olympus logo. The sensor is very close to the lens mount, which makes for easier cleaning, but also underscores the extra care required when changing lenses.
On the back, the mode dial peeks out from its port-hole on the top deck and is set via the knurl. The focal plane indicator is stamped between that and the flash hot shoe, which has its plastic cover in place. Note that there is no built-in on-camera flash on the E-P1 (the FL-14 flash, available for $199.99, comes with a $99.99 instant rebate through Sept. 9 but the E-P1 prerelease sample did quite well at high ISO). The 3-inch LCD is unfortunately limited to 230,000 pixels, though it is large and vibrant thanks to its HyperCrystal technology. The lower resolution makes Manual focus a little more difficult than it was on the just-reviewed Panasonic GH1, even with the 7x or 10x zoom option.
Getting back to the top deck, the Super Sonic Wave Filter lamp is next, followed by the power switch, whose outer ring glows green when the power is on. The shutter release button is ringed by a smooth bit of metal and is a pleasure to press. The EV adjustment button is last.
On the back you can see the speaker and the unique horizontal scroll wheel, used for zooming and changing menu items. Four buttons run down the right side of the LCD and a Function and Info button flank the navigation disk/wheel. The disk and wheel combination is small, but works surprisingly well. The wheel works better than most manufacturers' designs, a pleasant surprise. I'm not crazy about the layout of the rest of the buttons, though. It might be that the E-P1 is so short that the controls are just harder to reach than I'm used to. In the lower right corner is the card write lamp.
The camera strap loops unfortunately require annoying D-rings to work with most strap systems. These have become more of a burden thanks to the E-P1's movie mode, as every motion of the D-rings is recorded as the sound travels dutifully down the camera's lovely metal skin, eventually arriving at the microphone openings. Perhaps you can sense my irritation with this unnecessary metal-to-metal connection when cloth-to-metal is such an obvious standard on modern digital cameras and even camcorders. Since I don't like camera straps, I'd likely keep the camera like this and perhaps add a wrist strap with a toggle lock for security.
LCD. As I mentioned, the 3-inch LCD is big, but low resolution and its viewing angle is 176 degrees. It's the only way to frame images on the E-P1, unless you opt for the 17mm lens kit, which includes the optical viewfinder that slips into the hot shoe.
Function. The E-P1 includes a new Function menu with two unique dials at its disposal for easy navigation. Press the OK button in the center to bring up a menu matrix identical to the translucent screens on recent Olympus dSLRs.
The primary kit lens designed for the E-P1 is the 14-42mm f3.5-5.6. It's a shortened version of the standard kit lens shipped with so many digital cameras, equivalent to a 28-84mm zoom. It does a neat trick when you twist it from its resting position: it pops out to its full operating length.
There's an unlock switch on the left of the barrel, but this actually unlocks the mechanism that keeps the lens from retracting to its stowed position.
Though I appreciate the effort Olympus made to keep this lens from being a gigantic nuisance, I haven't fallen in love with the sample 14-42 I used, which was unbearably slow to focus and a little too big for me. The shipping lens, I've found, does indeed confirm focus more quickly. While it confirms focus to the user, it still continues running rapidly through the entire focus range before returning to the confirmed focus area, which takes a little longer. But it's quite a bit faster than the prototype.
My favorite is the 17mm f2.8, the only other Olympus lens made specifically for Micro Four Thirds as of this writing. Its low barrel distortion made shooting with this pancake design a sincere pleasure and its faster autofocus made me return to it again and again. While out shooting galleries, I had to remind myself a few times to get the 14-42mm lens mounted for a few shots; and after I got too frustrated with the autofocus, I returned to the 17. So you can easily guess which kit arrangement I recommend with the E-P1. Again, though, manual focus via the fly-by-wire focus ring, already difficult, is made more difficult thanks to the LCD's lower resolution. I struggled to notice any change as I turned the focus ring. I'm hoping production versions of the E-P1 perform better.
