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Canon unveils EOS 100D/Rebel SL1 world's smallest and lightest APS-C DSLR
Canon has announced the EOS 100D/Rebel SL1, the world's smallest, lightest DSLR. It shares the 18MP resolution, DIGIC 5 processor, 3" touchscreen and 1080p30 video capability of the mirrorless EOS M. The camera does introduce much wider scene coverage of Canon's Hybrid AF system and shoots at up to 4 fps. The 100D has a recommended price of $799.99/£799 with the co-announced EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM kit lens.
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New EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera Fuses Advanced Image Quality and Features into an Ultra-Portable Body
MELVILLE, N.Y., March 21, 2013MELVILLE, N.Y., March 21, 2013 – Continuing the quest to deliver superb product innovations, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the world's smallest and lightest DSLR* camera: the EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera. It features a newly developed 18.0- megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor and high-performance DIGIC 5 Image Processor for exceptional image quality and speed. With its combination of lightweight size, ease of use and outstanding image quality, the EOS Rebel SL1 is perfect for users looking for the ideal camera to bring sightseeing on vacation or to capture the everyday
'The EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera represents a new era in DSLR versatility: ultra-portable, full- featured DSLR cameras," said Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon U.S.A. "The EOS Rebel SL1 combines the high speed, high image quality and expanded shooting range of a DSLR camera, with the easy and fun usability of a point-and-shoot camera.'
Advanced Image Quality in a Compact Body
|Illustration comparing relative size of EOS M, SL1 and T4i
As the world's smallest and lightest DSLR, the new camera body is 4.6" (w) x 3.57" (h) x 2.74" (d), and weighs only 14.36 oz.** In comparison, the EOS Rebel SL1 is approximately 25 percent smaller and 28 percent lighter than the EOS Rebel T4i digital camera.
The EOS Rebel SL1 features an 18 megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor that performs exceptionally well in both bright and dimly lit shooting environments with an ISO range of 100-12800 (expandable to H: 25600) for photos and ISO-6400 (expandable to H: 12800) for video. Canon's DIGIC 5 Image Processor technology allows for exceptional image quality and shooting speed up to four frames per second (fps).
The camera includes a new nine-point center cross-type autofocus (AF) system to help achieve fast, sharp focus. The new AF system also includes a new Hybrid CMOS AF II sensor, which provides a wider focus area when shooting photos or video in Live View mode, and a continuous AF speed that's increased from previous EOS models.
To help capture video with ease, the EOS Rebel SL1 features Canon's Movie Servo AF, which provides continuous AF tracking of moving subjects. When shooting video with one of Canon's new STM lenses, such as the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM (available in the standard lens kit), Movie Servo AF takes advantage of the lens' stepping motor for smooth and quiet continuous AF. The camera is capable of Full HD shooting in a number of recording sizes and frame rates, and enables easy manual control of exposure, focus and Live View features. The combination of Canon's new Hybrid CMOS AF system II and EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens is ideal for shooting video helping to ensure only the sounds of the scene are recorded.
Allowing for clear and easy viewing even in bright environments, the Touch Screen three inch Clear View LCD monitor II provides a rich and expansive display as well as providing intuitive touch panel operation. Two finger touch gestures (multi-touch) can be easily used for zooming or changing images, accessing menu and quick control settings, and activating focus point and shutter release while shooting
Creativity at your Fingertips
The EOS Rebel SL1 encourages users to explore their creative side with a wide array of features for convenience and simple shooting. The EOS Rebel SL1 is equipped with Scene Intelligent Auto Mode, an advanced function that detects faces, colors, brightness, movement, contrast, distance and other factors and automatically adjusts and selects the exposure method needed. The results are photos with a wide dynamic range, ideal for users without advanced photography knowledge or experience.
Users can also access advanced imaging features like the new Effect Shot mode, which automatically creates two different shots, one with a selected creative filter and one without. In addition, Creative Filters and Background Blur Simulation can now be displayed in real time during Live View shooting. Editing photos is also a snap with the Rebel SL1's in-camera editing and cropping functionality. This feature allows users to view and crop the image using the camera's LCD touch screen and save the edited version as a separate file.
For those who would like to take beautiful photos with ease, the EOS Rebel SL1 offers a variety of scene modes to explore. New special scene modes include Kids, Food and Candlelight, giving users advanced presets to help ensure the best possible photos even under difficult shooting conditions.
Pricing and Availability
The new EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera is scheduled to be available in April for an estimated retail price of $649.99 for the body alone or $799.99 bundled with the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM kit lens.
For more information about the EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera, and a full list of product specifications, visit www.usa.canon.com/eos.
* Among digital SLR cameras which use APS-C size equivalent sensors. As of March 1, 2013.
