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| bio | website | somethinkodd.com/oddthinking |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | Mar 21 at 1:47 | |
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I'm a software developer (currently focused on Python), living in Australia (currently focused on Sydney).
I am an on-again/off-again moderator of Skeptics.SE. (I was Pro Tem Moderator, I handed in my diamond when the first elections were held, and then ran in the second elections about a year later.)
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Feb 20 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 12 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jul 27 |
awarded | Critic |
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Jul 16 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 12 |
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Why do some lenses cost 10 times as much when the specs are very close? What does "sagitally" mean? (perhaps link to a definition?). Best I found was "in the direction from dorsal to ventral", which doesn't help. |
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Jun 8 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Dec 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Aug 23 |
revised |
Should I be worried about ownership of photos taken on my camera by others? deleted 1 characters in body |
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Jul 17 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 19 |
accepted | Etymology of “flash gun” |
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May 5 |
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Why don't most cameras support PNG format? Lack of EXIF data would be "seen as a negative" by photographers? Bah! These young digital photographer whipper-snappers! In my day, photographers used film and knew what a negative really looked like! :-) |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Apr 16 |
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Why does a higher-end camera body like the Nikon D700 cost so much? @Marcin, oh I see where we were at odds now. I was talking about technology exclusively used in higher-end cameras. Larger sensors, case-design, customising software, flash interfaces, factory fitout, support processes, etc. For the technology in common, I agree with you. (Note: Still not suggesting that there isn't even MORE R&D involved in getting other features into the smaller footprint of compacts.) |
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Apr 15 |
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Can the slant edge SFR method measure lens resolution greater than the Nyquist limit for the camera sensor? @Sean, @whuber, please enter your suggestions as answers rather than comments, (see the big text box at the bottom of the page) so they can be voted upon and edited. |
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Apr 15 |
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Why does a higher-end camera body like the Nikon D700 cost so much? @Marcin, I worded my answer carefully to avoid suggesting that there is more R&D involved in the specialist cameras. Instead, I am arguing R&D costs per unit sold are higher. |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Why does a higher-end camera body like the Nikon D700 cost so much? |
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Mar 2 |
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What's the recommended off camera flash setup for Canon and Sunpak flash combination? Are you sure that the 430EX II can be triggered by the 40D's pop-up flash? I thought it needed a line-of-sight infra-red signal from a 580EX or similar. |
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Feb 15 |
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Why do my images get distorted on my Nikon DSLR? Some computer cases have USB ports on the front and other ones on the back. Whichever side failed, try the other side. Sometimes devices can be strangely sensitive to this, for reasons I cannot explain. |
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Feb 1 |
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Why is 1:1 desirable for a macro lens? That makes a lot of sense, @Rowland, thank you. I guess the fact that it is just a line in the sand seems like an important part of the answer to the original question. |
