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It's been really frustrating.
About a month or so ago I attended a public meeting on a topic about which I had written several stories. I had attended other meetings, carefully gathered the facts, and then labored over a clear and easy to understand story so that you, the readers, could know what was going on. I wanted you to be almost as well-informed as if you had done the research yourself.
Well, by the end of the meeting, I felt like I had wasted my time on that story.
Those attending the public meeting knew what was going on — or at least they thought they did. Person after person rose to their feet and asked a question that I'd already answered, or stated a "fact" that I had already debunked.
And then the very same thing happened at another meeting on a different topic in another town.
Now, I have not just crawled out from under a rock.
I know what newspaper subscription numbers are like. They're falling, and they've been falling for about 20 years. Competition from radio, television, and now the Internet have carried readers away newspapers.
The thing is, I don't think many people are getting local news from those sources either.
They're relying for their news from the more important "journalists" in their lives — their friends, their neighbors, and that seer at the office who knows everything.
Again, I have not just crawled out from under a rock.
I know that people have gotten their information from often faulty sources for a long time.
But shouldn't they be embarrassed? Shouldn't they care that their "facts" are nothing more than falsehoods?
I take the news pretty seriously, and not just because I write for a newspaper. When something of interest happens in my community, I have always wanted to know the facts about what is going on.
And because I never used to be the type to show up at school board or city council meetings, I would rely on my local newspaper or radio station for an accurate report.
Truthfully, I would have been embarrassed to say something as a fact, and then found out it was nothing more than someone's opinion.
The truth is out there, and I want to know what it is.
And yes, I do know that I am preaching to the choir in talking with all of you. You read this newspaper because you value factual reporting. You want to know what's going on in your world, and you search out the truth from a more reliable source than the woman down the block or the guy in the next cubicle.
There's nothing wrong with ignorance, which simply means you don't know the answer. If you don't know something, you ask.
But I have a problem with wallowing in ignorance, not knowing or caring about the truth, and then casually spreading half-truths and downright falsehoods.
So climb out from under your rock. Read a paper, listen to the news, or call someone who really knows the answer.
It would be better for all of us.
BCR Staff Writer Barb Kromphardt can be reached at email@example.com.


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Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klugby Brian Klug on 2/22/2013 5:04 PM EST
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Sea Shadow - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkI am still trying to digest all of the information in this article, and I love it!
It is because of articles like this that I check Anandtech multiple times per day. Thank you for continuing to provide such insightful and detailed articles. In a day and age where other "tech" sites are regurgitating the same press releases, it is nice to see anandtech continues to post detailed and informative pieces.
Thank you! Reply
arsena1 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkYep, exactly this.
Thanks Brian, AT rocks. Reply
ratte - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkYeah, got to echo the posts above, great article. Reply
vol7ron - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkOptics are certainly an area the average consumer knows little about, myself included.
For some reason it seems like consumers look at a camera's MP like how they used to view a processor's Hz; as if the higher number equates to a better quality, or more efficient device - that's why we can appreciate articles like these, which clarify and inform.
The more the average consumer understands, the more they can demand better products from manufacturers and make better educated decisions. In addition to being an interesting read! Reply
tvdang7 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkSame here they have THE BEST detail in every article. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, March 06, 2013 - linkYeah, I just love in depth stuff like this! May end up beyond my capabilities but none the less I love it, and love that Brian is so passionate about it. It's so great to hear on the podcast when he's ranting about terrible cameras! And I mean that, I'm not making fun, I think it's awesome. Reply
Guspaz - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkIs there any feasibility (anything on the horizon) to directly measure the wavelength of light hitting a sensor element, rather than relying on filters? Or perhaps to use a layer on top of the sensor to split the light rather than filter the light? You would think that would give a substantial boost in light sensitivity, since a colour filter based system by necessity blocks most of the light that enters your optical system, much in the way that 3LCD projector produces a substantially brighter image than a single-chip DLP projector given the same lightbulb, because one splits the white light and the other filters the white light. Reply
HibyPrime1 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkI'm not an expert on the subject so take what I'm saying here with a grain of salt.
As I understand it you would have to make sure that no more than one photon is hitting the pixel at any given time, and then you can measure the energy (basically energy = wavelength) of that photon. I would imagine if multiple photons are hitting the sensor at the same time, you wouldn't be able to distinguish how much energy came from each photon.
Since we're dealing with single photons, weird quantum stuff might come into play. Even if you could manage to get a single photon to hit each pixel, there may be an effect where the photons will hit multiple pixels at the same time, so measuring the energy at one pixel will give you a number that includes the energy from some of the other photons. (I'm inferring this idea from the double-slit experiment.)
I think the only way this would be possible is if only one photon hits the entire sensor at any given time, then you would be able to work out it's colour. Of course, that wouldn't be very useful as a camera. Reply
DominicG - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkHi Hlby
photodetection does not quite work like that. A photon hitting a photodiode junction either has enough energy to excite an electron across the junction or it does not. So one way you could make a multi-colour pixel would be to have several photodiode junctions one on top of the other, each with a different "energy gap", so that each one responds to a different wavelength. This idea is now being used in the highest efficiency solar cells to allow all the different wavelengths in sunlight to be absorbed efficiently. However for a colour-sensitive photodiode, there are some big complexities to be overcome - I have no idea if anyone has succeeded or even tried. Reply
HibyPrime1 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkInteresting. I've read about band-gaps/energy gaps before, but never understood what they mean in any real-world sense. Thanks for that :) Reply
MrSpadge - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkYou're right, conceptually one would "only" need to adapt a multi-junction solar cell for spatial resoluition, i.e. small pixels. This would introduce shadowing for the bottom layers similar to front side illumination again, though. Which might be countered with vias through the chips, at the cost of making manufacturing more expensive. And the materials and their processing become way more expensive in general, as they will be CMOS incompatible III-V composites.
And worst: one could only gain a 3 times higher light sensitivity at maximum, so currently it's probably not worth the effort. Reply
mdar - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI think you are talking about Foveon sensors, used by Sigma to make some of their DSLR cameras. Since photons of different colors have different energies, they use this principle to detect color. Not sure how they do it (probably by checking at which depth the electron is generated), but there is lot of information on web about it. Reply
fuzzymath10 - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkone of the non-traditional imaging sensors around is the foveon x3 sensor. each pixel can sense all three primary colours rather than relying on bayer interpolation. it does have many limitations though. Reply
evonitzer - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkYeah, like only being in Sigma cameras that use Sigma mounts. Who on earth buys those things? The results are stunning to see, but they need some, well, design wins, to use the parlance of cell phones.
They also need to make tiny sensors. AFAIK they only have the APS-C one, and those won't be showing up in phones anytime soon. :) Reply
ShieTar - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkThe camera equivalent of a 3 LCD projector does exist, for example in so-called "Multi-Spectral Imager" instruments for space missions. The light entering the camera aperture is split into spectral bands by dichroic mirrors, and then imaged on a number of CCDs.
The problem with this approach is that it takes considerable engineering effort to make sure that all the CCDs are aligned to each other with sub-pixel accuracy. Of course the cost of multiple CCDs and the space demand for the more complex optical system make this option quiet irrelevant for mobile devices. Reply
nerd1 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkI wonder who actually tested the captured image using proper analysing software (Dxo for example) to see how much they ACTUALLY resolve?
And I don't think we get diffraction limit of 3um - see the chart here
We have 1.34um at f2.0 and 1.88um at f2.8.
Typical 8MP sensor have 1.4um photosites so 8MP sensors looks like an ideal spot for f2 optics. (Yes, 13MP @ 1.1um is just marketing gimmick I think)
In comparison, 36MP Nikon D800 has 4.9um photosite size, which is diffraction limited between f5.6 and f8. Reply
jjj - Friday, February 22, 2013 - link"smartphones are or are poised to begin displacing the role of a traditional point and shoot camera "
That started quite a while ago so a rather disappointing "trends"section. Was waiting for some actual features , ways to get there. and more talk about video since it's becoming a lot more important. Reply
Johnmcl7 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkAgreed, the presentation feels a bit out of date for current technology particularly as you say phone cameras have been displacing compact cameras for years - I'd say right back to the N95 which offered a decent 5MP AF camera and was released before the first Iphone.