Lenses & Adapters. We took the liberty of trying the E-P1 with the rather elite lenses that came with our Panasonic GH1, the second Micro Four Thirds digital camera in the world. They both fit and worked well. Most impressive was the 7-14mm on such a small body.
The Lumix Four Thirds lens adapter allowed us to attach some of the more interesting Four Thirds lenses in house, including the 150mm f2.0 monster lens. Olympus's equivalent is the MMF-1, a silver Four Thirds adapter.
Sweetening the deal for OM-system lens owners like me is the MF-2 OM Adapter, which allows attachment of some really fine lenses. I'll report more on this when we get an adapter and a final production version of the E-P1.
HD movie modes are a new dimension to consider in a camera of this size, especially considering the relatively compact lenses available for it. The E-P1 records AVI movies at 1280x720 and 640x480, both at 30 frames per second. Maximum file size is 2-GB and the maximum recording time is 7 minutes in HD mode or 14 minutes in Standard Definition. You can also use the ART filters to limited effect. Some of the filters slow the frame rate so much that I doubt most would want to use them. These include the Pinhole and Grainy Film modes.
Audio Technology. Olympus is also touting the audio technology built into the E-P1's Movie mode, which they say is as good as their best audio recorders. It's described as Wave Format Base Stereo PCM/16-bit at 44.1kHz. Unfortunately, that's only for movie recording or for attaching audio to a photograph; there is no audio-only recording mode, as we've seen on some other cameras.
Also built into the E-P1 are five ambient tunes to use with slide shows and videos, created by Daishi Dance, a famous Japanese musician.
Thanks to the light weight of the E-P1, I found myself shooting one-handed a lot more than I normally do. That's of course partly because I had no optical viewfinder to use while shooting, so I already had to hold the camera out in front of me to compose images. Since I shoot mostly vertical, it's more comfortable to shoot with one hand. I don't recommend it, but with the 17mm mounted and the body-based image stabilization I had few blurry shots.
I also kept dropping into black and white mode just for the fun of it. It's a mode I've been locking my Rebel into by default, but shooting in live view lets you compose in black and white, which is something we've never been able to do before the advent of live view. Even when I cranked up my ISO to 6400, the image quality from the E-P1 was pretty good in black and white.
I tried the Grainy Film Art filter, too, but it slowed the Live View's refresh and produced more plugged shadows and more grain than even ISO 6400. I'd rather get the benefit of the high ISO and good detail than play with that particular filter.
Olympus menus have a lot of depth, which can be a little crazy-making for me. I don't want to see all that when I'm trying to capture my world; I just want simplicity. You'll want to carry the manual around with you and study it to understand some of the menu items. But sticking with the new Function menu makes using the E-P1 a little more straightforward. The new thumbwheel is also great to use, a novel, well-placed control.
In short, I had a hard time putting the E-P1 down. It was only schedules that kept me from using the camera more and I could see myself spending a lot more of my free time taking pictures with the E-P1. You know, the kind of time you spend with a camera when all you do is explore its many features, re-read the manual and try to get a different shot of some subject whose essence you've tried to capture for years.
I see a lot of cameras and many of them are excellent and inspire my creativity. But the E-P1 captured my imagination when it was first announced in wood-block form. Olympus has made a tradition out of creating cameras that defy the trends, even with their E-series of modern dSLRs, a camera system with a digital-specific lens design. But those cameras ended up looking the same as the cameras they intended to turn on their ear, with large lenses and bulky bodies.
What Olympus needed was to find a new niche. I think the Micro Four Thirds E-P1 is that niche. First, the E-P1's image quality won't be held to the standard of bigger, heavier dSLRs; even when it is compared -- which it will be -- people will make allowances for any shortcomings they see; if they see any at all. Second, there are so many advantages to a camera of this size that Olympus can't help but attract new users on that fact alone. Third, there is so much pent up demand for this form factor that Olympus's biggest problem will be meeting that demand and introducing a sufficient number of new lenses to keep up with the inevitable demand for more optics to enhance this promising camera format.
