I just took a look at the photodo information on the Canon 50mm f/1.4, the Pentax SMC-FA 50mm f/1.4, and the Pentax SMC-F 50mm f/1.4. Photodo rates the Canon 4.4, the Pentax FA 4.2, the Pentax F 4.6, and the MTF charts agree with the ratings. That said, they are all excellent lenses.
The Canon lens runs $350, and will couple with a Canon EOS DSLR.
For macro shots, compact cameras have some advantages over a DSLR. Many focus extremely close, a half inch from the lens or less, and focus rapidly and accurately. The same quality shot with a DSLR requires an expensive macro lens, the shot will be more difficult to set up, and will still have less depth of field.
The 3 sets of 3 images at gsmarena.com are interesting. All those camera phones show good resolution, but in the first set Apple looks better than both Google and Motorola: Apple has higher contrast and less ringing. Strangely, in the other 2 sets Apple seems to have more ringing and a better dynamic range, but in those 2 sets Apple's don't look any better than the other 2.
But that's just my subjective evaluation of those images, I didn't start looking at the numbers for individual pixels. Does somebody want to do that job?
And thus you see the mentality of a government. "We don't care if your efforts are going to provide great benefit to mankind. Do as we tell you or we'll kill you. Heck, we'll kill you anyway."
The advantage of moving a small asteroid from the belt to a troublesome nation like Venezuela or Cuba is that clever use of orbital mechanics can be a substantial force multiplier. Whip a rock around the Mars gravity well.
...kill the UN, because that would require everyone leave.
Did you think before you posted?
If only one nation remained in the UN, it would cease to have any meaning.
If the US left the UN, the UN would lose about 1/4 of its funding - and that's only including the officially counted money that goes to the UN at the top, not various UN agencies. If in addition the US declared the UN persona non grata and evicted it from New York City, the UN for practical purposes would be an entity on paper only.
The UN is a legacy from when communication was neither fast nor dependable; it was obsolete before it was founded. It's time to be done with it; it's a monument to inefficiency and a home for spies.
At the federal level, make it illegal for every government at every level to prevent or hinder the growth of the internet. No licenses, no franchises. No prohibitions based no zoning (But cell towers are ugly!). Get the government the hell out of the internet.
What does being rich have to do with it? For that matter, what does the particular country have to do with it? Everyone who doesn't die from deliberate or accidental killing, dies from illness.
Plants don't produce useful forms of vitamin B12. If you don't get vitamin B12 (available from animal sources and chemical factories) your nervous system doesn't develop properly.
Those vegetarians before vitamins became commercially available, who were not brain damaged, got their B12 from impure food: insect vermin in their grains, vegetables, and fruit.
Plant patents prohibit asexual reproduction (i.e. grafts and cuttings). Sexual reproduction is not prohibited because (loosely speaking) it can't be prevented by the purchaser. Also, sexual reproduction doesn't dependably result in new plants genetically identical to the parent.
If we were to get less rain, the climate hoaxers would be claiming higher concentrations of pollution due to the same levels of pollutants being run off in lower volumes of water. Furthermore, they've been claiming worldwide desertification due to climate change for many years now. This is just one more attempt to generate panic no matter which way the rainfall trends.
In some fields, there's a particular and deliberate skill in patent application writing. The patent describes something obviously novel and seems to provide the information necessary to make a product. However, critical steps are left out or obscured so that the applicant gets the patent and its protection, but when it expires the competition still can't make the product. With luck, the originator can fill in the details with a new patent and another 20 years of protection.
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They should have built a circular track. If it's good enough for CERN, it's good enough for Elon "stinky" Musk.
The US has a nasty history of enormous land grabs for railroads. there is no need to repeat that history.
Well, there's a poor car analogy. 0-60 times measure something that can be the difference between life and death. Bokeh, not at all.
Yeah, Renoir and da Vinci did that a lot.
I just took a look at the photodo information on the Canon 50mm f/1.4, the Pentax SMC-FA 50mm f/1.4, and the Pentax SMC-F 50mm f/1.4. Photodo rates the Canon 4.4, the Pentax FA 4.2, the Pentax F 4.6, and the MTF charts agree with the ratings. That said, they are all excellent lenses.
