speculatrix

I think that the trend to hide all visual clues (disappearing menus, borderless buttons, overly subtle shading between window areas, etc) must be usability nightmare for the visually impaired.
I...

I'm sorry for you and the two other people with Windows Phones.
Can you upload through Web interface on the old Picasa service?

I expect that Google will kill picasa as soon as G+ has feature parity even if those features don't actually let you work the way you would have done in picasa.

I don't fully agree, but I think the younger generation of today value converged portable devices very highly and many simply aren't willing to carry a large camera when their phone appears to...

@dylanbarnhart
an SD card is a high speed serial bus, a CF is parallel.
there's still a flash controller in an SD card which does wear levelling, fee block management, garbage collection etc.

you...

the controllers in the card boot off a locked and hidden part of the flash, so if the flash in that region goes bad, the card is effectively bricked.

well, there have been devices somewhat like that:
http://en.akihabaranews.com/18419/legacy-unused/pc/diy-ssd-drive-test-a-raid5-hdd-with-3-compact-flash

the only SD to CF adaptor I've seen holds a...

if the connector is damaged, or the controller fails?
or if the camera corrupts the file system, you duplicate the corruption.

RAID is not a backup or archiving solution.

no news at all about this new lens then?

Tamron have given Panasonic and Olympus a great head start to get ahead of this in the race for sales and mind share.

What would you do if the crime being committed was the cops beating someone and by taking photos you were risking your own well being and possibly having equipment smashed?

My wife had two canon Ixus (Elph) cameras, the first was a 700, I dropped it 5 inches onto a wooden table and the lens jammed and camera locked up with the dreaded E 18 error. I replaced it with...

I have a G5 and the video quality is excellent at 1080p. The only disappointment is you can't switch between p24 p30 and p60; the rate is locked in by which country it was manufactured for. So you...

I am hoping that now there's a downloadable firmware image for the GH3 it will be possible for skilled analysis and hacking in order to add features and tweak things.. and if a G5 firmware release...

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even if you want to use G+, there are features missing such as being able to email a photo to picasa and thus to G+

you can set up the email address using picasa settings

make a bluetooth model then it doesn't need to attach to anything except the subject. even better, you can return to camera on its tripod whilst reading off light sensor some distance away.

on average, noone makes a profit on iphone or android apps with an upfront cost, so advertising is the only way to make money, and therefore android with more devices deployed is a better bet.

as...

the Elixir2 program for android will allow you to read the ambient light sensor easily, just add a diffuser, and work out how to calibrate the numbers shown ;-)

whilst the sensors in smartphones might be getting better all the time,the same technical advances will apply to larger sensors too.
The key thing is no matter how good the sensor, you can't beat...

I considered the Canon SX### and ended up with a Lumix G5 with the PZ 14-42 lens and its very compact.
https://picasaweb.google.com/116367041269325477816/Lumix#5793233367133882914