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Is a monitor color calibrator…

I can’t understand people who spend thousands of dollars on expensive lenses, tripods, memory cards and other accessories but neglect to calibrate their monitors so the colors they are seeing in screen are what the digital values actually stand for. Calibrators can be had for under $100 nowadays, and combination monitor/printer calibrators like the ColorMunki or the PrintFIX Pro go for under $500, there is no reason for any serious photographer not to have one.

I am sick and tired of product introductions dubbed “HD” because they support 720p (yes, I am looking at you, Nikon D90 and Flip Mino HD).

HD starts at 1080p. Deal with it.

It has come to my attention today that Société Générale, my bank in France (yes, they of the €5B rogue trader loss), acquired the makers of Moleskine notebooks in 2006 for the not inconsiderable sum of €60M.

In November, I have flown from San Francisco to London, back to San Francisco, on to Auckland, Queenstown, Wellington, Auckland, back to San Francisco, Houston, back to Oakland. When combined with my upcoming trip to Bombay, I will have traveled 70,000 kilometers, or nearly twice the circumference of the Earth…

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Frank Herbert, Dune

One day, the manufacturers of dining tables will finally discover that four-legged tables are guaranteed to wobble, and opt for stabler tripod or monopods instead.