sony's consumer-grade cameras are currently the best on the market,* simply because their AF system has made several advances in the past three years which make their cameras solidly faster in-use than the competition.
Umm,, faster AF is not the first thing that comes to mind, when considering buying a consumer grade camera, Simply because 99% pics taken from a consumer camera are posed shots where the photographer and the camera both have plenty of time to compose , focus and shoot.
You certainly can't take a consumer camera to an NBA/NHL/NFL game and expect to get great shots.
If I am buying a consumer grade camera , my priorities will be..
How good are the pictures , straight off the camera ? I am not going to buy a 200$ camera and then go and spend 1000$ on photoshop,, just to get my snapshots have right whitebalance, sharping, saturation etc.
How fast is the start up time, coz I expect to start and shut the camera often
How much is the shutter lag, much important for me than AF speed. I don't want to click now and have the shutter
go off after 2 secs , just to realise that my subject has moved.
Does it have a movie mode, it's nice to record small clips now and then
How small is it. I would like to carry it in my shirt pocket
How easy is it to get the pictures from the camera to my PC. i.e. what is the quality of the s/w bundled with it
And sony certainly does not lead canon, nikon, olympus in these departments. It might be a neck to neck compition, but to proclaim that sony makes best consumer grade cameras is quite a bold statement.
I am an indian, and fully aware of the quality (or rather the lack of) of our movies (well bollywood at least). and please don't mention one or two exceptions, 2 good movies in 800 per year is not something to be proud of.
does it support automatic mode-dependent (i.e., sensitive to the type of file you're editing) grouping-symbol matching (wherein when you type a closing grouping symbol it highlights the opening one)?
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages?
I don't use text based email clients any more, but it should. The only thing suggested seems to be is to set textwidth=72 instead of default 80. As vim supports local settings (setting unique to a buffer). You can set the textwidth to 72 for mails only and have it as 80 for all other files.
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages? Can it be customized so that when editing a certain type of file, inserting certain characters has additional effects?
Yes it does. Filetype plugins plus abbreviation.
So in short yes it does support what you want. May be some one using mutt/pine + vim can elaborate on point 2.
All region DVDs, NTSC, PAL , all combinations of home burnt CD/DVD +/- R/RW , all types of picture CDs, mp3 cds, VCD, SVCD, everything, even corrupt DVDs which a 300 $ DVD player wouldn't play.
Only thing missing are DivX , Xvid etc and lack of DVI output. but for 20$ I am not complaining.
As an non american let me venture to answer this..
Give plenty of business to countries like china and India. I do belive that the
impressive growth numbers for these countries see this
has been influenced by US economy.
America's oil consumption has made the middle east as rich as it is today,
And lastly , some very solid democratic principles, such as "freedom of speech", and other amendments etc.
belive me these are some fasinating concepts that were unheard of before the founding fathers of USA
brought them in the constitution. pity most americans seem to forget that.
well to be honest, I had already worked in a stock
market bofore, so I had sound knowledge of trading principles
So my analogy involved terms from financial sector.
e.g do describe content seperation i.e presentation (jsp/servlet) from
business logic (ejbs) I equated it with asset diversification,
not putting all your money in one stock etc.
Me and my office mate back from 4 years, use to play a little game, when we got
bored of programming.
We would try to explain "what we do", in simple lay-man's terms, It was not as easy as we
thought it would be. Expecially if you are working on stuff like lax parser, CORBA,.
There were times when we couldn't even begin to describe what we do, without using some kind
of jargon or other. As we got better in the game, we narrowed down what terms we could use and
, by the end of 3rd year, we weren't even using the term computer in our description.
It worked wonders for me, at my next job interview. My would be boss asked to describe my
current job (which involved building and distributing a J2EE app using perl scripts )
, to sombody like a stock broker. When I did, he told me that's the best answer he has
ever heard from a techie, and I got the Job:-)
I would suspect that's because of it being implemented as NFS,
that happens to me even on linux. i.e. when a NFS mounted disk
goes down (the server goes down that is), it takes the client
down as well.
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Umm,, faster AF is not the first thing that comes to mind, when considering buying a consumer grade camera, Simply because 99% pics taken from a consumer camera are posed shots where the photographer and the camera both have plenty of time to compose , focus and shoot.
