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Over the weekend, John Cena suffered some sort of eye injury while working a live event match against Randy Orton. While the extent of the injury was not immiately clear, it appears that it was severe enough to keep him off of Monday Night Raw. Cena did show up afterwards, though.
Two of the hottest developmental performers in WWE are Emma and Paige, both of whom are expected to be a part of the main roster in 2014. The company is planning on featuring them heavily on the special WWE NXT live event that will be shown on the WWE Network.
Fans who attended the live event in Kansas City on Sunday were given the option of leaving and receiving a refund because John Cena was not in attendance as advertised. Randy Orton cut a story line promo, stating that he injured Cena the previous night.
Over the weekend, Jillian Hall visited a WWE live event and was backstage, which led to rumors of her returning to the company. She has since issued a public statement, denying the rumors of her return. Jillian recently brought up the idea of retiring as a wrestler.
WWE is doing a live event in Salt Lake City on March 8, and Randy Orton was initially scheduled to headline the show. However, management wanted to enhance the show in Madison Square Garden on the same day, so Orton will no longer be working the show in Utah.
In order to prevent as many refunds as possible, WWE has asked Madison Square Garden to remove all advertisement featuring CM Punk, even though the live event is not taking place until March. The fear is that fans will ask for their money back since he will no longer be in attendance.
Since the Super Bowl is being played on Sunday, WWE has decided to do their live event in Lakeland, Florida at 1pm. The advertised main event for the show is a match between Kane and Big Show, who was injured last weekend. That has led many to believe that this is a throw away show.
Since CM Punk has been pulled from all of the upcoming live events, WWE needed a new main event match, as he was originally planned to headline the shows with Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. Now, Bray Wyatt and Daniel Bryan have been moved into the top spot.
Wrestle-1, the new promotion founded by the Great Muta, is about to get an influx of talent from TNA for an upcoming live event in March. Austin Aries, Abyss, Bobby Roode, Brutus Magnus, Christopher Daniels, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Frankie Kazarian, Gail Kim, Madison Rayne and Samoa Joe have been confirmed for the trip.
Cody Rhodes and Goldust will be mixing business with pleasure this week, as the siblings are going to down to Florida on Thursday night to work a WWE NXT live event. Their father, the legendary Dusty Rhodes, works closely with the developmental program.
Big Show was noticeably missing from Monday Night Raw this week. WWE has given him some time off to heal from the hand injury that he suffered at a live event over the weekend. Management had Brock Lesnar attacking him during Royal Rumble 2014 to write him off of television.
Since Big Show suffered an injury during a WWE live event over the weekend, his match against Brock Lesnar at Royal Rumble 2014 was kept extremely short. The former UFC champion utilized several chair shots and an impressive F5, where he walked around the ring first, to finish off Show.
Daniel Bryan made his injury return to the ring during a live event on Saturday night, where he worked a steel cage match against Bray Wyatt. WWE had kept Bryan from wrestling since he suffered his concussion, so that he can recover and work Royal Rumble 2014.
WWE was really hoping for a hot match for Brock Lesnar tonight at Royal Rumble 2014, so that he can have a lot of momentum heading into Wrestlemania 30, but that might be in jeopardy as his opponent for the evening, Big Show, injured his hand at a live event on Saturday night.
While it looked like scheduling conflict was going to force Impact Wrestling to find a new home, it appears that Dixie Carter has worked out some things with Universal Studios, as a few upcoming TNA events have been announced for the venue, including a pay per view in April.
While WWE has been paying tribute to Mae Young, who died earlier in the week, at live events by showing a special video, Natalya Neidhart has decided to take it one step further, by dedicating her victories over AJ Lee at the live events to the hall of fame performer.
Since the company likes fresh starts at Wrestlemania, WWE officials have been checking out a couple of the developmental wrestlers to see which ones are ready to be called up to the main roster. This week, they're checking out Tyler Breeze, who worked live events with Justin Gabriel this weekend.
Jimmy Wang Yang visited a WWE live in Cincinnati event over the weekend, and he has piqued the interest of wrestling fans when he posted on Twitter that he was going to be showing up on Monday Night Raw, which has led fans to speculate if he will actually appear on television.
Since Daniel Bryan is out with a concussion, WWE needed someone to work with Bray Wyatt at the live event, as the two of them have been paired up for the last couple of weeks in preparations for their match at the Royal Rumble, so officials opted to go with the Big Show as a replacement.
Since Daniel Bryan has grown to become one of the biggest draws for the company, WWE has offered refunds to fans who purchased tickets to the live events this weekend to see him. Bryan was pulled from those scheduled shows because he is recovering from a concussion.
While Matt Morgan has stated that he is leaving the professional wrestling industry, he is still working a show for the NWA later this month. He is defending the Florida title against former Nexus member and WWE star Michael Tarver in Tampa.
While the entertainment company and the performer have yet to make an announcement or confirmation, the Winnipeg Sun is reporting that Chris Jericho will be returning to WWE on March 7, 2014, during a live event held at the MTS Centre.
It looks like Emma has now emerged as a strong candidate to be the next NXT developmental diva to be called up to the main roster by WWE. She worked the live event tour this week. Emma teamed with Natalya to defeat AJ Lee and Tamina Snuka.
Rumor has it that Kane will start wrestling again soon, as WWE has started putting him into matches during live events. He recently worked an extremely sloppy match against Zack Ryder, before being beaten by the Big Show afterwards in Buffalo.
On screen, Sting lost the right to ever challenge for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship again. However, since tonight's event is a house show, the legendary WCW star will be facing Brutus Magnus for the belt as the headline match in Tennessee.
Despite all the rumors about him starting his own wrestling promotion, Jeff Jarrett is still signing on for appearances on the independent wrestling circuit. The TNA founder will be appearing at an Outlaw Wrestling Organization show in Mississippi next month.
Jesse Sorensen will be making his debut for the Monster Factory later on this month at an independent wrestling show in New Jersey. While some thought that he would never wrestle again, the former TNA star has worked quite a few times since his release.
Angelina Love and Mickie James, both of whom are former TNA Knockouts, have been booked for a big match at an independent wrestling circuit show in New Jersey on February 22, 2014.


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Attack the Person, Not the Ideas:
Attack the person in some way. For example:
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- Comment on their inability to make a good argument
- Attach them to discredited others
You are not qualified to make such a statement.
You would say that, wouldn't you.
And who do you think is going to believe you.
Attacking the Person is a form of distraction, forcing them into defense and away from their argument.
Aside from Wallace growing up in NO and playing for Ole Miss and predictibly preferring warm weather: the Ohio state income tax rate is nearly 6% and it looks like the Cleveland municipal income tax rate is 2%. Beyond that PHilbin is a SB-winning offense coach, and I don't believe that Chud, as an NFL offensive coordinator has ever produced a team that even went .500.
So obviously raw numbers don't tell the whole story.
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Palmer's situation is different and if I had my choice between Palmer and buttfumble, I'd take buttfumble"
Don't believe this either way. Pretty much everybody in the front office of Cleveland now worked with Joe Banner (CEO of the Browns) in Philly, and Banner's never been one to throw money around like that. Hell, Philly fans blame their recent struggles on no longer having Banner
The above post is not subject to penalty under the TOS I declare the Hayden Fox defense. " It is impossible for the staff to know my context therefore I cannot be penalized"
even if its true, for 13.5 million they can have him. I really dont think hes worth that much...BUT, he is only 26. He's got YEARS ahead of him to improve.
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As Burnt Offerings unfolds, Anita agrees to help track down a possible psychic firestarter. She's also policing the local werewolf pack, though she's split up with their alpha, Richard. Then Jean-Claude, the vampire Master of the City and her lover, needs her help to confront a visiting delegation of the vampires' ruling council. They wonder how he got the power to destroy a council member and believe him dangerous to the hierarchy.