I'm also surprised to see no mention of Nokia pretty much even though they've very much been pushing the camera limits, their ultra high resolution Pureview camera showed you could have a very high number of pixels and high image quality (which this article seems to claim isn't possible even with lower resolution devices) and the Lumia 920 is an interesting step forward in having a physical image stabilisation system.
Also with regards to shallow depth of field with F2, that's just not going to happen on a camera phone because depth of field is primarily a function of the actual focal length (not the equivalent focal length) so to get a proper shallow depth of field effect (as in not shooting at very close macro distances) a camera phone would need a massive aperture many stops wider than F2 to counter the very short focal length.
John Reply
Tarwin - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkActually it makes sense he doesn't mention all that. He's talking about trends, the Pureview did not fit into the trends, both in quality and sensor size.
Optical image stabilization doesn't fit in either as it only affects image quality in less than ideal situations such as no tripods/shaky hands. But he did mention the need for extra parts in the module configuration shouldnthat be part of the setup.
And in his defence of the comment ofndisplacing P&S cameras, he says "smartphones are or are poised to begin displacing the role" so he's notnsaying that they aren't doing it already, he gives you a choice in perspectives. Also I don't think you can say the N95 displaced P&S at the market level, only in casual use. Reply
Manabu - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkWhat about the "large" sensor 41MP Nokia 808 phone? It is sure a interesting outlier.
And point & shot cameras still have the advantage of optical zoom, better handling, and can have bigger sensors. Just look at S110, LX7 or RX100 cameras. But budget super-compact cameras are indeed in extinction. Reply
gadjade - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkHow can I start reading when there is no mention of any Nokia products? HTC One should not be even included in the article because it's not even considered a breakthrough in camera phones. Reply
Krysto - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkNext time try reading more than the first paragraph. Reply
Diagrafeas - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkHow many MP or to be more accurate Million Sub Pixels are these Nokia sensors because these numbers come surely after interpolation or pixel shift or something...
Also do we have information about HTC One sensor?
Is it one Bayer sensor or 2-3 stacked like Foveon ones? Reply
Krysto - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkWhile HTC definitely deserves credit for discontinuing a trend of ever more MPs, I don't think they went far enough. There's still an unclenched status quo thinking in smartphones about sensor size. Virtually all of them have a 1/3.2" sensor.
No one has even thought about making that one much larger? Even after Nokia showed Pureview 808 and got a lot of praise for it? Really? What is wrong with all these companies? Do they want us to spell it out for them?
I get that clean phone design is a big factor, but you can't just keep doing things the same way everyone has always done it. And then they wonder why they can't beat Samsung. Sure Samsung has a lot of marketing power, but they also play a little less safe than everyone else. They add the S-pen to devices, even though it adds quite a bit of cost and then they need that device to compete with others, so it's a risk for them that the consumers might not want to pay extra for it - but they still do it. They also started the "phablet" trend all by themselves. And while these things don't necessarily have mass market appeal, they get a lot of publicity and quite a lot of passionate fans and customers for those devices.
So why aren't the other manufacturers experimenting in the same way not just with incrementally better cameras, but WAY better cameras, that they put in phones. I'm talking putting camera capabilities in a phone that could add $100 or even $200 to the retail price of the device. That's being BOLD in the market. That's being DIFFERENT.
So I want to see them come up with devices that have 1" large sensors of 5-8 MP, with some high quality lenses, and powerful ISP's and software behind them. Create that and you get at least 3 different types of consumers coming to buy that phone (the type of consumers that yell :SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!): professional photographers (they buy thousands of dollars worth of equipment for fun, and they need phones, too), amateur photographers (people who love taking great photos with their phones), and you'd also pretty much convert the whole (in time of course) point and shoot market to your device.
So the potential for sales is right there for reaping. And these people wouldn't get about a slight bump on the back, if they can get a phone that is 5x better than anything else on the market at the time of shipping. I want to see that kind of LEAP in smartphone cameras, not just these regular "2013 camera is slightly better than the 2012 camera", and so on. Reply
slatanek - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkI think you're generally right, but these days from manufacturer's point of view it's very easy to sink the ship by being bold and not being understood well by the market/consumers. It is then very easy for their opponents to do nasty counter marketing to make things worse even further.
As a photographer myself I really would like to see a no compromise smartphone camera (give glass!!! give me bigger sensor with less megapixels!!!), but I guess we're not at that point just yet. Only recently manufacturers of compact cameras started to show some interest for making cameras geared toward serious photography, so I guess it's still a few years wait to see that approach in the smartphone world. Reply
slatanek - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkBesides I guess 1" sensor in a smartphone will never happen due to physical constrains - you need a lot of light gathering power to lit such a huge sensor not to mention the focal distance needs to be considerably bigger for the field of view not to be ultra wide Reply
Krysto - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkPureview 808 had a 1/1.2" which is pretty close, and didn't look too bad:
http://images.fonearena.com/blog/wp-content/upload... Reply
Tarwin - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkThat's kinda the point. It didn't look TOO BAD, which is a far cry from looking great. I also remember reading some reviews which complained about the ergonomics. Also the pure view was more of a niche experimental product.
It's kind of like some article that I read years agonwhere itnsaidnthat according to research (or a survey or something) consumers, when buying a tv), were most interested in size THEN image quality and then all the other stuff. Most phone buyers are similar, they want a better camera but are not willing to give up styling for it, at least not without some re-education.
As for HTC not going far enough. I think it has more to do with the fact that they're not doing too well as is and most likely feel like they're taking enough risks at the moment.
Personally I would be willing to give up some slimness (but hopefully not styling) for a decidedly improved camera. I hope HTC does well with the One and that they are willing to experiment a bit more in future generations. But then again I am not sure yet how I feel about the loss in detail. Another site got their hands on a One and have some comparison shots between the On eand the iPhone 5 Reply
Tarwin - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkOops, accidentally pressed post.
Well, in the comparison shots I prefernthe images ofnthe One, but I occasionally neednthe detail procided with 8MP but then again only sometimes. When 4K TVs vecome mainstream and I also have one then I'll kost likely think it's the minimum pics should be taken at. Reply
Krysto - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkThey can make it more stylish than that. I wouldn't mind if my phone looked a bit like a point and shoot, and didn't have a perfectly flat back surface.
Again, I'm not saying these phones are for everyone. Note phones are not for everyone either. In fact I don't think I can ever see myself owning a Note phone. But yet millions of people have them, and those who do love it, and wouldn't imagine going back to a smaller phone.
That's the type of market I think such a phone can target. A niche market indeed, but a big niche nonetheless. And I would be part of that niche. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkhttp://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201208/12-...
Sony's new Exmor RS sensors use a stacked structure which places the circuit section underneath the pixel section instead of beside it which should free up more room for more pixels or larger pixels within a given sensor module area or enable smaller modules. They also add a dedicated white channel for a RGBW coding which they claim improves low light performance. Any comment on the efficacy of these techniques?
Apple has been using Sony image sensors for both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 so that new Sony IMX135 with 13.13MP, 1/3.06", 1.12 μm pixel sensor looks like a prime candidate for the iPhone 5S. Reply
slatanek - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkWell done, Brian. At last someone trying to explain and stress how much more is there to tiny smartphone cameras than just the megapixels. A few years ago I felt like we got over it and the race was over, but now few years later the race just continues but in the smartphone realm (previously compact cameras had the same issues where ultimate picture quality was compromised just to get to a higher number of megapixels on the box). Hopefully this will change in near future, but somehow I'm afraid that were stuck with it just as with the horrible quality displays in notebooks. And it's not that people don't want good quality, it's just that the behemot companys are not willing to take the risk.
Anyways, thanks for a good read. Reply
Shftup - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkBrain - Well done!
This is a fanatastic article. Its well written, relatively easy to understand for any layman, and most importantly makes the reader coming back for more. Reply
jabber - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - link....for a smartphone to give me as good a picture quality as I got from my 3.2MP Nikon from 2004.
When I find one I'll be happy.
I think a lot of the phone companies need to start poaching the optics and software specialists from the camera companies. It's all very well looking at the spec lists for components but its another thing entirely to make them all work together to produce a decent picture.
In the past for me near decent cams have been ruined by over zealous compression settings (Palm Pre2) or what appears to be zero configuration of the imaging processors (Nexus4).
No one yet has tweaked every part of the chain to provide a truly viable alternative to taking a $250+ camera along instead.
