…who has the original 70-200VR…HAHaHaHa…

…wait…I still have mine! crapz.

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I saw the GR Digital III announcement, and the first I asked was “Did the company finally got their heads out of their collective… and switch to an APS-C, or a 4/3rds sensor?”

…and the answer: you haven’t.  Still using a 1/1.7″ sensor.  I applaud the efforts of bumping up the maximum aperture to f/1.9.  But, guys, you can only bend the laws of physics to an extent…and two facts remain:

• There is only so much pixel you can cram in a small sensor without sacrificing (native) dynamic range and noise suppression capabilities.
• You cannot achieve shallow DOF with a small sensor, even with a lens of wide aperture.

Yes, I know, larger sensors are more expensive, and you will have to come up with a different lens design to match a larger sensor, which will make the camera even more expensive.  However, you there’s no way you can convince me that it’s going to be that much more expensive.

I’m not sure if you lost touch with your core users, or just a one-hit wonder with the original GR-D.

You will have to listen to what I’m saying this time, though.

Why?  Simple: the advent of Olympus EP-1.  If Olympus can design a small camera with interchangeable lenses, i can just imagine how much smaller it can get with a fixed lens.

Your turn, Ricoh.  Your batting average is getting dangerously low.  Get it right with GR-D IV, and I will max out all my credit cards to get one.

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An co-worker lent me a copy of this movie months ago and I just got around watching it last night. Suffice to say it’s been one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long while.

I’ve read it’s a part of what is called a “Vengeance Trilogy.” Looking forward to seeing the rest…

I’ve also read that Hollywood is going to create a remake starring Will Smith (worst actor ever). Yikes.

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I was watching Conan last night with Seth Rogen as guest. Seth is trying so hard to spew out one lame punchline after another, hoping to get a snicker from the audience.

It didn’t happen.

And then it just dawned on me: Seth Rogen is NOT funny. Why is this guy getting so much attention than he deserved?

In retrospect, not one of his movies I have seen is closed to being funny. “Knocked Up”, “Pineapple Express”, or even “Zack and Miri”…the movie with the most vomit-inducing love scene.

I think people just want to label Rogen as funny maybe because he’s one of the “Freaks and Geeks” alumni.

Among the Judd Apatow usual suspects, here’s my verdict:

Jason Segel is funny.
Jonah Hill is funny.
Paul Rudd is funny.
Jay Baruchel is funny.
Hell, even James Franco is funny.

But not Seth Rogen.

I think he’s trying to pass as Kevin Smith alternative…except Kevin Smith is funny, and he’s not.

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Max speed 31mph. WOOT!

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On my last biking entry, I complained about wrist pains and thought about adjusting my bike (saddle height, etc.).  I changed my mind thinking that I’m probably just getting used to the road bike frame geometry.  I tried the advice from (the late) Sheldon Brown and tried to maintain proper posture while on a bike.  It seems to be working…there is much less pain today.  

…or it could be placebo.  Whatever.

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I’ve had this problem for a long while now and ignored it until recently, when the problem didn’t go away upon upgrading to the latest WordPress.  After googling and reading this thread, I’ve found that I wasn’t alone, and a solution is at hand (read the post by “Today”).

It’s quite unnerving though that some hax0r got into my site and was able to mess with it.

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Yay.

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I’m not really sure why I still visit Michael Reichmann’s site. Maybe it’s one of those akin to George W. Bush making a presidential address; you’re compelled to listen not because you want to get something tangible information from it, but because you anticipate him to make a big boo boo.

Well, that has happened again today here…but it wasn’t written by MR himself. It’s an article on “Why Moore’s law doesn’t apply to Digital Photography,” a title that is more pretentious than “Why the Megapixel Race is SO 2005.”

But, OK, let’s play along with this for a moment: Maxwell (the author) is basically saying that the amount of megapixel becomes insignificant since no lens will outresolve it. Well, that’s assuming there will be no new technology when it comes to optics (lenses). So it is flawed…very flawed. I remember my computer science professor saying that we’ll never see the day a printer having more than 1MB of memory (forget about Bill Gate’s famous quote about a computer not having the need to have more than 640k of memory) because nobody will ever need it. One can never assume what another wants or needs because it is NEVER constant nor predictable. Sure, we don’t need a 100 megapixel camera today, but who are we to say what technology can bring tomorrow and what would be the needs of people by then?

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I am currently watching “Primal Fear” on Hulu and this is probably the first time I have paid attention to a film’s editing. The editing of this movie is, in my opinion, brilliantly executed. I can’t help but notice the scene of the first day of trial which–in the hands of a terrible editor–would have otherwise ended up very dragging and full of b0ringness.

I looked up in IMDB the man responsible, and it’s David Rosenbloom, who has lent his talents to films like “The Insider.”

I can’t help but wonder why the man has quite a short list of films on his resume.

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