Color chemicals aren't that bad either. The C41 negative process and RA4 paper process are fairly benign as well, as long one is careful to run the bleach-fix through a well-maintained silver recovery unit before disposal.
I couldn't speak about slide development, as I've never worked in an E6-process lab. Or a Kodachrome lab for that matter, but from what I've heard, processing Kodachrome is more art than science, and uses some really exotic stuff. Besides, there's something like only 3 labs in the world that still do Kodachrome.
I mostly agree, but Minolta also had some other recent interesting ideas. Their wireless flash system is a very cool piece of technology. As a Canon user, I really envy having the master flash (not sure what the Minolta terminology is) built into the camera itself, not an expensive add-on.
I admit that 99.99% or so of the people who need to use a wireless flash setup under Canon are pros who can afford to spring for the extra gear, but it would be nice for us more budget-oriented Canon shooters to simply be able to set our cheapie 420EX down somewhere and use the popup flash to control it.
I think the original poster was referring more to 16x24mm sized sensors. Nikon's refused to say one way or the other if they'll ever make a full-frame sensor as Canon has done. This makes people wonder if Nikon will eventually only produce lenses made for the smaller sensor.
A smaller sensor means less glass needed to project an image large enough to cover the sensor, which means much a lower weight lens. The price to pay, of course, is that the DX lenses won't work properly on 35mm film. Remove film cameras from the whole equation, and anyone buying any of Nikon's SLRs won't care about that one disadvantage. As far as the new SLR owner is concerned, any Nikon lens they see on the camera store shelf will work just fine with their new camera.
A few years back, I would have been skeptical of the wisdom of this, but the sensor in the new D2X is supposed to be amazing, with very low noise and very high resolution. And this is coming from a dedicated Canon fanboy who's only Nikon gear is a 35mm EM with a 50/1.8 series E, so I'm not exactly a shill for the company.:)
The Nikon D50 and Canon 350D don't have separate shutter and aperture control dials (i.e.: you have to hold down a modifier key to adjust the other parameter). Sure, you can avoid having to do this by staying in S/Tv or A/Av mode (Nikon/Canon), but what about exposure compensation?
What's the big deal about this? I'm more familiar with the 350D, but I cut my teeth on its' 35mm ancestor, the EOS300, and the button layout is similiar. It feels like a pretty natural way to adjust exposure to me. I guess it depends on what one's used to.
No depth-of-focus preview button in the lower-priced digital SLR bodies.
The D50 is the only current DSLR from either Nikon or Canon without a dedicated DOF preview button right next to the lens mount. The 350D has it, in exactly the same location as the EOS30/33 series 35mm bodies. It's hardly an optional feature buried in a strange menu. The 300D had the same dedicated button in the same place. Heck, even my 3-generations-old, entry-level 35mm EOS300 has the same DOF button right next to the lens mount.
(A bonus about Canon's DOF button: one can hold it down, and keep adjusting aperture to one's tastes without having to constantly press and release the DOF preview. Handy feature. The F65's DOF preview drove me nuts, having to press and release constantly when I was trying film bodies to get started a few years ago. I don't know if Nikon's digital bodies are the same.)
As for Konica-Minolta/Pentax/Sigma, I have no idea. Konica-Minolta stopped selling in Canada, so I haven't been able to do hands-on tests at the local camera shop, and they don't make a D50/350D equivalent anyway. Pentax bodies are constantly sold out here (the perils of living in a Pentax town where everyone has a boatload of manual K-mount glass) and no small dealer concerned about their reputation would keep Sigma bodies in stock.
And I have to assume that you don't seem to be familiar with modern large format cameras. Very, very few people use 8x10 glass plates anymore, but there's lots of people that use 8x10 negative and slide film.
And if you are photographer who has gallery exhibitions, forget digitals. You will never be able to blow it up the wall size even with 30 mega pixel.
Anyone making prints that big on a regular basis and worries about maximum resolution is using at least a 4x5 large format camera, and most likely an 8x10.
Atlas Shrugged is nothing but wank material for spoiled children who have always had everything handed to them on a silver plate, and have never had to deal with real-world issues.