Never had anything to do with megapixels IMO. It's other factors that let them down.
I reckon in another 2 years we'll have it pretty much there. Reply
MrSpadge - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkSame here, my Sony DSC-W5 from 2005 or so is still way better than my smartphone. If I could get at least similar quality in a new phone that would easily make it worth 50 - 100€ more for me. Reply
Tarwin - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkI enjoyed the article, it cleared up some doubts I had and taught me a few new things.
In light of this article I hope you go into more detail in the One review when you eventually do it. I assume you will give special attention to the c amera due to how it goes against the trend and HTC's focus on it but I also hope you mention how it fits into all this a bit for those of us who read both articles. Thanks again. Reply
DominicG - Saturday, February 23, 2013 - linkHi Brian,
much enjoyed your intro to camera optics. However you state:
"If we look at the airy disk diameter formed from a perfect diffraction limited ... we get a spot size around 3.0 microns"
You mentioned this is a back illuminated chip so that the light is focussing in a medium of refractive index ~3.5. Therefore the wavelength of red light inside the medium is ~700/3.5 = 200nm - still much smaller than the pixel. It is a bit more complicated than this since the optical resolution is of course determined not only by the wavelength but also the numerical aperture (NA) - the light refracts at the air-silicon interface so that a beam in air at 37 deg (2omega =75deg - your example lens), becomes a beam in silicon of only 10 deg. 10 deg in silicon gives a theoretical resolution (Rayleigh condition) of 0.7microns. Anyway, did you take all these factors into account? Reply
fokka - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkthanks for this insightful article, brian, that's the sort of read i i visit this site for regularly!
i have to say that i expected a little more (side-) content, though, like a more thorough look at the htc one initially pictured, one of the two reasons i clicked on the article. also a comparison with nokias pureview-approach would've been nice, since it's on the complete other side of the spectrum.
but this is just to nitpick, as i enjoyed the read none the less. Reply
StormyParis - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkGreat article Reply
StormyParis - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkSeeing the interest everyone has in good pictures, and the relatively small size and cost of the lens apparatus, wouldn't it make sense to have 2 distinct cameras on a smartphone, and coordinate them to get better image quality ? Reply
ssj3gohan - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkCouple of comments on this and your rant in the podcast :)
First of all, you're lauding HTC for their larger pixel size and lamenting the move towards smaller pixels. But isn't it true that effective resolution, especially when your pixels are significantly smaller than the airy disk, is basically a function of integration area? The only downside to using smaller pixels is that you increase the effect of read noise and decrease fill factor. In an ideal world, a 100MP phone camera with the same sensor size as a 10MP one would make pictures that are just as good. With read noise being essentially absent nowadays, I don't see the reason to particularly bash on 13MP phone cameras compared to larger-pixel but same-integration-area sensors. They make the same pictures, just take up a little less space on the sd card.
Of course, you could make the argument that it's wrong to give in to the 'moar megapixels!' consumer side of things and try to educate people that sometimes less is more.
Next, you say that refractive index and focal length is essentially what limits the focal length for very thin cameras, but this can be alleviated by using diffractive optics (not yet now, but in the future). We may very well see 3mm-thickness 35mm focal length equivalent camera modules with large sensors someday. It's technically possible. Especially with, as you said, nanodiamonds and other very high refractive index synthetic lens materials in the making.
Next, about the resolving power. There's the airy disk and rayleigh's criterion, but this is not the end of resolving power. It does make sense to oversample beyond this point, you will get extra image information. It becomes exponentially less as you increase the megapixel count but you can still get about 150% extra image information by oversampling beyond the size of the airy disk. Again, in an ideal world without drawbacks to doing so, this does make sense. Reply
tuxRoller - Sunday, February 24, 2013 - linkEspecially, with the use of metamaterials that make use of negative indexes of refraction to allow you to resolve detail beyond the diffraction limit? Reply
ssj3gohan - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkWell, keep in mind that the reason you can resolve beyond the diffraction limit is the fact that the geometrical properties of the sensor and optics differ. Optics will by definition cause gaussian blur as their defect mode, while the sensor has square and offset pixels. These areas do not overlap perfectly, so in order to perfectly image that blurry optical image you need pixels that are smaller than the fundamental size of the diffraction pattern (airy disk).
These optical effects don't go away when you're using metamaterials/quantum opticss/etc. Light will still be a wave that will not necessarily enter the sensor perfectly perpendicular. Reply
UltraTech79 - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkI ave seen many many reviews of lenses and the technical details of digital imaging ect, and almost every time the article would have really shitty JPG images. I found it highly ironic. Kudos to you for using PNG throughout this quality article. Reply
AnnihilatorX - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkI was reading the review for Sony's Xperia Z at techradar, I was astonished at how poor the 13MP Exmor RS sensor performs. Frankly, the image looks blurry and more like it's taken by a 5MP scaled up, with heavy noise even in a well lit scene:
While I don't really care too much about smart phone camera, and I use my budget DSLR (cheaper than a smart phone) for my photography pleasure, I was thinking if the MP race and new gen smart phones can eliminate the need for me to lunge a DSLR around. If this article is correct on the physical limitations of smartphone camera technology, looks like there is still a future for DSLRs. Reply
danacee - Monday, February 25, 2013 - linkTraditional, aka -crap- P&S clearly are at a disadvantage now, only the still very useful of optical zoom keeping them alive. However high end, 'big' sensor P&S such as the not too young Sony RX100 are still many many generations ahead of smartphone cameras, even the Nokia Pureview has terrible image quality next to it. Reply
pandemonium - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkI am surprised at the lack of mention for Carl Zeiss lenses in here. If you're going to make an article about lens quality and cameraphone technology, why wouldn't you include the best in the market for such? Or are we disputing that fact?
Also, not all cameraphones suffer as much from dramatic lens flare discoloration issues as said "very popular phone." Reply
ShieTar - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - linkSure, you get a 3µm diffraction spot on your camera, and with 1.1µm pixels it gets oversampled. But that does not have to be a waste. As long as the diffraction pattern is well characterised, you can remove the diffraction effect through a deconvolution as part of your ISP. This even remains true for near-field optical effects that occur once you pixel size gets close to or below the image wavelength. As long as such corrections are implemented, and as long as your per-pixel noise is small enough for these algorithms to work, decreasing the pixel size does make a certain sense.
Once noise becomes a larger problem then resolution, the smaller pixels hurt though, by wasting light through the larger crop factor and also by increasing the overall read-out noise. When exactly that point is reached depends on the light conditions you want to use your camera in, so it would be interesting to understand for which kind of conditions smartphone-cameras are being optimised. Reply
rwei - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkhurr hurr Reply
theSuede - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - linkI don't know where your Rayleigh limit comes from, but in real world optics, Rayleigh is:
[1.22 x F# x wavelength] -giving 1.3µm for green (550nm) light in an F2.0 lens.
But maybe it's your interpretation of Rayleigh that is wrong, and that's where the error stems from. From the graphs, you show spot resolution limit as 2xRayleigh - and it isn't. Spot resolution is 1xRayleigh - giving an F2.0 lens a maximum resolution of the aforementioned 1.3µm - NOT 2.6µm.
The definition of Rayleigh:
-"Two point sources are regarded as just resolved when the principal diffraction maximum of one image coincides with the first minimum of the other.
"Just resolved" in this case means a resulting MTF of about 7% - i.e The minimum distance between two peaks where you can still resolve that they are two, not one large is equal to the RADIUS of the first null on the Airy disk. Not the diameter. This is quite a common error made by people from the "E" side of ElectrOptics. Reply
mdar - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkYou say "This is the standard format for giving a sensor size, but it doesn't have anything to do with the actual size of the image circle, and rather traces its roots back to the diameter of a vidicon glass tube"
The above statement, though partially true, is misleading. The dimension DOES give sensor size multiplied by factor of roughly 1.5. For example if some one says 1/1.8" sensor, the sensor diagonal is ~ 1/(1.8*1.5). The 1.5 factor probably comes from vidicon glass tube.
Infact if some one wants just one parameter for image quality, it should be sensor size. Pixel technologies do improve (like using BSI) but even now a 1/3" sensor size of iphone or samsung or lumia 920 camera can just barely match quality 1/1.8" sensor of 4-year old Nokia N8. Reply
frakkel - Thursday, February 28, 2013 - linkI am currious if you can elaborate a little regarding lens material.