This fast-paced, urban fantasy includes gore, hardboiled mystery and a romantic triangle. The vampires and werewolves are as three-dimensional as the human characters, allowing us to join Anita in wondering who the real monsters are and to understand how her increased personal involvement with them is alienating her from her human colleagues. --Nona Vero --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
But i have to admit, i enjoyed the first few Anita Blake novels. I liked her, like how a small girl can kickass, and eventually even enjoyed how some of the monsters really aren't monsters... but over the past few novels, the books have degenerated into way too much magic that simply seems silly, her sexual relationships with a vampire and werewolf, and plots that are completely predictable (the main reason why i enjoyed her first few books because they weren't predictable).
Hamilton's development of Anita was absolutely fantastic, as well of Dolph and the rest of the characters. But now with Richard, who was developing nicely in the beginning, is just absurd now. Alright, i can understand the fact that he has a plastic Barney the purple dinosaur view of the world, but does he really have to sound and act that pathetic?
And Jean-Claude... who was once a great character who was trying to win Anita and who could set things in motion, is nothing but a boy toy now and doesn't even play any significant role... sure, he's got a lot of lines in the books, but his power is so dependent on Anita, that he's no longer that sinister vampire we were with ulterior motives. Trust me, i can appreciate the irony that Anita, the Execution, fell in love with Jean-Claude, Master of the City... but their relationship doesn't even seem equal now... not even close.
And the love triangle is sooooo old.
Read more ›Several interesting things happen in the seventh installment. The most important part is that there are a few new characters. The ones that I think will play important roles in the other novels are Asher, Jean-Claude's former best friend and nemesis, and Nathaniel, a were-leopard with submissive tendencies. Asher is the one that intrigued me the most. Hundreds of years ago, he and Jean-Claude had loved the same woman. Asher blames Jean-Claude for Julianne's brutal death. This is a great subplot -- one that I hope Ms. Hamilton delves deeper into in the other novels. I wonder if this love triangle foreshadows the future of Anita, JC and Richard. Asher is gripping, almost as sensual as JC, and I look forward to reading more on him. I don't yet know what to make of Nathaniel.
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I love my DP2 and SD15 Sigma cameras. I'm holding my breath that the replacement for the current SD1 will be something priced within reason. I don't use my Canon equipment anymore except to loan or as a backup. Some of the Sigma lenses are the equal or better of many of Canon's – and I've got quite a number of (pro) Canon lenses. While Sigma is far from perfect yet and, as with any camera system, not every photo is acceptable, some of my best photos have been coming from Sigma equipment. I'm not likely to change from Sigma soon. Sadly, as others have said, the support for its RAW format is horrendous. (Apple, get your act together and support the format.) I've also not always been happy with low light performance – but I see that improving now. One does have to be patient with its idiosyncrasies. But, for me, the rewards when it really nails it, are worth it. I think the change in management there a while back may be helping.
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Canon still pursuing Foveon-style multi-layer sensor design
Canon has patented a color-sensitive multi-layered sensor design, showing the company is still pursuing the technology. Like Sigma's Foveon chips, the multi-layered design allows each of the sensor's pixels to capture color information without the need for colored filters. The patent, discovered by the Japanese Engineering Accomplishment blog, suggests a system to promote resonance within the sensor, in an attempt to make the lower layers of the sensor more sensitive.
The Canon patent includes a structure (40) designed to induce resonance within the sensor, in an attempt to boost sensitivity to red light. |
Canon already uses a two-layer sensor in the iFCL metering system introduced with the EOS 7D, to make it color aware. At present only Sigma, with its Foveon technology, uses a multi-layer design as its main imaging sensor. The principle is that different colors of light have different energies, allowing them to penetrate to different depths within a sensor. Existing designs have not been able to offer the same degree of light sensitivity as more conventional, filtered sensors - at least partly because the red can be lost in the sensor, rather than being recorded.
Canon's iFCL metering sensor (as first used in the EOS 7D), uses a two-layer design to provide an understanding of the color, as well as the brightness, of a scene. |
Although the fine detail is not clear (a combination of being written in repetitive 'patentese' and in Japanese means it doesn't lend itself to precise machine translation), it seems Canon's design uses a physical structure that causes light to resonate within the sensor, increasingly the likelihood of the red light being captured.
Canon is not alone in working on layered sensors - Sony has also published several patents in the area, hoping to avoid the risk of color moire and loss of color resolution that exist in the conventional Bayer design. (from Egami blog)
"Foveon" is probably the biggest botched idea of the past decade.
Such a great idea, such a fumbled development. 'Sigh'.
Huh? Where do you get THAT idea? Nothing except the expensive Nikon D800 and even more expensive cameras can compete. (Except now Sony seems to be offering their new A7r, which may be able to compete too.) The DP Merrill cameras are under $1,000 and offer image quality previously available only in DSLR cameras that were $2,000 or more (plus the cost of a lens).
"To get the most from the DP2M will require not just patience (hesitant AF, slow buffer writes, lousy raw software, wobbly screen image, etc) but the willingness to put these aside in exchange for what is delivered – the highest image quality from any camera this side of a 36MP+ DSLR or Medium format camera or back. No mincing words. That's what I see." - http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sigma_dp2m_review.shtml
Is this why you say fumbled? (Since nobody else bought the Foveon company, Sigma did. Canon and Nikon should have been frothing at the mouth at the opportunity, but they dropped the ball.)
is price the reason they dont buy Foveon chips instead ?
or pride, that they can do better image quality than foveon ?
what is reason they dont buy or use foveon ?
i mean, really, straight to the point ?
Foveon chips are actually cheaper to make. It would have been risky to buy into the Foveon concept, but Canon could have afforded it. Things would be much different if they had. Imagine a special full-frame Canon 1Df with a 90 megapixel (30x3) Foveon sensor? It would be spectacular!
I'm a physicist. Resonance doesn't sound like a good idea for photography. Highly frequency selective. It was used in early short wave radios but abandoned shortly after - superheterodyne. Maybe they can patent these old ideas for photography! Everything old is new again!
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I disagree... When dpreview.com was fully reviewing -years ago- SD-14, had posted a number of portrait shots (faces), with significant skin details and color fidelity ! Unfortunately, I did not find the 'samples' option today, in order to mention the link... Sorry!
will this one serve?
Foveon is great for lansacpe and architecture but I think it's a little harsh for portraits and fashion,the skin tones are less appealing than those from a Bayer sensor..
it's just the default processing of SPP, or simply the sharpness/clarity/contrast settings.
Foveon is great for nonthing.
it's a negative property that Sigma should sell/write off.
> Foveon is great for lansacpe and architecture
stacking the sensors significantly reduces resolution which is a weak point by design, though I agree new SDs can compete against 20+MP APS-C cameras in resolution in good light and that's it.
I suspect the new Quattro sensor is going to kick-ass even more than the Merrill sensor. Just as a side note - I have never seen a sharp image from a CFA sensor camera that can compete with the images from the Merrill sensors in noise and sharpness, when the images are shot at ISO 100-800. At ISO 1600 the full-frame CFA sensors start to become truly competitive.
How about single quantum wells that measure the energy of the photon(s), instead of multiple layers.
One day it will be reality: single layer, no diffusion/diffraction loss, no triple sensors, just one sensor type.
the pitches will be at 10nm level, the state of art feature size at the moment.
folks have to remember triple layer for triple color capture for imagery has been around as long as the film era (kodachrome involves triple layers too), so it isn't a brilliant step to translate 'triple layer capture' from light sensitive film emulsion to electronic light sensors for 'digital film'. all that's happened is going from analog to digital, nothing more. key is, there are umpteen ways to do it, but only a few will be effective.
wow. thanks for the reminder but you make it sound that layers of pixel technology is just trying mimic film . a good background for you to read is how the Foveon company started.
> but only a few will be effective.
none at the moment, nor in the near future.
Makes me wonder what if; Kodak who used to employ the best, brightest and most innovative talent in the world (physicist, chemical engineers, etc.) had been able to shift their focus from conventional silver based imaging to this, what they would have come up with. Corporate hubris and arrogance took them to where they are today. The next sensor breakthrough will most likely be a type of technology that is yet to be discovered - perhaps nanobots doing some sort of atomic level assembly. Who knows. Whatever it is it's not going to come from Asia or Europe.
No, it's gonna come from USA. There will be at least one movie about it, the president will fly a plane and kick a$$. The end. And coming soon.
Good to know Canon is thinking about something in sensor department. Wish them luck.
