Monday, January 23, 2006

I was up at Mirror Lake a few weekends ago and setting up my Gitzo Mountaineer tripod in the snow. The temperature was slightly above freezing. As I tried to stabilize the legs, I heard the crack of metal breaking, and found that the bolt holding one of the legs had broken in half. So for the past few weekends, I've been carrying my old metal Bogen tripod in my pack. I believe this tripod weighs over 7 pounds (double the Gitzo). The extra weight subtract a lot from the enjoyability of snowshoeing/XCing! If you do much photography in the snow, you might want to consider snow supports for your tripod. You can find various ideas for homemade tripod snow supports on the web, or buy them. 7:43:25 AM

Phasing out "PostScript" Type 1 fonts: " Recently, I've spoken at a couple of conferences, and made presentations to several key customers, about Adobe phasing out sales of Type 1 ('PostScript') fonts. This posting is adapted from my talks and presentations on the subject.... Background: Here's a brief introduction to set the scene. This is all discussed at much greater length in my article on article on font formats. (Via Typblography, the Phinney-us Blogg.) 7:43:18 AM

Broadcast Flag Is Back, This Time It Covers iPods And PSPs, Too: " Under the proposal 'Digital Content Protection Act of 2006', digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models. By Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing " (Via myapplemenu.) 7:43:13 AM

Imaging Resource takes first look at Nikon D200: "IMAGING RESOURCE has published a fairly detailed first look at the Nikon D200, including an examination of what publisher Dave Etchells calls the 'corduroy effect' and others refer to as 'banding'." (Via Rob Galbraith DPI.) 7:43:09 AM

Quicktime 2 RSS: " Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Apple According to the Guardian Apple is working on something called 'QuickTime 2 RSS,' which will allow someone (in this case a teacher) to record a lecture and then have it automatically encoded for playback on a video enabled iPod and seeded to an RSS feed, which would automatically be populated on the iTunes Music Store. The best part of this? It would be free, you just need to buy the camera and the Mac to run it on. Unless I miss my guess, this will be an addition to QuickTime Broadcaster, though I have been wrong before. And a word of warning, this article is a 'Guardian Advertisement Feature,' so make of it what you will. (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) 7:43:04 AM

The Great sRGB Versus Adobe RGB Debate: "As more and more photographers dip there toes in the developing trays of the digital darkroom (to stretch an analogy perhaps further than necessary), the choice of color space becomes a more frequent topic of conversation. But all is not necessarily as it appears since not all programs are color management aware...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 7:42:58 AM

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