You say that today most lens elements are made of plastic. Is this both for front and rear facing camera lenses?
I was under the impression that lens elements in phones still were made of glass but that the industry is looking to change to plastic but this change has not been done yet. Please correct me if I am wrong and a link or two would not hurt :) Reply
vlad0 - Friday, March 01, 2013 - linkI suggest reading this white paper as well:
it deals with a lot of the limitations of a smartphone camera in a very elegant way, and the results are sublime.
Nokia solved several important issues the industry has been dealing with for a long time... Reply
wally626 - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkAlthough the term Bokeh is commonly used to refer to the effect in pictures of low depth of field techniques it should only be used to refer to the quality of the out-of-focus regions of such photographs. It is much more an aesthetic term than technical. Camera phones usually have such deep depth of focus that little is out of focus in normal use. However, with the newer f/2, f/2.4 phone cameras when doing close focus you can get the out of focus regions from low depth of field.
Is a very good discussion of this by Dr. Nasse of Zeiss Reply
wally626 - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkSomeone fixed the Zeiss link to the Nassw article for me awhile back but I forgot the exact fix. In any case a search on the terms Zeiss, Nasse and Bokeh should bring up the article. Reply
huanghost - Thursday, March 21, 2013 - linkadmirable Reply
mikeb_nz - Sunday, December 22, 2013 - linkhow do i calculate or where do i find the field of view (angle of view) for smartphone and tablet cameras?
thanks Reply
oanta_william - Monday, July 20, 2015 - linkYour insight in Smartphone Cameras is awesome! Thanks for everything!
From your experience would it be possible to have only the camera module on a device, with a micro-controller/SoC that has sufficient power ONLY for transmitting the non processed 'RAW' data on another device via Bluetooth - on which the ISP and the rest needed for image processing to be situated.
I have a homework regarding this. Do you now any reference material/books that could help me?
Thanks! Reply
solarkraft - Monday, January 09, 2017 - linkWhat an amazing article! Finally something serious about smartphone imaging (the processor/phone makers don't tell us ****)! Just an updated version might be cool. Reply

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>Racing>Hansons vs. Pfitzinger
Just saw the reference to this on Jeff's blog. How did I miss this the first time around?
Anyway, thanks for the comparison, Bhearn. It is one of the best written, most informative, posts I've ever read on here.
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Just saw the reference to this on Jeff's blog. How did I miss this the first time around?
Just saw the reference to this on Jeff's blog. How did I miss this the first time around?
It just appeared. I was hoping Jeff would weigh in!
OK, I decided to give Hanson's a try for my next marathon. I've been a Pfitz guy for my past few marathons, and have always felt well repaired, and been happy with my times, but...
1) I drafted up my schedule for my next marathon (Yakima Valley, April 9th), and frankly I'm not looking forward to hashing out the same training yet again!
2) I read a good point (possibly earlier in this thread) about it's good to shake up your training to provide new stimulus. That makes sense to me. I don't think I've plateaued with Pfitz, but a little change will be good.
3) I like doing MP runs! Pfitz calls for a a couple LR's with MP, but I would generally add at least a few miles of MP on every LR. I'll try to follow Hansons and not do that on the LR, but rather try to get my fill during the mid-week "tempo" runs.
I don't have the book, but purchased the 12 week, 85-105 mile, plan from the website. Looking at the plan, it all makes sense, but I have a couple questions I'm hoping those who have read the book can give guidance on.
First, in the text it explains the 12 week plan forgoes the base building phase, assuming you are already good to go. I have about 3 weeks until I'm officially 12 weeks out from my marathon. As of right now, I plan to just start the plan next Monday, and then repeat a few of the "Race Specific" weeks once I get into the meat of the training. What would be in a typical "Hansons" base building phase? I'm guessing just working up to ~100 per week of all easy running? I averaged around 80 MPW during the couple months before my last marathon on 11/25, and have been "slacking off" since with weeks around 30-40, but think I could quickly ramp back up.
Second, I noticed all the runs are singles. What's the official Hanson's line on doubles? I'd be inclined to break up 1 or 2 of the easy days into doubles. My plan has a lot of 10 to 12 mile easy days, that seem perfect for doubling up as two shorter runs.
Obi-run, for that base building period, they just have you do all easy miles. They do prescribe a schedule, but it's really low. If its too low, then they say to just do what you are already doing. As for doubles, they don't recommend them until you are at 100 weekly miles. At that point, they recommend adding a second run to a day on which the main run is at least 10 miles. So, for example, 10 in the AM and 4 in the PM. In the elite schedule given in the Appendix, he was doing 14 in the AM and 6 in the PM. Hope that helps!
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Having gotten this book for the holidays and having read through the first 2 parts now (covering the approach, basic physiology, and the plans), I appreciate bhearn's initial post even more. He nails the key issues.
To sell a plan and books, you need to highlight and emphasize the differences from other plans. (Sometimes that gets weird, as in their use of the word "tempo" to mean MP-pace.) But, in reality, all sound plans follow similar basic principles. I agree with the Humphrey/Hanson line that "we tend to overthink training processes." For aging mid-packers like myself, simple consistency (run lots, mostly easy), and variation (sometimes hard)—whoever's plan we follow—is enough to give us a good shot at meeting our modest goals. (YMMV if you're younger, faster, more competitive, etc.) I usually make up my own plans but have built off of Pfitz the last couple of cycles. It's time to mix things up a bit so I think I'll try Hanson for Boston this year, knowing full well that I'll add some variations as I see fit.
Re: The long run. The biggest "difference" is the shorter long runs…but not really. In fact, they point out, "While 16 miles is the suggested maximum run, we are more concerned with determining your long run based on your weekly total mileage…" Citing Daniels, Noakes and others they note, "long runs shouldn't exceed 25-30 percent of weekly mileage." So if you plan to peak at 70 miles (as many Pfitz users have done), and follow the percentage guidelines, you could be right back to long runs of 17.5-21 miles. For more advanced runners they encourage a "moderate"—not easy—pace (e.g. 8:42 LR pace for a 3:30 marathoner). Their emphasis is on cumulative fatigue, rather than big long-run efforts that wipe you out. But it seems to me they don't slam the door shut on longer LR's if you have the overall mileage to support them.
The real difference, then, is the emphasis on MP pace and cumulative fatigue. As they repeatedly note, those 16-mile LR's should simulate the last 16 miles of the marathon, not the first.
It just appeared. I was hoping Jeff would weigh in!
Hansons' Marathon Method and Pfitzinger's Advanced Marathoning -- the two aspects of marathon training
Nice. I like the simplicity of the distance vs. pace dilemma. Well put.
I have their purchased plan and the mileage tops out in the low 60s and includes three 18 mile runs. For a 60 mile week, 30% would be 18 miles. One of their 18 milers is 3wu+12@MP+3cd. The other two are labeled as "moderate."
The biggest confusion here is the word "tempo". I guess most commonly tempo refers to the structure of the workout, rather than a specific pace -- a medium-distance run with some continuous miles at a hardish effort. The difference is that in Pfitzinger plans this effort is at LT (or slightly faster); in Hansons plans it's at goal marathon pace. In Hansons plans the LT workouts (actually a bit slower than LT: they recommend MP - 10 sec) is done as 6 miles broken up various ways with recoveries. The Pfitzinger plans have you going up to 7 continuous miles at LT (or faster), which is a brutal workout. And in Pfitzinger plans, the marathon-pace runs are done as part of the long run, making them tougher as well.
I hope someone can clarify. Reading this, it sounds like the Hansons plan tempo run is what other plans (I'm thinking specifically of MacMillan) might call a steady state run. In other words, with the Hansons plan, the tempo workout would be 7 miles at the target pace rather than (as might be more typical of a tempo run), the middle miles at target pace with the beginning and end at a slower pace. Am I reading that correctly?
Hanson's "Tempo" run calls for at least a 1 mile warmup and cooldown with the middle miles at the target marathon pace.
i.e. if the plan calls for a 10 mile MP Tempo run then you would have at least a 1 mile warm up, then 10 miles at target Marathon Pace then at least 1 mle cool down. I think they say you can go up to a 3 mile warm up and 3 mile cool down.
