It's weird, right? Especially for an ultra-wide, where you hit infinity focus pretty quick and don't have to worry as much about DOF, and at that price point. I use D750's professionally, am looking to upgrade, and Nikon is really trying to stop me from giving them money. 

I was a big Lawrence Krauss fan and I remember reading his (insane) rebuttal and how it just proved what a guilty asshole he was. And now the exact same scenario for another person I used to enjoy (in small doses.) I can’t believe how angry his response makes me. He and Krauss should be dispatched to outer space…

We lived close to that neighborhood for a while. We eventually bought a house with a garage. That relief, never having to worry about finding parking, and not dealing with assholes who don’t shovel but put folding chairs in their spot all day......there is nothing like it. I don’t give a shit about my house, really.…

No effect on the yard that I’m aware of, but our yard is pretty terrible anyway. We’re on a busy street in Chicago, so we don’t really put much effort into it. I did hold off on mowing the lawn until after we had a good rain, so his ashes would get soaked into the soil.

After living in our house a couple years, one day there was a knock at the door, and we opened it to find an older woman holding a bag of ashes. Her family grew up in our house and she wanted to spread some of her father’s ashes in our front and back yard.

Oh man, they got that out fast. I was hoping it would just be an issue with converting RAW, but if it’s not........that’s a bummer. 

I think it’s more typical to be an issue with demosaicing the RAW file. That has happened to almost every Nikon I’ve bought when it first came out, and it gets fixed with an Adobe RAW update. Maybe. I have no idea how the author was demosaicing the files.

For what it’s worth, my understanding is that neither Nikon or Canon share their mount specs with 3rd party manufacturers. They have always been reverse engineered. Also I just got my first Tokina lens for my Nikons (16-28 f2.8) and I love it, so I hope they get to work sooner rather than later.

I know I’m late to this party, but Chiller is available to play on Archive.org’s collection of preserved arcade games (though I couldn’t really figure out the controls, and it was impossible with a keyboard.)

I love your description of how to properly read peer reviewed articles followed by how you find it best to read peer reviewed articles, something I also did a lot in school, and I think that’s part of why I always enjoy reading your work on Lifehacker - you would be a great professor, should you fancy another career…

That’s what I first thought as well. In Chicago, if you do any work off-duty you’re not allowed to be in uniform or armed. Although this seems to be the tenth most fucked up aspect of this story.

Fuch him indeed and I hope he goes away. However, I was a candidate for the Chicago Police Department a few years back, and I dropped out of the hiring process well into it, because that is EXACTLY the type of individual they are looking to hire. Their HR process is also responsible for this and a bevy of other…

Damn straight. This stuff drives me crazy. There is no mystery here - ANYONE is safer in a car if they face backwards. I didn’t think of that and you’re totally right - once self driving cars are a thing, we’ll all be facing backwards. 

Arri’s currently top out at 6K, and most films are shot on 4k right now. RED has an 8k system, but I think Guardians 2 was the first movie to use it, and it brings a lot of headaches in post production. Infinity War was the first to use the new Arri 6k. I think Infinity War was much better looking than Guardians,…

Yeah, no screw drive confirmed. The testers at DP claim they didn’t lose any stops with the converter, though. And the viewfinder focus peaking would make running manual pulls on the AF-D’s not so bad. I’m definitely intrigued. The battery life is my main issue currently. I shot an event last week and came back with…

I agree. The look works for Collateral, and I think you’re right that he just stuck with the workflow of the Sony cameras cause he liked it. Blackhat looks like the first film he made with an Alexa as his primary, and even then probably just because Sony stopped supporting that system.

True that. I’ve taught some digital photography and I have a hard time convincing people who grew up using film that “expose to the right” gets changed to “expose to the left” when shooting digital. 

You put that perfectly. If you mess up exposing digital it falls apart and looks like butt. If you mess up exposing film it often just looks unique and cool.

The first time I saw Public Enemies I had the same response - some scenes looked suuuuper video-ish. Same with Once Upon a Time in Mexico (and I think both films used a Sony F23, and early cinema camera.) Once Arriflex got into the business with the Alexa it normalized, I think. Then again Zodiac was shot with Viper…

Nevermind, it’s officially NO on the screwdrive