The Canon lens runs $350, and will couple with a Canon EOS DSLR.
For macro shots, compact cameras have some advantages over a DSLR. Many focus extremely close, a half inch from the lens or less, and focus rapidly and accurately. The same quality shot with a DSLR requires an expensive macro lens, the shot will be more difficult to set up, and will still have less depth of field.
The 3 sets of 3 images at gsmarena.com are interesting. All those camera phones show good resolution, but in the first set Apple looks better than both Google and Motorola: Apple has higher contrast and less ringing. Strangely, in the other 2 sets Apple seems to have more ringing and a better dynamic range, but in those 2 sets Apple's don't look any better than the other 2.
But that's just my subjective evaluation of those images, I didn't start looking at the numbers for individual pixels. Does somebody want to do that job?
And thus you see the mentality of a government. "We don't care if your efforts are going to provide great benefit to mankind. Do as we tell you or we'll kill you. Heck, we'll kill you anyway."
The advantage of moving a small asteroid from the belt to a troublesome nation like Venezuela or Cuba is that clever use of orbital mechanics can be a substantial force multiplier. Whip a rock around the Mars gravity well.
Did you think before you posted?
If only one nation remained in the UN, it would cease to have any meaning.
If the US left the UN, the UN would lose about 1/4 of its funding - and that's only including the officially counted money that goes to the UN at the top, not various UN agencies. If in addition the US declared the UN persona non grata and evicted it from New York City, the UN for practical purposes would be an entity on paper only.
The UN is a legacy from when communication was neither fast nor dependable; it was obsolete before it was founded. It's time to be done with it; it's a monument to inefficiency and a home for spies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Telescope
A reality TV show is one step up from the previous Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Just wait until you do significant damage to somebody's antique wallpaper.
South Korea has 51 million people in 38,000 square miles. In the U.S., that density is only achieved with gerrymandering the east coast.
By way of comparison, California has 39 million people in 163,000 square miles.
New York State has 19.7 million people in 54,000 square miles.
At the federal level, make it illegal for every government at every level to prevent or hinder the growth of the internet. No licenses, no franchises. No prohibitions based no zoning (But cell towers are ugly!). Get the government the hell out of the internet.
What does being rich have to do with it? For that matter, what does the particular country have to do with it? Everyone who doesn't die from deliberate or accidental killing, dies from illness.
Plants don't produce useful forms of vitamin B12. If you don't get vitamin B12 (available from animal sources and chemical factories) your nervous system doesn't develop properly.
Those vegetarians before vitamins became commercially available, who were not brain damaged, got their B12 from impure food: insect vermin in their grains, vegetables, and fruit.
At the age of 10 or 12 the quality of the education used for complex subjects such as vaccines and GMO is inadequate, and likely to be one-sided.
Plant patents prohibit asexual reproduction (i.e. grafts and cuttings). Sexual reproduction is not prohibited because (loosely speaking) it can't be prevented by the purchaser. Also, sexual reproduction doesn't dependably result in new plants genetically identical to the parent.
Some defects are obvious, leaving their victims dead before they're one year old.
What are your accomplishments and abilities that make you better than Trump?
Just what do you think human beings are? Plants? If you're a land-dwelling macroscopic living thing, you're either plant or animal. No third choice.
If we were to get less rain, the climate hoaxers would be claiming higher concentrations of pollution due to the same levels of pollutants being run off in lower volumes of water. Furthermore, they've been claiming worldwide desertification due to climate change for many years now. This is just one more attempt to generate panic no matter which way the rainfall trends.
Why don't you spend some time in Myanmar?
In some fields, there's a particular and deliberate skill in patent application writing. The patent describes something obviously novel and seems to provide the information necessary to make a product. However, critical steps are left out or obscured so that the applicant gets the patent and its protection, but when it expires the competition still can't make the product. With luck, the originator can fill in the details with a new patent and another 20 years of protection.