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I hope someone can clarify. Reading this, it sounds like the Hansons plan tempo run is what other plans (I'm thinking specifically of MacMillan) might call a steady state run. In other words, with the Hansons plan, the tempo workout would be 7 miles at the target pace rather than (as might be more typical of a tempo run), the middle miles at target pace with the beginning and end at a slower pace. Am I reading that correctly?
Confusingly, what MacMillan calls steady-state is faster than what Hansons calls tempo (goal marathon pace), but slower than what MacMillan (and most others, I believe) call tempo.
Also what npaden said.
Thanks for the replies!
I had a 7 mile Hansons-style tempo on tap for tomorrow, but given that that's actually 9 miles of running, I think I might have to dial it back a bit and work up to that toward the end of my current half marathon training schedule (which is Hansons-esque, I guess; I intend to get the book and read it at some point or maybe get the local library to order it for me, but at this point I just have something that I pieced together myself).
I have a question as to when (what day of the week) to start either of these plans?
Typically the goal race is on a Sunday and both plans (actually most) call for a Sunday long run, but my goal race is on a Saturday. So I'm wondering if I should move the plan back a day so my long runs are on the same day of the week as the race?
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Yeah. FWIW I've heard that the original Hansons plans had the long run on Wednesday.


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text: Reward offered for info on battery at Town Center Mall By Travis Crum December 27, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A woman is offering a $5,000 reward to track down the man who punched her 19-year-old son in the face outside the Charleston Town Center Mall this month.The altercation left Eric Joshua Gomez, of Charleston, with injuries to his face that would require several minor surgeries to repair, said Lynn Gomez, his mother.The incident happened shortly after security officers removed Gomez from the mall on Dec. 7.Gomez was "belligerent" and spat on two security officers who escorted him onto Court Street at about 6 p.m., said Charleston Police Sgt. Tony Hazelett.Once alone outside the mall, Hazelett said, Gomez made a rude comment to a woman and a woman's boyfriend. The woman's boyfriend then allegedly punched Gomez once in the face, knocking him to the ground. Gomez argued with arriving paramedic units, Hazelett said, and the man and his girlfriend left the scene.Detectives are searching for the man who threw the punch. Multiple witnesses saw the altercation and described it to police, Hazelett said.Detectives are reviewing nearby security camera recordings to identify the man. Anyone with information is asked to call the Charleston Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division at 304-348-6480.Gomez's mother, Lynn Gomez, said she wants to help find the man who punched her son because he does not remember the altercation. Police said he had been drinking alcohol prior to the altercation.She is offering a $5,000 reward to entice someone to come forward with pictures or video of the altercation. She believes there were witnesses who took pictures with their cellphones, she said.Lynn Gomez believes the man punched her son more than once or that others were involved because of the severity of his injuries."You can't say it's one person, one punch," Lynn Gomez said. "He's looking at three more surgeries."Eric Gomez was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, where doctors said he had severe swelling to both eyes, swelling to his forehead and a fracture to his right nasal bone. Doctors said he had a depressed sinus bone fracture, which requires surgery to repair, according to a medical report that Lynn Gomez provided. Her son has since been released from the hospital.In the meantime, Eric Gomez has been charged with two counts of simple assault for spitting on the security guards. He is scheduled to appear in Charleston Municipal Court on Jan 22.Reach Travis Crum at email@example.com or 304-348-5163. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 More than 1,200 student-issued iPads unaccounted for in Kanawha County 2 Mount Olive officer accused of smuggling drugs, phones to inmates 3 Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Donald Trump's turbulent White House 4 WVU to offer tailgate turnkey service at football games 5 Eclipse will be partial in WV, but still spectacular New fishing rules to take effect for Stonewall Lake Previous Story Marlinton merchant ponders future after fire Next Story


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OTTAWA -- The Manitoba government is the second NDP administration in Canada in three years to raise the provincial sales tax in the face of a deficit budget.
But the move leaves Manitoba with the highest sales tax in Western Canada and the highest sales tax in provinces that haven't yet harmonized sales taxes with the federal GST.
"Were there better choices to raise revenue?" asked Jack Mintz, the Palmer Chair of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. "Yes."
The provincial government will raise the PST to eight per cent from seven this summer. Nationally, Manitoba will be tied with Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland for having the fourth-highest PST. Nova Scotia, at 10 per cent, has the highest, followed by Quebec at 9.975 per cent and Prince Edward Island at nine per cent.
British Columbia, at seven per cent, and Saskatchewan, at five per cent follow. Alberta is the only province that has no PST.
But Mintz said because Manitoba refuses to harmonize with the GST, the impact in the province likely will be more profound than it was when Nova Scotia hiked its provincial sales tax two points in 2010.
Businesses get a GST rebate for much of the tax paid for business input costs. However, the provincial sales tax has no such rebates or exemptions.
"The existing sales tax in Manitoba is not well-structured and has significant taxes on business inputs," said Mintz.
That means Manitoba exports cost more and makes imported goods often more competitive.
He said a study he did last year listed Manitoba as having the sixth-highest effective tax rate on investment compared with other provinces and OECD nations.
"This (PST hike) will likely put them close to the top," he said.
Manitoba has rejected calls from Ottawa for a HST because it would mean Manitoba consumers would end up paying sales tax on more things, such as haircuts, sports-club memberships and airline tickets, things on which PST is not currently charged.
The British Columbia Liberal government was just forced to undo the harmonization of their two sales taxes after a referendum rejected the HST, which was implemented in 2009. The HST is one of the reasons Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals are likely to be voted out of office in an election next month.
Quebec recently moved to harmonize its sales tax with Ottawa in January, although it is the only province where the joint tax, known as the QST, is administered by the province rather than Ottawa. The total combined rate in Quebec is 14.98 per cent.
Prince Edward Island became the sixth province to introduce an HST, just this month. The province lowered the provincial portion of the tax to nine per cent from 10 per cent in the process.
Ontario introduced an HST in 2011, and while it was deemed controversial at the time, it is seldom mentioned now among reasons voters are displeased with the provincial Liberal government.


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YORKSHIRE maintained their position as the leaders of the LV= County Championship by easing past Sussex by nine wickets at Scarborough, their sixth win of the season.
With second-placed Nottinghamshire beating Northamptonshire at Wantage Road, they were only able to extend their lead at the top by a point to six with three matches left. But every little helps.
Andrew Gale's side clinched a maximum haul of 24 points by bowling Sussex out for 230 just before tea on day four after they had started the day at 98-4 in their second innings and still 27 runs in arrears.
That left Yorkshire a target of 106 in the last 39 overs of the day, one they achieved for the loss of only Alex Lees for 46 inside 21.
At exactly the same stage of the season last year, Yorkshire lost to Durham here, a result which ultimately cost them the title.
"We learned some really good lessons from that game last year," said coach Jason Gillespie.
"When we had our foot on the throat, we had to keep it there. We don't let the opposition off the hook. We did that with the bat in this match. We were under a little bit of pressure, but we fought back.
"Then with the ball, they had some partnerships, but we were patient. They were the lessons we learnt from last year. The lads are in a really good place.
"To come back and win by nine wickets after being 9-2 having put them in and they've scored over 360, it's an incredibly pleasing result. That just shows there's a lot of belief in the camp."
As Gillespie said, patience definitely was the key attribute Yorkshire needed as Luke Wright's third century of the season, an excellent 113, ensured they went wicketless until the penultimate over of the morning session.
The England limited overs man shared 127 for the fifth wicket with Steffan Piolet (32) before the latter was trapped lbw by Steve Patterson to leave the score at 175-5, a lead of 50.
Wickets then fell regularly through the afternoon as Patterson, Tim Bresnan (3-60) and Adil Rashid all struck twice.
Wright, trapped lbw propping forward to Bresnan, was the first of Sussex's last four wickets to fall for just 29. Bresnan is now just two wickets away from 400 in first-class cricket having posted 4,000 first-class runs earlier in this match.
Yorkshire made extremely light work of the 106 target, a pursuit which they started shortly before tea. Lees and Adam Lyth, who finished with 39 not out, took a liking to James Tredwell's off-spin, hitting him for three sixes between them either straight or over straight mid-wicket.
The first of Yorkshire's three remaining matches is the Roses clash against relegation-threatened Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford a week on Sunday. They then face Notts at Trent Bridge in their penultimate match and Somerset at Headingley in the season's final week.
LV= County Championship division one
Yorkshire v Sussex
at Scarborough
Sussex First Innings 368 (E Joyce 130).
