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Well, when you're viewing a 2D image (like a photograph or a TV screen), the only cues that allow your brain to perceive the image as 3-dimensional are those provided by the tonal variation and shadows caused by directional lighting. As I pointed out, on-camera light or light from the direction...

If you mean perspective distortion, the effect you'll get with a wider lens is larger separation between foreground and background. The closest parts of the flower will seem closer, and the farthest parts will seem farther. Using a telephoto lens, in contrast, compresses the foreground and...

Mercutio, thanks for posting that phenomenal dialog. I read about Lenski's discovery on Nobel Intent, Ars Technica's excellent science news feed. The Nobel Intent summary is head and shoulders above most of those available on the 'net (particularly the New Scientist one mentioned in the...

This may not work on a Ubuntu distribution. You need to install the sources first for this, and it's possible that the configuration in there might be different the kernel configuration of the default binary kernel installed originally. cat /proc/config > /new/kernel/config_file The above will...

Part of the problem is that, as manufacturers start to push the pixel density, it's inevitable that the updated models are going to look less & less sharp at 100% crops with all but the best glass. It's not out of focus. It's that you're pushing the resolution and contrast of the lens too far...

Wow. Someone made a reasonable, cogent, calm post on DP Review. I suppose the hordes will soon descend and tear him to pieces though...

I've noticed a bunch of other security prompts that I'm pretty sure were never around before the update. I can't remember what they were to be honest, but I remember thinking the same thing: they're trying to turn XP into Vista! One example I do recall is that Quickbooks registration would...

Ahhhh. Thunderstorms! Cool breezes! I feel so much better. A big storm just tore through here and everything smells/feels so much better. P.S. Lowering all the blinds in my house when I leave for work in the morning makes a noticeable difference in terms of heat build up during the day...

Crazy flooding in the midwest. The whole lake drained, and the irony is that the dam held! They successfully reinforced it with sand bags. In retrospect I guess it's pretty obvious they should have let the overflow go over top of the dam... I'm particularly fond of this: Crazy world... :(...

So... humid... I'm not used to the heat :( Can't eat; can't sleep.

The E-510 & E-520 both have in-body IS too, so it's not that. Most of it is the weather-sealing & the general construction. It's the most tough, weather-sealed body available (even compared to the Canon 1D series). The other reason is the big viewfinder I'd guess. I was at Photo expo in...

Leica makes a 14-150mm f/3.5-5.6 for the 4/3 mount. It's difficult to find in North America, but it's a very interesting lens. * Diameter: 78.5mm * Length: 90.4mm * Weight: 535g It was Lens of the Year at Pop Photo in 2007. I've been unable to find reviews from reputable sources.

Everyone all over the internet keeps praying for this. There is no way it's going to be that cheap. It's going to $4000, and you can hold me to that. Sounds like you got exactly what you needed, despite the quick decision. I'm a huge believer in lighter-weight gear, believe me. You'll never...

That's great to hear. I had previously heard they'd improved it, but didn't know how much.

I would love to see something in that genre from Nikon. The 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 is a great start though. It seems to have above average performance. It's hard to tell with the latest, new lenses though. Everyone invariably raves about it or condemns it - you don't see a lot of carefully...

Tokina makes that lens for Pentax (Pentax rebadges it) and I own one too! I completely agree regarding its versatility. It changes from outright fisheye to serious barrel fairly quickly as you move off 10mm and the distortion is easy to correct for if it's not wanted. I'm actually a very...

It should still be under warranty right? Canon has very good warranty/repair service from what I understand. I hope you can get it fixed.

Check out Helicon Focus. I've seen it recommended in quite a few places despite the fact that it's such specialized software. Edit: I'm so used to Wiki markup from using a TiddlyWiki for organization that I keep doubling up the damn square brackets with the BBS markup! Every single post I do...

Miller GD is great if you're _really_ hungover. I find it washes the hangover taste right out of your mouth. I don't know if that's a complement... Anyway, I like to have a couple on hand if it was a tough night. They only thing that matches Miller GD in that regard, IMO, is a good caesar -...

Domke's canvas camera bags don't look too much like camera bags (for example). They may be a good option. Some of their satchel options will hold laptops too.

That's awesome ddrueding. Just awesome. What a mess all my computer stuff is these days...

A swing is the technical term for what he did, back from the Large Format days. Anyone with large format training, even today, would say swing. A tilt is only for rotation of the focal plane along the vertical access. If you do it horizontally, it's a swing ;). They also use rise & fall for...

Ars Technica's obituary is well-written and touching as well.

Ah. That would make more sense. It completely slipped my mind that Panasonic made their previous sensors. I should have remembered what with the whole Leicasonic partnership... (By the way I would love to see a review of the Leica 14-150mm f/3.5-5.6! I'm very curious. My only experience...

Give me a break. A PC lens is a very specialized tool that is a finicky pain in the ass to work with - even for serious pros and fanatical amateurs. Yes, they're cool. No, 99% of people don't need or want one. I guarantee that many of the owners of PC lenses don't ever even use them. The...