That pisses me off every time the miserable olympics roll around. I love listening to the BBC over the net here in Canada, and whenever those damnable games start, the BBC has to cut their entire feed.
I don't give a damn about who won what medal flying by down a mountain the fastest, or who won what medal by bribing figureskating judges the best, I just want my World Service fix.
Yes, the cutscenes in the Metroids were necessary and reasonably short, but Wind Waker has no content that needs to be loaded between wind direction changes. The wind just starts blowing in a new direction. That's all.
The end of The Wind Waker was boring as all hell - I stopped playing halfway through the triforce hunt, and haven't picked it up since. That's unfortunate, because the game was quite excellent.
You didn't miss much. All you do after the triforce hunt is fight a dozen weak enemies, the same 4 dungeon bosses, and then the easiest, weakest, most pathetic Ganon yet. I got so tired of collection those miserable pieces of heart that after 12 heart containers I said, "Screw this crap, I'm just going to beat the damn game." And I did. The first try. Without reading a strategy guide. With barely more than half the life possible to get in the entire game. Using no restore potions. It was just sad.
I was all psyched for an epic, dark, heroic Ocarina-style final boss fight between good and evil, and I got some giant puppets and some slow old fart in a beard waving a pair of swords at me.
I agree with your points, but I'd like to point out the fact that the Dreamcast died mostly because the PS2 was coming "real soon now" and people were saving their cash for that.
I do have a problem with Quebec separating. I have no desire to be physically cut off from the last bastion of sanity on the continent, bordered by separatist traitors and New England.
A photo is the property of the photographer. (Or the studio employing the photographer, but that amounts to the same thing.) A photo that happens to have been taken with a Nikon camera most certainly is not Nikon's property.
Today, white balance. Tomorrow, EXIF. Later, the sensor pattern. Slippery slope, man.
What I don't understand is why they're going through with this insanity when far behind Canon in terms of new DSLR technologies and doing so poorly in recruiting customers. Sure, they're getting sales from pros who've already got a load of Nikon glass, but people starting from scratch, or pros who have the cash to invest in new lenses and bodies, will just switch to Canon and their superior DSLR linup. Tell me again, Nikon die-hards, where's the Nikon answer to the 20D? The entry-level Rebel XT? Where's Nikon's equivalent of the full-frame 1Ds Mark 2? Oh, that's right. There isn't one. There's just a D2X with 12 million tiny little photosites jammed onto an APSC-sized Sony-made sensor. Oh, and an overweight, underperforming Kodak-made monstrosity that doesn't work well past ISO100 anyway. Ick.
Oh, Slashdot, why are you so placid and intolerant of a good old-fashioned flamewar these days? I had to scroll through two pages of boring serious answers before finding this, the proper reply to this story.
This is about the fact that Gnome is a total nightmare to package, with a gigantic convoluted spiderweb of rarely-documented dependencies. Nothing more. Nothing less. That's it. Case closed.
This is not about which desktop environment is better for the end-user. This is not about human interface guidelines. This is not about resource efficiency or C vs. C++ or GTK vs. Qt.
This is about PACKAGING. You know, the actual effort the lone distro maintainer has to go through to make those nice TGZs?
I'm certain that when Gnome doesn't suffer from dependency hell, Pat will be happy to put it back in. As things stand now, it's simply too much work.
Why can some people not get this SIMPLE THOUGHT through their FUCKING THICK HEADS?
One KDE-using slacker right here. 3.4rc1 on 10.1, to be exact. I know 3.4 proper is out already, but the release candidate works just fine for me so I haven't felt the need to build the official release yet. When I'm really paranoid about cpu or ram, I'll use Windowmaker, but that's happening less and less these days.
KDE3 just feels like it's just getting faster and faster with each release. I haven't upgraded my hardware in two years (Athlon XP 2100 and 512MB SDRAM with a cheapie Geforce 4 clone card, nothing terribly special these days), and each new KDE release feels cleaner and faster.
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Color chemicals aren't that bad either. The C41 negative process and RA4 paper process are fairly benign as well, as long one is careful to run the bleach-fix through a well-maintained silver recovery unit before disposal.
