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James Riley
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James Riley is my father. On the 6th of September, 2013, tragedy struck the Riley household. My father passed away in the comfort of his home. My dad was a hero because he would of taken his own life to save someone else's, even a stranger. He was the kind of guy that if you didn't have the cash, he would hand it to you in a heartbeat. He was always helping my neighbors out every time they asked, he was the guy that knew everyone. He was 85 years old at the time of his passing and I couldn't be more proud. Ever since I was born my dad had on going health issues, a big one was in 2010 he had major open heart surgery and they actually lost him twice. But there was no way he was giving up. He's also a hero because my four sisters are only my half sisters and he took them under his wing and cared for them and my mom when no one else would. He didn't look at them as his step kids, he saw them as his daughters. There's one more heroic thing this man has done. My daughter, my sweet angel, Payten Grace Skidgel was born on January 21st, 2014 and heartbreakingly passed away 15 hours after birth. At the time of her passing, I felt my father's spirit in the room with my boyfriend and I. I know he was there to take my daughter up with him. Now I know my angel baby is safe with MY own personal hero.
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Editor: I try not to be too critical of errors in stories about the happenings within the Town of Marineland, recognizing that reporters have to try to understand often complicated subjects during quick interviews, then distill all the information into short but interesting newspaper articles, and meet a deadline to boot. But my tolerance is not unlimited and sometimes I have to speak up and say, "Now wait a minute." Mr. Peter Guinta, in his story on Oct. 7 about Marineland, is the latest reporter to catch my eye.
Contrary to Mr. Guinta's statement, Jacoby Development Inc. did not buy the Town of Marineland in 2001.
Although it is an amusing thought, what the corporation really did was buy approximately 40 acres of land within the town limits. Later the corporation also bought the oceanarium itself when the Marineland Foundation declared bankruptcy.
I suppose that some part of those acquisitions, by accident, might have cost $1.5 million, but the amount that Jim Jacoby has had to spend here is considerably greater than that.
Nor is Jacoby going to build a kayak dock and 90-acre nature preserve on the east side of A1A.
The 90-acre River to Sea Preserve at Marineland, jointly owned by the Town of Marineland and Flagler County and predominately located west of A1A, was created five years ago using Preservation 2000 funding from the state of Florida.
Flagler County is implementing the physical improvements outlined in the management plan, among them a kayak dock. What Jacoby did, which was possibly even more remarkable, was elect not to purchase the two old oceanfront hotels, but rather to demolish them and allow the land to be added to the preserve.
We like to think we are setting a good example for the rest of the state by eliminating oceanfront development and transferring the land to public ownership.
The remainder of Mr. Guinta's story was reasonably accurate, although I would not care to defend the assertion that Marineland is Florida's oldest tourist attraction.
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December 25, 2011
The aftermath of a teen party at Club Fathom downtown has left nine people shot and suffering from various injuries, according to the Chattanooga Police Department.
The most seriously injured was a 17-year-old youth who was hit in the pelvis and immediately taken to a local hospital to undergo surgery, CPD spokeswoman Sgt. Jerri Weary said in a news release.
Police responded to 400 Cherry St. about midnight Saturday after receiving calls that several people had been shot. Weary said an off-duty policeman who was working an extra job at Club Fathom, where a Christmas party for teens was being held, reported he had fired at a suspect whom he said had pointed a gun at him during the shootings. The officer was not hit during the incident.


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I am pretty sure, sadly, that this one is yet another scam, though better presented than most. The exact same ad appeared on our local Craigslist so I tried contacting the guy to check things out. I couldn't get a decent response to some very basic questions.Originally Posted by sunni
This site was gone before I could see what is was about. Please fill everyone in i fyou can.
Listing is gone
What was this?
The listing was for a Viking Diamond for $2500, iirc. Unlike most such ads, there was a very well done photo of the machine with all its accessories carefully laid out. The "seller" gave his name as Alan Fitzgerald.
Maybe I was wrong, but I couldn't get him to tell me where he was located and there were some other warning flags in his emails. It is unfortunate that there are so many scams that we have to be ultra careful. If genuine, it would have made more sense for him to sell on ebay, and get more money, since he claimed to want to use their protection program to process the transaction.


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Texaco Press Release - Texaco Establishes $50 Million Credit Facility with Minority-Owned Banks
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Nov. 12 - Texaco announced today that it has established a $50 million credit facility that is fully syndicated among 45 minority-owned banks across the country. City National Bank of New Jersey (CNB) will manage the three-year revolving line of credit.
Texaco Inc. Treasurer James F. Link noted, "This credit facility serves a dual purpose in providing Texaco an alternate credit line and in broadening our base of suppliers with minority-owned banks in 23 states and the District of Columbia. We are pleased to be working with these institutions and the agent, City National Bank of New Jersey, which has a strong record of managing corporate credit facilities and excellent networking capabilities."
CNB President and Chief Executive Officer Louis E. Prezeau added, "Texaco is a valued and welcomed addition to CNB's growing roster of corporate clientele. This newly formed partnership is especially significant because it was financially fueled by a consortium of over 40 minority-owned banks throughout the country. We hope CNB's relationship with Texaco will generate interest from other corporations to foster additional opportunities for the entire minority banking community."