Wow. They really like it. They like it a little too much... I wouldn't trust Anandtech by themselves, but I already pretty much know how the camera is going to perform. I'd be pleasantly surprised if the AF is noticeably better though; I wasn't really counting on that. Udaman, Yes, I'm sure...

I think I'm probably going to get that damn K20D. Reports are consistently indicating that its got an extra stop, stop-and-a-half, in noise performance vs the K10D despite the pixel boost. I don't care about the megapixels but the better noise performance would be really nice. This seems...

Ya, my best friend's sister ran into this problem. She was in the U.S. on an education visa when they decided to marry, and hasn't been able to leave since. They had to have the wedding in the U.S. and everything.

I use MemTest86+ as well. I usually let it run overnight after I build a system, before installing the OS. I don't use anything else, but a lot of people use Prime95 as a stress test I believe.

Vista SP1 still hasn't been made available on Windows Update for any of my computers :(.

P.S. It all worked out quite well. Bozo, I don't know if partition magic supports Ext3 & LVM. If it does it probably would have worked.

Warren Buffett needs no introduction. Considering the ridiculous wealth he's accumulated you'd think he'd have very strong personal incentives to agree with Stereodude. However, the reality, and the reality (vs. the perception) regarding taxation is different. The fact of the matter is that...

]Trac? It's designed for software projects but there's no reason it couldn't be used for any sort of generic issue-tracking type problem.

I too am curious if anyone has any recommendations regarding KVM switches. Except I'm looking for USB & DVI rather than DVI & PS2... just to confuse everyone. Sorry I can't help you out Maxburn, I have no experience with any KVM products. Any brands well-respected? NCIX has this Belkin, but...

ATAoE with 10GbE would have advantages over fibre channel. That's a better use case.

I'm doing it with ext3 with resize2fs. ReiserFS can do it too, and so can XFS apparently. In all three cases you can only grow the filesystem if it's mounted - shrinking it might cause trouble after all!

... for the 1st time ever. Wish me luck! Intense... (Clearly, I am a geek. I'm excited and nervous at the same time...)

Ya, it's really inflexible. It's basically designed to maximize performance by removing the overhead of the TCP/IP stack (vs. iSCSI). You also don't to translate ATA commands to SCSI and back again if you use ATA disks. (Although I think, for SATA drives, Linux runs everything through SCSI...

Dan of Dan's Data has some info on the topic. His verdict "Dumb then, smart now..." I was looking into this a while ago, but I got lazy and forgot about it. I certainly think it could inexpensively produce some seriously fast storage.

Congrats. That's amazing. Enjoy the new company!

Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm replacing one drive. Eventually I'll replace them all, but I only do it when I need more capacity. So far I've just added disks, but there's no more motherboard headers...

I've been doing some research on shrinking & expanding filesystems, because I'm going to have to do this in the near future when I swap out disks in a JBOD storage situation (JBOD done using LVM2). This article is the most succint and up-to-date description of the process I've found in my...

While I don't doubt that, anyone who visits Ottawa, Canada, needs to check out the Colonnade on Metcalfe & Gilmour. Amazing. In Halifax, the K.O.D. (King of Donair - as seen in Trailer Park Boys) makes a pretty amazing BBQ Chicken pizza. Absolutely terrific. And Rassy's will give you a 30"...

I love Chili. In university my roommates would steal it, so I started tossing a couple extra habanero peppers in to keep them away. Some people found the stuff caustic; I loved it and ate it nearly everyday. I ate it so frequently though, that I developed a sensitivity to spicy food. I love...

Great link & beautiful photos. There's one piece of gear those photos emphasize you can't dispense with... a tripod. He uses the DOF advantage of that lens better than just about anyone I've ever seen. Just phenomenal.

The irony is that, from a Canadian perspective, the Republican's are as far from Conservative as you can get; I'm very confused about how any right-thinking conservative could vote for them. Run up the deficit, spend money left, right & centre, and tell everyone how you're supposed to live your...

Yay! New Pentax! They say the photosites are as large as their competitor's 12.1 MP sensor photosites. Hopefully this means decent noise performance. I bet the Nikon D300 is cleaner though. 14.7 MP... that's getting pretty close to the Canon 1Ds MkII and the density is much higher. You'll...

The adjustment we're seeing in the U.S. and internationally has two distinct characters. On the one hand you have investments that are part of the economic adjustment --like when Canadians or Europeans buy up American equity because their dollars are strong; this is simply the market at...

LATE EDIT: Not that I plan on buying more camera gear! I just wish Pentax had a good extended-range Standard Zoom like a 24-105 f/4L, Olympus 12-60, or Nikon 18-135. There is the Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5, but it's a little short on the long end for my liking. I'm not sure I'd even use it...

E_Dawg, could you tell me how long the 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 is from flange to the tip of the lens hood? I'm going to go and see if my local Henry's or Vistek have ones I can look at this week, but I figured I'd fire it out there while I thought of it. I wonder if it would fit in my camera bag...