I couldn't speak about slide development, as I've never worked in an E6-process lab. Or a Kodachrome lab for that matter, but from what I've heard, processing Kodachrome is more art than science, and uses some really exotic stuff. Besides, there's something like only 3 labs in the world that still do Kodachrome.
I mostly agree, but Minolta also had some other recent interesting ideas. Their wireless flash system is a very cool piece of technology. As a Canon user, I really envy having the master flash (not sure what the Minolta terminology is) built into the camera itself, not an expensive add-on.
I admit that 99.99% or so of the people who need to use a wireless flash setup under Canon are pros who can afford to spring for the extra gear, but it would be nice for us more budget-oriented Canon shooters to simply be able to set our cheapie 420EX down somewhere and use the popup flash to control it.
I think the original poster was referring more to 16x24mm sized sensors. Nikon's refused to say one way or the other if they'll ever make a full-frame sensor as Canon has done. This makes people wonder if Nikon will eventually only produce lenses made for the smaller sensor.
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A smaller sensor means less glass needed to project an image large enough to cover the sensor, which means much a lower weight lens. The price to pay, of course, is that the DX lenses won't work properly on 35mm film. Remove film cameras from the whole equation, and anyone buying any of Nikon's SLRs won't care about that one disadvantage. As far as the new SLR owner is concerned, any Nikon lens they see on the camera store shelf will work just fine with their new camera.
A few years back, I would have been skeptical of the wisdom of this, but the sensor in the new D2X is supposed to be amazing, with very low noise and very high resolution. And this is coming from a dedicated Canon fanboy who's only Nikon gear is a 35mm EM with a 50/1.8 series E, so I'm not exactly a shill for the company.
The Nikon D50 and Canon 350D don't have separate shutter and aperture control dials (i.e.: you have to hold down a modifier key to adjust the other parameter). Sure, you can avoid having to do this by staying in S/Tv or A/Av mode (Nikon/Canon), but what about exposure compensation?
What's the big deal about this? I'm more familiar with the 350D, but I cut my teeth on its' 35mm ancestor, the EOS300, and the button layout is similiar. It feels like a pretty natural way to adjust exposure to me. I guess it depends on what one's used to.
No depth-of-focus preview button in the lower-priced digital SLR bodies.
The D50 is the only current DSLR from either Nikon or Canon without a dedicated DOF preview button right next to the lens mount. The 350D has it, in exactly the same location as the EOS30/33 series 35mm bodies. It's hardly an optional feature buried in a strange menu. The 300D had the same dedicated button in the same place. Heck, even my 3-generations-old, entry-level 35mm EOS300 has the same DOF button right next to the lens mount.
(A bonus about Canon's DOF button: one can hold it down, and keep adjusting aperture to one's tastes without having to constantly press and release the DOF preview. Handy feature. The F65's DOF preview drove me nuts, having to press and release constantly when I was trying film bodies to get started a few years ago. I don't know if Nikon's digital bodies are the same.)
As for Konica-Minolta/Pentax/Sigma, I have no idea. Konica-Minolta stopped selling in Canada, so I haven't been able to do hands-on tests at the local camera shop, and they don't make a D50/350D equivalent anyway. Pentax bodies are constantly sold out here (the perils of living in a Pentax town where everyone has a boatload of manual K-mount glass) and no small dealer concerned about their reputation would keep Sigma bodies in stock.
And I have to assume that you don't seem to be familiar with modern large format cameras. Very, very few people use 8x10 glass plates anymore, but there's lots of people that use 8x10 negative and slide film.
And if you are photographer who has gallery exhibitions, forget digitals. You will never be able to blow it up the wall size even with 30 mega pixel.
Anyone making prints that big on a regular basis and worries about maximum resolution is using at least a 4x5 large format camera, and most likely an 8x10.
Lousy Smarch weather.
Atlas Shrugged is nothing but wank material for spoiled children who have always had everything handed to them on a silver plate, and have never had to deal with real-world issues.
And I suggest you compare HDTV prices and standard TV prices side by side.
There's a huge difference there, too.
That pisses me off every time the miserable olympics roll around. I love listening to the BBC over the net here in Canada, and whenever those damnable games start, the BBC has to cut their entire feed.