Yorkshire First Innings 493 (K S Williamson 189, J M Bairstow 77, T T Bresnan 61).
Sussex Second Innings
L W P Wells b Sidebottom 0
C D Nash c Bairstow b Brooks 15
E C Joyce lbw b Sidebottom 5
C Cachopa c Lyth b Bresnan 7
L J Wright lbw b Bresnan 113
S A Piolet c Williamson b Patterson 32
B C Brown lbw b Patterson 0
J C Tredwell c Sidebottom b Bresnan 26
S J Magoffin b A U Rashid 18
L J Hatchett c Gale b A U Rashid 4
M E Hobden not out 0
Extras (b7 lb2 w1) 10
Total (79.1 overs) 230
Fall: 1-8 2-20 3-20 4-48 5-175 6-175 7-201 8-218 9-223.
Bowling: Sidebottom 11-2-26-2, Brooks 15-2-68-1, Bresnan 17-2-60-3, Patterson 16-8-24-2, A U Rashid 19.1-6-40-2, Lyth 1-0-3-0.
Yorkshire Second Innings
A Lyth not out 39
A Z Lees c Hatchett b Hobden 46
K S Williamson not out 15
Extras (b4 lb2) 6
Total 1 wkt (20.1 overs) 106
Fall: 1-88.
Bowling: Magoffin 5-2-13-0, Hatchett 7-0-31-0, Tredwell 4-0-32-0, Hobden 3-0-22-1, Wells 1.1-0-2-0.
Yorkshire (24pts) beat Sussex (6pts) by 9 wkts
Division one table
P W L D Ba Bo Pts
Yorkshire 13 6 1 6 38 36 200
Nottinghamshire 13 6 3 4 45 33 194
Warwickshire 13 6 4 3 33 35 179
Somerset 13 4 2 7 32 34 165
Sussex 13 4 4 5 33 32 154
Middlesex 12 4 4 4 27 30 139
Durham 11 2 2 7 28 29 124
Lancashire 12 2 4 6 19 32 113
Northants 12 0 10 2 19 23 52


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Dell's Digital Jukebox 20 - Music, the Dell Wayby Andrew Ku on 6/20/2004 12:00 PM EST
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gettinbranded2003 - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - linkI question the timing of this review...Dell will be releasing a new version of the DJ later this summer. Reply
EdvardGrieg - Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - linkI agree, it is getting annoying in the 'final' words that Andrew is claiming that nothing is better than the iPod, when he hasn't really tested anything that would seriously challenge the iPod (ie iRiver and Rio). Further, he seems to dismiss both companies as not even existing. I believe that the Karma had the second highest sales last quarter, right behind the iPod, and iRiver definetely does huge business (moreso on the flash side i believe), but their HD units are still top notch.
I hope that Andrew has some of these other units on the way as well.
P.S. hohoho: it's just Rio Karma, no more 'sonic' Rio is actually now part of D&M holdings...yeah, that would be Denon and Marantz :-D Reply
cdamion - Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - link
I bought 2 weeks ago what to my knowledge is the World's smallest MP3 Player with a 20Gb USB2 Hard Drive and with Photo Wallet function.
It's a lot smaller than the iPOD and any other Hard Drive MP3 Player I know. I'm using it extensively and I love it.
Advise a Review of it: Archos Gmini 220.
cabal427 - Monday, June 21, 2004 - linkI currently own the DJ 20 and it's great!
It should also be noted that through the firmware/driver updates it is possible to now store ANY type of file in data mode as well as to copy the data/music to and from the DJ onto any computer.
Another nice thing w/ the DJ is that because it's based upon the Creative Zen the linux drivers for the Zen also work w/ the DJ and you can access it as a removeable filesystem from within most of the Linux Distros.
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/mess... Reply
hohoho - Monday, June 21, 2004 - linkSorry, I should have been more specific. I meant it would be nice to see more reviews of mp3 players that are directly competing with the Ipod with similar credientials. By this, I mean the Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox Zen, Creative Touch, Sonic Rio Karma 20, iRiver IHP 20/40 GB, Pogo Ripdrive, etc. This is why I was pleased with the Dell Jukebox review since it was part of that competitor group. Most of the other reviews, with the obvious exception of the Apple Ipod have dealt with the dumbed down micro MP3 players which most people aren't in the market for as much as Ipod style players. At least for most computer junkies :) Reply
nord1899 - Sunday, June 20, 2004 - linkWhy not also review the Rio Karma or the iRiver iHP-120/140?
Having just upgraded from a Nomad 3 JB to the iHP-140, I doubt I will ever use a Creative product again. Also the iRiver is significantly cheaper than the iPod. The Rio Karma has also gotten rave reviews elsewhere.
The iPod is not the only player out there you know. Reply
Oxonium - Sunday, June 20, 2004 - linkA good review but I would have like to have seen some side-by-side photos of the Jukebax next to an iPod. Since people who look at the Jukebox will likely cross-shop an iPod, it would be nice to have seen this. Reply
Wesley Fink - Sunday, June 20, 2004 - linkhohoho -
Andrew has been doing MP3 player reviews for quite a while. If you click the audio tab at the start of the page you will find many of the reveiws you requested have already been done. Reply
DaCode - Sunday, June 20, 2004 - linkIf, like you say, the interface is Creative's, you may want to take a look at a tool I once found for a friend with a Nomad 2.
It enables transfer of files from AND TO the pc.
In 'My Computer' you don't only see the device butr als 'The Jukebox' (with the songs) as a usable harddisk.
It's called NotMad Explorer :
Maybe nice to add to the test Reply
hohoho - Sunday, June 20, 2004 - linkIt's nice to see an Mp3 player review at Anand. Any chance we will be getting any more of these reviews? I'd be interested to see how the Iriver, Rio and Creative stack up against each other, and I'd also like to see what's so amazing about the Apple Ipod that puts it above the rest in the game. There aren't many decent sites to find good MP3 Player reviews as the one given here. Reply


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An existing safety recall of the driver's airbag in certain 2001 Honda Accords and Civics due to a potential defect in the airbag's inflation system is being expanded to include more vehicles, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today. Originally initiated in November 2008, approximately 440,000 additional vehicles are included in the expanded recall, which will require the replacement of the driver's steering-wheel-mounted airbag inflator.
In some vehicles, airbag inflators can produce over-pressurization of the driver's (front) airbag inflator mechanism during airbag deployment. If an affected inflator deploys, the increased internal pressure may cause the inflator casing to rupture. Metal fragments could pass through the cloth airbag cushion material, possibly causing an injury or fatality to vehicle occupants.
Registered owners of vehicles that potentially contain affected inflators will receive a recall notice in the mail over the next few months, with the owners of vehicles most likely to include a problem airbag being contacted first. The recall notice will include further instructions to help schedule a repair to each vehicle. Interested owners may confirm their vehicle's recall status by visiting the Honda "Owner Link" website at www.owners.honda.com/recalls or the Acura "My Acura" website at www.owners.acura.com/recalls. Only certain vehicles are affected, and concerned owners of 2001-2002 Accords, 2001 Civics and 2002-2003 Acura TLs are encouraged to wait to receive a recall notice in the mail before scheduling an appointment with their local dealer.
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Summer's here, and that means indulging in our favorite summer foods: burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, frosty cocktails and — of course — ice cream.
Every year, ice cream store owners across the country predict which flavors will most appeal to customers. As new flavors come on the market, proprietors weigh the pros and cons of swapping in a new option for a low performer from the previous year. This can mean hitting the jackpot with a hot new flavor, or sinking money into a dud that will sit around all season.
Nowhere is ice cream in higher demand than at the beach, including the Jersey Shore, a destination for New Jersey locals and visitors from nearby New York City and Philadelphia. Skipper Dipper has been a local, family-owned ice cream tradition for 35 years, a line of beach-goers often snaking out the door of its Long Beach Island, NJ location.
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NEW YORK — It's a wrap for the sexy supernaturals on HBO's "True Blood."
The network said Tuesday that the series will end next year, following a 10-episode season that will begin in the summer. That will be the show's seventh season.
The series stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse. Paquin works with her husband, actor Stephen Moyer, who plays a vampire. The real-life couple became parents of twins last year.
The show has been a hit for HBO at a time it was looking for something new. Episodes averaged more than 10 million viewers for the sixth season, which concluded last month.
