Venus On Fire

Source: Clayton Cramer's Blog

Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Increasingly, frustrated with how the greed of a small number of lawyers is making life unreasonable for ordinary people. I rolled the refractor out a couple of days ago to look at the Moon and Venu ...
Full article at: Clayton Cramer's Blog  More like this  11 hours ago, 4:48pm CDT

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Olympus launches high-end 150mm F1.8 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras

Source: The Verge

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm F1.8 lens that was spotted back in February was officially announced this week. The new high-end glass for the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Micro Four Thirds camera has a focal length of 150mm (35mm equivalent), and a brig ...
Full article at: The Verge  More like this  12 hours ago, 3:46pm CDT

Canon Vixia HF M50

Source: Ecoustics

In a time when most high-end smartphones and point-and-shoot cameras can capture HD video, the consumer camcorder lies in a precarious position. The Canon Vixia HF M50 ($649.99 direct) represents the compa ...
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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm f1.8

Source: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

Just to clear things up for some people: The focal length of a lens has no impact whatsoever regarding "flattening" of a photo or anything related to that. What makes a portrait "flat" is the distance to the subject. People equate focal length to subj ...
Full article at: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)  More like this  13 hours ago, 2:28pm CDT

Canon Vixia HF R300

Source: Ecoustics

With video-capable phones and cameras, consumer camcorders are in a tough spot when it comes to balancing price and usefulness. The Canon Vixia HF M50 ($649.99, 3 stars) captures great video, but at that price, yo ...
Full article at: Ecoustics  More like this  13 hours ago, 2:27pm CDT

NZ has stake in world's largest radio telescope

Source: Radio New Zealand

New Zealand, Australia and South Africa are to host the world's most powerful radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array will cost about $NZ2.5 billion and be the largest radio telescope ever made. When completed in 2024, it will consist of 3000 dishe ...
Full article at: Radio New Zealand  More like this  14 hours ago, 1:33pm CDT

Amazing Underwater Video of Massive Sink Holes in Mexico Shot with Canon 5D Mark III

Source: Imaging Resource

Underwater photographer Berkley White has posted a gorgeous video of the massive sinkholes in Mexico, known as cenotes, shot with the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III. To shoot the video, White had to hack an old Aquatica 5D Mark II underwater housing t ...
Full article at: Imaging Resource  More like this  15 hours ago, 1:24pm CDT

Move over Xbox logo. The Noun Project brings icons into the 21rst century.

Source: Kill Screen

Since symbols are a form of communication we all can understand—and a form of communication that can be really easily shared over multiple communication platforms—we shouldn’t only be designing symbols for common everyda ...
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The need for speed

Source: Nanotech Now

Biomedical scientists are dreaming of a technique showing the distribution of all the biomolecular constituents that make up biological tissue in high-resolution, three-dimensional maps. Such a visualizatio ...
Full article at: Nanotech Now  More like this  16 hours ago, 12:03pm CDT