** Weight specifications are for camera body only; does not include battery or memory card
Canon Rebel SL1 / EOS100D specifications
|$799.99/£799 with 18-55mm STM
|Body type
|Body type
|Compact SLR
|Body material
|Aluminium alloy and polycarbonate resin with carbon and glass fiber
|Max resolution
|5184 x 3456
|Other resolutions
|5184 x 2912, 4608 x 3456,3456 x 3456, 3456 x 2304, 3456 x 1944, 3072 x 2304, 2592 x 1728, 2592 x 1456, 2304 x 1728, 2304 x 2304, 1920 x 1280, 1920 x 1080, 1728 x 1728, 1696 x 1280, 1280 x 1280, 720 x 480, 720 x 400, 640 x 480, 480 x 480
|Image ratio w:h
|1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9
|Effective pixels
|18 megapixels
|Sensor photo detectors
|19 megapixels
|Sensor size
|APS-C (22.3 x 14.9 mm)
|Sensor type
|Digic 5
|Color space
|sRGB, Adobe RGB
|Color filter array
|RGB Color Filter Array
|Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800 (25600 with boost)
|Boosted ISO (maximum)
|White balance presets
|Custom white balance
|Yes (1)
|Image stabilization
|Uncompressed format
|File format
|Optics & Focus
|Autofocus assist lamp
|by built-in flash
|Manual focus
|Lens mount
|Canon EF/EF-S
|Screen / viewfinder
|Articulated LCD
|Screen size
|Screen dots
|Touch screen
|Live view
|Viewfinder type
|Optical (pentamirror)
|Viewfinder coverage
|Viewfinder magnification
|Photography features
|Minimum shutter speed
|30 sec
|Maximum shutter speed
|1/4000 sec
|Exposure modes
|Scene modes
|Built-in flash
|Yes (Pop-up)
|Flash range
|9.40 m
|External flash
|Yes (via Hot-shoe)
|Flash modes
|Auto, On, Off, Red-eye
|Flash X sync speed
|1/200 sec
|Drive modes
|Continuous drive
|4.0 fps
|Yes (2s, 10s+remote, 10s + continuous shots 2-10))
|Metering modes
|Exposure compensation
|±5 (at 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV steps)
|AE Bracketing
|±2 (3 frames at 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV steps)
|WB Bracketing
|Yes (3 frames in either blue/amber or magenta/green axis)
|Videography features
|1920 x 1080 (30, 25, 24 fps), 1280 x 720 (60, 50 fps), 640 x 480 (30, 25 fps)
|Storage types
|USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec)
|Yes (HDMI mini)
|Microphone port
|Headphone port
|Eye-Fi Connected
|Remote control
|Yes (RC-6)
|Battery Pack
|Battery description
|Lithium-Ion LP-E12 rechargeable battery & charger
|Battery Life (CIPA)
|Weight (inc. batteries)
|407 g (0.90 lb / 14.36 oz)
|117 x 91 x 69 mm (4.61 x 3.58 x 2.72″)
|Other features
|Orientation sensor
|GPS notes
|via GPE2
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As someone who has used canon from when i started learning photography on my own years until last year when i purchased the omd i must say that my fanboyism has died and common sense taken place, if i were to return to dslrs i would pick up a nikon despite the lenses costing more in my country and being much harder to resell as in my country 70% of the market is canon 15-20% nikon and then sony and pentax share the left overs. (including m/43s in these numbers)
Pentax has made DSLR bodies arguably smaller than this in the past -- though not lighter. I believe there are a few Pentax bodies that were shorter and narrower than this but Pentax bodies are usually slightly thicker and heavier due to the in-body sensor-based SR...and some of those small Pentax bodies were designed to take much bulkier AA batteries. (and unlike the small Oly bodies, the Pentax models actually housed a sensor slightly larger than this Canon).
Part of this Canon's diet was to allow reduced battery life by dropping the relatively big DSLR battery and shrink the handgrip that would have housed it. I imagine it will still handle OK with the relatively compact and light kit lenses it's likely to be used with most.
The Rebel wasn't "rebel" enough, I guess.
I like the idea, but not from Canon.
The sensor is terrible, a lousy 1.6x crop and there are no EF-S primes for this thing.
That's quite a but overstatement. Olympus had smaller bodies for years.
> APS-C still gives you better DOF control and better background blur.
that's not really because of a larger sensor.
it's larger aperture lenses that gives you
- better SNR (let in more light at a certain shutter speed),
- better DOF and blur control, and
- better resolution (diffraction-limited).
it's not the smaller sensor that let 4/3" down.
it's because they lack large aperture lenses.
@yabokkie - I use both APS-C and m4/3. With the same aperture, same focus distance, and same framing, my APS-C cameras give better DOF control than my m4/3. Why is this so? Because an m4/3 sensor (which has a 2X multiplier) inherently has to use a shorter focal length to get the same framing as an APS-C camera (which has a 1.6x or 1.5x multiplier). Since focal length effects DOF, you get less DOF control with m4/3. So it really DOES come back to the size of the sensor. Yes, you can try to use lenses with larger apertures and longer focal lengths to get around this issue, but that of course means larger lenses, higher weight, and greater expense.
>>I use both APS-C and m4/3. With the same aperture, same focus distance, and same framing, my APS-C cameras give better DOF control than my m4/3. <<
This is obvious.
Use bigger aperture with the m43 for the same DOF.
4/3 vs APS-C deep of field.
There are three factors that affect the Deep Of Field:
1 - Aperture of the lens or f number.
2 - Focal Length of the lens (mm). The FL modify the angle of the light that enter trough the lens: Short length (mm) = wider light angle = more DOF.
Longer length (mm) = narrow light angle = less DOF.
3 - Distance between camera (C), subject (S) and background (B). With more distance between C and S the DOF will be greater and vice versa. (Distance represented here by the dashes)
Example 1: C---------S---B= more DOF.
Example 2: C---S---------B= less DOF.
to be continue...
the continuation:
The factors 2 and 3 determine the field of view (the viewed area pictured within the picture frame) and both are inevitably related to sensor size. That is why that, at the same distance between C and S, the cameras with bigger sensor will use longer lenses (less DOF) to cover the same pictured area than the cameras with smaller sensors. And, with the same given focal length of the lens (mm), the cameras with bigger sensors should be closer to the subject (less DOF) in order to achieve the same pictured area by a camera with a smaller sensor.
The key factor here is the viewed area pictured within the picture frame. With that in mind it is possible to understand why the people say that the bigger the sensor, the shallow the Deep Of Field, even though is not the sensor size itself but the relation between the focal length and the distance between the camera, the subject and the background, which are the factors that determine the field of view.
Hay tres factores que afectan la profundidad de campo:
1 - Apertura de la lente o número f.
2 - Longitud focal de la lente (mm). la longitud focal modifica el ángulo en el que la luz que entra através de la lente:
Longitud (mm) corta = ángulo de luz más amplio = más DOF.
Mayor longitud (mm) = ángulo de luz estrecho = menos DOF.
3 - Distancia entre la cámara (C), sujeto (S) y el fondo (B). A mayor la distancia entre C y S el DOF será mayor y vice versa.(La distancia es representada aquí por los guiones)
Ejemplo 1: C --------- S --- B = más DOF.
Ejemplo 2: C --- S --------- B = menos DOF.
Los factores 2 y 3 determinan el campo de visión (el área visualizada representada dentro del marco de la imagen) y ambos están inevitablemente relacionados con el tamaño del sensor. Es por eso que a una misma distancia entre C y S, las cámaras con sensor grande, usarán lentes más largos (menos DOF) para cubrir la misma área representada en una fotografía por cámaras con sensores más pequeños. Y, a la misma longitud focal dada de la lente (mm), las cámaras con sensores más grandes deberán estar más cerca (menos DOF) del sujeto con el fin de representar en la fotografía la misma área que una cámara con sensor más pequeño.