If the shipping versions of the E-P1 can maintain the quality I see in the prototype's images, I think it's going to be enormously popular.
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The fog was pressing against the windows like packing peanuts. The heater was huffing and puffing like a big old bad wolf. The roof was rattling in the wind like the loose hood of a '68 Mustang flying down from the Sierras.
So we put our feet on the ottoman and opened Joe McNally's The Hot Shoe Diaries. Where there is darkness, Joe sheds light.
And not just artificial light. Our first encounter with Joe was at PMA a couple of years ago. We were walking around those huge halls in the Las Vegas Convention Center taking pictures of interesting things in boring booths. As we walked by the Nikon booth, there was Joe standing before a packed audience to talk about using Nikon Speedlights.
The first thing he said, as we recall, was about some hot shot who only photographed in "available light." Well, what's available light? Joe wanted to know. Any light that's available! Even a Speedlight.
The real argument for learning to use artificial light -- even if you love natural light photography -- is (as Joe puts it time and again the The Hot Shoe Diaries) to make your photo look different than the one the guy next to you is making. If you learn to paint with light, you can create an image nobody else has seen.
And that, Joe reminds us, starts with the subject. Get your camera position first. Set the scene. Then see what the natural light gives you and augment that with these little lights that communicate with each other and the camera so well.
In fact, Nikon's Creative Lighting System is at the heart of this book. Yes, the principles apply whether you're using an old Konica-Minolta wireless setup or Canon gear, but Nikon's CLS solves so many other problems nothing else can touch it. From the camera's menu system, you can set groups of strobes to behave independently, cranking their output up or down in EVs and monitoring them with i-TTL. A preflash in the line of sight communicates with them milliseconds before the exposure so you don't have to run around setting them manually.
Joe even explains how to get around the line-of-sight issue using a remote commander tethered to the camera's hot shoe by cable. He nods to other solutions like the infrared signaling used by the renowned Pocket Wizard, but never really needs them as he marches from one freelance assignment to another in the diary.
In fact, the book is called a diary because after an initial section of three chapters that discuss gear and how to use it in general, and the appendix that goes through the Speedlight menu systems, the book is all about individual shoots and how Joe lit them.
These individual shoots are not, thankfully, organized chronologically. Instead, the first section bundles 30 of them that were shot using just one Speedlight. The second section has 18 shot with two or more, and the third has 11 shots with more lights than any one human being can actually afford.
If you bought the DVD A Hands-on Guide to Creative Lighting from Nikon School (http://www.nikonmall.com/detail/NIK+11484), you'll recognize a couple of the shoots. But there's also a memorable one involving brain surgery, another of a light bulb being changed on the Empire State Building, one of an outrigger canoe slicing through the ocean, a few office shots, some in the desert, one right in the water -- there's no place this guy won't go to pay the mortgage.
Each shoot is a brief chapter: the image (huge, often a full spread), a page or two of text to tell the story, maybe an inset image or three to show the progression as he solves a lighting problem or just a diagram of the solution on a napkin.
And if you think the prose might put you to sleep, it's so lively we can't quote any of it here. But you know that already if you've read Joe's blog (http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2009/06/10/new-website-new-blog/). There's so much to digest in each assignment, really, that it took us weeks to get through the book. We could only read a handful of them at a time before we felt like leaping into action down in the bunker where there always seems to be a product shot or two waiting for us.
So we would. We'd leave the fog, the chill and the wind, descending into the bunker to bask in our own sunlight made with nothing more than one little old strobe. And Joe's advice.
The Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally, published by New Riders, 304 pages, $39.99 (or $26.39 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321580141/?tag=theimagingres-20).
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RE: SpyderCube
Can you tell us how this might do in a mixed lighting situation? Say you were shooting food, inside with incandescent, maybe even some fluorescent as well or color cast walls, and then adding flash or sunlight -- so three types of light?
