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I have the SD9, and it really is a great camera. It does have limitations with ISO (only going to 400) but some of the problems (like noise) have been reduced with software and firmware upgrades. The review is starting to look a bit dated.

The color clipping occurs on other cameras too (just not quite as soon), just look at the example images from other cameras in the same review (like the D60) - they have the same issue! I have not seen that come up much in practice, as some others have noted on the Sigma forum the key is to shoot the SD9 like you would slide film - expose for the highlights, and develop for the shadows. In other words, try and set exposure so that highlight do not go out of range. The software itself gives you enough leeway in increasing/reducing exposure that you can bring the exposure back up again.

People have done some great things with the camera, take a look at the Sigma SD9 gallery on PBase. The nice thing is, most people post full size images instead of crops so you can really see the details.

I could be mistaken but isn't that how /. came around? Hrm, and now that I check my sources the faq says:

I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable.
So, I guess it has worked before :)

~Dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

Dear sir/madam:

I am Mr. Darl mcbride currently serving as the president and chief executive officer of the SCO group, formerly known as Caldera Systems International, in Lindon, Utah, United States of America. I know this letter might surprise your because we have had no previous communications or business dealings before now.

My associates have recently made claim to computer softwares worth an estimated $1 billion u.s. dollars. I am writing to you in confidence because we urgently require your assistance to obtain these funds.

In the early 1970s the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation developed at great expense the computer operating system software known as Unix. Unfortunately the laws of my country prohibited them from selling these softwares and so their valuable source codes remained privately held. Under a special arrangement some programmers from the California University of Berkeley did add more codes to this operating system, increasing its value, but not in any way to dilute or disparage our full and rightful ownership of these codes, despite any agreement between American Telephone and Telegraph and the California University of Berkeley, which agreement we deny and disavow.

In the year 1984 a change of regime in my country allowed the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation to make profits from these softwares. In the year 1990 ownership of these softwares was transferred to the corporation Unix System Laboratories. In the year 1993 this corporation was sold to the corporation Novell. In the year 1994 some employees of Novell formed the corporation Caldera Systems International, which began to distribute an upstart operating system known as Linux. In the year 1995 Novell sold the Unix software codes to SCO. In the year 2001 occurred a separation of SCO, and the SCO brand name and Unix codes were acquired by the Caldera Systems International, and in the following year the Caldera Systems International was renamed SCO group, of which I currently serve as chief executive officer.

My associates and I of the SCO group are therefore the full and rightful owners of the operating system softwares known as Unix. Our engineers have discovered that no fewer than seventy (70) lines of our valuable and proprietary source codes have appeared in the upstart operating system Linux. As you can plainly see, this gives us a claim on the millions of lines of valuable software codes which comprise this Linux and which has been sold at great profit to very many business enterprises. Our legal experts have advised us that our contribution to these codes is worth an estimated one (1) billion U.S. dollars.

Unfortunately we are having difficulty extracting our funds from these computer softwares. To this effect I have been given the mandate by my colleagues to contact you and ask for your assistance. We are prepared to sell you a share in this enterprise, which will soon be very profitable, that will grant you the rights to use these valuable softwares in your business enterprise. Unfortunately we are not able at this time to set a price on these rights. Therefore it is our respectful suggestion, that you may be immediately a party to this enterprise, before others accept these lucrative terms, that you send us the number of a banking account where we can withdraw funds of a suitable amount to guarantee your participation in this enterprise. As an alternative you may send us the number and expiration date of your major credit card, or you may send to us a signed check from your banking account payable to "SCO group" and with the amount left blank for us to conveniently supply.

Kindly treat this request as very important and strictly confidential. I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% legal and risk-free.

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http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

Just curious if "Bizarro world" is a reference to Sealab 2021? And if so, you should check out http://www.dapcentral.org/ If not, please disregard this posting :) But Sealab Bizarro episode is one of the funniest things I have seen.

~dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

but those of us with $1000+ sets hooked up to our home audio jukebox computers sure are.

So all 2 of you aren't going to buy into this? Somehow I don't think you're the target market. Obviously audiophiles are not going to buy into this, you go buy you're DVD-Audio and the rest of the world who aren't nearly as anal, picky, or discerning (98% of the world) will have no problems and not be able to tell the difference. How many consumers know the bitrates of their MP3's? Probably not many.

Lame sig, look at my Photos

here in Fremont, Center of the Universe, we have parties with trolls, goblins, and other creatures, a Giant Troll which lives under our bridge, and space aliens on our Space Needle.

And that's on a good day ....

here in Fremont, Center of the Universe, we have parties with trolls, goblins, and other creatures, a Giant Troll which lives under our bridge, and space aliens on our Space Needle.

And that's on a good day ....

here in Fremont, Center of the Universe, we have parties with trolls, goblins, and other creatures, a Giant Troll which lives under our bridge, and space aliens on our Space Needle.

And that's on a good day ....

Google has a whole list of them here.
As far as free services go, Photobase is pretty good. Phil Greenspun's Photo.net gives you some space plus a community of amateur to pro photographers to boot.

link to photos of GB rockets at LDRS

I don't know where you're from and I'm not a lawyer, but...

In America we have this thing called Habeaus Corpus (sp? actual name?!?) that prevents a person from being tried for a crime that was commited before it became illegal. While I don't agree with the original poster, I don't agree with your logic either.

I would say if the police had to have a warrant to use the technology, like they do when they put a phone tap/other surviellance, then I don't have a problem with it. Just a thought....

~Dan
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/dan.coughlin
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo

Here are photos
I took at an Alternative Fueled Vehicle show in Cocoa, Florida earlier this year. There are shots of a 2002 Prius, 2002 Insight, 2003 Civic Hybrid, a CNG Ford Crown Vic, GEMCar, Think!, a CNG Ford F150, Electric RAV4, and several misc vehicles.

You might also be interested in the EVWorld web site which has plenty of news and a free EV related newsletter.

Enjoy!