City National Bank of New Jersey, the state's only African-American commercial banking institution, has assets of nearly $140 million and is ranked by Black Enterprise Magazine among the top ten largest minority banks in the country.
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Jul 20, 2004 | 288 Pages
is one of the loveliest novels I've read in years. Kate Valentine has created a world filled with laughter, tears, and enough goodness to warm the heart. Her return to Dorsetville is a triumph of faith, humor, and hope."
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Venue: Congress
Date: 12/01/2009
Ron Paul: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, does not want us to know any of the details of the Fed's secret operations. This position is not surprising and has been typical of all central bank chairmen. Bernanke's stated goal is, "To design a system of financial oversight that would provide a robust framework for preventing future crises".
During its 96 years of existence, the Federal Reserve has played havoc with our economy and brought great suffering to millions through unemployment and price escalation. And it has achieved what only a central bank can – a steady depreciation of our currency. Today's dollar is now worth 4 cents compared to the dollar entrusted to the Federal Reserve in 1913. 96 years should have been plenty of time for the Fed to come up with a plan for preventing economic crises.
Since the Fed is the source of all economic downturns, it's impossible for any central banker to regulate in such a manner to prevent the problems that are predictable consequences of his own monetary management. The Federal Reserve fixes interest rates at levels inevitably lower than those demanded by the market. This manipulation is a form of price control through credit expansion and is the ultimate cause of business cycles and so many of our economic problems, generating the mal-investment, excessive debt, stock, bond, commodity and housing bubbles.
The Federal Reserve's monetary inflation indeed does push the CPI upward, but concentrating on the government's reports of the CPI and the PPI is nothing more than a distraction from the other harm done by the Federal Reserve's effort at central economic planning through secret monetary policy operations.
Real inflation, the expansion of our money supply is greatly undercounted by these indices. In response to our latest financial crisis the Federal Reserve turned on its printing press and literally doubled the monetary base. This staggering creation of dollars has yet to be reflected in many consumer prices, but will ultimately hit the middle class and poor with a cruel devaluation of their savings and real earnings.
The Fed has clearly failed on its mandate to maintain full employment and price stability. It's time to find out what's going on. Instead of assuming responsibility for the Fed's role in the crisis, Bernanke brags about "arresting" the crisis. I would suggest to Mr. Bernanke that it's too early to brag. Bernanke decries any effort to gain transparency of the Fed's actions to find out just who gets bailed out and who is left to fail. Instead, he proposes giving even more power to the Fed to regulate the entire financial system.
What he doesn't recognize, nor does he want to admit, is that he is talking about symptom while ignoring the source of the crisis: the Federal Reserve itself. More regulations will never compensate for all the distortion and excesses caused by monetary inflation and artificially low interest rates. Regulation distracts from the real cause while further interfering with the market forces, thus guaranteeing that the recession will become much deeper and prolonged.
Chairman Bernanke's argument for Fed secrecy is a red herring. It serves to distract so the special interests that benefit from the Fed's policy never become known to the public. Who can possibly buy this argument that this secrecy is required to protect the people from political influence?
My bill, HR 1207, has nothing to do with interferences in monetary policy. This was explicitly stated in the amendment voted on in the Financial Services Committee. Bernanke's argument for protecting the independence of the Fed is his argument for protecting the secrecy of the Fed.
Chairman Bernanke concludes that "America needs a strong (think cartel) non-political (think Goldman Sachs) and independent (think secret) central bank with the tools to promote financial stability in the midst of a horrendous financial crisis and to help steer our economy to recovery without inflation."
This belief is a dream that one day will become a nightmare for all Americans unless we come to our sense, stop our wild spending, runaway deficits, printing-press money, massive bureaucratic regulations and our unnecessary world empire.
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"Can I still play sports?"
That's what Santa Fe Christian senior lacrosse goalie Parker Hight wanted to know after he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes nine years ago. He also wanted to know if he was going to die.
Type 1 diabetes
The disease: Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the pancreas, making it unable to produce insulin and turn sugar into energy. (Type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity and lack of exercise.)
Warning signs: Frequent urination, unusual thirst, extreme hunger, unusual weight loss, extreme fatigue and irritability.
Numbers: There are 23.6 million people in the U.S., or 7.8 percent of the population, who have diabetes. Only 5 percent of people with diabetes are Type 1.
Online: diabetes.org
"My mom started crying," Hight said. "At 9 years old when you see your parents start crying you know that something is wrong. It was really scary."
Hight not only continued to play sports — competing in high school football, soccer and lacrosse — he seemingly has figured out how to manage his disease at the same time.
Type 1 diabetes, which usually affects children and young adults, is an autoimmune disease in which the body is unable to produce the insulin needed to convert sugar into energy.
The margin of error can be narrow in the management of diabetes, with life-threatening consequences at the high and low end of the blood-sugar spectrum.
Exercise can cause glucose levels to drop precipitously, making management all the more challenging for athletes.
Only 5 percent of those with diabetes are Type 1. Hight's Santa Fe Christian teammate, sophomore Nolan Crosson, also suffers from it.