-- Martin Kimeldorf(Well, you have two options in that situation: pick one light source to be the natural one and let the others fall where they stumble or enforce one color of light on the whole scene by filtering two of three light sources. The SpyderCube makes it easy to balance any of the three sources but you'd want to shoot the reference shot in the main light. Or buy three, one for each light source in the scene, and make local color adjustments in your software <g>. -- Editor)
I am most interested in the SpyderCube following your recent review. In the review you mentioned one or two other similar products but not the ExpoDisc. I wonder how the latter compares?
-- Nick Kitto(Good question, Nick. The ExpoDisc is a white, translucent plastic disc that pops onto your lens. It diffuses light arriving at the camera (not necessarily reflected in the scene) so you can set a custom white balance in your camera, much as you might by spot reading a gray card. But it avoids the reflections, unfortunate angles and framing issues of a gray card. It has its own issues, however. Different lens filter sizes require different size ExpoDiscs (there are at least eight sizes available, although you could always just buy the largest). And the light arriving at the lens might not be quite the mix you're shooting.... With the SpyderCube, you don't (and really can't) set a custom white balance in the camera. As the illustrated version of our review shows, it doesn't matter what white balance you shoot with. By including the SpyderCube in a reference shot, you can change the color balance with a click on the light gray triangle. And you can set it in the light you want to balance in a mixed lighting environment.... But you also get the black, white, absolute black and spectral highlight reference points in your reference image. And that can be invaluable in evaluating an exposure and setting exposure, brightness, black level and midtone values. Nobody else offers that. -- Editor)
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Very nice article and very deep.
I usually say shooting Raw is like a trial motorcycle: it will take you where you want to go if you know where you want to go. If you do not know, take the tram like everyone else.
Your article is the best article based on Raw workflow that I have read: give them a compass and teach them to use it. I believe there isn't a better way to start. Congratulations.
-- Frank Tagliaferro(Thanks, Frank! Oh, a trial motorcycle doesn't have a seat and isn't designed for speed but to get through an obstacle course, rather like shooting Raw, indeed. -- Editor)
RE: Pandigital Detractors
It's funny how, in forum comments, only the people that have something bad to say about their digital photo frame are the only ones that take the time to write about it. In 2006, Pandigital sold 520,000 frames. If everyone is having the same problem, then you would have 520,000 complaints. Get over it people! And those who are happy with their product like I am, write about it as well. It is a great product, I have them all over my home.
-- R. Revelo(Ironically, Pandigital makes one of the best frames you can buy, as we said in "Gifting a Digital Photo Frame" (https://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/GDF/GDF.HTM). Where people tend to have trouble is in loading images the frames (of any brand) can't display. And finding that troublesome image can be hard work. But that isn't the frame's fault. Still, Pandigital's FAQ is about their only customer support, so forums like ours tend to attract people with problems rather than praise. -- Editor)
RE: Donation
I read and recommend your site regularly and would like to make a donation although I am reluctant to use PayPal because of security concerns and periodic spoofing by others. Is there some way that I can send you a check by mail and, if so, to what mailing address?
FWIW, I believe that you guys run one of the best photo sites on the 'net -- solid, objective facts without a lot of hype or fluff -- and I would like to help out. (I used to be a medium format/view camera type who converted to digital about four years ago. I studied a bit with Minor White back at MIT when I was an undergrad/grad student there in the late '60s to early '70s pursuing other studies.)
-- Joe Kashi(Thanks, Joe! As it happens, to be a well-behaved emailer, we must provide a mailing address with each issue. You'll find it at the very bottom (the very last line): The Imaging Resource, 1025 Wiley Bridge Road, Woodstock, GA 30188-4604. -- Editor)
RE: Mechanical Shutter Release
A long time photographer and reader of your Web site, I just ran across and ordered a digital camera shutter release with bracket (http://www.focalprice.com/detail.aspx?pid=5017) for $12.92 including tax and shipping. I had been looking for a very long time for just this gadget. So many digital cameras don't have any way to trip the shutter except using the self-timer.
