It all seems fine to me. I haven’t noticed much about the coverage, because my inability to hold the camera level means I need to shoot a bit wide, anyway, so I can rotate that last 0.5 degrees one way or the other in post. The biggest hassle to me is the focus-mode-selector switch, which is the same easy-to-bump style as on the D200. IIRC, my friend’s D90′s switch is much nicer. The card door pops open sometimes, and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear stories of it getting damaged if it popped open while shoving into a bag. I’d like to say that I take care and so haven’t had any problems, but I’m pretty rough and haven’t had any problems. —Jeffrey

Quick question about the orange: You mention skilled photographers doing much better. Do you mean with the software, or the shooting? If the shooting… how would you do better? -do you mean with the lighting/lighting presets? I don’t mean exposure but those cloudy day, fluorescent light, sunset, etc -those settings.

Also when you do go post shooting and try to fix the color are you just going from memory or do you use some other cue? ( Our memories can be deceptive).

I’m shooting with a measly RICOH R8 and recently saw a fungus growing on a log (in NJ) that was so bright red it almost looked fake. Its fascinating when you see such vivid colors in/produced by nature. The red in my photos was blown out to this weak orange. Just curious about your techniques for adjusting color.

If I knew exactly what a better photographer would do, I guess I’d be that better photographer. But what I should have done, I think, is add -1 or -2EV so that the color channels don’t get blown out, then correct the brightness in post as best I could. Without being careful the result could look HDR-fake, but one would hope this is not a totally unsolvable problem. For the color balance, you can get a close approximation of the most accurate representation the situation allows by keying off something in the scene that’s supposed to be white (although there are many shades of “white”, so YMMV). But that often doesn’t give pleasing results, so I use that as a base and go from there, using my own memory and tastes to drive the final product, until I get frustrated and give up and revert back to “As Shot” —Jeffrey

KidZania is something I would have expected in Germany, or Switzerland, maybe
one of the Scandinavian countries. The balance of the world’s countries,
including my own Canada somehow don’t qualify in the smarts area to think, build and have
something such as KidZania. IMO

I would assume, when KidZania is closed and shuttered, all of the activities
that happened are returned to numeral one, stage one. So the tower construction would be
disassembled along with the bridgework and similar. Ditto for everything else.

And is the whole affair sponsored by a company or series of companies?

This is audience participation at its best; the instructions and similar
are given by employees whose position is to instruct the participants?

I noticed on the Automatic Teller Machine (and noted too any of the digits would function)
that there are five digits or codes; here in Canada so far we only have four digits to consider.

Second, why on earth is a Japanese caution sign in English? And “Open”? Aren’t these things that should be in the country’s native language? Just curious.

“Open” and “Closed” are often used in daily life (though “Closed” generally appears as “Close”), so these signs mimic real life. The construction sign, now that you mention it, is a surprise. Maybe the one I thought was real (it’s in front of an area under construction) is not. Being used to both languages, it didn’t even register which one it was in. Doh! —Jeffy