La clave aquí es el área representada dentro de la fotografía, con eso en mente es posible entender porque se dice que las cámaras con sensor más grande ofrecen una profundidad de campo más reducida, aun cuando no es exactamente el sensor en sí mismo, sino la relación que existe entre la longitud focal y la distancia entre la cámara, el sujeto y el fondo, es decir, los factores que determinan el campo de visión fotografiado.
- Potential mirrorless owners who need more lenses
- Travel camera for photographers who need or want TTL OVF
- Secondary camera for Canon user (eg. for travel photography - you'll take only one set of lenses instead of two - one for mirrorless and one for the DSLR)
- Soccer mums / casual shooters
- Basically: all of the OM-D and GH-3 buyers (both are in the size of 100D, only offer less lenses (but smaller), while Canon got more, and still offers quite a few of good focal lengths in tiny lenses (eg. 50mm prime or pancakes (note here that not only Canon manufactures pancake lens with EOS bayonet), and on top of that: got better AF system).
Then you clearly don't have very good vision. LOL.
There are millions and millions of people who are still buying DSLRs every single day, and quite a lot of them want something just a bit smaller than what is currently available, but don't quite feel comfortable with going with one of the mirrorless systems because they still want the potential upgrade path of Canon's DSLR system. Plus, there is an enormous pool of existing Canon DSLR users who would want this camera is a second or third body.
Finally a canon step in the right direction: Compete in size and IQ! Though i'm partial to mirrorless for portability and FF dSLR for IQ, there's a niche for small dSLR...
Just think a 1-lb dSLR w/ pancake and 1500shots/charge and OVF (however arguable tunnel), and the usual benefits of a quiet sensor (not always running hot in LiveView mode) etc...
great camera, and a good evolution of the APS-C dslr
Oh look! Another 18MP camera... exactly what Canon needed.
They're going in the wrong direction if they want to compete with Nikon's lineup. The D3200 outperforms this little thing in every aspect, except you know, size.
Nikon outperforms Leica too, on paper...
it seems like everything is epic fail if:
- it is something not exactly what he or her was hoping for
- it is something similar to what he or she already own
My old (and still functioning) Rebel XT dimensions:
127 x 94 x 64 mm
The specs of the NEW, SMALLEST DSLR ON THE PLANET!!! EOS Rebel SL1:
117 x 91 x 69 mm
Congrats Canon, you just made your new camera smaller by a few millimeters.
Sure the new one has a better sensor and has a fancier touchscreen...
You guys should win a design award or something. /s
And video, and a higher frame rate, and a lot more customization options, fun JPEG modes, and and and
It's a lot more camera, there's no denying that. On size, I see your argument, it's pretty sound, but smallest is smallest.
Oly should re-introduce the E450 with the new 16mp sensor, LCD screen, and menu system. That would be a nice camera for 4/3 users. That and an E7. Minimal investment, 4/3 users are still chugging along.
I think once you put the SL1 right next to your XT, or have it in your hands, the size difference will be more apparent. Just look at the Camera Size Comparison of the SL1 vs the Rebel XS:
Cool! Now if they would add in-body stabilization, 6fps, focus peaking, metal frame, a great low-light sensor and weather resistance, then cut the price by $180, they'd have a Pentax K30. To admit it, though, AF during video and touch screen might be nice advantages over the Pentax, and I'm sure there are others I'm overlooking. The dimensions are slightly smaller and it is several ounces lighter, though the kit lens is heavier. Hope it does well and gets newbies into the hobby.
The kit lens already looks huge compared to the body. Wonder what a 500 would look like?
Canon EOS 100D is the perfect body to match with my 100-400L...
Nikon D5000 - 12mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 72
Nikon D5100 - 16mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 80
Nikon D3200 - 24mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 82
Nikon D5200 - 24mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 84
Canon 550d - 18mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 66
Canon 600d - 18mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 65
Canon 650d - 18mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 62
Canon 100d/700d - 18mp - DXO Mark sensor score: 6?
Nikon sensors over time have continously been improving in dynamic range, color depth and high ISO even as the megapixels have been increasing. Canon on the other hand have been relatively stagnant in its sensor innovation and in its inexcsuable that in four iterations at such a competitive segment of the market that it cannot come up with anything better. I'm a Canon man if owning a G1X and a SX260HS counts. However if I'm going to upgrade to an entry/mid tier DSLR based on curent offerings I really cannot see why I would choose Canon over Nikon other than maybe lens selection and shooting video.
Show me a real world example where the 650d turns in demonstrably worse result than the 550d and we'll talk.
Agreed. The 40mm f2.8 is a cool little lens (I just bought it). If Canon could make a 21mm or 24mm pancake to partner it, then I'd look seriously at selling my m43 gear and getting the 100D!
Smaller aperture DOES NOT mean lower image quality! Check Pentax pancakes - they are usually around f/2.8 and offer excellent image quality, often beating crap out of Canon or Nikon f/1.4 or f/1.8 glass.
And the lenses can get smaller - Pentax got whole bunch of them. If Canon follows similar scheme - it might be an amazing competition to the m4/3 (especially for larger size bodies).
Im Reminded of Tommy Boy the movie "Fat man in a little coat"
People are confusing the meaning of smaller with small. It is still a big lump but not as big as the other big lumps.
I was wondering what that drip, drip, dripping sound was, and I found out that it was the Canon/Nikon innovation timeline...
Everything is already invented.
Go take pictures.
Go take pictures yourself. You're obviously lurking here just as much as everyone else.
I welcome efforts by Canon, Nikon et el, in coming up with ever increasing choices for consumers.. it may not appeal to many, but it will appeal to many others, so yaay for consumer choice!
I believe this size format is intended to address consumers who are considering getting a m4/3 camera such as the Oly E-M5, but don't like the EOS-M offering. Being smaller will make it a much closer candidate to the mirrorless competition. I see this as one way in which Canon hopes to fight back against the m4/3 cams, as there are a lot of experienced photographers who increasingly want the benefits of smaller & lighter, and this might go some way to address those needs.