Kodak didn't fail because it missed the digital age. It actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. It brought to market the first professional camera, the DCS-100, in 1991. The QuickTake had an Apple label but were produced by Kodak in 1994. In 2001 Kodak held the No. 2 spot in U.S. digital camera sales, behind Sony. Over the years, Kodak put billions of dollars behind digital imaging. But ultimately hit an obstacle it couldn't overcome. At its core, it wasn't a camera or consumer electronics company. Companies can change what they do, but they rarely can change who the are.
Truth is "it is it's not going to come from Asia or Europe" because, frankly, the US is the best in putting technology in the market. But "the best, brightest and most innovative talent in the world" will come from Asia or Europe :P
Speaking about sensor is like being back in the old days when the talks around Ektachrome, Velvia, Illford, Agfa, etc....
Camera bodies didn't really matter, it did when new tech appear, ie. IS, AF, Toughness, Motor, Meter, etc.
Fast forward today, here we are again, talking about the newest, latest, most advanced, brand new tech & ideas.
For a given sensor resolution the Foveon is essentially beyond comparison in IQ, if the sometimes green cast is not present they are the best photos I have ever seen at 100% or less.
Saw a back-to-back of Sigma DP1 M vs 5DIII shot at same time and the sigma beat the 5dIII easily!
The shots are easily used up to 100% and still look fabulous, almost 3D, plus the fixed FL of DP1M was VERY sharp, better than the 'L' lens the lady used for the comparison.
Hi ISO is not great but then I don't use them! Sigma s/w is not great either, but.....
DP1/2/3M are pricey but then so are the RX1, etc large sensor fixed lens very compact cams.
Hope Canon can pull it off, lots of good benefits!
The potential benefits have been known forever. Foveon is a badly flawed first implementation, impressive mainly because it was developed so quickly into an actual product, if a flawed one.
I have a DP2M and this badly flawed first implementation does produce incredible images, perfect for landscape, travel and architecure.
A new sensor technology is long overdue, and I applaud Sigma(Foveon), Canon and Sony(patent) for their innovative work on multi-layered sensor design.
I hope Canon will be successful. But I never understood all the bashing Sigma got for their innovative Foveon sensor, despite it's quirks and shortcomings.
Sigma only deserves credit for buying it and keeping it alive, not for developing the technology. Maybe a little of the later improvement, but I think most of that predated Sigma's acquisition. If there had been a big company behind it the technology would have either improved a lot more or been abandoned. Only a smaller company like Sigma would just keep turning out a few for a specialty product.
This is a smart move for Canon. Instead of pussyfooting with old ideas/the inherent limitations of the Bayer filter, it's nice to see that at least Canon and Sigma know that real innovation means forging ahead with new and better ideas.
Canon innovating? Now that's what I call a surprise...
Yeah. It's not like they came up with the locally buffered CMOS sensor or anything.
Or the first practical stabilization system.
Or a usable ring ultrasonic motor, as well as the first really usable micromotor AF. (That's a minor innovation. All it did was displace Nikon as the number one camera maker).
Or the first DSLR liveview (on the 20Da).
Or tying with Nikon for the first movie mode.
"First" locally buffered CMOS sensors? seriously?
"First" DSLR with live view? The award goes to Olympus in E-10
"First" Practical stabilization system? The award goes to Nikon. On a lens with Nikon patent, yeah maybe to Canon
USM motor with tons of jargon tossed in- yeah maybe to canon
To continue with your "or"s
Or focusing on movie/video than still cameras in the last 2-3yrs
Or still using rebranded 5yr old sensors in cosmetic upgraded bodies
Or having ways for its users to justify new camera upgrades are worth while
I suppose.. those take talent.
(Note: I hope they seriously update this foveon tech and come up with a practical solution, but until then aptima or sony or samsung or panasonic or.. scores of others will continue to trounce canon' sensors)
@Joseph - I think they only did that for USM. And everything you mention is from the older era not the recent sit back and milk and wait.
I think the E-10 gets "ignored" as a DSLR because it did not have interchangeable lenses, just the one 35-140 fixed to the body.
Google CANON ION.
The first camera that made me dream of a world without film.
Canon LIDE
First slim scanners that worked on just a USB cable (great low-power tech).
Canon Bubblejet
Dominated the inkjet printer market for a while; probably still do; though I'd hate to give credit to printer companies for ripping us all off and adding to the monumental amount of e-waste as people opt for new printers rather than fixing up their dried-up printers or paying for overpriced ink...
Regardless, Canon innovates and does it well.
I don't think Canon ever dominated the inkjet market. They developed the first practical thermal inkjet technology (an idea many had worked on), but HP beat them to market with their own slightly different design and Canon never caught up. Not too long after, Epson developed the superior piezoelectric technology and became the main competitor for HP. Canon has made some very nice printers, but could have dominated.
I don't know what the market share stats are like but at one stage early after bubblejets were introduced, it seems like all I could see were bubblejets (for several years).
Regardless, I still think they make great printers (and scanners, and cameras...). They were far ahead in scanners for many years, right to the point they started integrating them in printers. They still make separate scanners using LIDE technology.
If it can offer any technical advantages without the "guess-what-color-when-and-how" surreal kaleidoscope amusingly offered by Sigma and hilariously ignored by SigmaFovFans, then, yes, let's see it!
So lets calculate and make up 2/3 of what colour-when-and-how and then of course just photoshop to make it pleasing again because oh my god bayer is so accurate but I just cant stand it.
Bayer is accurate but what is the point if straight out of camera shots are so dull and flat and lack life? I have both cameras and Foveon may be innacurate but its full of life and it sparkles, all without the Photoshopping crap.
Odd, then, that several of the worlds most respected pros describe the new Foveon sensor results as "spectacular" and even compare it to medium format. I've personally seen similar responses and results. Maybe your experience is with the older designs.
agreed. processing a nicely exposed Foveon RAW file, just takes an increase in saturation and I'm done. with conventional cameras though, i'll just never get what i want since I'm limited to Lightroom and I have no mastery with it.
Strip away the arrogance and this is like saying folks like Velvia but that's because they don't know how color is supposed to look.
The only time there is a "kaleidoscope" is when you are looking at an image with a lot of colors. The camera tracks colors better than most:
I've also done a number of model shoots with other photographers, and the Sigma ends up being more accurate than most other cameras in the resulting shots.
My experience is from seeing some really, REALLY puzzling users samples in the Sigma forum.
It has come to a point where I seriously consider it would be interesting having a scientific study to see if there's any correlation between color blindness and Sigma users (prevalence amongst men is about 8%, women 0,5%).
I do know there are professionals using Sigma cameras. I also do know that are few of them. I especially do not know how troublesome is their workflow, in order to achieve accurate colors.
Saying there's something lacking in Bayer sensors is just a a manifestation of the surreal superiority complex SigFovFans love to pet.
In their quest for intangible "different" qualities they don't even care it doesn't make any sense.
Given the sheer, gigantically overwhelming number of superior, superior output coming out of cameras equipped with those sensors from professionals and amateurs all over the world, it is a bit like saying that pizza lacks savory characteristics.
How will the high ISO performance be on this new style sensor? The DP's are pretty well known for a lot of noise above ISO 400 compared to other modern sensors.
its obvious that there is money to be had with this three layered foveon style sensor and that is why Canon and Sony are pursuing it. that is all. they already have capable cameras with very capable processors and sensors that they can conventionally improve along. time will tell.
Yes. Current cameras take ISO 3200 images pretty well with plenty of resolution. Only a few would need better than that. Once, the market is saturated with capable cameras. They will then release these layered sensors and market them as revolutionary and a step forward since they will have 100% pixel sharp images.
When you actually look at results from other cameras at ISO 3200, most are not very good. The current Merrill sensors still do a good job of capturing detail at ISO 3200, although they have some color noise as in this ISO 3200 shot:
If you shoot for B&W the Merrill sensors can be used up to ISO 6400 at times if you have some well-lit subjects.
I think I would be more interested in a Canon dslr with:
* a monochrome sensor,
* an accessory RGB color filter pack for color scenery
are you serious?