-- Eric Gordon(Seems like it would work for both dSLRs and digicams, too. Let us know how it works out, particularly if it leaves the shutter button unscathed and if you can feel the half-press you need to focus before firing. There are, of course, remote electronic shutter releases and cables for many cameras. Some infrared devices can even be impersonated by a remote control set to the right code. -- Editor)
Sharp (http://www.sharpusa.com) is taking the High Definition LCD panel beyond RGB with a five-color pixel that adds cyan and yellow to the mix. The additional colors extend the color gamut so the display can display images "identical in appearance to real-world objects," according to Sharp. And it should consume less power having to compensate less for RGB limitations. It's just a prototype now but the company intends to bring it to market.
Light Blue Software (http://www.lightbluesoftware.com) has released Light Blue: Photo 1.2 [MW], a studio management system with instant iCal publication, more Web gallery templates and more.
Eye-Fi (http://www.eye.fi) has introduced its $150 Eye-Fi Pro SDHC card that can transfer Raw images and supports ad-hoc connections directly to your laptop.
Hamrick (http://www.hamrick.com) has released VueScan 8.5.16 [LMW] with support for infrared cleaning on some HP scanners, improved support for newer HP scanners and improved support for Lexmark scanners.
The free JAlbum 8.3.5 [LMW] (http://jalbum.net) has been released with faster image scaling, turbo album uploading, instant previews, optional hardware accelerated image scaling, automatic server reconnection and support for IPTC location and sub location camera metadata fields.
Fixamac (http://www.fixamac.net) has released its $29.95 Print Therapy 6.0.5 [M], adding Mac OS X 10.5.7 compatibility, startup checks and bug fixes.
Flexibits (http://www.flexibits.com) has released its $9.95 Cameras 1.0 [M] preference pane to control which application is launched when you connect a digital camera, digital media reader, iPhone/iPod Touch or photo device.
DxO Labs (http://www.dxo.com) has released DxO Optics Pro 5.3.4 [MW] with support for the Canon EOS 500D and Nikon D5000, plus the Fuji S100FS, Pentax K-m/K200 and Sony A200/A300.
DataRescue (https://www.imaging-resource.com/SOFT/PHR/PHR.HTM) has released PhotoRescue 3.1.10 [MW] with support for new Raw file formats and the ability to extract large thumbnails from Raw files.
Fantasea Line (http://www.fantasea.com) has released two new underwater housings specifically designed for the Canon PowerShot A480 and the Nikon Coolpix L19/L20 digicams. The new housings, depth rated to 200 feet, provide access to all camera functions.
The company has also released its new Remora Slave Flash with a guide number of 20 and four pre-flash settings for compatibility with "all compact digital cameras in the market." The flash is designed specifically for Fantasea housings.
And, finally, the company now offers its BigEye Wide Angle lens for large zoom lens compact digicams. The lenses can be installed and removed during the dive.
VJ Workshops and Brooks Institute are offering a tuition-free multimedia workshop (http://www.vjworkshops.org) for college students and professional journalists. The workshop will be held at the Ventura campus of Brooks Institute from July 30 thru Aug. 2.
Sony (http://www.sonystyle.com) has released Playstation 3 firmware update 2.60, adding a Photo Gallery application to organize and view images stored on a PS3. And images can be uploaded to online photo sharing sites from the PS3 or to PSP for photos on the go.
SlideShowPro (http://slideshowpro.net) now includes pan and zoom effects.
It's not too late to sign up for Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk (http://worldwidephotowalk.com) on July 18. Join other local photographers at one of over 1,000 walks, share your images and win prizes.
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Byline: James Mirtle
Source: National Post
Dan Blackburn was used to being an acrobat, but it might take a little while to adjust to being a carnival act.
Mr. Blackburn joined the minor-league Victoria Salmon Kings last week, and as the only goaltender to play wearing two blockers, he has attracted a lot of attention in the British Columbia capital.
"This sounds kind of strange, but it's almost like circus-freak appeal, you know, 'Come and see the goalie with two blockers,' " Mr. Blackburn said. "I feel a little on display like that. But I think there's just been a lot of interest to see what the talk is about."