"We keep each other on track," said Crosson, who was diagnosed when he was 4.
They know when each other is "off" — when their blood sugar level is too low or too high.
The safe range is between 70-150. The school's certified athletic trainer Kristal Peterson said both players have had scares.
"Nolan has been pretty low at times and Parker actually has been extremely high — in the 500 range," she said. "You can definitely tell when they are off. Their hands are really shaky. They're not talking really coherently."
Hight and Crosson said their fingertips are calloused from pricking them up to 10 times a day. Hight said one of his is always numb. Each day is a balancing act of monitoring, eating and injecting insulin. If it's too low — hypoglycemic — a quick-acting sugar like Gatorade or orange juice needs to be consumed. If it's too high — hyperglycemic — insulin is required.
"It'd be daunting if you think about it — that you have to do this every day for the rest of your life, but if you think about it day by day, it's easier to deal with," Crosson said. "It becomes pretty much a normal routine, but it's still not normal."
SFC lacrosse coach Danny Kolts acknowledged the challenge of managing the players.
"You have to stay on top of them and make sure they're on top of themselves checking their blood sugar," he said. "As a coach you have so many things going on and sometimes you overlook that."
Fortunately for Kolts, he can rely on Peterson.
"If they're not in that certain range, then they just don't play until we get them into that range," she said.
Crosson, a defender, is checked every quarter. Hight, who stashes a Gatorade bottle in the back of the cage, is checked at halftime. Since Hight exerts himself less as a goalie, his blood sugar doesn't fluctuate as much during a game.
"It is unusual for children with the disease to perform at peak athletic levels," said Maureen McDaid, Crosson's mother.
Yet a number of athletes have participated at the highest levels with Type 1 diabetes. Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was diagnosed in 2008 at age 24.
On July 6, 2004, Jason Johnson became the first major league player to wear an insulin pump on the field when the Detroit Tigers pitcher faced the New York Yankees.
There are many others, including NBA players, Olympians and pro golfers and tennis players who've competed with Type 1 diabetes.
Crosson wears an insulin pump but not while he plays. He sometimes will hook it up at halftime. During lacrosse season, Hight said he injects himself eight or nine times a day.
In the past, Hight had trouble keeping his numbers in the safe range. He regularly had to sit out practices and games.
This year, Hight hasn't had to sit once.
"As he lives with this disease," said Susan Hight, his mother, "he understands more the consequences (and) the importance of managing it."
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Troubadour Presents:
Camper Van Beethoven (30th Anniversary Show)
El Sportivo & The Blooz
9081 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90069
This event is all ages
True to the freewheeling, joyfully schizophrenic swirl of rock, punk, ska, folk, world music and (insert next genre-bending style here) that has defined the Camper Van Beethoven aesthetic since the enduring lineup took shape circa mid-80s, La Costa Perdida, their debut on 429 Records and first recording since New Roman Times in 2004, brings a listener into the strange world of the northern California coast above San Francisco.
"I've played with a lot of other bands in between Camper Van Beethoven tours and recordings," says Victor Krummenacher, "but there's never the power, energy or camaraderie with anyone else that I have felt with these guys. There's just something about playing with the guys you came up with that is unique, unpredictable and exciting at the same time. It's always very intuitive with us, almost like we can read each other's minds and know David's harmonic facility so well that we instinctively know where the song is going to go."
To which David Lowery adds, "All bands have strengths and weaknesses, and for us, often times, they are the same things. We always have so many musical ideas all going at once, and there's always another melody playing as I'm singing. That's a challenge, just knowing how to simplify, but I think we do that on La Costa Perdida better than any previous recording. I love the fact that it's so concise stylistically and thematically consistent throughout."
They can agree that, whether by design or not, the set of nine vocals and a single instrumental (the trippy, psychedelic jam "Aged In Wood"), shapes up as their California rock project. It's every bit a celebration of Northern California (where the founding members, including Lowery and bassist Victor Krummenacher, first became musically active as students at UC Santa Cruz), anchored by their distinctive, eclectic sound and the visionary lyrics of frontman/founder David Lowery.
Sometimes those references are direct, as in the dreamy opening harmonies on "Northern California Girls" or the trippy, electric guitar driven declaration that they're "Too High For the Love In." The folksy title track "La Costa Perdida" – is a Norteno -flavored ode to Lost Coast of California, a mostly undeveloped section of the California North Coast in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties. Jonathan Segel, who sweetens this album and all previous Camper projects with violin, guitar, mandolin and organ, says, "It's as much a mythological idea of the Lost Coast as a real geographical place, the idea that the society of this region is separate from regular society." All of this adds to the frolicsome mystique that's been a band trademark since their debut album Telephone Free Landslide Victory, which featured their first successful single "Take The Skinheads Bowling."
Lowery says that it was a serendipitous concert rainout in Big Sur that led them to gather in the living room at the Oakland home of Segel and start writing together. "Camper got an odd offer to play a few shows in an outdoor setting of the Henry Miller Library, in June 2011," says the Richmond, Virginia based singer, who has also led the more mainstream rock band Cracker (which often tours with CVB) since 1991. "It never rains in that area, and when we had to postpone the shows a week, instead of scattering, going home and returning, we thought this would be a great time to start writing our next album. Jonathan has a ton of great instruments, we all have laptops and we basically wrote the record in a week. Between that and a later session a few weeks later, we emerged with almost two albums worth of material, some real upbeat, hard rocking and traditional punk rock songs."