I can't think of a single reason to drive Canon into producing a monochrome-only camera. Only Leica has made such a stupid move.
yeah it would be baffling if canon does that but i dont think its stupid for leica to do it.
Monochrome sensors can provide a level of detail unheard of when using bayer layout sensor, because there is no guesswork involved when render the raw.
Phase One also makes monochrome backs. These are used for scientific applications as well as in some rental studios.
Conventional sensors are monochromatic. They just add the color filters on top of it.
Foveon/Merrill sensors can be monochromatic with the use of the latest SPP raw editing software. Search/learn about them if you're into BW.
Monochrome sensors are a stopgap. Somewhere up around 200-400mp (and don't say we won't get there, because we've gone up 20x, from 1.7mp on the first DSLR I ever used to 36mp on my D800) you hit a point where a Bayer pattern extracts essentially all the spatial information you're likely to get from the majority of lenses.
Same here. The Foveon IQ is incredible. Problem is that they would have to licence the technology from Sigma. The Canon solution appears to be a tweak to the Foveon patent but will it be sufficiently different to avoid infringement?
I do too. Nikon buys most of their sensors, from Sony for (APSC) dslrs and make their own high end sensors for their cameras like D3.
they do? didn't know that they make their own high end sensors. i thought Canon and Nikon are just using other's sensor and stuff.
I don't care Nikon or Canon, neither Nike nor Casio.
I hope the one who make best lenses can have the best sensors, which is Canon, then Nikon, then Sigma.
If Canon or Sony produce multi layered sensor it doesn't need to have that many pixels. Since each pixels records 3 colors of information instead of one..
Yeah, even Sigma triples the actual pixel number by three for each "pixel" for advertising... I would think that this would allow for larger sensor sites, but not sure if the extra "plumbing" in the sensor might limit some of the sensitivity.
What would the ISO increase be for a non-filtered sensor?
It does because you lose luminance resolution otherwise. It takes a lot of processing power to drive since you need to collect 3x from each site instead of once. Now that MP counts are starting to get pretty high for APS-C sensors and processor speeds are getting up there it might make sense to think about going there in a few years though. They will be able to drive say 30*3 counts fast enough and that would make quite an APS-C body, 30MP foveon (90 Bayer MP worth of data to read).
I cannot agree with Larry that multi layered sensors don't need to have that many pixels, as the larger the number of pixels, the better the definition, regardless of how many colours in the pixels. Personally, I am hoping for the foveon type sensor with about 500 mpx at a bit bigger than 645 sensor size, and lenses capable of using all that resolution. Nikon and Canon already have lenses so fine at resolution, that you can use them to print circuit boards. what we want is that kind of detail, but not the £250,000 price ticket they have. I want to print 12 foot wide prints at fine detail, so I could view them at book-reading distance, and still marvel at the individual veins on leaves. It is possible to do, but it will probably be a new company, or one which is at the edge now, but willing to go quality instead of mass-production standards.
This comment demonstrates a profound ignorance of optics.
Assume a MF frame - 48 mm x 36 mm, then 500 mp implies pixels that are 1.85 microns square. In principle, it is possible to focus light to this degree but making use of the resolution requires a diffraction limited optic that is faster than f/3. If the instrument was misfocused by 5 microns, the resolution would have fallen to 126 microns.
On achievable optics - $15k telescopes can barely achieve 6 micron spot sizes at f/7 over a MF frame; good luck finding a manufacturer.
If Canon or Sony perfect the Foveon multi layered sensor it'll be really something.
Yes, because no one is working on it. Sigma doesn't have the resources and these other layered sensors are not Foveon sensors. A Foveon sensor relies on the silicon substrate to filter light. There are other layered sensors that do not work the same way at all. Some of those ideas predate the Foveon patents, but have yet to be made into practical sensors.
Having full color detail at every pixel would make good video easier to do...
Indeed. That's the main reason to do it (something Sigma never cottoned onto. They should have been the first to put liveview and video in a DSLR, instead of ending up the only company that didn't do it. That's part of how they secured their position as dead last in a field of ten camera makers).
There must be some fundamental issues with the process - yeild, calibration or something if after all these years it has not become viable commercially - it can't all just be marketing and market share. Still waiting for the nano-sensors promised 10 years ago ;)
Also, what are the patent issues here - does Foveon own the right to use silicon depth as a filter on all processes - does Canon have to pay them for their commercial sensor?
no - Foveon [Sigma] does not 'own' silicon depth, there was prior art before their patents
I do hope Canon produce Foveon-like sensors on their cameras. I'm a big fan of previous Foveon sensors but the camera bodies are very bad.
I mean, the Merrill cameras are very high resolution but the usability is a step backward compared to the previous generation due to notorious battery life, slower write speeds, and still no EVF option. The images themselves aren't compelling due to excessive noise reduction and sharpening and I'm referring to low ISO images.
A lot cheaper Olympus E-PM2 or NEX 3n versus DP Merrill's is a no brainer.
Noise reduction is controlled in software, and is not excessive by default. Also default sharpening is much less aggressive than it was the first month the DP-2M was out.. a year or more ago now, your information is plainly old.
You are right it's a no-brainer between the E-PM2 or the Nex3n - either of those are a third the camera the DP cameras are. It's like saying you should get a E-PM2 rather than a D800. The DP cameras are simply in a different high class than those two.
To show you what is possible today with the Merrill sensor cameras, I give you Iceland (all images with original sizes to view):
So cameras that are superior in every way outside of resolution are a third of the DPs? The DPs are good cameras, but they're the very definition of niche cameras.
I would agree with Zodiac that the usability of the cameras is clearly a step back especially when comparing to todays standards but i really can argue with the IQ. its phenomenal and with a bit of work, you can create amazing images.
the only bit that sucks with sigma cameras is their usability. other than that, i love everything the camera produces. Still if Sigma with their foveon wants to compete, they really need to address that usability aspect.
they already nailed the IQ part anyway. Really dont care with high ISO images, just give me speedy operation, good battery life and i'm sold!
Make up your mind ! You are a fan of Foveon sensors but the images aren't compelling!! What??
@ Dougbm_2 It is because the previous Foveon sensors are low resolution but the DR, noise, and color are the best during their time, that is, if you're content with the resolution. Current generation Foveon/Sigma sensors are 15MP sensors, which I'm not a fan of. Current Sony sensors are nice though, which I think, it's time for me to move on with Bayer/CFA type.
@Kendall thanks for the images, the ice look nice but they are monochromatic where any camera can. Yet, I don't want to base judgement on flickr site which site which add sharpening to the web sized images and more likely, compressed jpegs. Let's just say you value resolution more than I do which I will never understand. What I understand easily though are the price and camera performance of alternatives such as of the E-PM2, and APS-C, AA filterless such as the Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR.
i find the GR a compelling buy. size alone and the price are good points to start.
Kendall your photographs are amazing!
You really deserves this camera!
Truly amazing detail by a 15 mpx camera!
@zodiac: Flickr does nothing to the original size JPG images (which there are for every image), and there are lots of images in there which have color.
I don't value resolution per-se; I value consistency in an image. I don't want the apparent sharpness of detail altering just because of the color it may be, which happens all the time in Bayer sensors.
Assume the 7D2.... 1DX2 or 5D4 Using this sensor tech, wounder how much will canon sell the camera.... If it's too expensive, then I will give-up to upgrade instead...
It's nice so see that Canon is working on sensor research, but their next sensor upgrade is likely to be something more conventional.
They have been lagging behind Nikon - especially in APS-C sensors for some time. They need to make a leap. But we may not see this for a while I suspect.
Is Canon lagging behind sensors Nikon designs, or which Nikon purchases elsewhere?
Yes, I am also a bit mystified at this "lagging behind Nikon" when Nikon mostly use Sony sensors... or do Nikon do the design and Sony the manufacturing?
Fuji are ahead of either of Canikon with X-Trans design (you can probably also add their EXR layout as another innovation over the traditional Bayer pattern).
Nikon designs some of their sensors that are then manufactured by Sony (and Toshiba, if the last info I heard is true), and the ones that aren't completely designed by them, are tweaked.