I don't give a damn about who won what medal flying by down a mountain the fastest, or who won what medal by bribing figureskating judges the best, I just want my World Service fix.
I simply don't accept them in the first place. (Except for Slashdot and a few others, of course.)
Good sir, I disagree with your design philosophy and will be forking the KNOME project.
Answer: Resident Evil.
Yes, the cutscenes in the Metroids were necessary and reasonably short, but Wind Waker has no content that needs to be loaded between wind direction changes. The wind just starts blowing in a new direction. That's all.
The end of The Wind Waker was boring as all hell - I stopped playing halfway through the triforce hunt, and haven't picked it up since. That's unfortunate, because the game was quite excellent.
You didn't miss much. All you do after the triforce hunt is fight a dozen weak enemies, the same 4 dungeon bosses, and then the easiest, weakest, most pathetic Ganon yet. I got so tired of collection those miserable pieces of heart that after 12 heart containers I said, "Screw this crap, I'm just going to beat the damn game." And I did. The first try. Without reading a strategy guide. With barely more than half the life possible to get in the entire game. Using no restore potions. It was just sad.
I was all psyched for an epic, dark, heroic Ocarina-style final boss fight between good and evil, and I got some giant puppets and some slow old fart in a beard waving a pair of swords at me.
I agree with your points, but I'd like to point out the fact that the Dreamcast died mostly because the PS2 was coming "real soon now" and people were saving their cash for that.
I do have a problem with Quebec separating. I have no desire to be physically cut off from the last bastion of sanity on the continent, bordered by separatist traitors and New England.
A photo is the property of the photographer. (Or the studio employing the photographer, but that amounts to the same thing.) A photo that happens to have been taken with a Nikon camera most certainly is not Nikon's property.
Today, white balance. Tomorrow, EXIF. Later, the sensor pattern. Slippery slope, man.
What I don't understand is why they're going through with this insanity when far behind Canon in terms of new DSLR technologies and doing so poorly in recruiting customers. Sure, they're getting sales from pros who've already got a load of Nikon glass, but people starting from scratch, or pros who have the cash to invest in new lenses and bodies, will just switch to Canon and their superior DSLR linup. Tell me again, Nikon die-hards, where's the Nikon answer to the 20D? The entry-level Rebel XT? Where's Nikon's equivalent of the full-frame 1Ds Mark 2? Oh, that's right. There isn't one. There's just a D2X with 12 million tiny little photosites jammed onto an APSC-sized Sony-made sensor. Oh, and an overweight, underperforming Kodak-made monstrosity that doesn't work well past ISO100 anyway. Ick.
I blame it on sleep deprivation, I mixed up the test and reference browser windows. Ignore me.
Now if only Gmail would work properly in Konqueror, I'd be all set...
Oh, Slashdot, why are you so placid and intolerant of a good old-fashioned flamewar these days? I had to scroll through two pages of boring serious answers before finding this, the proper reply to this story.
This is about the fact that Gnome is a total nightmare to package, with a gigantic convoluted spiderweb of rarely-documented dependencies. Nothing more. Nothing less. That's it. Case closed.
This is not about which desktop environment is better for the end-user. This is not about human interface guidelines. This is not about resource efficiency or C vs. C++ or GTK vs. Qt.
This is about PACKAGING. You know, the actual effort the lone distro maintainer has to go through to make those nice TGZs?
I'm certain that when Gnome doesn't suffer from dependency hell, Pat will be happy to put it back in. As things stand now, it's simply too much work.
Why can some people not get this SIMPLE THOUGHT through their FUCKING THICK HEADS?
One KDE-using slacker right here. 3.4rc1 on 10.1, to be exact. I know 3.4 proper is out already, but the release candidate works just fine for me so I haven't felt the need to build the official release yet. When I'm really paranoid about cpu or ram, I'll use Windowmaker, but that's happening less and less these days.
KDE3 just feels like it's just getting faster and faster with each release. I haven't upgraded my hardware in two years (Athlon XP 2100 and 512MB SDRAM with a cheapie Geforce 4 clone card, nothing terribly special these days), and each new KDE release feels cleaner and faster.
And you have to realize that more people run desktop machines than servers.