I have a feeling you don't understand what South Central is all about.

I got my license when I was 18, which in California mean you neither have to take Driver's Ed nor wait for 6 months after getting your permit to take the test. So I went and got my permit, and just over 2 months later, with no formal instruction, took the test, which I passed (barely). Some of the things that I didn't…

Hwy 5 in California isn't perfectly straight, but its over 190 miles of slight curves from Los Banos to the Grapevine.

This can be a bit of a catch-22 though. I was up in Seattle with my girlfriend during their storm last winter. We thought it'd be good for her (and I) to get her first experience driving around in the snow in a parking lot, but to get there we'd have to have driven down the extremely steep driveway from her apartment…

I always find it interesting to talk to people from Japan about Sony. They invariably bring up the concept of "Sony Time," the amount of time it takes for a Sony product to break, equal to the length of the warranty plus one day.

I don't know of any entry level DSLR that requires you to go into the menu to change aperture. My D40 (the most entry level of entry level cameras) only requires you do hold down the exposure comp button while spinning the control dial to change aperture in M (no more work than changing exp comp in A or S or P), and…

I think it depends on where you want to go with your photography. If it's something you think you'll get into seriously, I'd go for the cheapest DSLR you can find (Canon T3i or Nikon D3100 [if they're still available]) so that you can get used to using their respective systems. If you don't really want to get a DSLR,…

I believe that the 650D and T4i are the same camera, just different branding.

I went to pretty much every home game my high school had (band!), and I think I saw 5, maybe, field goal and PAT tries combined. And it's not like I went to some small school with a shitty team (although we did have a shitty soccer team [which I played on] so that might be why).

It's no different than most sports. Holding the WR in the 100m doesn't have any direct benefit to humankind, but I still think it's a worthy goal.

"Who ownssssss the Kings?"

It's alright. If you stop down it's sharp enough, but bright spots near the edge of the frame will produce significant color fringing. Also, on full frame sensors it'll produce a circular image, and on crop sensor it doesn't quite fill the whole frame.

Yeah, they're not the most practical. I have what I'd consider their most useful lens (Scout w/ Fisheye) and even that spends most of the time in the bag (I just really love fisheye photopgraphy and it was easier to drop $250 than the $600 for Nikons (much better) DX fisheye). I think that's why they introduced the…

Because it's fun, interesting, and a bit of a challenge. If you're after reliable, consistent results, then yes, Photoshop is the much better option.

That because these sorts of reviews on odd lenses always take shit photos and expect the properties of the lens to make it look good. Seriously, imagine and of those pictures without the selective focus effect. Are any of them any good. Two of them are shitty pictures of crappy planter boxes.

When talking about the lensbaby lenses, people often forget that there are two things going on here. One is the tilting and shifting of the lens, but the other, more important part, is that their lenses have significant uncorrected spherical abberation, which gives it the signature selective focus look. It seems that…

In addition, the Referees' Association has made it well known that would never hire a referee who crossed the picket line, and a lot of the Div 1 NCAA refs are hoping to one day make it to the NFL. The replacement refs come from far enough down the ladder (high school, cc, div 3 NCAA) that they have no ambition for…

I have no idea how instagram actually works, but I would assume if you take the picture through instagram it applies some filter by default (is the correct?) Maybe the photographer happens to use instagram as their default camera app, and they just took the picture. How do you know the actively applied a filter?

This was the first thing I thought of as well.

Of all the crazy shit that have in the NYT article, this is by far the least impressive. The very first picture is of a homemade howitzer and the homemade shells it fires. That's crazy.