For instance, the whole processing chain, from ADCs to ASSPs, for the D5100/D7000 is Nikon-designed, and that's why, despite using the same sensor, Sony has worse results.
Sensor tech is just a part of the results we see (and I daresay that Canon lags more in the essential non-sensor part than on the sensor itself - the Bayer filters aren't terribly good, their ACDs introduced a lot of patterned noise et cetera).
The Nikon designed sensors (eg. D3200, D4) are manufactured by Renesas, not Sony or Toshiba.
Nikon also use sensors by Sony (eg. D5100, D7000, D600, D800), Toshiba (D5200, D7100) and Aptina (Nikon 1 cameras), and how much they had to do with the actual design of those sensors, I have no idea.
I wonder what the IP landscape is like right now in, say, the US or EU on layered sensors etc. I don't think Sigma are worth buying as the Foveon path doesn't seem very attractive in any case.
Layered sensors solve problems of video scaling: dramatically increasing low light sensitivity and reducing moire. They also provide the same benefits to liveview.
They simplify AA filter design, as they eliminate color moire, which is much more visually distracting than luminance moire.
The Canon design theoretically should improve low light performance a stop over their color.
> to avoid the risk of color moire and loss of color resolution
neither is an issue when pixel is so small and getting smaller, especially when people start to take LPF/AAF out. they just don't care.
the ultimate issue is efficiency.
The issue is light loss. With multilayer structure we can minimize it.
> with multilayer structure we can minimize it.
the reality is no one can do it yet. stacked sensors have a long way to go before they can compete with color filters.
@yab: In what way to they have "a long way to go" to compete?
The only area where they are somewhat behind is in high ISO support. But even there they are only behind a handful of expensive cameras.
> the only area where they are somewhat behind is in high ISO support.
the largest gap among many others. makers will go stacked sensor quickly if it is good. like CMOS, which is standard now. stacked sensor is no standard, stupid maybe.
So the 18 megapickles will stay a little longer. I think I will update my 40d to one of the current offerings. Its probably another 2 years away before we see a completely new sensor from Canon.
I can hardly wait to see the back-peddling by all those Canon and Nikon users who slagged Foveon in the past.
Foveon is crap. That's why nobody uses it. It's not a secret sauce only Sigma has access to. It's a sauce nobody wants on their buns.
Doesn't mean no future multi-layer sensor design will ever be good. Just means Foveon is still crap. That's why it needs research.
@raincoat: I doubt you'd say that if you really know anything about sensors. Sigma's current Foveon sensor is pretty darn good. It's hard to top it if you're into portraiture and landscape photography.
I suggest you look at some images taken with SD-1 or one of the DP Merrill cameras. Open your eyes and you'll see better.
@raincoat:Some of my best images were taken with an SD14. I changed to a Canon 5D for the sake of versatility. At low ISOs the Sigma was better.
Well Im glad they try. Tho for now I would be happier if they maybe tried to at least match competition. I hope they try to do that too, cause as far as sensors go, Canon is quite a bit "meh" right now.
Competition is always good...
I think Canon would be better served by getting their existing sensors up to the Sony level of quality (I am a Canon user so this is not a fan club thing). On the other hand, just because Sigma can't make a less noisy sensor doesn't mean that Canon can't. Even on my little DP1, if you keep the ISO low, the detail captured is amazing.
It's good to see real sensor innovation, rather than the fake filter innovation passed off as a different sensor (I'm look at you Fujifilm).
Sensor design innovation are "real innovations" if new technologies (X-Trans, Foveon) improve performance in some way. And this is true even if laypeople don't happen to think so.
Fake filter innovation? It's more like trying to perfect the eight track. Yet technology moves forward--albeit very reluctantly. Canon deserves credit for getting on board while everyone else (but Sigma) continues pussyfooting with old ideas.
This may surprise you but the "fake filter innovation" you mention actually does have its benefits.
So you are saying that trying new things is wrong? I believe the Fuji sensors worked pretty well, but just didn't scale to 18mp sensors and if it wasn't for innovators we would still be happy with 6mp - although the pixel race is more hype then quality when applied to compact cameras.
Weren't Fuji were also working on Foveon-like layered sensors at one time?
Sony and Canon had the opportunity to buy Foveon when it was for sale. Foveon had spent millions targeting its designs for use in cell phones. Toshiba was one of the cell phone manufacturers interested in this sensor for it's phones but at the last moment pulled out and went with I believe Sony for its camera phones. At the time, Foveon was desperate for more investors seeking financial backing, promising huge returns at the time, discussing its development of the cell phone camera sensor for toshiba. Toshiba went with Sony cell phone sensors instead & Sigma bought Foveon. The rest is history. The current 46 MP (28-30MP bayer) sensor miniaturization effort foveon aimed towards cell phone market has been incorporated into the current foveon APC sized sensor found in the DPM compact and SD1M DSLRs. The image quality and size rivals full frame cameras like the Nikon D800 which amazes me. If you can stand the humor watch this video on youtube.com http://youtu.be/f3VjyHQiqdE
trust me...i love SD1M but only at ISO 400 and under....it's practically not anything good if you need speed. i do own couple of sigma glasses and i love to but when it comes to providing services to clients.....SD1M is not considered by me.
They didnt buy it cause they want different approach. Sigma clearly showed that it doesnt work as intended.
Unless you can live with base ISO camera. Which I can. Just 99% of photographers cant.
The current Sigma cameras are far from a base ISO camera, as this ISO 3200 shot shows:
And with current raw processing having a dedicated B&W pipeline, if you like B&W it can do even better as in this ISO 6400 shot:
"Rivals full frame cameras like the D800?!" LOL you are a True Believer aren't you! Even at base ISO, the SD1M doesn't begin to approach the D800. Once you go higher than about ISO 200, it can't even keep up with a 2007 vintage D3 with a mere 12MP Bayer sensor.
Look at the Imaging Resource images side by side, no need to take my word for it!
Imaging Resources? You've got to be kidding me--Right? Dpreview.com's comparison images are better quality and you can download the RAW files and do your own comparison.
You are entitled to your opinion, but since you don't own or shoot with the Sigma SD1M----its like being an expert about a race car without ever having driven one. You just parrot what others say and look at crappy .jpeg images on a low resolution screen at 100 percent and believe that that is what image quality is all about.
Image quality is about how good the image prints out. You can't really truly judge a camera until you've shot a thousand frames or more with it in my humble opinion. Just go to youtube and watch camera shop video titled D800 Vs DP2M which has the same sensor as the SD1M. The video is very honest and telling regarding this technology. Let me put this politely. You are absolutely wrong about your comments regarding the SD1M. :)
No, I'm not kidding. I offer you a comparison of two photos of the same thing under the same controlled conditions, and your response is to point me to a camera shop U-Tube video?! LMAO. I'm not "parroting" what anyone says, I have eyes and can make my own judgments. The SD1M will need another 4 million pixels and a sensor more than twice as big before it will have a chance to "rival" a D800's image quality - and then only for "base" ISO.
I've heard the "you can't know if you don't own/use" argument a thousand times. Can I take it you own a D800? I suspect not, and you should therefore be applying the same logic to yourself.
You need to be more cynical about "camera shop" videos. "Camera shops" are trying to sell you something - like that big pile of Sigma cameras they probably have collecting dust. That would motivate the "camera shop" to oversell the alleged image quality of those (unsold) cameras so that they can generate interest and (they hope) sales.
Nice to see that Canon is doing something serious about sensors.
Anything that makes better use of available light is warmly welcome.
If they release this i would forgive them for using that same 18MP sensor in everything since the beginning of time. And it would explain why it took so darn long ...
A 4th generation 18MP sensor is the same as the 1st generation is it? Research before you type in the future...
So they tweaked it 4 times, show me how much of an improvement that has been i dare you. And don't try to pass off jpeg processing as sensor performance. Research before you type in the future huh... (ps. i wasn't picking a fight, the opposite in fact as this is GOOD news, but congratulations on turning it around.)
