“Why does the sensor have to be this one form of rectangle? It doesn’t have to be. … It could be circular, and capture the entire image circle, and allow you to crop later, so that no matter what ratio you decided to go you weren’t losing a lot of megapixels. As people are choosing more and more different form factors, it’s going to get more and more important to shoot in a wide variety of aspect ratios.” – Tony Northrup, transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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B&H with Matt Frazer from Panasonic, transcribed by me:
Matt: This camera actually uses 5 aspheric elements.
B&H: Glass elements, I might add. No polymer…, just glass.
Matt: They’re all glass. There’s actually 8 aspheric surfaces…. And 2 of them are ED glass. … To go a step further, we were really worried about the quality of the bokeh in the background: those little bokeh balls you get in the background, and all of a sudden you see these concentric rings. Well, we have a new milling technique for molding our aspherics that gets rid of that. So you shouldn’t have any of that funky, onion curl ring in your bokeh balls.
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First Look: Panasonic | Lumix DMC-LX100
Published on Sep 15, 2014
The Panasonic LX-100 is the successor to the LX-7. Featuring a 12.8 MP Micro four-thirds sensor and 4K video recording.
His dad says he never saw Shaun cry before. WoW!!!!!!!
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All of the feels. #WinterOlympics #BestOfUS pic.twitter.com/0UiuoPrjkE
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 14, 2018
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s watching ABC’s Wide World of Sports, which began like this:
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Starts at 1:15 with fine sounding orchestra!
Waiting to get in — Sam’s Club east in Anchorage, Alaska — first day that everything was 50% off — at 5pm.
Back of the line are the people left of the trees! Inside, the register lines were another two hours — all the way to the back wall!
Mom is to the right of the corner of the building in the light blue coat, hand raised, chatting with a nurse.
Former NWA coworkers: Tommy was to the left of the flag (red hat). And I saw Don S. inside!
January 17, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south location — everything is now 75% off.
January 24, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south location — everything 75% off except tires, owned by a third party vendor.
January 24, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south location — all items now 75% off:
January 17, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south location — all items now 75% off.
North section:
January 24, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south location — back to ‘no waiting.’ For years, the Sam’s Club stores were dead compared to Costco. I often wondered how they could stay in business. Costco’s buyers are brilliant.
January 24, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
Anchorage south Location — the sun emerged below the cloud layer as I was shooting to say a warm farewell.
January 24, 2018
Olympus E-PL5
I spotted this lovely scene while on a walk near our home.
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Wolverine Peak above Anchorage on a frosty day
I commented:
The only thing I’ll greatly miss from Sam’s closing is Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips, 60% cacao.
Costco doesn’t have *dark* chocolate chips; otherwise, Costco’s items are either the same or superior.
Costco also has lots of organic! Their buyers are brilliant! Costco really has their act together.
I’ve wondered for years how Sam’s could stay open, because the store was almost always nearly vacant, with only two registers open, and needed — myself only going there for a few items once in awhile.
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Alaska Sam’s Club stores among dozens nationwide to be closed by Walmart
I saw a Panasonic rep mention the heat sink reason in an interview a few years back, and my heart sank, concerned they would then forever abandon IBIS to get the best 4K video. Thankfully, they didn’t go that far.
As long as they don’t also do this on their cameras for stills, to which they need to add MULTI-ASPECT as well. PLEASE, Panasonic.
And they should promote multi-aspect harder, which they never have. Most people don’t know the great advantages, including artistic!
Multi-aspect should be in all mirrorless cameras. Sony is especially dropping the ball, keeping people stuck in 3:2.
From: Distant Shores
New post! The 3rd and final episode of our video series, “Sailing Transatlantic on a Catamaran”.
In this video, we take you aboard the Bluewater 50 catamaran, Zao, on the final week of our 3,000-mile transatlantic crossing sailing from the Canary Islands to St. Lucia in the Caribbean. The crew starts having fun fishing, Paul does a boat review, Alexandra bakes more amazing desserts and we monohullers perfect downwind sailing on a cat.
Just days before landfall in St. Lucia, we learn that there has been a man-overboard on a boat sailing ahead of us and we start a watch for him and his now deserted boat.
Follow this series to see what crossing an ocean aboard a catamaran is really like.
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