However, I'm not sure how much mileage can be gained as the reflex design and APS-C sensor still means that lenses are a *lot* bigger & heavier than the m4/3 alternatives. In the end, it will likely still not be a m4/3 stormer as the total weight of the SYSTEM including lenses cannot truly trump m4/3.
To each his/her own...
A failed attempt at introducing something to compete with an NX20 with a 30mm f2 on it (or a kit lens if you prefer).
I doubt Canon even really remembers that the NX20 exists. Canon will sell more of these in a month than Samsung has sold NX bodies total since launch.
Not saying anything about the NX20 as a product, it just isn't even in the same league as Canon products in terms of sales.
Me thinks that this is made for the Chinese market (largest and fastest growing market). Small camera for tiny little female Chinese hands.
And the prize for most ignorant comment of the day goes to...
Under the risk of showing extreme levels of ignorance about the subject, I really don´t get this small DSLR quest.
- If you wanna be discreet (for street photography or whatever), this won´t do. It´s all about the form factor, not size of things. If this ressembles a DSLR, you will still look like a Paparazzi, although one with small camera.
- if you wanna good IQ at a small package, there´re lots of choices already: Leica, EOS M, Coolpix A, a bunch of Sony Nex, Sigma DP, P&S, whatever.
- you mind about fewer grams, time to gain some muscle. A girl can hold a 1 kg camera all day long. Besides, whatever lens you use, it will weight more than the camera, so what´s the point of saving 90 grams on the body? As I said, time to enter a gym.
- all this little cameras do is present really bad ergonomics. I have a GH2, which is the best VIDEO camera I´ve ever had, but at the same time, the worst ergonomics of all time.
- if you wanna a toy, there´re better choices in the wild already
Your comments show a lot of ignorance. I shoot with a 5D and 60D, but I would gladly add an SL1 as a more compact alternative to my current cameras. I can pretty much guarantee you that walking around with this tiny DSLR will be a lot less conspicuous and intimidating than walking around with any of my other DSLRs. And I don't think I'll have any problem with the ergonomics because I also shoot with an even tinier Olympus E-PM1 (often with a Canon EF lens mounted on it using an EF-to-m4/3 adapter)! Plus, there are times when even slight difference in weight can make a difference in overall comfort.
Can some experienced photog advise me please?
Compared to T5i, what are the DISadvantages this one has?
If attached with Sigma100-300 F4 or Canon 100-400 L , will the light weight cause harder handling than heavier T5i due to imbalance?
Jay ( out of focus)
The disadvantages won't be in the quality of the pictures (because the sensor is the same), but most likely the ergonomics.
Some people will find the smaller size and placement of the buttons to be fine, others will not. It'll just depend on how it feels in your hands.
Yes. The bigger the lens, the bigger the camera should be to feel "right", balance properly, and handle well.
In the grand scheme of things the difference between this and the T5i is negligible by the time you are looking at something like the 100-400L. Both cameras are too small to handle well.
So this camera seems to have the two main things that people missed about the EOS-M: built in flash, OVF. Sure it is a bit more bulky, but not much if you consider the EOS-M with the EF adapter mounted.
The elephant in the room of course is the AF speed... If that is any better than the EOS-M, then in my opinion this will sell well amongst the people looking for a second Canon DSLR body.
Heckle me all you want folks, I'm gonna say it anyway:
*Camera of the Year*
And yes, one of the biggest reasons is that it is a Canon.
Another all-plastic junker from Canon. Nothing surprising here any more, folks. Hey, Sony people won't lose any sleep over this one, he-he-he.
Laugh all you like but Michael is absolutely right.
Unless this horse has already bolted. Nice camera, attractive size, probably has Nikon a bit worried, but can it turn around the ever-dwindling sales of entry level dSLRs as people move to mirrorless? I'm not so sure.
Richard - sales of DSLRs go up year to year ever since m4/3 was created, and it still went up in 2011, 2012, and by the prognosis: it'll go up in 2013.
Get your numbers straight before talking BS.
Mirrorless sales on a large scale affect only advanced compacts with small sensors, not the DSLRs.
It should sell well to folks that want DSLR capabilities w/o the weight. On the other hand, we Pentaxians would like to point out the K-30 as a great alternative. From our biased perspective, it's a much more capable camera w/o many relative weaknesses. Good for Canon, though, if it puts pressure on everyone else--competition benefits buyers of all brands.
What does "dSLR capabilities" mean to the entry-level crowd other than the optical viewfinder? You can do everything this does with a NEX-5, if so inclined.
Richard - DSLR form-factor, DSLR lenses. NEX5 got... 13 AF lenses? And the most common focal lengths are either twice the price as these for Alpha, or unavailable at all. Sorry, but NEX is a joke for someone who wants to buy a DSLR. It's good if you plan to stick with pancake zoom and have too much money. Not at all in any other scenario. Especially if you are tight on budget.
klavrack, the K-30, (which is a semi-pro model like K20D or K10D), or even the K-r, is quite a bit heavier than the SL1 (Super-Light 1). So I'm not so sure about their "alternative" status. The K-r/K-x/K-m is obviously due for an update.
The SL1 is significant because it is a Canon, and all that goes with that, the lens/flash/accessory choices both 1st and 3rd party, the extensive repair/service network, refined interface and documentation, marketing/distribution/pricing/bundling, software compatibility, resale value...
The blogosphere might eventually wakeup from their love affair with new camera shapes, which isn't necessarily shared by the global consumer. The DSLR, a word that has not lost its charm, offline anyway, is not yet dead.
"He is not yet dead!
That's what the geezer said,
As @Ermac said, a low end, basic dslr should be <$500 MSRP to compete. At this $500 price point you can prioritize IQ (dSLR), size (premium compact), a mix (mirrorless). The IQ-on-the-cheap crowd is not that big and they can get huge value if they bump their pricepoint closer to $1K.
I think this picture bellow tells the whole story that needs to be told:
Basically it's not all about the height/width of these small cameras that matters the most. It's the depth. And as clearly seen in the picture above, this is just another fat SLR camera regardless of its height/width.