Yes the 4th gene 18MP sensor is pretty much the same as the 1st gen. There has not been any noticeable change or improvement in that sensor
Canon is definitely workign on bringing their sensor tech up to speed. They are suffering from having such a large 0.5um process whereas Sony is on 0.18um I beleive and others are 0.25um. I expect the 7D II sensor to be entirely new and the precursor of a high MP FF sensor. But so far as has been said, they have been tinkering at the edges. However, the 1D X sensor does show some real improvements and while it can't match Sony for low ISO DR, it's high ISO performance is astounding and it's shadows can be pushed further than 5D III and it has no banding.
canon should just buy sigma (or at least foveon, sigma ideonst making money with it) and thats that..
Too bad, not quite that simple, I would guess Sigma owns the sensor IP but not absolutely positive. Originally, and still is, produced by National Semiconductor which is now part of Texas Instruments. Good idea but many players at the table.
Foveon stopped having National fab their sensors and switched to Dongbu Electronics way back in 2006. (There was all sorts of interesting talk at the time, including allegations of arson and organized crime involvement).
Intel, National, and Dongbu were just people Foveon had fab chips. They don't own the IP any more than print shop owns the rights to the books they print.
How do you know Sigma is not making any money? They have had quite a lot of success with the DP cameras so far (old and new), and the company is private so you have no way of knowing actual sales.
if Sigma is not making money with foveon cameras, why would they release the merrill ones? does not make sense for a company that can lose a lot.
Organized Crime and arson? Thats a good one Joseph. How do you guys know that Sigma isn't making money with their Sigma foveon sensored cameras? Once again---IT IS A PRIVATELY HELD COMPANY, NOT A PUBLICLY HELD COMPANY. IT DOES NOT DISCLOSE ANY NUMBERS REGARDING HOW MANY UNITS IT SELLS OR LENSES---EVER. You can speculate all you want but guess what? YOU DON'T KNOW JACK! LOL.
With so much pixel resolution, the question remains if the color layer technology has any future. That said utilizing resonance to detect a color seems superior to foven models as it should have better sensitivity.
I am looking forward to the non-Foveon layered sensor that has better sensitivity than this ISO 6400 DP2M shot...
I doubt it. Because:
1) You can't patent ideas, only practical applications of ideas 2) Because this is about something Sigma's sensors don't do - hence the attempt to patent it.
There was a lot of layered sensor art before Foveon. Sigma's patents are all about the diode structure they use in an effort to lower costs, and the use of the penetration depth vs. wavelength of photons in silicon to do the color separation.
Neither of these things turned out that well. A company with more resources, interested in layered sensors, would do something different.
"Neither of these things turned out that well"
Whatever man.
What's the attitude, Kendall?
I mentioned two things, lowering costs and color separation. Cost wasn't just a failure, it may have been "the" failure, the one that sank Foveon. They used to market their sensors very aggressively to the P&S and cell phone markets on purported cost savings that never materialized. That's the main reason they never got appreciable wins in those fields.
Every last Sigma model has launched at a significantly higher price than any color filter array camera in their class. It's not always been as insane as the launch of SD-1 at $10,000, but the Foveon sensors have never been cost competitive.
And the color you tout is achieved at the cost of an insane amount of math and guesswork. You get good results, now, because you've put a lot of effort into getting there. The average photographer wants good color because of the camera he uses, not "in spite of" it.
Foveon has its strengths, but neither cost nor efficient color separation are among them.
I don't think cost was what prevented Foveon from having greater success. From the stories we hear it was a lot more about other sensor makers (*cough* Sony *cough*) making sure Foveon could not sell to any major players. You can't win if the game is rigged. Lucky for all of us Sigma kept Foveon on the board.
Good point. The AVERAGE photographer wants good color out of the camera? All photographers want good colors out of the camera. So you are saying that there isn't an insane amount of heavy guesswork and math going into those bayer mosaic pattern cmos sensors? I can look at color charts at all the testing sites and see that the Sigma has decent color accuracy. So why is it that bayer sensors get a pass all the time and something is inherently wrong with the Foveon sensor? Have you even every shot with a Sigma SD1M DSLR or DPMerrill series compact camera? I'd like to know because you sure have some very strong opinions that it isn't color accurate enough and myself and others that shoot with it---I even use these to photograph works of art for museums and art catalogs and haven't found ANY problems with color accuracy--EVER.
> I don't think cost was what prevented Foveon from having greater success.
definitely not. it's the technical incapability or the marketing of immature technology that prevents Foveon from success.
Yes please please please... :-)
I could start using all my nice Canon lenses again.
For now I'm 98% Ricoh GXR with "M Mount"...
How about calling this technology "X3", which is the jargon adopted as an industry-standard by CIPA? "Foveon" is just one approach to X3, and not the one that Canon is pursuing, and the "X3" tag is also well-known.
That's why we've said 'Foveon-style' - we think it'll be more broadly recognised than 'X3.' We also stick to 'multi-layer' because Canon's existing multi-layered sensor is effectively an X2 design.
@BLJ - Exmor RS is a totally different technology - it's a conventional Bayer sensor with the light sensitive regions stacked on top of the circuitry - this is a sensor that perceives colour based on the depth to which light penetrates.
I wouldn't call it "Foveon style".
Like I mentioned earlier, there was a lot of layered sensor art before Foveon. Sigma's patents are all about the diode structure they use in an effort to lower costs, and the use of the penetration depth vs. wavelength of photons in silicon to do the color separation. Those two things make a sensor "Foveon style". Do it with Fuji's interlayer organics, Nikon's prisms, Canon's dipoles, etc. and you've got something else.
Even Foveon wasn't satisfied with X3. There's a paper by Dick Merril that calculates six layers as being optimal.
At the rate processing power and memory s growing, I can't see this RGB stuff lingering around too much longer in either filter array or layered sensors. Heck, if Sony hadn't poisoned the well by making suck a botch of RGBE, four colors would probably be the standard by now. Fuji was propagating it across their film line before the film industry imploded and all the R&D money dried up.
Sony and now Canon appear to be pursuing this 'multiple' layered approach to sensor design. And every report that talks about it is always saying XXX is working on a Foveon-like sensor, etc. The thing I wonder is how patentable could it be if the concept for the sensor, despite whatever differences it might have is essentially the same 'in principle' as a Foveon. While I'm not sure whether Bayer arrays are any infringement from one designer to the other I would think anyone who attempts this approach would be breeching Foveon's patents similar to Polaroid success suits against Kodak when they came out with their own 'instant' process.
If you read Foveon's patents, you'll see that Foveon owns no patents on the "concept for" a layered sensor. Make a sensor with an alternating PNPN junction structure and Sigma will sue the crap out of you. Make a sensor with three organically isolated PN junctions and Fuji will go after you.
It would be sweetly ironic, would it not, if the ultimate art in digital sensor design actually used ideas from film emulsion technology :-)
You may be able to do multi-layer sensors a different way than Foveon does. But Sigma deserves a ton a credit because they are shipping cameras today. They are improving the sensor design and raw processing software every day. All of these patents we see from Sony and Canon and others flitting by in the spring breeze in the end are just passing seeds of ideas that have not even planted, or simply patents designed to eliminate an avenue Foveon might take to improve. Meanwhile Sigma is manufacturing chips and doing real practical R&D around working systems.
Given how much work a totally new three layer sensor design would take, and how camera companies are struggling how is it realistic to think that any of them have the money to bring these fragments of ideas into a working mass-market sensor?
> It would be sweetly ironic, would it not, if the ultimate art in digital sensor design actually used ideas from film emulsion technology
What's so ironic about that? A Bayer pattern sensor is "film emulsion technology". It uses organic filters, just like current color filter array sensors (and like the human eye). The Canon, Foveon, Nikon, and Sony layered sensors don't use organic filters.
I has different resolution on its different color layers, again just like film or a human eye. Why is that like film? Because the film makers alter grain size and density on each layer to achieve different densities.
And the grains of one color partially block those of another, so you have a color mosaic.
Has the "resonance" technology been used anywhere before? Is that the tech in the current 7D, or is it using the same basic tech as Foveon?
Also, I would think that if the Foveon tech had a future someone would not have picked it up - with TI perhaps now involved - if TI can't make it work no one can.
I would just like to see some tech changes as it has been a density, speed and power creep for years with only really cmos and bsi creating any real process improvements.
