EF Lens Work III: The Eyes of EOS details the history and technology behind Canon’s EF lenses. Suitable for displaying on your coffee table, the book begins with several large, double-page spread images to whet your appetite and encourage you to clear out your checking account.
I’ve been wondering lately what would it be like to own Canon’s entire lens collection for the EOS camera system? In any given photography situation, there’s at least one ideal lens for the job. Most photographers, however, don’t have Canon’s entire arsenal at their disposal — usually, they pull out a lens they own which will do an adequate job. In my case, the lenses I own do a fantastic job for me and my clients. Still, there are times when I wish I had that one particular lens in my quiver.
New iPods were released today. The iPod mini lineup was updated with new colors, longer battery life, and 4/6GB storage capacity. The iPod photo lineup now consists of 30GB and 60GB models. Most notable is the optional $29 iPod photo Connector. Apparently, this will allow direct image transfer from a digital camera to an iPod photo.
Finally!
We had a small group at the Stanford Newton User Group meeting tonight, with only Flash, Peter, Dave, and myself in attendance. I demoed the impressive Einstein Newton Emulator on my G4 PowerBook. Paul has been doing some optimizations on the emulator and has it running a bit faster than when I first tested it. On a Dual-2GHz G5 PowerMac (thanks to Steven, it seems to run about half as fast as a Newton MessagePad 2×00!
Rae and I shot my cousin’s wedding this past weekend. We had a full schedule of shooting in multiple locations: Redwood Shores, Los Altos, and San Jose. On one hand, family weddings are good because you know pretty much everybody attending. On the other [photography] hand, they can be bad because you make sure you’ve photographed them all! Though my right hand was certainly beat at the end of the evening, it was worth it — everybody had a great time and the photos speak for themselves.
If anybody tried to visit this site in the past 2 hours, you no doubt noticed it’s been down. Apparently, one of the co-location routers bit the dust. What’s this I hear about 99.5% uptime?!?
Thanks for your patience during this downtime.
At the COBA meeting last night, Harold brought his Mac mini to help with the monitor profiling presentation. Similarly, I transported my Quicksilver PowerMac and my 17″ Studio Display.
A quick glance might lead one to think that the PowerMac is the more powerful of the two computers, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Mac mini is faster at 1.4GHz and more powerful than my computer running at 867MHz. Though the mini’s hard drive is a 4200/5400rpm 80GB hard drive, the memory and disk subsystems probably make it faster than my 60GB 7200rpm drive. Best of all, no doubt, is the size of the mini. It’s tiny compared to the Quicksilver!
Sometime in the next few months, I’m going to upgrade my Mac setup. I’ve thought about all the systems available, and I still can’t decide — mini, iMac, PowerMac, or another PowerBook? I’ll wait until Apple releases upgraded desktop computers before I make my decision. Perhaps Tiger will offer performance boosts tailored for G5 computers to make my choice easier.
Monitor and Printer Profiling — closing the color management loop — was the feature presentation during the February 9, 2005, COBA meeting. I’ve been wanting to get my 17″ Studio Display and my 12″ PowerBook monitors profiled correctly for quite some time. Though I have a ColorVision Optical Spyder (a better performing Spyder 2 is now available), I haven’t been very happy with its performance. Marie and Harold brought two well regarded hardware calibrators, the Monaco Optix XR and the GretagMacBeth EyeOne Photo.
It was said that it couldn’t be done. Well boys and girls, it’s here! Actually, Einstein has been around publicly for over a month, and I didn’t even realize it!
The Einstein Emulator (DR2) emulates an Apple Newton MessagePad 2×00 or an eMate 300 on Mac OS X (with X11 support). Once you supply the emulator with a ROM file from a Newton, you’re good to go! Install your favorite packages, turn on the virtual backlight, and see for yourself what the whole Newton hoopla is all about!
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