"Actually," lead guitarist Greg Lisher adds, "the previous October, I had flown to Richmond to work with David, and over the course of eight days we exchanged a lot of great ideas and wrote some songs for future potential development. One of the songs that evolved to make the cut on La Costa Perdida was 'Summer Days,' which started with my chord progressions before he and I worked on the melody. We wrote a lot more songs at Jonathan's place, and the coolest part of the experience was that it was the most organic Camper record ever. Back 20 years ago, David would essentially bring in material and we would write all our parts to what he had done. This time, most of the songs began with someone playing a chord progression and the others riffing off that until the melodies and harmonies took shape."
Segel can't pinpoint the exact time sequence of the postponement and writing sessions, but recalls that he and Krummenacher were already vibing on some new music outside the CVB experience ( in the two decades after CVB's first break up in 1990, the two ran their own label Magnetic). "It was great that no one had to be anywhere else in the country that week, and we not only wrote many songs, but also recorded in my living room, doing many takes of the songs using acoustic guitar, violin, bass and electric guitar. While the Northern Cal idea was David's, the vibe of many of the songs reminded me of the classic (1973) Beach Boys album Holland. As always, we came to these sessions from our own separate musical worlds, bringing different elements naturally, without any conscious thought."
At last, it's Krummenacher's turn to chime in: "The coolest part of La Costa Perdida was the fact that everything flowed from the fact that these distinctive musicians and personalities sat in the living room. You wait for that first spark, and that moment when something starts and starts coming to life is the most honest, enjoyable element. With us, we just settle right back into that place where we're getting along and communicating and the music flows. We literally worked on six ideas each per day. This was a very fertile time. Musically, I believe La Costa Perdida is our most mature, grown up recording to date. Traditionally, Camper has always maintained a nervous edge partially because we grew up in punk rock, like we were a punk band at heart that kept reinventing itself. Now we've got this organic feeling and our music sounds like four people are writing it. The songs have great energy, but we're more relaxed and stately, and a lot more confident. The songwriting here has elements of vintage Camper along with grown up Camper."
Though much of the tracking was done via Segel's home studio setup (known as The Magnetic Satellite), further sessions were done at Electric Studio in Berkeley and Sharkbite Studios in Oakland. The bulk of the mixing was done by Drew Vandenberg and the band at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia, Lowery's second home base. Though Frank Funaro is CVB's live drummer for the handful of U.S. touring spurts that the band does between outside projects every year, the skins on La Costa Perdida were played by Michael Urbano, an associate of Segel's who lives in Oakland.
Camper Van Beethoven paints its musical map of Northern California portrait with a lot of different hues and textures, starting with the Americana flavored opening singalong "Come Down The Coast." After the anthemic, trip of "Too High For The Love In," they submerge into a dark brooding realm before emerging into a hypnotic optimistic light on the garage rocker "You Got To Roll." "Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out" offers a sweet hodgepodge of almost everything CVB is about: ethereal vocals, booming drums, scorching distorted guitars, a soaring exotic violin, trippy ambience and psychedelic spontaneity.
"Peaches in the Summertime" has a Middle Eastern/Turkish melody (Lowery's take, anyway) and borrows its late refrain from the 18th Century folk song "Shady Grove." "Northern California Girls" showcases the colorful vocal-guitar dialogue between Lowery and Lisher. "Summer Days" is perhaps the most poetic tune on La Costa Perdida--the lyrics empowered by an instrumental jam featuring guitar, violin, booming drums and symphonic magic. It touches on the idea of giving up one's humanity to live and work in a bustling city. The dusty, galloping, Spanish folk-inflected title track is followed by the wild, distorted and spacey sonic experiment "Aged In Wood" (an instrumental that doesn't say anything in particular, yet still makes a statement). The set wraps with the sweeping, symphonic "Love For All Time," a tune that each member of CVB calls a favorite for obvious reasons. Opening with lush sea sounds, the piece is one Lowery calls "the most complex on the record, a love song infused with the mythology of the stars and Greek and Roman gods with a Tom Waits-type vocal that fits perfectly." Segel and his wife Sanna do the backing vocals on this majestic closer.
Camper Van Beethoven's history begins in the mid-80s in Santa Cruz, California (up the coast a ways from Big Sur), when David Lowery and Victor Krummenacher formed the band, and—after Jonathan Segel joined the group--their jangly and stoned "Take The Skinheads Bowling" became an instant college radio staple. Their 80s discography includes Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985), II & III (1986, the first featuring Greg Lisher), Camper Van Beethoven (1986), Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988) and Key Lime Pie (1989). The band was one of the founders of the indie rock genre and one of the most eclectic bands of all time, known for a variety of folk, rock, punk, and world influences put into a playful blender. Krummenacher and Lisher formed Monks of Doom in 1986 and Krummenacher later began a solo career, recording several albums with guests like Dave Alvin. Segel played with Dieselhead, Sparklehorse and fronted his own bands Hieronymus Firebrain and Jack & Jill, later playing under his own name. Lowery released the solo album The Palace Guards on 429 Records in 2011.
