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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Photoblogging at 96 postings -- Comment()
I managed to write 96 postings to my photoblog Light Scrape during the summer vacation. Not bad. Now, it remains to be seen whether I can sustain interest in photography after the vacation. Perhaps. In fact, as my Nokia E90 is has a not too bad camera, I may continue at least posting one posting per day, at least I'll try.

End of summer vacation -- Comment()
I'm starting work tomorrow, so this is the last day of the summer vacation. It has been nice, four weeks of (almost) doing other things than thinking about work. Of course, during the first week it was difficult to let go, and then we had a (small) crisis at work which I needed to handle, but after that everything went smoothly. A nice summer, and I hope that the autumn will be nice also.

Impact analysis of the micro four thirds (4/3) announcement -- Comment()
RAWsumer has a good analysis of the Olympus/Panasonic micro 4/3 standard announcement. (I'll use the mFT abreviation, although MFT and m43 could be used as well.)

The lens sizes will be interesting to see. I hope there will be "pocketable" offerings, then mFT would be a nice stepping stone from a compact. A couple of wide/normal fixed (bright) lenses would be good to have. The current Olympus 4/3 "pancake" lens is not so impressive.

And I sure hope Olympus and Panasonic will announce something soon, otherwise what was the point of the standard announcement.

The RAW (raw?) deal -- Comment()
David Rasnake wrote well about the multiplicity of different raw formats, and the loss of the promise of open standards: "Raw files are simply what they are - raw (common, lowercase adjective) image data - and in light of few prospects for consolidation out there on the horizon, I don't see that changing back anytime soon."

So, the case of RAW was a great opporturnity missed. There is only raw.