I mean, just look at the current Fujis. Those are chunky mirrorless cameras no smaller than a typical SLR in height/width. But with a prime they are still considered small laying flat saving space.
When you get something like a typical micro four thirds and slap on the magnificent 20mm f1.7, you can easily through it in your slingbag and it totally disappears. Even the relatively largish OM-D E-M5 can be slipped into cargo pants.
Now go and try doing stuff like that with this so called mirrorless competitor SLR.
No cake Canon. I was hoping for some spectacular creativity. This camera is just downright lame.
The value proposition is simple enough:
We'll give you an optical viewfinder, dSLR handling, and full compatibility with EF system lenses. You sacrifice to carry a little bit more bulk than a typical u43 system camera.
I agree with your basic point: long lenses are what makes cameras bulky, but that applies equally well to the OM-D with kit zoom, and the XE-1 with kit zoom, as it does to this Canon. If you are going to be running around with that kind of lens attached, the Canon is not at a huge disadvantage here.
OMD is some of the largest m43 cams. Take and EPL5 and some primes and look at the difference.
Even with OMD...the OMD has a tiltablescreen, weathersealing, IBISand that kitlens is alrger, but it is has singifcantly more reach (24-100 compared to 27 to 90 mm) and is weahtersealed with macro function too.
With a zoom, the difference simply becomes a lot bigger not smaller. You can have an EPL5 or OMD with the 20mm Panny, 7-14 mm Panny, 45-150 Oly or Panny and the 14-42 kitlens. Put the OMD and 20mm in one pocket and the other in another. It is no problem at all. Try to do that with any DSLR and get a similar reach.
The 100-300 mm Pany weighs less than 1/3 of what a similar Canon/nikon lens weighs.
Also: the OMD/EPL5 has a better sensor, better dynamic range.
The canon will prolly sell well, because very few people approach this cam as we do over here. But for somone who wants a small, wellrounded cam with small and very good lenses there seem to be better choices on the market.
Put a zoom lens, large sensor, large rear standard aspect ratio LCD, flash, EVF, decent battery and grip either on or in the camera and you get almost the same size whether the camera has a mirror or not.
I like this announcement. I gave myself a couple of hours to think about it before I decided to have an opinion.
I like the idea of a well featured compact DSLR with a decent optical finder, and based on the specifications it seems Canon has nearly nailed this one.
My only concern is the use of Canons decent but aging 18mp sensor, it seems Canons semi-conductor facility isn't able to keep up with competition. Surely the sensor is decent, but it's lacking in DR and the CDAF off it doesn't seem capable enough to keep up with competition.
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Thing is with Canon, they are a package company. It's not about one or two headliner features with them, rather, they seem to be best at creating a well balanced and capable product overall- in short they are consistent.
This camera might entice me to buy one. I loved the Oly E420/450 based on its small size and feature set, but its finder/sensor/menu system left a lot to be desired. Compared to those record holders (smallest DSLR period...), the new SL1 addresses all the issues I had with the Oly I had, which was the E450.
In addition, it adds MUCH more functionality to it, and if the small 40mm pancake is added, it's a really small light combo to have around. Canon should make a couple more pancakes so there's a set of 3 to choose from.
Say a 17mm, 40mm, and 60mm f/2.8 set of pancakes.
The problem, and Pentax does this too, is that the 40mm "pancake" lens is a uninteresting and unhelpful focal length on APS-C, and the mirror-box makes small, fast, wide angle lenses difficult to design.
There's another thing: mirrorless cameras are new, closed systems, electronic coupling. Lenses can be designed with the cameras's correction system in mind. A lot of optical flaws can be "mopped up" in this way so the max aperture can be pushed wider, where Nikon, Pentax, and Canon simply cannot because they must consider back compatibility to older cameras with no correction.
People complain whether the megapixel count stays the same or increases - it's amazing.
I'm not complaining, there's a difference in pointing out the fact that Canon's sensors are testing below competitors at this level of camera, and complaining about the sensor. I have no issue with the sensor for my use, but it's something that users and prospective buyers are talking about a lot more. Canon knows they need to keep up in this area and improve, nothing to hide there. And I'm certainly not complaining.
Camera buyers are spoiled with options.
It's not the worlds lightest DSLR.
Compared to the Olympus E-4xx series it is narrower all right, but deeper, and equally high. And heavier.
100D - 407g - 117 x 91 x 69
E-410 - 375g - 129.5 x 91 x 53
E-420 - 380g - 129.5 x 91 x 53
E-450 - 380g - 129.5 x 91 x 53
The title of this article is: "Canon unveils EOS 100D/Rebel SL1 world's smallest and lightest APS-C DSLR". So you don't need to read what Canon said. But if you do:
There's an * next to the statement you quoted in the very first line of the press release. If you scroll down and read that note, it clearly points out the obvious. So, read again.
Yes, I can see that, but as said, I didn't read that part (Canon's). If you go further up, above the camera pic, the ingress of the DPR article still says:
"Canon has announced the EOS 100D/Rebel SL1, the world's smallest, lightest DSLR."
That's what I read, and that's what I commented on. And it's still wrong.
So, read once again.
(that said, we're both right here then ;)
I did read that, I saw it right away, which is why I read more because I knew it's not the worlds smallest DSLR, the Oly E410,420,450 are. So I figured Canon had to include language somewhere in the press release that clarifies their claim, which they did. Therefore the horse is beaten enough :).
I always believe camera should be made ASAP (as-small-as-possible) so this should have been the 700D.
For this camera's market, I don't think ergonomics is that big of an issue.
After all, they're still shooting with iPhones.
This will sell well.
It has good AF(ALL cross type),great touch screen(via the M), new sensor" new AF system also includes a new Hybrid CMOS AF II sensor", And alot of really good lenses.
Body only for a just announced camera is only $649. Not to bad.
Its build quality is most likely better VS the T4i due to it being more compact.
Looks like they lost alot of weight by loosing the DSLR battery. only 380 shots is mirrorless area.
Now if they could just make a pancake 30mm F1.8-F2 for crop, this camera would do really great.
Shouldn't they have showcased this camera with a pancake lens or something a bit smaller than the kit zoom?
This is why eastern companies sometimes appear so disconnected from their public.