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My client has built a mobile apps product that has experienced exponential growth and as a result have needed to scale their technology platform to understand the growing needs of their customer base. The challenge is the ability to create a real-time data platform that provides a continuous feedback loop in on users and then being able to adjust the core product. As a result, a need for a Python programmer who is comfortable working in emerging technologies but can still apply robust programming methods for data challenges is needed to help evolve their data platform for 2014 and beyond.
The ideal profile is a versatile individual that has a "passion for programming" and has pushed the capabilities specifically of what one can do with Python both in traditional and emerging technology platforms. The core skill is relatively straightforward: An excellent Python programmer. Beyond this the client will look at the following:
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A new player will be coming to Spring Training as the Mets have signed right-handed relief pitcher Kiko Calero to a minor league contract. Last season with the Marlins, Calero had 2-2 record and a 1.95 ERA in 67 games as a reliever. With numbers like those, I'm not sure… Read More →


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In yesterday's post we got to know about how Bea Johnson, of Zero Waste Home, transitioned into her Zero Waste lifestyle. Today I asked Bea, "What are the five steps you recommend somebody to start with?" She tells us about the 5R's so that we can implement the principals in to our own lives and enjoy the benefits that simple, conscious living has to offer.
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By Bea Johnson
What we do to generate only a one liter jar's full of trash per year is no secret. We found that following a set of 5R's IN ORDER was the key to eliminating waste. So, we:
1- Refuse what we do not need (for ex. single use plastics, junkmail and freebies)
2- Reduce what we do need (furnishings, clothes),
3- Reuse by buying secondhand and swapping disposables for reusables (that includes shopping with reusables such as cloth bags, jars and bottles),
4- Recycle what we cannot refuse, reduce or reuse
5- Rot (compost) the rest (fruit peels, lint,hair, floor sweepings etc).
The most important thing one can do to stop waste and clutter from entering their home is to simply say no! Think before accepting something that is handed out to you. Turn down flyers, freebies, party favors, business cards, single use plastics (such as plastic bags), and fight junk mail. Accepting these things not only creates a demand to make more, they are a waste of resources and once they are brought into our home, they add to the clutter and require effort to dispose of them later. Refusing is the first rule to living a Zero Waste, simple lifestyle. Give it a try: you'll be amazed how much stuff you'll be able to stop from coming in.
*Five winners will be chosen at random on October 21 to receive a copy of Zero Waste Home. To enter to win, leave a comment below and tell us if Zero Waste Home is something you'd like to try in your own home, or leave a Zero Waste tip for us to all try. Good luck!
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Reviews and First Looks
- Steakcraft: Ristorante Morini's Fiorentina for Two (New York)
- We Try All Five Burritos From LA's New Burrito Vending Machine
- Biang! Makes a Bang with Spicy Xi'an Noodles Near Seattle
- Harlem's Barawine is a Quintessential Neighborhood Gem
- La Morada Serves Oaxaca's Rarest Mole (New York)
- Chop Shop Does It All, But Does It Have The Chops? (Chicago)
- American Heart and New Orleans Soul at Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room (New York)
- De Mole's Lighter Take on Enchiladas (New York)
- Eat This Now: A Breaded, Deep-Fried, Buffalo Wing-Inspired Hot Dog at Fancy Franks in Toronto
- Homestyle Indian Way Out in Queens at Taste of Kerala Kitchen
- Rib-Sticking Polish Food Done Right at Smak Tak (Chicago)
- The Brunch Dish: Italian Sausagefest at City Dough (Chicago)
- Checking in on the Vegetarian Offerings at Bed-Stuy's Saraghina
- Fried Egg Sandwich at 25 Degrees (Chicago)
- Park Italian Gourmet is a Real Deli for Midtown Lunches
- Croque Monsieur at Papillote in Savannah, GA
- South Side Eats: Soluri & Sons Deli Returns to Bridgeport (Chicago)
- JoeDough Has a Leg Up On Your Favorite Breakfast Sandwich (New York)
Burgers and Pizza
- We Try the Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger (and New Buns!) from Hardee's and Carl's Jr.
- Lunch in the Loop: It's Turkey Burger Time at Epic Burger (Chicago)
- Thumbs Up for the Ribeye Sausage Burger at Salt & Cleaver in San Diego
- Butchering Beasts and Firing Up the Grill at Miller's Guild in Seattle
- Reality Check: We Try Burger King's New Rodeo Sandwiches
- Burger City Guides: Sara Johannes' Favorite Burgers in Milwaukee
- Portland's Kerns Kitchen Transforms Pizza into Dessert
- Revamping Rum and Coke With Kola Nuts at Betony, NYC
- We Drink With Sam Calagione: An Aged Dogfish Head Beer Dinner at The Abbot's Cellar in San Francisco
- Snapshots from Japan: The Tokyo Cocktail Scene
- The Sweets You Should be Eating Right Now at the Ferry Building, San Francisco
- Have Your Coffee and Danish All in One at Paris Baguette (New York)
- Parfait in Seattle Isn't Just a Scoop Shop, It's an 'Ice Cream Patisserie'
- Dessert is Just as Unique as Dinner at Hitchcock on Bainbridge Island, Near Seattle
- Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Ceci Cela's Raspberry Cookie (New York)
- Belgian Perfection: O Merveilleux's Coffee Choux Pastry (New York)
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Nov 14 (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp has been accused in a $250 million lawsuit of continuing to bill and failing to offer rebates to more than 1 million customers who lost TV, Internet or phone service because of Hurricane Sandy.
The complaint, filed on Tuesday with the New York State Supreme Court in Nassau County, said Cablevision had not met its contractual obligation to offer credits to customers who lost service for more than 24 hours.
It said the Bethpage, New York-based company instead offered rebates only to its "most favored" customers on a discretionary basis, and only after they requested them.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status, rebates, punitive damages and a halt on future billing for periods where there are lengthy service outages.
Cablevision spokesman Charlie Schueler said the complaint "misstates the facts" and is without merit.
"Blanket or arbitrary credits for cable outages could shortchange customers," he said. "Each case is different and our policy covers the entire period of time when Cablevision service was out, including when the service interruption was caused by the loss of electrical power."
The lawsuit was brought on behalf of subscribers Irwin Bard, a retired businessman from Oyster Bay, New York, and his son Jeffery, a lawyer from Huntington, New York, their lawyer Hunter Shkolnik said.
He said the $250 million figure is based on the duration of outages, the number of people affected, and the services lost.
"Most customers didn't complain because the company was making public statements that it was doing its best to restore service," Shkolnik said in a phone interview. "But that means if you didn't call, you didn't know you could get a rebate."
Also on Tuesday, the Long Island Power Authority and UK-based National Grid Plc were sued over alleged negligence linked to power outages in Nassau and Suffolk counties that followed the late-October storm.
In afternoon trading, Cablevision shares were down 2.1 percent to $13.94.
The case is Bard et al v. Cablevision Systems Corp et al, New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County, No. 602291/2012.


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Cassidy O'Leary was one of 60 Carroll High School sosphomores to participate in a job shadow day for Becky Boes' English class. She spent the day at KISS 107.5 studios in Des Moines.
October 30, 2013
Work can be fun, after all.
This refreshing lesson was learned by 60 Carroll High School students in Becky Boes' sophomore English class through her annual career exploration and job shadow project. The students researched career fields ranging from military to medical. The reactions to their days on the job were as varied as the students and careers themselves, but for one common observation - work doesn't always have to be serious.
Micaela Bretey completed her job shadowing at KCCI TV in Des Moines. Bretey had always been interested in photography. She explored the field further, researching photography in the news field, duties of a reporter, and perks of a news anchor position.
"News anchors make way more than photographers," she explained. "I figured I could start out small and work my way up."
Bretey expected the studio to be strictly "down to business," but when she walked in, the news director greeted her by cracking a joke. She listed to the early news reports and sat in on the morning meeting, watching the reporters and camera operators joke with each other as the news director finalized assignments. She also learned that, as long as an individual owned up to any mistake, he or she wasn't likely to be harshly reprimanded.
"They were all laughing and getting along. It was just such a fun atmosphere," she said. "It was something worth the time to get paid for."