When you're seeking out powerful rock n' roll, you search below the surface.
There is the shiny and pristine and then there is the subterranean and the
primitive. The latter journey will take you across tequila-tangled guitar lines
bashed out in basements all across America. This is where you'll find El Sportivo
& The Blooz, a crew who understand the necessity of rawness, urgency, and the
sacral strength of working under dim light.
"We wanted to let things be loose and about inspiration, not about trying to hide
the imperfections," says Daron Hollowell, A.K.A. El Sportivo, about his LP debut
Nights and Weekends, released on White Iris on Feb. 26. "We were just trying to
capture ourselves in the room, in the moment, no over-thinking the performances
or the mixes."
The original room was a dingy basement practice space in Brooklyn, covered in
wall-to-wall cut outs of 70s rock magazine covers. Neil Young. Dylan. The Band.
This is the spot that Hollowell rented in the dead of winter, to record the demos
that he brought to the LA-based producer Lewis Pesacov. When you hear the
record, you can hear these heroes breathing in the steel guitar and the searing
guitar lines. Don't mistake it for some hastily conceived, crudely cut record that
you'll forget about five minutes after it stops spinning. There are also subtle
hallmarks of deep thought and consideration—deliberation that gets discarded at
the moment of recording, allowing for inspiration and improvisation.
You might have initially caught the boozy vapors of El Sportivo & Co. two years
ago. They released an eponymous EP on White Iris, the imprint that Hollowell coowns—
one of the first to release records from Best Coast, Fidlar, Fools Gold and
Foreign Born. Lewis Pesacov, the lead guitarist of the latter two bands, produced
the entirety of El Sportivo's sessions. The other proprietor of White Iris, Pesacov
was instrumental in the sculpting of El Sportivo's sound, overseeing everything
from equipment set-up to the right alchemy of alcohol.
Despite the rollicking country saloon vibes, you can sense a deeper musical
understanding. Hollowelll has spent the last several years building Black Iris, his
premier agency at creating music for film, television, and advertising. Before that,
he spent his late teens and early 20s gigging in various hardcore bands that
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Just posted: Our hands-on preview of the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens. The announcement of the world's first constant F1.8 zoom caused a lot of discussion, much of it centered around the idea that the brighter aperture would help APS-C DSLRs to compete toe-to-toe with full frame cameras in many respects. We've had a chance to handle the lens and prepare a preview putting its capabilities in more context. Click here to find out more.
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In practice it is very limited because there is no VR. A long lens for wide-angle use is always bad. You forget that length too easily. The 24-70 Canon and Nikon lenses for full-frame rack out to their longest length at their widest setting- as do the 28-85 Nikkor and other older designs, and this means you are HERE using in effect a non-stabilized 70-200 SIZE glass to achieve 27-55mm effect-your in-stability is increased .Regardless of its speed that you cannot use most of the time, that is an extraordinarily long barrel for a 27-55mm lens- a zoom length of precious little use anyway!!
Wait till they IS it!!
How strange.
When people talk about needing VR for long lenses I always thought they were talking about the focal length, not the physical length of the barrel.
In my ignorance, I thought things became critical with telephoto because a small movement of the camera means a large movement at the subject end!
I must of been confused, allthougth barrel length does not seem to bother me, I place my left hand under the lens.
And I think you're right! Narrow field means more sensitivity to camera shake. There is even a rule used in that one should use at least 1/X shutter speed with a X mm focal distance lens (with 35mm film) when shooting hand held. Meaning that with 27mm one could easily shoot hand held at 1/30s. However, there is a point in the comment of munro harrap. The longer and heavier the lens is, the higher the chances and amplitude of the instability. Also in the digital era people are less forgiving to blurs caused by shake or defocus, even when we don't make big prints we can always zoom in and find tiniest of the flaws.
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Or wait for K-mount version and use the in-camera Image Stabilization :-)
@ Otto @ Jorge
I uses two very modern cameras ( K-30 and NEX-5 ). Side by side for some time. They have virtually the identical sensor and I used virtually identical lenses. ( Pentax lenses on the Sony with lens mount adapter).
Image stabilization is darn important to me!
I shoot mostly indoors ( family ) or at dusk or dawn outdoors, as the light is better than during the day. Having Image stabilization makes a huge difference. My preferred focal length is 35 mm.
I also agree that a longer heavy lens causes more camera shake than a shorter and lighter lens, both having the same focal length. Of course you are also correct that a longer focal length is increasing this sensitivity as well. Both is relevant ( lens weight and lens focal length ).
I am not sure I agree it is necessary to use cynicism in your reply.
Image stabilization really helps and the flip side of this argument is to say "at a wide angle setting, I don't need to hold the lens steady" which, at best is pretty sloppy. In low light, my 16-35VR is "sharper" with the VR on than with it off.