It's funny to see cannon make a 'small' body but still make giant lenses.
I was hoping for a nice small M43 Canon with the ability to use all the M43 Lumix and Olympus lenses, and with a new sensor. I have Nikon, Olympus, and Lumix and would love to get into a nice compact Canon body but what a boring release this is.
Why on earth would Canon make a body for Lumix and Olympus lenses? What do you like so much about Canon's bodies over Olympus and Panasonic that makes this desirable? Wouldn't your hopes be more realistically directed towards Olympus and Panasonic making the needed changes to their bodies to fix your perceived deficiencies?
I was hoping for a Ferrari shopping cart (oh, wait, there probably is one.) Canon already has the barest beginnings of a mirrorless system and has no reason to abandon it (yet). I would have loved to have seen other camera makers buy into Micro 4/3, but they've all decided to go their own ways. Just as they did with dslrs in years past.
Cooperation is not natural for these very competitive companies. Even Olympus and Panasonic have done things differently enough in their MFT bodies and lenses to discourage mixing and matching. Canon would have been even less likely to stay within the standard.
What about the 80 percent of the world camera users who do not use ounces and inches ?
Gee even counting in base 5 makes more sense than the Imperial System...
By the way what I said is absolutely true: by counting in base 5 you could count up to 25 with just two hands
Canon USA's press release only shows inch and ounce, but our specs beneath the release show both inch and metric. Camera review websites acknowledge the Internet, while most camera sales companies are by definition limited to their home country. For whatever reason, most Americans stick to the old system, even after 40 years of halfhearted government effort, hence Canon USA's omission of metric in the opening lines of the press release.
It's just a social experiment to discover how quickly the 80% look for something to be offended by and start whining. You win.
Great small form factor should be a hit at Best Buy where people will see it's diminutive size and be drawn to it- BIG problem is you'll still need those BIG and heavy lenses to shoot with it..........they should just join the m4/3 consortium and make their own micro 4/3 camera and release their own m4/3 lenses- then they'd really shake things up!!!
Got to give Canon credit for introducing another camera that absolutely polarizes the user responses! While this isn't for me, I can see a market for it; people who want a small and light SLR who don't obsess about having the "best" sensor on the market. Canon's sensors are still quite good, even if Sony's are a notch better. And I'm betting that 99.99% of the buyers of this unit will never shoot anything but JPG and will never know the difference.
I'll stick with m4/3, thank you.
Nice camera if only .... Yes if only Canon would have taken those photographers seriously who like a small no frills camera as a real tool. But no - again the typical tunnel vision dimly lit viewfinder (pentamirror!) - again only one control dial.
Canon you did again what you did with the M: you missed a chance.
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The 3D printed panoramic film camera known formerly as the "Cycloptic Mustard Monster" is officially available as a DIY kit through Kickstarter.
Snapchat is using its augmented reality tech to replace the sky in your photos. The so-called 'sky filters' can swap out a boring sky for a colorful sunset, rainbows, a starry night, and more.
A court ruling our of Newton, Massachusetts has set an important legal precedent for drone pilots: federal drone laws will now trump local drone regulations in situations where the two are in conflict.
Photographer Mathieu Stern has put together another interesting vintage lens shootout. One model, three lenses, three locations.
From landscapes to motocross and white water kayaking to a wedding, exactly what can't the D850 do?
Calumet UK and Wex Photographic, two of the biggest photography retailers in the United Kingdom, are going to officially merge tomorrow.
macOS High Sierra came out today, but if you use a Wacom tablet you need to wait a few weeks before you upgrade. According to Wacom, they won't have a compatible driver ready for you until "late October."
Do you think a $3,000 Canon 80D video rig can compete with an $80,000+ Arri Alexa setup? Well it can't, but check out this video anyway to see how the rigs compare.
Seven simple rules to make sure you get the most out of your next photography outing.
Vitec, the company that owns popular accessory maker Manfrotto, has just acquired JOBY and Lowepro for a cool $10.3 million in cash. The acquisition adds JOBY and Lowepro to Vitec's already sizable collection of camera gear brands.
A master drone pilot has captured one of the most incredible (and highly illegal) drone videos we've ever seen by flying around, inside, onto, and under a moving train.
Intel just debuted their 8th generation desktop CPUs, and the lineup packs a performance boost for 'content creators' that photo and video editors might be intrigued by.
Canon is developing a 'Free Viewpoint Video System' that will turn real life sports games and events into immersive 3D interactive experiences. It's video game-like camera control IRL.
A veteran photojournalist, Rick Wilking secured a spot in the path of totality for the August solar eclipse. While things didn't quite pan out as predicted, an unexpected subject in the sky and a quick reaction made for a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
The new iZugar 3.25mm F2.5 super fisheye lens offers an insane 220-degree angle of view. That means it can basically see behind itself... good luck keeping your feet out of the shot.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll remember that time you took a picture of the frozen pizza baking directions.
A Craigslist poster has discovered the worst possible way to photograph a car: taking pictures of pictures displayed on a cracked and scratched up smartphone screen.
With the iPhone X coming out soon, the title probably won't last, but the iPhone 8 Plus is officially the best smartphone camera DxOMark has ever tested, and the iPhone 8 is second.
Kodak's new Facebook Messenger chatbot is trying to bring back the 'Kodak Moment' by digging up your old social media photos and trying to sell you prints and custom coffee mugs.
Affinity Photo for iPad was touted as "the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet." This update makes it that much more convenient.
Yashica has released a new teaser video, and this one claims they'll be releasing an "unprecedented camera" in October on Kickstarter. Ready... set... speculate!
Storage solutions company Synology has just released its very first 6-bay NAS tower. Combined with the DX1215 expansion units, it can hold and control up to thirty drives.
We're always expanding our collection of product overview content, and we've just added videos for the Canon EOS 6D Mark II, the EOS Rebel SL2 and EOS M6.
The venerable Canon PowerShot G1 was announced seventeen years ago this week, marking the start of a line of enthusiast-focused compacts that's still alive and kicking.
Super macro photographer Can Tuncer captured these incredible close-ups of a single peacock feather using a special setup and three different microscope lenses.
