My "Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion" post from two weeks ago, in which I offered a nice presentation of the ingenious work by Marianne Oelund, garnered quite a lot of attention, quickly becoming the most popular post on my blog (which perhaps doesn't say much, but in any case, it's still – two weeks later – getting many thousands of views a day).

A lot of people have commented that they had no idea that a camera shutter was so complex, and for the most part, that's okay because, for the most part, photographers really don't need [...]
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I haven't done much since returning to Japan a week ago. Tired from the trip... overwhelmed with work (that I don't even get paid for)... and spending an inordinate time at the doctor for some acute back problems. It's been a long week.

But I was feeling okay last night, so after Mass in downtown Kyoto, I thought I'd give my new Nikon D700's legendary low-light performance a spin, combining it with the fastest lens that I could get my hands on (that is, one that lets in the most light), the same Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 that I borrowed from [...]

Congratulations to my sister Marci and her husband, Marty, who on Thursday welcomed their second child, a little girl, following two and a half years after their son, Josh. (Josh has appeared on my blog many times, most of which are linked in the "Related posts" box below.)

Jena's great grandmothers on Marci's side were Genevieve (my mom's mom) and Marie (my dad's mom). My mom's mom actually did go by "Genevieve", but this week's new arrival will apparently go by the more casual "Jena".

In March or so, after my sister-in-law Natalie delivers their first, Anthony will have five [...]

Woo-hoo, I just updated my iPhone to the new 2.1 firmware that Apple released on Friday, and the great iPhone unhappiness I had when I got it two days ago seems to have been assuaged. In my home office, I now generally get four or five signal-strength bars, out of five.

Experience will tell whether there's actually a good signal, or it's just telling me that there is, but it bodes well.

One warning to those installing the new firmware: it takes quite a while. iTunes displayed an "updating firmware" for so long (5+ minutes), I figured that something had [...]
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Earlier in the summer, near the start of my trip to Ohio, I posted some funky pictures of Anthony that were highly processed with some new features of Lightroom 2.

The shots were from a really nice playground in Ravenna, Ohio. It's been on my list to post a few more, so here they are.

Just after I took the photo above, a boy of about seven or eight years old walked up to me and said "This place is awesome!!!"

Indeed.

As I mentioned on the funky-picture post, Anthony was spinning quite fast on a tire swing, but a [...]