One thing is for sure Sigma, Tamron, and Tokina are finally starting to step up and offer real competition and alternatives to Nikon/Canon in the lens department. With lenses like the Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 VC Which is is so close to the Nikon/Canon versions optically that the differnce doesn't really matter unless your hobby/business is pixel peeping instead of photography and is the only stabilized lens of it's type including the new ridiculously priced canon 24-70. Not to mention it also seems to be built just as well as the Nikon/Canon versions and is fully weather sealed. Then there is the amazing sigma 35mm f/1.4 which many reviews are saying is the best 35mm available from any brand.
With more and more lenses this good being released by 3rd party manufactures at more reasonable prices it will be interesting to see how it plays out and if Nikon and Canon can keep their lens prices so high.
Good Sigma lenses aren't exactly inexpensive.
No but they are still significantly cheaper than equal quality Nikon or Canon glass. Going by current Amazon prices the sigma 35mm 1.4 is $720 less than the Nikon equivalent making the Nikon almost twice the price and is $430 less than the Canon equivalent. The Sigma would be a bargain by comparison even if it wasn't considered the best in it's class by many which it is.
I'm all for more innovative designs and cheaper lenses from the 3rd party manufacturers. But they really need to step up on QA and QC. Especially Sigma. All the Sigma lenses that I have purchased require AF fine tune. I also had to return one copy of 35mm F1.4 because it de-centred severely. It's much cheaper than the Nikon version, but it is still not a cheap lens. Tokina seems to be the least problematic one with quality. But Tokina lenses need to be updated asap with ultrasonic motor and image stabilisation.
Many first party lenses need AF fine tune as well and remember that Sigma and other third party lenses typically are made for several different mounts and are basically hacking the AF algorithms to make the lens AF at all. It is also likely the third party manufactures have looser tolerances to aid in making their lens designs compatible with many different cameras/mounts.
So it is completely understandable and expected that a third party lens needs AF fine tune more often then a first party lens. It has nothing to do with QC/QA. The de-centering issue is a concern but the number of lenses that have them are very small.
Plus in the case of Tamron their lenses come with a six year warranty and by all accounts Tamron has excellent customer service if you ever have to use the warranty so QC issues are much less of a concern then they are even with Canon/Nikon lenses.
It looks longer and heavier than 28-70/2.8 FF lens. Did Sigma simply glue those 4 elements from SpeedBooster to the 28-70 lens and cut the long end due to vignetting?
Nope, that's not the world's first constant f/1.8 zoom. Now excuse me while I go back to shooting with my Fujinon 18-85mm f/1.8 (T2.0).
I have a Canon 12.5-75/1.8 C-mount that cost me only $20. Yea it's all manual and vignettes even on m43. Still, this lens is far from being "the world's first constant F1.8 zoom". Anyway, good effort from Sigma and hopefully they make this for other brands (Pentax, Sony).
That's a 28-55 f/2.8 lens in FFeq terms (except for shutter speed/exposure)
For a cropper, this pricey lens would be acceptable if it had stabilization, which it doesn't.
no you even get the same shutter speed if not better on FF because full frames gives easily a stop more iso
Yes... But....That's all very well. Except for the money. Better to invest in a proper 35mm style sensor 'full frame' camera now the prices have come down. A Nikon D600 body. at around $1500 is better value equipped with a standard Nikkor. even any one of the old analogue Nikkors.
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$1500 is good for a D600 if you can get it at that price.
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If that is how they shoot, I can tell which one gets sharper shots while the other has motion blur.. can you?
There's also a chance that I'm not actually trying to shoot, but trying to show the lens to the camera, which is a rather different requirement.
No, you really can't tell just by the photo. The reality is that it still depends on how steady your supporting hand is. A moment ago I was emulating both holding techniques shown in the photo, and I was getting absolutely no difference in camera shake. It just depends on what you're comfortable with and what works best for you. Not everyone is comfortable putting their palm (near the wrist) flat up against the body and lens because it puts the wrist at a sharper angle. And it doesn't necessarily result in more stability, especially if that wrist angle is less comfortable. Ultimately, the answer is that it depends on the person.
Maybe you just drink too much caffeine!!
BTW, an electronically/mechanically stabilized lens will still usually give you a bigger advantage than most "human" efforts of stabilization!
The one on the left gets sharper shots, as his lens is stabilised.
Next question?
I cannot see the VC switch.
I see there may be no blurred shot if there was no shot.
btw, viberation tests need statistics on large data (that I don't have either). also untrained individuals may not give reliable result (think of a test on baseball techniques) that you need even larger samples to get same quality result.
What a boat anchor! I would no sooner lug that mess around as I would an anvil.
Gorgeous models though...
It's still slightly smaller than many 24-70mm f2.8s
This lens won't change anything, it will simply reveal just how much size, weight and cost (as in, it won't be worth it) you'll have to bear for APS-C to be on a similar DOF and noise level as FF (ignoring other issues). It changes nothing because it's much too narrow a range of focal lengths, and the cost (especially when you consider the cost of the extra lenses you'll need to cover the rest of a FF 24-70 lens' range) will make APS-C users puke. This is Sigma's new, "high QC" line, for which the price tag is much higher than their old lenses.