Has anyone tried putting a smaller high density non-bayer sensor array on a prism - like the old video cameras and seeing what happens there - is there much light loss through the prism?
@chris: Someone did pick up Foveon - Sigma. Sigma wholly owns Foveon now, there is no TI or National Semiconductor. And apparently it does have a future because Sigma recently introduced a very large resolution jump in the Merrill sensor, and is still developing the sensor and cameras.
Is is possible that Canon does this to retain their audience ? For sure they "spilled the beans" and made Foveon much more ubiquitous with the announcement.
If there was a new tax on non-dead subpixels within a photosite, I would pay it until I become color blind or bored by accutance...
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- Red Eye Township, Minnesota, USA
- Redeye River, a river in Minnesota, USA
- Redeye Distribution, a record distributor
- Red Eye Records, a record label
- Redeye (band), a 1970s rock group
- "Red Eye", a song by Ace Enders from The Secret Wars
- "Red Eye", a song by Big K.R.I.T. from 4eva N a Day
- "Red Eye", a song by Devo from Duty Now for the Future
- "Red Eye", a song by Kid Cudi from Indicud
- "Red Eye", a song by Styles P from Float
- "Red-Eye", a song by The Album Leaf from Into the Blue Again
Other entertainment and media[edit]
- Red Eye (2005 American film), a 2005 American thriller film
- Red Eye (2005 South Korean film), a 2005 South Korean horror film
- Redeye (comics), a comic strip by Gordon Bess
- Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, a late night comedy talk show on the Fox News Channel
- Redeye (radio), a Vancouver current affairs radio program
- RedEye, a Chicago newspaper
- Doug McIntyre's 'Red Eye Radio' syndicated U.S. talk radio show
Food and drink[edit]
- Red eye (drink), a cup of coffee with a shot of espresso in it
- Red-eye gravy, a sauce used in the Southern United States
- FIM-43 Redeye, a type of US surface-to-air missile common in the Vietnam War
- Red-eye flight, an airplane flight that departs between 09:00 PM and 05:00 AM local time
- Paul Chaloner or ReDeYe, a video game tournament commentator
- Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus, a.k.a. the broad-banded copperhead; a venomous viper found in the United States
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, a.k.a. the northern copperhead; a venomous viper found in the United States
- Red Eye the final boss in Last Bronx
- Red Eye is the name of a character in Battlestar Galactica
See also[edit]
- Pink eye or conjunctivitis
- Red-Eyes Black Dragon, a card from Yu-Gi-Oh popularized by the character Joey Wheeler
- Red Eyes (manga)
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4 weeks 2 days ago | What are you talking about? |
What are you talking about? Every game is already on TV. This is to make people like my parents, who would never watch a game, pay a quarter to get BTN on their local cable packages. |
4 weeks 2 days ago | This is the stupidest move ever. |
They dilute the product on the field, have zero fanbase and contribute nothing to football or basketball, the ONLY sports that matter. It's a move motivated by greed to get cable packages on local networks. It's a transparent money grab that's insulting to every existing member of the conference. |
4 weeks 3 days ago | "If it's not a revenue |
"If it's not a revenue positive sport, then it's not a sport." - DB |
24 weeks 3 days ago | I need courses in reading |
I need courses in reading comprehension and college football histroy because I forgot about the minor NCAA violations Kiffin committed during his one year at Tenneessee. Thanks for the advice. Keep up with the name calling, it's a good way to come out on top of mature arguments. Under your rule, we should all get points on our license because of Aldon Smith. We should pay penalities on our investments because of Madoff. For the millionth time, the NCAA penalized PSU without due process. No investigation. No hearing. It's like a dictatorship. |
24 weeks 3 days ago | Isn't the entire Penn State |
Isn't the entire Penn State administration (former President / AD) facing jail time and massive fines as a result? Not to mention life in prison for the actual offender. Why not throw the current players in jail as well? How about Paterno's corpse? Let's just blow the whole town up while we're at it!!! Also you're equating the Reggie Bush scandal with Sandusky? Kind of sick on your end. And I don't think Kiffin had anything to do with that, I think it was just Carroll or some boosters. Collateral damage here isn't fair to the players. |
24 weeks 3 days ago | yes |
The players are the innocent bystanders. This was an institutional / administrational failure on the part of Penn State, not a player failure. Since then, they've clean housed and instituted checks to ensure failure does not repeat and paid penalities. So why should all personnel currently on board with the school, none of whom that had anything to do with Sandusky, receive his penalties? It makes no sense. Again, the NCAA did not follow their own protocols. They handed penalties without due process. They make up the rules as they go along. |
24 weeks 3 days ago | ?? |
Do you really think that termination, show cause penalties and (I guess in this case) jail time isn't enough of a deterrent? To end the cycle of cheating, you severely punish those at fault, not those that had nothing to do with the offense. |
24 weeks 3 days ago | So |
So if it were up to you, not only should the people held responsible for crimes get punished, but innocent bystanders should be punished as well. Hopefully you never get into a position of power. |
24 weeks 3 days ago | The remainder of the sanctions should be overturned |
Frankly, the NCAA (and Delany) overstepped their own bounds with the sanctions. They didn't conduct their own investigation, relied solely on the Freeh report and threatened the new administration that had nothing to do with the crimes of Sandusky. No one affiliated with the crimes are currently at PSU. Why should the current administration be at fault. Isn't jail time and termination for those accountable enough? |
24 weeks 4 days ago | Wasn't aware of the break issue |
Wasn't aware of the break issue, but that still doesn't make it right. I don't believe they have special packages for the students for the major games. It's not like all these games are noon on Saturday. There are midweek night games, many of which against crap teams, that cut into other stuff. When I was a student, it was hard enough to make all the games, much less my other commitments. Brandon's concerned about getting the arena crowded for two things: 1) sales of concessions, merchandise, etc. and 2) apperances on tv. He could not care less about the individual. |
24 weeks 4 days ago | 53.9% |
Sometimes there are other commitments (studying?) that need to be made rather than seeing Michigan wax the floor with SC State, UMass-Lowell, Concordia, Wayne State, Coppin State, Houston Baptist and Holy Cross. Also, there are some games during the break period when students aren't in town. There's a way to fudge these numbers to justify milking every cent out of the student body. If you buy a ticket to the game, it's up to the buyer to attend, not the seller. |
28 weeks 18 hours ago | That's like saying turkey |
That's like saying turkey sandwiches are statistically the best sandwiches.... |
28 weeks 18 hours ago | I don't get your comment. My |
I don't get your comment. My point was that the pro-style will typically work moreso than the spread. That said, If you want to incorporate spread tactics in the pro style, there's a time and a place. But to think that the most successful offenses shouldn't be one big RichRod / NW jet, spread offense, is totally ignorant. |
28 weeks 18 hours ago | Nope, I don't believe I |
Nope, I don't believe I did. Listen, you can have spread concepts in a pro style attack (zone read on a short down to go play, spread the field in a red zone situation, etc.). Even the Patriots run that. But at the end of the day, it really does fall on execution, sound offensive line play and a QB that doesn't suck for an offensive team to be successful. |
28 weeks 19 hours ago | So you're saying Michigan |
So you're saying Michigan doesn't have the talent comparable to a Northwestern? So they need to resort to quick snaps, no huddles, to beat them? |
28 weeks 19 hours ago | Double post |
Neg bang away |
28 weeks 19 hours ago | Last Check |
Last check Bama uses the huddle and that seems to be working out well for them. Stanford uses the huddle and that seems to be working out well for them. I think too much emphasis is placed on huddle, non-huddle, pace, etc. The best teams are the ones with the best talent and their ability to execute, not the ones that solely rely on a gimmicky type offense. Defenses are quick to adjust...just look at the "wildcat." |
47 weeks 1 day ago | Dear Rutgers |
GTFO of our conference. Signed- B1G |
47 weeks 2 days ago | Eliminate Replay |
Replay slows the end of game down, it's used as a crutch and an excuse by the officials, and it almost never gets the right call anyway. |
1 year 3 weeks ago | Have idiot Delany and the greedy conference presidents |
Have idiot Delany and the greedy conference presidents ever considered staying at 12? They're diluting the product and profits while eliminating any identity this conference had. They can spew all this leaders and legends BS, but these are disgusting unethical, greedy people. |
1 year 5 weeks ago | Gus Johnson |