The source of the fuss is a new blocker-catcher hybrid glove Mr. Blackburn now wears in place of a typical trapper. An injury to his left shoulder prevents the 21-year-old netminder from rotating his glove hand into an upright catching position, meaning a traditional glove is of little use. The goaltender's limitations prompted some creative retooling by New York Rangers training staff, who developed the hybrid glove, and the NHL subsequently approved its use due to Mr. Blackburn's disability.
And when Mr. Blackburn began practising with the Salmon Kings last week, the unique piece of equipment generated a lot of curiosity. Tickets for the Salmon Kings past three ECHL games were snapped up and dozens of media outlets clamoured to talk to the former NHL wunderkind.
"It's been crazy, all the media requests," Mr. Blackburn said. "There have been newspapers, radio stations and TV stations. I've been interviewed on Sportsnet a couple of times."
Not that Mr. Blackburn isn't used to the spotlight.
When the Camrose, Alta., native arrived in the NHL three years ago as an 18-year-old, he became the third-youngest netminder to win a game. And after playing 63 games over two seasons, the former 10th overall pick (2001) was touted as the long-term solution for the struggling Rangers.
Then a freak injury derailed Mr. Blackburn's career.
The goalie pinched a nerve in his shoulder while lifting weights in the summer of 2003. The injury was serious enough that he missed all of the following NHL season. Then, while rehabilitating for a comeback last August, he aggravated the injury, separating the shoulder and causing irreparable damage to the nerve.
After numerous unsuccessful surgeries and nearly two years, Mr. Blackburn was told he may never regain full use of his arm.
It was with that thought still sinking in that he suited up in a game with Victoria on Friday night.
"It was exciting," he said. "After not being on the ice for such a long time, you almost feel like it's not really going on. It takes a couple of games of where you're out there and you're in a game again."
The road back to pro hockey has been a difficult one for Mr. Blackburn, who at one point went more than year without stepping on to the ice.
"[It was] a lot of long hours at the gym, long hours on the ice by myself in New York, just working on getting my movement better, improving myself so I could be as prepared as possible when I came back."
After being away from the game for so long, Mr. Blackburn also began to feel isolated from his team. He still attended Rangers' home games last year but stopped going on the road trips.
As Mr. Blackburn is the first modern goaltender to play wearing two blockers, people are tentative in saying how he will fare playing with the injury long-term.
"He's got a disability, and he's going to see where he can go now [with the injury]," his agent, Mark Hall, said prior to watching Mr. Blackburn play last week.
"As they say, the proof is in the pudding."
The pudding, it seems, is just fine. Victoria lost 3-2 in Mr. Blackburn's debut -- a loss that added another notch to the team's league-record 20-game winless skid -- but he was in goal the following night when the team snapped the cumbersome streak. Mr. Blackburn made a few highlight-reel saves in a 5-4 shootout victory.
The Salmon Kings can certainly use the help. Victoria is in last place with a 8-32-5 record and has allowed more than four goals a game. In three games so far, Mr. Blackburn has stopped the bleeding a little, letting 10 pucks past and posting a save percentage of .899.
The one-time phenom says playing with two blockers has forced him to adapt how he plays goal.
"The way I used to play is I used to basically just perform based on athleticism. I never really had a goalie coach growing up, so I wasn't a positional goalie. It was just all athleticism and reaction.
"Now I'm trying to play a positional game so I don't have to reach for the puck like I used to."
But it's not just a change in style that has come over the young netminder. Mr. Blackburn says his attitude toward playing the game has also changed.
"You do realize that there's a lot more to life than hockey, when it has been your life and it's not there anymore. You definitely have a different outlook on everything. I always thought I wanted to make hockey a part of it again, and that's what I'm trying to do now.
"I'm a hockey player first off, and it's just natural [to want to play]. It'd be a different story, you know, if I was doing something else."
• Photo: Ch Tv / Former NHLer Dan Blackburn permanently injured his shoulder and now wears a hybrid glove. "I feel a little on display like that."