Serious landscape photographers use large format film cameras. 4x5 film is film that is 4 inches x 5 inches in size, and yields extremely detailed images (over 100 megapixels). For instance, here is a 4x5 camera.
This is a great article comparing 4x5 film to a modern digital camera, the Nikon D200 done by Ken Rockwell. Which one is better? The results may surprise you :)
Read on to find out- I think the author is right on!
Review of the Fuji Film F10
The Fuji F10 is a compact camera notable for its high ISO capabilities. See review for examples of its ISO 1600 performance.
Well, billionaire Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, has just released its annual report. If you haven't read his reports, I highly recommend you spend some time to read one or more. They're filled with general investing information, and useful advice, as well as Warren's views of the economy and market outlook. It's easy reading too. This year he talks about investing fees and hedge funds, investing in foreign markets, and of course his company's recent acquisitions and investment activity.
Buffet's shareholder meetings are becoming a cultural event- attendance is often over 10,000 people. This year, for the first time ever, I'm going to attend the shareholders' meeting, May 6-7, 2006. It should be pretty interesting. Here's a brief description of what the meeting is like. If you're planning on going, or have gone before and have some comments, or experiences to share drop me an email .
(Disclosure: I own stock in Berkshire Hathaway at the time of this writing)
It's like the web is reborn! The past year or so has seen a new generation of web start-ups spring to life. I just came across this list, which is an extremely comprehensive list of Web 2.0 start-ups. Someone did an amazing job of putting this huge list together and categorizing the sites. The list of search start-ups is impressively large.
There's an interesting article in Fortune about The Birth of the Cubicle. Interestingly enough, it wasn't designed to pack lots of people into a space at all. The inventor of the cubicle, Robert Pobst, had a vision of a flexible dynamic work space. I liked some of the later designs in the picture slideshow in the article.
In Silicon Valley, space is at a premium, so it's pretty standard to live at work in a cubicle. At Kosmix, until recently, we were small enough that almost all the developers fit in one medium-sized open space room. Surprisingly, I liked the everyone-in-one-room concept. I guess it also helped that the room had a lot of windows. Now, we've grown and needed more space so we all live in a new cubicle-land office :)
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