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States now have "ag-gag" or Agriculture laws that stop, block, make, talking about findings or data collection not legal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The state rules can even be pushed to new limits to try and prevent photography on public land and later conversations/reports about findings from public land.
Wyoming Law May Cause Legal Problems For Photographers Shooting on Public Land, Including National Parks (May 14, 2015 )
A new state law takes aim at citizen scientists
http://www.popphoto.com/did-wy...
"“... to take a sample of material, acquire, gather, photograph or otherwise preserve information in any form from open land which is submitted or intended to be submitted to any agency of the state or federal government."

Only once somebody clones the fuel cartridges.

According to their site, a fuel pod is ~55 cubic centimeters. Brookstone wants $20 for two. A liquid fuel had better be nigh-indistinguishable from magic for $180/liter.

Consumers have paid far more for liquid consumables.

It's a different sensor. Perhaps factual knowledge is something the sub-7-digit UID crowd thinks it no longer needs?

Not so rare any more. Pretty much all the tunnels & bridges in NYC are "no photo" zones. Take a look at this entertaining gallery for examples.

All part of the War on Photographers.

Here's an article from an American magazine saying otherwise: How a Photo Can Ruin Your Life
Warning: contains a photographic example of the kind of image in question. Thus I think it would be better to post this anonymously.

Try photographing something that is in the range of more than one color and heavily saturated (like a yellowish-orangish sunset). The matrixing algorithm that is used to reconstruct the original color from the sensor tries its best, but cannot really match a normal Bayer-based dSLR at the moment (either Canon or Nikon).

That isn't what these third-party test results and these images, and this one, and these, and these, and these indicate. Plenty of good yellows and oranges, including saturated ones, in those examples. Sorry, I just don't think you're up to date on what they're doing with this technology.

Foveon implementation is crap? What have you been smoking?

The SD14 is a 4.7 megapixel camera. It is doing very well when compared against 8 megapixel Bayer-based cameras. If that doesn't validate the technology, I don't know what does. Perhaps you're confused by the claim that it is a "14.1 megapixel" camera. That's just marketing hype, and should be ignored right out of the gate. There are 4.7 million sensor sites, meaning, spatially distinct sensors. It's a 4.7 MP sensor, period. But considered as such, it is a great technology, and as the link I just gave you shows, the color accuracy, image resolution and quality are all top notch.

For instance, I'm a photographer. I have a lot of good samples of my work on my website, and people searching for a photographer in a particular market or of a particular style would do well to find my site.

Have you thought about using any of the small stock agencies? There's iStockphoot, Shutterstock.com, Big Stock Phot as well as others. The three above and others are royalty free and don't pay much, in an article in the current print edition of Popular Photography the highest paying pure photo only pays up to $1.00 though it may be only 25 cents. However if you have and buyers download hundreds a week then it can at least pay for itself if not be your only source of income. After reading the article I've thought about trying to join one myself though I'm not a pro, in part because I'm not. I have one problem in photography, as a professor I had once said, my composition needs to be worked on, but the more you shoot the better you get.

And it also happens in the current Canon lineup (Canon EOS-1Ds, EOS-1D MkII, EOS 20D as per this magazine). On my 20D it's under "Custom Function 18: Add original decision data." The Canon Data Verification Kit DVK-E2 (Windows only, sadly) is used to verify such images.

From TFA: WHEN you really stop to think about it, memory cards are a pretty delicate storage format for something as important as your digital photos.

I couldn't find it on their website, but I recently read an article in (I think) Popular Photography where they did some "stress testing" of memory cards. The results? most of the cards withstood submersion in water, drops, baked, frozen, and being run over by cars. As long as they could still be connected to a reader, the data was usually OK.

Contrast this with a hard-drive-based storage solutions which are comparatively extremely fragile. Now, this isn't to say that I'm not going to purchase a HD-based device for a month-long trip this summer, but the cards are vastly more durable, just not as big or as cheap/GB.

Nope. Even the high end DSRLs still have a small crop factor. I think the 1ds has a 1.3 crop factor, small, but still there.

First of all, it's not a "crop factor" - that's a misnomer. It's a focal length multiplier, or if you're Canon and want to be cute about it, a "conversion factor". There's an important difference there, which relates to the focal length of the lenses you're using.