The 120-300 OS price tag went up by $1,000 (STREET prices) when it went through the transition to the new "C/A/S" "dock compatible" version, with the same optical design from all appearances. If you think this lens will be close in price to their previous APS-C zooms, you're in for a rude awakening.
> This lens won't change anything, it will simply reveal just how much size, weight and cost (as in, it won't be worth it) you'll have to bear for APS-C to be on a similar DOF and noise level as FF
Except if you don't need 100% of the FoV coverage of a 24-70 f2.8 this lens is slightly smaller and lighter than those lenses, and given that you can get APS bodies smaller and ligher than FF bodies where exactly is this "size and weight" that APS users must bear?
Thanks DPR for continuing to try and explain total light to people. Also seems like there will be more to this when you get a real copy, specifically focusing on comparing it to f2.8 FF which I am really looking forward to.
FF sensors take in more light but this lens promises to level that. APS-C has some real advantages to it in terms of sensitivity per unit area. Coupled with equivalent light from the faster aperture, it might even give noticeably lower noise than equivalent exposure time shot on FF f2.8.
I'd also ask you push it in low light trying to show exactly how low you can go with both setups where ISO of each camera is free to roam.
How low you can go ideas:
Use a tiny checkerboard black and white in a studio setting with controllable light. Put both cameras at the same distance and hold exposure time to something reasonable (1/60s or somesuch). ISO's can be adjusted as high as you can still get away with distinguishing the squares. Reduce light until one of them gets too noisy to tell where the checker lines are.
Everyone need to remember in regards to size. It has internal zooming.
i really love the way sigma is heating up the market. Others need to come up with better stuff to keep up at those higher prices they sell (canon and nik)
We won't know anything until there is a price and some information on how sharp this thing is wide open across it's range. If it's soft at f2.8 and costs $2000, it's not going to change much. If it's sharp throughout wide open and costs $800, it'll change camera purchases single-handedly for years.
Pricing is still a mystery but judging from the MTF charts this has decent center sharpness but borders will be soft unless stopped down.
If this is $2000 then sales for sure will be low as no one would wish to pay so many $$$ for a lens that will be useless (for Canon users at least) when they upgrade to FF.
Even Nikon users wouldn't really want to buy a FF body and use it in crop mode so at $2000 it makes little sense. Lets hope Sigma prices it properly.
These comments are encouraging. I thought people wanted this lens like this so badly, they didn't care if it was soft.
if they make a rummored 135/1.8 for FF (at the same IQ level as 35/1.4) I'll sell them my soul :)
especially for nikon witch you have to buy a lens from the film era to in this class from nikkor
Why no A-mount Sigma, why? We really would love the last two aps-c lenses you made, too; the other one being the update 30mm 1.4.
i think sigma does some surveys before building a mount to justify their spendings .. they must have realized their are not many serious photographers in A-mount for art lenses...
There must be some (including yourself mate), but not as many as other two brands!!
Yeah, no Pentax K mount either. They're aiming at the big two brands because that's where the money is.
And of course their own mount, because, hey.
Naveed you're crazy. This lens isn't stabilized. That makes it better suited for Sony and Pentax than Canon and Nikon even. Sony sold a lot of SLT's in recent years. I think the odds of this NOT coming out for A-mount are slim to none. In fact, I would wager that the A-mount might outsell the Nikon mount eventually.
You missed the point. Most, by a very large margin, people who are serious enough about photography to buy a lens this big, heavy, and expensive are shooting Canon and Nikon. Sigma probably simply decided they would not sell enough of them to justify this lens in the A mount. At least at first. They may very well make them for A mount once the sales of the Canon and Nikon mount versions slow down some.
I wish if my lovely m43 companies will also get this courageous and offer f1.8 for their smaller sensors!
Bravo Sigmaaa!!!
Olympus makes the 14-35mm F2.0. I can tell you this lens is realy big and heavy. I mean, realy. Last time I checked it was about 2200€.
18 is not wide enough on APS-C. But Sigma is clearly putting an interesting new set of lenses.
it still can replace your 28mm, 35mm and 50mm lenses!
and even bit wider and farther!!
all I care to know now .. how sharp it is!!
Um, so a 27mm full frame F1.8 lens isn't a good idea? And even exceptional?
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All well and good, but colour quality matters in addition to sharpness, Nikon is very able to do sharp lenses, but colour suffers, even in the "ED" ones. Yes, I know that good new Sigma lenses have a better reputation than Nikons.
You're probably one of those people who wants a 14-100 f/1.8 zoom. LOL. Well, considering that this lens is the only f/1.8 zoom available (!), it's amazing that there are people who still complain. If you can find a wider and broader-range f/1.8 zoom, then buy it. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure there will be plenty of people who will manage with this lens.
I can understand people saying that 28mm is "not wide enough on APS-C", but 18mm on APS-C is equivalent to 28mm on FF, which has been sufficiently wide for FF zooms for quite some time.
It aint simply Sigma moving Sigma forward; assuming this lens is a good one, this lens moves all APSC DSLR lens forward. There aren't a lot of 18mm F1.8 lenses out there. (Or too many 27mm 1.8 lenses for 35mm slrs.)