Gus has been terrible over the past year. Perhaps it was his meteoric rise, but he constantly messes up names, doesn't understand game theory, and talks too much. He now yells at total nonsense. He's brutal. I'll take Nantz's wine and cheese club announcing over Gus. At least he gets the names right and understands time and score. The color person I like is Dan Dakich. Funny, smart and he gets the sport. |
1 year 16 weeks ago | No |
This has zero to do with michigan academics and a sense of arrogance. Outside of my 4 years at michigan, i've lived in nyc pretty much my whole life. No one has ever talked about rutgers. They are a bad fit. They cant sell out their 48,000 seat stadium. It's a mid major program. They dont belong in the B1G. It's fine the way it is. |
1 year 16 weeks ago | No one cares about Rutgers |
No one in NYC cares about Rutgers. They don't move the needle, not even a fraction. NYC is and will always be a pro sports city. The B1G does not need another Minnesota in terms of on-field performance in fooball and basketball. We already have a Minnesota. On top of that, everytime Michigan plays Rutgers or Maryland, they play Wisconsin or Penn State one less time. Since ND doesn't want to be in its natural footprint, the B1G is perfect the way it is with the addition of Nebraska. We should be extremely pissed if Delany pulls this stunt. |
1 year 18 weeks ago | 37-17 |
37-17 Mich |
2 years 2 weeks ago | I will say |
at least he acknowledges this poll as unscientific. |
2 years 2 weeks ago | This is a highly unscientic poll... |
Brian has a platform to express his opinions and views on a subject matter and then uses the same platform to poll his readers. This skews the readers feelings and makes them vote differently. It's no different if I gave a 3,000 word essay arguing ice cream was better than pizza, and then polling people on what they prefer, ice cream would get a more favorable score. This poll should be trashed. |
2 years 7 weeks ago | On this topic |
Can Brian get his facts straight and preface every post he writes "if it's not Michigan, it's evil". Joe Pa was not a child rape enabler. He fucked up and should've done more as he said, but please, he didn't open the shower curtain to Sandusky's victims so to speak. The block quote totally misquotes him as well. With the initial portion directed towards the victims and the last two sentences addressed towards his supporters standing on his front porch. Brian horribly manipulates the quote and loses credibility and integrity in my book. (I'm sure he'll lose sleep over this). Finally, no reference of the 1000s of lives and minds he cultivated to become great members of society. As if he did nothing other than letting children get raped. This is one of Brian's worst written pieces ever. Shame on him. |
2 years 17 weeks ago | No |
I like trolling on the opponents. "You suck" is clean and doesn't include any profanities. |
2 years 18 weeks ago | ... |
They give these guys a 15 to life sentence is enough for me. JoePa didn't lie in a grand jury report, he didn't commit any crimes. He reported it, while he could've done a better job obviously, he didn't violate any crimes. |
2 years 18 weeks ago | I understand |
But he did what he was trained to do and the athletic department tried to cover it up. This is not a failure on JoePa's part, but a failure on the athletic department and finance committee to report this guy. At the end of the day, I do think this is JoePa's last year because it'll be too much for him to bear, but his record will go untarnished. Remember PSU is one of four BCS programs to have never gone in front of the NCAA for violations of rules. Obviously this is something of a different breed, but in no way should JoePa or the university absorb the brunt of this. The best way to hurt these assholes is to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. |


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Used these gauges to set up my Fender Strat Vintage and AM Deluxe and it made the job so easy. A really good piece of kit to have around.
Excellent but I'd like to have a system that works with 5 strings bass... Neither the width or the hand support (in the center of gauge)fits the needs of 5 string basses! Understring radius setting on bass is very important for bass(...more than guitar) and specially on 5 or 6 strings! Cheers,
Very useful to check the curvature of the saddle, nut, fretboard
I don't rely on these for every setup I do but they come in handy often enough to be glad I own them.
Wished I'd gotten this set of gauges sooner. Like other reviews here, it was taking a lot longer to set radius of saddles with other tools. Used these gauges with the overstring radius gauges and got a perfect setup the first time I used them. The overstring gauges are great of course, but these helped me fine-tune a heck of a lot better. When I finished the radius of the saddles and strings were about as perfect as I could get them. Quite happy with these!
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Use the 16" gauge to set up my saddles and nuts as well as checking the radius on finger boards. Would be lost without it!
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For years I've set the action with a shop rule and thats good enough, but not when your busy! This tool took a good 15 min out of my work time with accurate results, and you can't beat the price for a complete set of tools that I know I will depend on now for the rest of my life. Cheers!
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Reliability key to GE choice of inkjet coders from RSI
RSI engineered a single unit using eight HP thermal inkjet print heads on a common frame. It is adjacent to a conveyor downstream of the case packer but before the palletizer. The unit needs about 1?16 inch clearance between the print heads and the shippers as they pass by. A controller sequences the pattern in which print heads fire to deliver a "seamless" code.
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Installation of the inkjet system from RSI Print Systems delivered quicker changeover times. "Usually we needed 5 to 10 minutes to changeover the old printers but sometimes we needed as much as 30 minutes" Dominik elaborates. "We actually had to stop the line to get the printers set up for a new run. It was so complicated I'm not sure I could do it today."
The plant runs two shifts a day five days a week. It is not uncommon to have as many as three changes during a shift.
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Cyclops is awesome. Part Magneto part Xavier part Sinister. I would like to see him date outside his race 1 time. What about a teamup with Daredevil, Human Torch or Iron Man? What about brawls with Nitro, Gambit, or Hawkeye. Finally a date with She Hulk, Enchantress or Mary Jane since he likes redheads.
The team ups you mentioned seem interesting except for Iron Man, I can not see that really happening especially if it is true that Emma had relations previous with Stark.
But realistically Cyclops has to be focused towards the mutant cause, so team up is not a good story now unless it was for helping mutants.
About Cyclops, he has been known as great with the opposite sex, and in particular telepaths!
Which lady do you like seeing alongside Scott Summers the most?
Emma all the way.
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You said it!
Although....is anyone else a little worried about the Scott&Ems relationship after fraction's uncanny x-men? I mean.......
He slept with madelyne prior thinking it was emma goofing around as jean....and now he sleeps on the couch as they are both keeping secrets from each other. This is also fueled by emma's place in dark reign.....and then dark x-men?
Scott and Jean!!!!! The way it's supposed to be.
I remember him saying that all of this (Madelyne, Dark Reign, the secrets etc.) would be the first real "test" of their relationship. To the breaking point or not, that remains to be seen, but I don't really believe Fraction intends to go so far.
Btw, he did not sleep with Madelyne (psychically, which is of course the only way since she don't have a body right now) thinking she was Emma dressing up as Jean, it was just Madelyne dressing up as Emma in a dominatrix getup.
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Their first "real" test was in Torn, though one could argue that they have been tested from the start, with most of the X-men complaining about their relationship or giving a "dirty look" every time.
But yeah, I agree Fraction doesn't intend to have them break up. He wants the DRAMA only.
That's right! Al Gore invented the internet, let's all go kick his ass!
I got your inconvenient truth right here, motherf*&¨%!
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I don't know if Torn should be counted as such, it was more in the outside-evil-villain-takes-over-Emma-and-turns-her against-Scott-and-the-others category than purely internal problems between Scott and Emma. Sure there are external pressures this time as well, it's more how they react to them that counts.
The disapproval of the other X-Men has always been in the background and does not count. I'm pretty sure Fraction is of that opinion anyway.
I like drama.
I think Omega meant that Fraction wants drama, not necessarily that he is able to produce it.
"As if a man in a wheelchair wasn't enough, now I'm targeting old women." - Scott Summers, A+X #11
So you've already forgotten my (implied) suggestion for Cyclops to emulate Ironhide.
I see.
Wait, are you saying that Emma can only have drama when she's around Cyclops?
You might be right on the worst-dialogue-ever part. Maybe someone should try to find something worse or at least the equal of it. Could be a fun exercise.