The original 1DS had no focal multiplier - it used a full-size CMOS sensor just like the new one does. See here and here (see the focal length multiplier, which is "1").

Kodak also produces cameras with full-size CMOS sensors (see here; they make basically this same camera with both Canon and Nikon lens mounts). Keep in mind, though, that "full-size" is a relative term and is basically a misnomer just like "crop factor" is - the only reason it even matters is so that photographers can match the lenses already on the market to their new digital camera. Otherwise it doesn't matter if the CMOS is 37mm or 40mm or 32mm or whatever, as long as there's enough room for however many pixels you want to stuff into it.

• Popular Photography -
• Rock & Ice
• Climbing
• MacWorld
• Powder
• Skiing
• Couloir

• Rio Karma (20G) for day to day use, Rio Cali (256mb version) for the gym (Wow just did a currency conversion, and even with the exchange it's about $100CND cheaper to buy this in the states (assuming the $169USD pricetag seen on froogle.google.com)
• AOpen DRW4410 DVD Writer (at under $100 US it'd be cheaper than the above items :)
• Linux compatible Serial ATA card for my fileserver (the Silicon Graphics chipsets don't seem to do linux RAID, but according to some of the forum posts it is possible to get it working). This is just an interim solution until I upgrade the whole box and put in a motherboard with a SATA chip, so just looking for something that works :)
• A couple of big ass SATA hard drives to go with it.
• Aliens Quadrilogy DVD
• A USB keychain storage device... 64 or 128 megs of storage to keep important files safe. According to a recent Linux Journal article, they are the floppies for the new millenium.
• Canon Digital Rebel or...
• Pentax Digital *ist
• Add on bits for my Canon A70 Digital Camera
• Another nice shirt like I got from mom for my birthday
• $1,000,000
• A house that exactly meets what I want (and only costs $1)
• A subscription to Popular Photography Magazine
• A huge and over priced flat panel TV, ungodly expensive reciever, and speakers of such high quality that even the most freakish audiophiles will cry for mercy (this will go in the house I mentioned above).
• CDRs
• CDRWs
• DVDRs (to go with the DVD writer mentioned above)

The December issue of Popular Photography and Imaging magazine covers 80 cameras in the "Pop Photo Buyer's Guide 2004".Popular Photography recommends the Pentax ZX-M for people who don't want auto-focus but who might want auto-exposure. The street price for a ZX-M with a 50mm f2.0 lens is $190. The street price for a ZX-M with a 35-80mm f4-5.6 zoom lens is $210. Popular Photography recommends the Nikon FM-10 for people who want an all manual camera.

Olympus has just released the follow on to the E10/E20 - the Olympus E-1. The E-1 has interchangeable lenses that are specifically designed for use with a CDD. The November issue of Popular Photography has a review of the Olympus E-1.

The November issue of Popular Photography also has a review of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, but the review doesn't seem to be posted on the web site.

If you think this sounds interesting, but don't have any clue what it's about (is that possible? :-), CIELab describes a color using three decimal values (L, a & b).
The difference between two CIELab values is called Delta E. You can find a formula here.

I've been somewhat seriously using The GIMP for about a year now. But, because of time pressures, I'm still learning. And I'm a bit of a perfectionist as well.

Why did I start using The GIMP? Well:

• It came with Red Hat Linux.
• I've been manipulating photographs in the darkroom since 1983 and wanted to try it with computer software.
• It's free, as in beer. This was a bit of a consideration given the price of Photoshop.

Reactions? The book "The Artist's Guide to The GIMP" has been helpful, but it reads more like a computer manual than something an artist would write. I've been reading Popular Photography for a very long time now. It's much more oriented to how to do some project than the book is. I like Pop Photo's approach over the book's. And I make my living as a software engineer.

I have been able to do some neat things with the GIMP and I expect to be able to do more as I become more comfortable with the tool. See my current site for some samples of my manipulated images, both photographic and computer. Look quickly, though. I'm in the process of switching ISPs.

Will I move on to Photoshop? Depends upon what limitations I run into with The GIMP. No, I'm not willing to plunge into coding new things for the GIMP. I do art to get away from being a software engineer. I am willing to be a guinea pig for people developing GIMP software, though.