You certainly can't take a consumer camera to an NBA/NHL/NFL game and expect to get great shots.
If I am buying a consumer grade camera , my priorities will be..
- How good are the pictures , straight off the camera ? I am not going to buy a 200$ camera and then go and spend 1000$ on photoshop
,, just to get my snapshots have right whitebalance, sharping, saturation etc.
- How fast is the start up time, coz I expect to start and shut the camera often
- How much is the shutter lag, much important for me than AF speed. I don't want to click now and have the shutter
go off after 2 secs , just to realise that my subject has moved.
- Does it have a movie mode, it's nice to record small clips now and then
- How small is it. I would like to carry it in my shirt pocket
- How easy is it to get the pictures from the camera to my PC. i.e. what is the quality of the s/w bundled with it
And sony certainly does not lead canon, nikon, olympus in these departments. It might be a neck to neck compition, but to proclaim that sony makes best consumer grade cameras is quite a bold statement.My additions
I am an indian, and fully aware of the quality (or rather the lack of) of our movies (well bollywood at least). and please don't mention one or two exceptions, 2 good movies in 800 per year is not something to be proud of.
I didn't know ridiculous was a synonym to scary.
and then it will be sued
I just wish they had cheaper options , 13$ a month is quite a lot in other countries, considering IMDB has info about internation films as well.
Already done :- jvi.
matchit script. So yes it does.
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages?
I don't use text based email clients any more, but it should. The only thing suggested seems to be is to set textwidth=72 instead of default 80. As vim supports local settings (setting unique to a buffer). You can set the textwidth to 72 for mails only and have it as 80 for all other files.
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages? Can it be customized so that when editing a certain type of file, inserting certain characters has additional effects?
Yes it does. Filetype plugins plus abbreviation.
So in short yes it does support what you want. May be some one using mutt/pine + vim can elaborate on point 2.
Let me lend you a clue, buy "humor for dummies".
The code is GPLed so what exactly is your concern ?
Despite of all the other goodies ;) , they completely suck at what they are really suppose to do.
All region DVDs, NTSC, PAL , all combinations of home burnt CD/DVD +/- R/RW , all types of picture CDs, mp3 cds, VCD, SVCD, everything, even corrupt DVDs which a 300 $ DVD player wouldn't play.
Only thing missing are DivX , Xvid etc and lack of DVI output. but for 20$ I am not complaining.
not to troll , but how reliable is eBay ?
has it got to do something with the CPU ? what about memory and I/O cards ?
Give plenty of business to countries like china and India. I do belive that the impressive growth numbers for these countries see this has been influenced by US economy.
America's oil consumption has made the middle east as rich as it is today,
And lastly , some very solid democratic principles, such as "freedom of speech", and other amendments etc. belive me these are some fasinating concepts that were unheard of before the founding fathers of USA brought them in the constitution. pity most americans seem to forget that.
the lack of
always buy unlocked phones and use them with whichever n/w you like.
Can I get a +1 DUH !
Have you been watching IE numbers, for the first time in last 4-5 years, they dropped below 90%, what did those 7-8% percent users switched to, lynx ?
A fan eh ?
I'm moving up to Canada, the worst they have there is stray polar bears. Umm, what about celin dion ?
So my analogy involved terms from financial sector.
e.g do describe content seperation i.e presentation (jsp/servlet) from business logic (ejbs) I equated it with asset diversification, not putting all your money in one stock etc.
We would try to explain "what we do", in simple lay-man's terms, It was not as easy as we thought it would be. Expecially if you are working on stuff like lax parser, CORBA,.
There were times when we couldn't even begin to describe what we do, without using some kind of jargon or other. As we got better in the game, we narrowed down what terms we could use and , by the end of 3rd year, we weren't even using the term computer in our description.
It worked wonders for me, at my next job interview. My would be boss asked to describe my current job (which involved building and distributing a J2EE app using perl scripts ) , to sombody like a stock broker. When I did, he told me that's the best answer he has ever heard from a techie, and I got the Job :-)
NFS Sucks
no just hell freezing over.
Umm, aren't you genaralizing...how do you know that each and every developer would expect it to work in ths exact same way that you expect it to work.