Lexi Reicks spent the day in the radiology department at St. Anthony Regional Hospital. Reicks was interested in studying law, but attorney-client privilege rules prevented her from being able to job shadow a lawyer. Her mother had gone to the hospital for radiation treatment and suggested Reicks check out that field instead.
"I thought it was kind of cool anyway," she said of the radiology department. "I think this (experience) actually outweighed the lawyer. It might have changed my mind."
Reicks started her job-shadow experience believing work in the radiation department was directly related to cancer. She learned that a radiological technician is involved in a variety of medical fields, working with mammograms, ultrasounds, MRIs, CT scans and nuclear medicine. The technicians in the department had equally varied personalities.
Delaney Schwarte also job shadowed in the medical field. Though she is interested in neonatology, a specific division of pediatrics that deals with newborn infants, she actually job shadowed a general surgeon at Greene County Medical Center in Jefferson and Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center. While the experience confirmed her desire to work in the medical field, the day was not without its surprises.
"I was not mentally prepared to watch five colonoscopies," she said, eyes wide.
But the atmosphere was as she anticipated.
"The nurses are the talkative ones," she said. "The doctors are more antisocial. They do their own thing."
Dakota Holliday job shadowed a family friend at the Iowa National Guard Headquarters. Though he knew he was interested in joining the Army, he had no idea what specific area he wanted to work in.
The English class assignment helped him narrow the field. After a day that included disintegrating hard drives, Holliday expressed a preference for the information technology department.
"It definitely boosted my confidence," he said of the experience. "Some of the guys were strict, some joking, but they all had some form of smarts on tech so they could help each other out."
Tanner White and Destiny Rummel traveled to Iowa State University to delve into the world of post-high school athletics. White spent the day with the director of operations for the basketball program, while Rummel spent the day with an athletic trainer.
Basketball is White's favorite sport, but, acknowledging that he will probably not become a Division I player, he thought the next best thing would be to manage a team and stay involved in the sport. His day with the director opened his eyes to both the opportunities and responsibilities of coaching.
"You can go around the nation as a job, coaching players that could be famous someday in a sport you really have loved your whole life, so it's not really a job," he said.
Most surprising was the intensity of the off-season. The coaches aren't just running practices all day, but recruiting and attending national meetings and keeping an eye on players and their academics.
Rummel began considering athletic training after she received her last concussion. She may not be able to play forever, but she can stay involved in athletics.
Her day included assisting with taping ankles for college athletes and creating an orthoplast brace for the quarterback's shoulder.
Both Rummel and White were surprised at the relaxed atmosphere, with players and trainers joking about the latest iPhone software or video game rather than focusing on preparation for practice.
Cassidy O'Leary and Jason Ramos cited interests in music and audio production, respectively. However, they approached their job shadow opportunities very differently.
O'Leary traveled to the KISS 107.5 radio station in Des Moines, where she was taken right into the live studio.
Ramos shadowed Carroll Community School District superintendent Rob Cordes to better understand management responsibilities, a lesson he can carry into any field.
Though some students remained unsure of their next move, all agreed their job-shadowing experiences were valuable.
"You can research a job, but you won't truly understand the responsibility of it until you walk in their shoes," said Holliday.
Reicks, who credited much of her interest in law to the television show "Law and Order," said that the research project can dispel illusion.
Schwarte agreed, confirming that her day with a surgeon was "no Grey's Anatomy."
Boes, who has taught in the Carroll district 13 years, said the career exploration unit has always been part of her curriculum. The first step in the project involves a personality inventory and a skill assessment. An online program then recommends careers for each student, who then writes a research paper on one of the careers and job shadows someone working in the field. The project culminates in short speeches that present the student's findings to the class, enabling all to learn from each individual experience.
The most uncommon job shadowing experiences she has seen in her class include a student who followed a stand-up comedian in Omaha, Neb., and a student who was bitten by a turtle at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha.
"Some kids go thinking they are sure of what they want to do, and don't even need to job shadow, and end up hating it," Boes said. "But that is just as valuable, because they won't waste any more time being sure of things and can explore other interests."
Other students have made connections through job shadowing that have landed them internships or jobs, she added.
Changes in regulations over the past decade have made it difficult for students to job shadow, particularly in the medical field, Boes said, recalling a former student who was able to be in the labor room when a patient gave birth.
Despite these restrictions, she credits the community with the program's success.
"Overwhelmingly there are businesses who open doors and graciously invite kids in every time they're asked," said Boes, who estimates some businesses receive half a dozen requests each semester. "We can no longer function in education as an island. For kids to have these experiences, we need the support of the community. It is overwhelmingly to me how great this community is at giving back to our kids."
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WASHINGTON — The Natural Products Association MarketPlace trade show will be suspended, the organization said, citing "new opportunities more strategically aligned with today's market needs."
The convention had originally been scheduled for June 2013 in Las Vegas. The Natural Products Association and New Hope Natural Media have collaborated to produce the convention since 2008.
"The Natural Products Association appreciates the work we've done with New Hope throughout the years," Natural Products Association CEO and executive director John Shaw said. "While it is unfortunate the show won't go on, we understand the business reasons behind it. NPA has always sought to connect retailers and suppliers in the marketplace. We are committed to this goal and our work with New Hope to achieve it. NPA looks forward to new developments within this relationship in 2013 and beyond."
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Cold pizza. Day old beef and broccoli. Its true, sometimes leftovers are just better than the original. So, today I'm suggesting that you check out this Jeopardy link. Granted it aired in early February, but I feel it is just as yummy as the actual airing date.
Folks, I ask you who does not love the philosophical, punctilious, and eccentric Mr. Brown? Shhh… Don't tell me, cause I don't care. Just check it out.
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Published: November 27 2012 - 3:00AM
JERUSALEM: Britain has a ''historic responsibility'' to support an imminent Palestinian attempt to upgrade its status at the United Nations, a Palestinian official said.
Britain, like other main European nations including Germany and Spain, has not yet decided whether to vote ''yes'', ''no'' or abstain in Thursday's vote, which risks causing a confrontation with the US and fresh turmoil in the Middle East.
''After everything that has happened in the Arab Spring, Britain can't pretend it is in favour of democracy in Libya, Syria and Egypt but accepts the Palestinians continuing to live under occupation,'' the general delegate of Palestine to the European Union, Leila Shahid, said.
''As the former colonial power, Britain has an historic responsibility to Palestine. Britain is a very important country in the Middle East, it has extensive trade relations, and David Cameron should know he risks a popular backlash from Arab public opinion if he does not support us.''
Britain would prefer the Palestinians to drop the bid, just days after the agreement of a ceasefire following eight days of aerial warfare between Israel and militants in Gaza.
Its government is coming under strong pressure to follow the lead of France, which has strongly hinted it will vote in favour of the application by the Palestinian Authority to become a ''non-member state'' of the UN. It now holds observer status.
On Sunday, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, said in Ramallah: ''We are going to the UN fully confident in our steps. We will have our rights because you are with us.''
The bid is certain to receive the two-thirds majority it needs in the general assembly, with or without the backing of western European nations.
As a ''non-member state'' - the same status as the Vatican - the Palestinian Authority would be allowed to take part in the International Criminal Court, a prospect that alarms Israel because it could lead to its soldiers or leaders facing war crimes cases.
The Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank but not Gaza, hopes the international backing of a ''yes'' vote will persuade Israel to return to full peace negotiations after more than two years of impasse.
There were signs of reconciliation between Mr Abbas's secular Fatah and Gaza's Islamist ruling Hamas movement at the weekend, after Hamas agreed to release all Fatah prisoners detained in connection with the political dispute between them.
''The Hamas government has decided to pardon all cases against Fatah members which are related to the internal division since 2006,'' a Hamas government spokesman Taher al-Nunu said.
He said the government had decided to set up a committee ''to implement this decision and establish a new stage of reconciliation''.
Telegraph, London; Agence France-Presse
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/palestine-pursues-britain-on-un-vote-20121126-2a3ki.html


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It's just really cool to have a "mysto" spot in the mid-Atlantic, especially one that sits right out on broad daylight.
I've been driving over the bridge since the late 70's, and this was the first time I'd ever seen anybody out. The best looking days - at least while trying to watch the road and the waves - seem to be Northeaster type of days. The waves are large enough to really wrap around the point, and the Northeast wind is actually "offshore." The only thing on a day like that is that it would be a really long and bumpy boat ride if you were coming from the VA Beach side.
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