After successfully crowdfunding the Biotar 75mm F1.5, Oprema Jena is at it again. This time they're bringing back the Biotar 58mm F2: the world's only lens with a 17-blade aperture.
Adobe's move to a subscription model is treating it very well indeed. The company has posted record revenue for the second quarter in a row, hauling in a mind-boggling $1.84 billion.
More details have emerged about the potential sale of Blackstone's 45% stake in iconic camera brand Leica.
Popular mobile editing app Snapseed just got a major update that includes a new interface and 11 new presets for both Android and iOS, as well as adding the Perspective tool to the iOS version.
It might sound like a strange idea, but taking macro photos of boiling water can actually result in some really cool photographs. A good photo experiment for a rainy day.


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Maui Wowi is great for people who are entering a new stage in their lives and craving the freedom of business ownership.
Greenwood Village, CO (PRWEB) March 03, 2014
Maui Wowi Hawaiian's local Area Developer in Kentucky, Sharon Scheer, is hosting an Open House event in Radcliff on Thursday, March 6 that welcomes anyone interested in learning more about the unique island themed franchise concept and how to become a business owner.
Since Maui Wowi was founded more than 30 years ago as a fun and flexible premium Hawaiian coffee and fresh, all-natural fruit smoothie concept, the company has made waves across the U.S. and overseas through its variety of franchise options.
"Making the transition into business ownership is something that is not only achievable with Maui Wowi but fun," says Scheer. "It's a business that attracts individuals who are looking to shed the suit, throw on a Hawaiian shirt and follow a 30+ year system that leads to success."
This is the second Open House Scheer has hosted in the Kentucky area, which she sees as a hotspot and launching pad for continued growth of the brand. The business is not a one size fits all concept and instead promotes its customized scalable units that are designed to fit individual lifestyles and goals. The mobile Ka'anapali Cart is one of the company's most popular models because of its ability to be easily transported to various events and venues. Other models include concession trailers, kiosks, and brick and mortar locations.
"Maui Wowi is great for people who are entering a new stage in their lives and craving the freedom of business ownership," says Scheer.
Being located so closely to Fort Knox, Scheer says she expects to see quite a few Military Veterans at the Open House and says the opportunity is a perfect way to re-enter civilian life. Maui Wowi also offers Veterans a 10% discount off the franchise fee in appreciation for their service.
The Open House is on Thursday, March 6th at the Hampton Inn & Suites located in Radcliff, KY at the intersection of 31 W and Johnson Rd. Visitors will have the opportunity to sample the products and speak one-on-one with a Maui Wowi Representative to learn more about the concept and its franchise opportunities.
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I found this BBC documentary to be quite interesting. The basic premise is that game theory, particularly that developed by John Nash, has invaded first the military, then the government, and finally society at large with a false idea of humanity as simplistic and entirely rational beings whose reactions can be modeled. This has led to, according to Curtis, a significant change in the very definition of freedom and the creation of a new aristocracy with less class mobility than any time before World War II.
Agree or disagree, it's an interesting series of documentaries. Somewhat long and it obviously has a slant, so I figure P&C is the best bet.
Part 1 - "F**k you buddy"
Part 2 - "The lonely robot"
Part 3 - "We will force you to be free"
He did a documentary a few years ago called "The Power of Nightmares" which would be a nice companion. Some of it even covers a few active threads in some way or another.


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Discussion in 'College Football & the NFL Draft' started by Wolf, Apr 15, 2010.
Sooner or later an important game will be screwed up by one of those penalties.
Yep, this is my thought as well. And when it does.... ooooooh doggie...
Humans can't help but slaughter the goose that lays the golden eggs. Morons.
But will the players still get orange slices and capri suns after the game?
Taunting? Seriously? The objective is to march down the field and score. However, when you reach your objective, we don't want you to celebrate it... cause that'll just upset the other team.
Celebrating is one thing, I hate when people high step from the 50 or run backwards pointing. It's stupid.
I am curious is where is the line going to be drawn ?
for example(from the video link) Cosby.. say he dives into the endzone (like he did) closing seconds and was the game winner.. but what happens if UT was up by 20 in the 4th quarter with 2 minutes left.. call a penalty then? because the score is out of hand?
I like the eyeblack ban because those messages were just silly, but the taunting rule sounds waaaaaaaaaay too broad.
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2008 Ten Worst Places To Be Black
In this year of symbolic optimism, when a black man is a leading contender in the presidential race—as well as being a leading recipient of contributions from Wall Street, big insurance, and military contractors—the need to describe life as it is actually lived by millions of African Americans has never been greater.
Although our black presidential candidate would have us believe that African Americans are, as he has said many times, "90 percent of the way" to freedom, justice, and true equality, the facts seem to say otherwise. As recently as 1964, a majority of all U.S. prisoners were white men. But since 1988—the year Vice President George H.W. Bush rode to the White House stoking white fears with an ad campaign featuring convicted black killer and rapist Willie Horton—the black one- eighth of America's population furnished the majority of new admissions to its prisons and jails.
The fact is that while U.S. prison populations have grown seven times since 1970, crime rates have increased only slightly over that time. According to Berkeley scholar Dr. Loic Wacquant, the increase in America's prison population over that time has been achieved by locking up five times as many people per one thousand reported crimes as we did in 1980.
Most U.S. prisoners in 2008 are nonviolent drug offenders. Although federal statistics show the rates of illegal drug use for whites, blacks, and Latinos to be within a single percentage point of each other, African Americans are an absolute majority of the people serving time for drug offenses. The stark and inescapable fact of double-digit disparity between black and white incarceration rates is hard to miss and harder to explain, except in terms of a consistently applied, if rarely acknowledged, policy of racially selective policing, sentencing, and imprisonment.
The ripple effects on black communities and families have been enormous and devastating. Millions of black poor are permanently stigmatized, excluded from much of the job market and opportunities for training and education, and are sent home to the same resource-poor, deindustrial- ized communities in which they lived before prison where there were no services for them and no societal will to educate or train them. America's enormous prison system, along with its punitive and exclusionary attitude toward the class of people from which prisoners originate, is freezing the black poor in place for generations to come.
