Four Delectable Pancake Lenses Perfect for Mirrorless Camera Owners

If you like to keep the weight of your gear down to a minimum, don't want to draw attention to youself, and absolutely do not want to compromise on quality, these small, lightweight pancake lenses could be exactly what you're looking for.

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“I think that game is too old for her. Why don’t you go  play with Milhouse?” – Marge Simpson “I don’t wanna play with Milhouse.” – Bart Simpson “You mean you still haven’t made up with him?” – Marge Simpson “It’s his mom. She says I’m a bad influe…

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Recursive Pattern Matching

A popular programming “problem” is to determine whether a string of parentheses is “balanced:” Given a string that consists of open and closed parentheses, write a function that determines whether the parentheses in the string are balanced. “Balanced” parentheses…

Here’s How Bokeh-licious the Hasselblad XCD 80mm f1.9 Images Get

In case you missed it, Hasselblad introduced last month three new additions to the XCD lens family, one of them the XCD 80mm f1.9, pegged as the company's fastest lens ever. That, of course, also means that the mind-blowing wide aperture brings the bokeh-licious aesthetic to the…

Sports Photography: Five Outstanding Lenses That Will Help You Capture the Play of the Game

It can happen in the blink of an eye. The game winning pass, the half court shot, the game saving tackle. In these situations you have to be able to rely on your gear to keep up with the action. Lenses for sports photography need to be able to handle the elements well, cover mul…

Take the Ball, Pass the Ball

In his four seasons as manager for FC Barcelona, Pep Guardiola led the club to 14 trophies, including winning the Champions League twice and La Liga 3 times. Sure, he had players like Messi, Eto’o, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Alves, Henry, and Ibrahimović, but as the trailer says…

New HUAWEI Mate 20 Series Comes with 16mm Leica Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Huawei continues to make significant enhancements to up its mobile photography game with the announcement of the HUAWEI Mate 20 Series. Building on the camera system of their P20 Series, the company equipped the HUAWEI Mate 20 Series with an additional 16mm Ultra Wide Angle Len…

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Embroidery that Breaks the Fourth Wall

Oh, I love this embroidery art by Sheena Liam that leaps off of the fabric and out of the hoop. Great name too: Times New Romance. (via colossal) Tags: art   Sheena Liam

Nissin Announces New Powerful and Compact i400 Flash

If you're looking into doing flash photography using your mirrorless or entry-level DSLR camera, you might want to look into the new i400 Flash recently announced by Nissin. This new offering is pegged as a compact and powerful all-around flash for several major mirrorless and D…

Twenty years of Taklamakan

Bruce Sterling’s short story was published in 1999. I figure he must have written it at least twenty years ago now. I still think of it multiple times every year. Severe annual resonance increases. NAFTA, Sphere, and Europe: the trilateral superpowers jostled about with the un…

Four short links: 17 October 2018

Reservoir Computing, ProxyJump, SID Sequencer, and 2KB AI MEMS Neuromorphic Computing -- the construction of the first reservoir computing device built with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). [...] [T]he neural network exploits the nonlinear dynamics of a microscale sil…

Opinion: I Dream of a Camera with a CCD Sensor Again

Digital photography in my opinion has become too simple; and that's fine if you're a beginner but I also think that it breeds a number of bad habits based solely on human laziness. You may call it evolution, but in the world of communications and journalism there is the idea tha…

W @ Auden, 2018

for Alan JacobsI sit here with my phoneWhere fifty million voicesAre wrathful and aloneAs unsocial social mediaFrame adverse conversations;Waves of anger and fearPour through all the websitesAnd webblindnesses of the earth,Obsessing our private lives;And the odour of Twitter aff…

Unhappy Backers Report Multiple Issues in the Yashica digiFilm Y35

If you're one of the backers who helped bring the Yashica digiFilm Y35 to life, you're most likely very unhappy about it. Either you still haven't received your unit or you've just discovered that it's actually a crappy camera with lots of issues. The Kickstarter campaign's comm…

Review: Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art “Bokeh Master” (Nikon F Mount)

Marketed by Sigma as the "Bokeh Master," the Sigma 105mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens is the latest addition to the Japanese optics manufacturer's Art series of lenses. The ninth lens in Sigma's Art series to feature a wide aperture of f1.4 (six for Full Frame, three for APS-C), it is a…

Uber, Lyft main reason for increased traffic congestion in SF, study finds

In other news, water remains wet. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft accounted for approximately 50 percent of the rise in vehicle congestion in the city between 2010 and 2016, according to a report released by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority earlier t…

RIP Paul Allen

Tech titan Paul Allen died yesterday at the age of 65 of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates remembered his friend in a short piece called “What I loved about Paul Allen”. Paul foresaw that computers would change the world. Even…

Seattle Drinks-and-Waterfront-Walk Meetup, Friday 19th

There will be a meetup on Friday the 19th, at 4:00 PM at Paddy Coyne’s by Pier 70. As with last time, we’ll hang out for a bit and get a drink to start, then go for a walk along the waterfront. Sunset is around 6:20 these days, so should be nice. RSVP on this […]

Reports State that Meyer Optik Parent Company is Apparently Bankrupt

The Internet is now abuzz with reports that Net SE, the German company behind brands Meyer Optik Görlitz, C.P. Goerz, and Oprema Jena and several Kickstarter campaigns, is now officially bankrupt.

Google and Uber

How are these murderous sociopaths not in jail? "If it is your job to advance technology, safety cannot be your No. 1 concern," Levandowski told me. "If it is, you'll never do anything. It's always safer to leave the car in the driveway. You'll never learn from a real mistake."…

The Wrong Color Subway Map

From the orange 123 line to the green ACE to the purple 456, the color designations on the NYC subway lines on the Wrong Color Subway Map will mess with your head. Get the print here. From the folks who brought us the One-Color Subway Map. (via @khoi) Tags: maps   NYC…

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The Death of a Loved One from Opiate Addiction, Plainly & Honestly Told

From an independent newspaper here in Vermont, the heartbreaking and brutally honest obituary of Madelyn Linsenmeir, a 30-year-old mother who died from a drug addiction to opiates that lasted for more a decade. When she was 16, she moved with her parents from Vermont to Florida…

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The Twerking Robot

Hot off the heels of their video showing a humanoid robot casually doing parkour, Boston Dynamics has made a clip of their robot dog doing a hip hop dance routine to Uptown Funk. While the robot in the parkour video looked distinctly un-human at times, I have to say that this…