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Topher Allan

On The Verge since Nov 01, 2011

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Here’s one – 1/4000s, ISO 100, and ƒ2.8 because I couldn’t get it up to ƒ1.7 without the camera complaining about over-exposure.

Although having looked at it again, it would probably have done it no harm to just open it all the way up.

9 days ago on Olympus announces PEN E-P5, a Micro Four Thirds camera with 1963 looks and 2013 specs 1 reply
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That’s assuming you can find some way of doing that conversion. The ideal way would be to grow plants, but you’d either have to breed them to withstand the near-vacuum of Mars’s atmosphere, or find some way of bringing the CO2 into your pressurised living space. Given the huge pressure differential, that’d be difficult.

26 days ago on Star search: a non-profit group wants to send four people to Mars... forever 3 replies
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A true rangefinder

Are you sure? There doesn’t seem to be any way to overlay a secondary offset image to aid in focusing. The prism in the viewfinder is only being used to show digital information.

27 days ago on Fujifilm X100S review: Making today’s pictures with yesterday’s design 2 replies 3 recommends
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Romania and Bulgaria have been member states since 2007.

about 1 month ago on European schools have twice as many PCs as in 2006, but 20 percent of students still lack access 1 reply 2 recommends
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They’re probably not being rude deliberately. I can’t speak for the other Scandinavian languages, but in Norwegian the standard for what is considered polite phrasing is different from that of English. The language doesn’t have a word for ‘please’, for example, at least not one that would be used in the same way.

Norwegians tend to speak excellent English, but they’ll often speak in the manner that they would in Norwegian. The languages are pretty close, after all. That’ll make them sound a bit abrupt in English, whereas it would be perfectly polite in Norwegian.

about 1 month ago on European schools have twice as many PCs as in 2006, but 20 percent of students still lack access