APS-C 18-35mm actually works for Nikon (FF equiv. 27-52.5mm. OTOH, it doesn't work for Canon, where the FF equiv. is 29-55mm. The wide angle difference between FF 27mm and FF 29mm is significant for the majority of shooters. I would buy a 27-52.5mm/1.8, but NOT a 29-55mm/1.8.
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What's the rule for Pentax and Sony dslrs? I see Canon is 1.6X, at least for the 7D.
A 29mm F/1.8 lens is still a big deal if it's good optically.
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I shoot a 24/1.4 on APS-C 90% of the time (as close to 35/2 on 35mm as possible); a lens like this will significantly increase flexibility of framing while more or less maintaining the DOF and low-light performance that my pricey prime gives. I've been planning on going FF for a while now, but this may (again) delay the move. I'm at least going to consider it.
While I think that should have been "you will need an f/1.2", the other point is still correct.
On a FF camera, raising the ISO one stop over the APS-C camera will give an f/2.8 the same shutter speed, the same DOF and the same noise level as this lens at f/1.8.
IOW, it's not just DOF but also IQ that is equivalent with an f/2.8 on FF versus an f/1.8 on APS-C, as the preview article makes clear.
Of course some have a need for something wide, like 18mm on a APSC sensored dslr.
But one of the real motivations for buying this Sigma zoom, assuming it's a good lens, is the F1.8 throughout the range.
Are there many ff F1.8 12mm lenses available?
Maybe they will add a 35-70mm and that range will be very well covered (for APS-C):
- 17-70mm f/2.8-4 light, versatile and affordable (travel)
- 30mm f/1.4 light, super fast and affordable (indoor)
- 18-35mm f/1.8 (walk around) + 35-70mm f/1.8 (portraits) not so light but manageable, fast, not so cheap but still competitive compared with Canikon
- I don't see 17-50mm f/2.8 (or 50-150mm f/2.8) being re-released with options above though
Really nice lineup coming from a 3rd party producer.
Nope, this is the sweet spot.
The nickname of the lens is rumored to be "Go Round".
It will be sold at HALF PRICE when bought with a Sigma DSLR camera.
The kit will be called:
"Merrill Go Round".
Sigma is pretty impressive, though it's not my cup of tea. I need FF lens :)
Sigma also makes full frame lenses, just not this one.
Just imagine how expensive and heavy a F1.8 25mm-50mm lens for a 35mm camera would be.
Sigma is really cranking out quality, value and fun!
It's hard to say anything about value until the price is known.
Sigma I love you!
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Jennifer Lopez is piling on the work following her latest love split by developing a new TV legal drama.
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JLo has landed a new deal with officials at U.S. network CBS to executive produce an as-yet-untitled legal drama via her Nuyorican Productions company, reports Variety.com.
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Sanuk Welcomes Pro Surfer Malia Manuel
Christmas comes early for Sanuk, as we unwrap the one thing on our wish-list: welcoming professional surfer Malia Manuel to our happy ohana. Surprise!!
Born and raised on the beautiful beaches of Kauai, Malia began surfing at the tender age of two and has been highly influenced by her Hawaiian heritage both in and out of the water. In 2008, at 14 years old, she burst on to the competitive surfing scene, becoming the youngest ever female or male to win the US Open of Surfing. In 2012, Malia took home top honors as the ASP Women's Rookie of the Year. Malia, now 20, is one of 17 women competing on the ASP Women's World Tour. In addition to Sanuk, she currently rides for O'Neill, VonZipper, and Mayhem Surfboards and is recognized as one the sport's most progressive and stylish stars. With the upcoming 2014 season, it's no secret Malia has her sights firmly set on winning the world title.
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I was wondering if someone could help me a little. I just bought this tablet (2014 version) and it has MK1.
I am trying to read information on how to root it but can't figure it out. I tried to flash autoroot with odin but it errored. I didn't find mk1 autoroot anywhere so i used autorootp600.mj4.tar.md5. Is there autoroot for MK1 and i can use? Also i guess i will need to have custom recovery file for my stock OS, where do i get that?
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Last week, I wrote about the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal's decision in Business Roundtable v. SEC which vacated Rule 14a-11. Obviously, the decision was a victory for the Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce and a stinging loss for the SEC.
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Other winners include Commissioners Troy Paredes and Kathleen Casey (whose term expires this year) who voted against the rule and the American Bar Association's Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities whose comment letter was cited twice by the Court of Appeals.
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The decision is clearly a set back for Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro who has forced through this and other rule changes over the objections of Commissioners Paredes and Casey. Union and state pension funds (such as CalPERS and CalSTRS) are also losers because they would have been likely candidates to use the rule. The Court of Appeals, however, found that the SEC acted arbitrarily "[b]y ducking serious evaluation of the costs that could be imposed upon companies from use of the rule by shareholders representing special interests, particularly union and government pension funds . . . ."
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The use of the Latin language also received a small bump with Judge Ginsburg using phrases such as "in haec verba" and "ipse dixit". Judge Ginsburg also correctly recognized that "data" is plural ("than were the data upon which it had based its estimate in the Proposing Release.") and "datum" is singular ("Without this crucial datum . . . ."). As Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-85) observed:
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