Despite requests, I was unable to get breakdowns of federal prisoners by state of origin before publication, so the data excludes the nearly 200,000 prisoners under federal lock and key. Here, based on incarceration data supplied by states (and found on the website of the Sentencing Project), are the ten worst places in the U.S. to be black.
Texas and California, the nation's two most populous states, each account for more than a tenth of the nation's 2.2 million prisoners. Kansas and Kentucky, which did not make the 2005 "ten worst" list, replaced Delaware and Nevada in 2008.
The states with the 15 highest disparity rates between black and white incarceration show some interesting characteristics. First, none of them are in the South. Second, blacks make up a negligible percentage, 6 percent or less, in 10 of these high disparity states. Third, the other five high-disparity states either contain or are adjacent to three of the five largest concentrations of African American populations in the U.S.—namely New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
About half of all African Americans live in the South and that number is increasing. Generally, southern states have higher percentages of black population, but lower incarceration disparity rates between black and white populations than elsewhere. No southern state locks up nine or ten times as many African Americans as whites.
Evidently, the highest relative percentages of African Americans, if not the highest absolute numbers of blacks incarcerated, are to be found near large concentrations of northern blacks, but in states where African Americans make up a relatively small percentage of the population.
According to "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006," in the 12 months ending on June 30, 2006 prison populations increased in 43 state jurisdictions and declined or remained the same in 8. Overall, the number of America's prisoners is increasing at a rate not seen since 1999-2000.
The good news is that the issue of racially selective mass incarceration has begun to be acknowledged by members of the nation's political elite. Last October a bipartisan hearing on the topic was conducted. Black constituencies for some time have been accustomed to "drive-by" rhetorical mentions of the fact that we are a disproportionate share of the nation's incarcerated by every candidate for office. Democratic presidential candidates have made cursory nods to the edges of the issue. Obama is promising to spend millions more on re-entry programs, and Hillary Clinton has denounced felony disenfranchisement.
Those are the limits of the good news. Money on re-entry programs is a good thing and felony disenfranchisement is indeed a very bad thing. But both candidates leave unexplored and untouched the foundational reasons for the explosive growth of America's prison state. Only one state senator (from Oregon) has introduced a bill calling for racial disparity impact statements to accompany further sentencing law; he plans to re-introduce it in the coming session.
Longstanding public policies like racially selective mass incarceration, which profoundly affects the quality of black life, will not change without the birth of a broad social movement in our African American communities to demand it. Politicians dependent on campaign contributors and the favor of corporate media won't give us this, any more than LBJ would have given us the 1965 Civil Rights bill without a loud, disrespectful, and civil disobedient mass movement in the streets to embarrass and prod him on. It will take a movement on that scale to challenge the policies of racially selective incarceration.
Bruce Dixon is managing editor of Black Agenda Report. This article first appeared on www.blackagendareport. com.


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WARNING: Some may find this distressing. Terrifying phone footage of the explosion near Waco, Texas is filmed by a father, leaving his daughter unable to hear.
THE fertiliser plant at the centre of a deadly explosion in Texas reported it posed no risk of fire or explosion, documents show.
In an emergency planning report to the Environmental Protection Agency and local public safety personnel, West Fertilizer Co. said it carried up to 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, but added, there was ''no'' under fire or explosive risks.
The company said it did not handle any other dangerous chemicals on site, The Dallas Morning News reports
In the report, West Fertilizer says in a worse case scenario there would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that would not result in injury or death.
Alternatively, a leak from a broken hose used to transfer the product, with no chance of injury.
Advisories on safe handling of anhydrous ammonia state it's not considered an explosion risk when in the air as a gas, but it can explode in certain amounts inside a container.
''Emergency responders should not mix water used for firefighting directly with anhydrous ammonia as this will result in warming the product, causing the liquid to turn into a vapor cloud,'' the website of Calamco, a growers'cooperative in California, states.
Explosive hazards with fertiliser are more commonly linked to ammonium nitrate, which was used to make the bomb that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City 18 years ago.


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Photo-Transformation, September 9, 1976
Lucas Samaras (American, born Greece, 1936)
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September 9, 1976
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As if engaging in a tug-of-war with himself, Lucas Samaras confronts and struggles with his own reflection in this self-portrait. The leg-less reflection is incomplete, however, giving the impression of a deformed adversary. A monochromatic polka-dot
Samaras's Photo-Transformations, which he made in the 1970s as a means to examine various facets of himself, could be understood as visual manifestations of internal conflict. They are complex psychological investigations that, according to at least one critic, illustrate one person's efforts toward spiritual healing.
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Yesterday we posted, and then were promptly asked to remove the first teaser trailer for Ron Howard's upcoming film Frost/Nixon, which stars Frank Langella as former President Richard M. Nixon as he is being interviewed post-Watergate by British talk show host David Frost, played by Michael Sheen. Oddly enough, the official release of the domestic trailer came today. Even more odd is the fact that said domestic trailer is exactly the same as the one from yesterday, sans German subtitles and in a much higher resolution. Have a look for yourself below.
The trailer is also available in high definition over at Yahoo Movies. Also with the trailer came a few new photos from the film, which can be seen below. Frost/Nixon will hit theaters on December 5, 2008.


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Science is a piece of cake, a tumor cell cake that is
Cakes are delicious. This is a fact. But did you know they can also be used for science?
Enter the Great Science Cake-Off, sponsored by Cancer Research UK, an organization that funds nearly half of the cancer research in the United Kingdom. CRUK, as it is known across the Atlantic, asked cancer researchers to bake and decorate a cake that tells a story about science.
One of the winners, announced on Thursday, is a mouthwatering rendition of tumor vascular targeting.
AND THE WINNER! Tumour vascular targeting: aim to starve tumours of their blood supply – Puja Lodhia #sciencecakes pic.twitter.com/sIkKQJZT6T
— Debbie (@CRUKBirmingham) November 7, 2013
See more of the cake entries below:
Entry 4 in #sciencecakes! A brain cake, complete with coloured regions. @CRUKLondon pic.twitter.com/UrCgnAcg7Y
— BCI (@QMBCI) November 7, 2013
The histone code: reprogramming gene expression to treat leukaemia – Manoj Raghavan #sciencecakes pic.twitter.com/sPuxzh4Yin
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Visualising science cake, winner of best decoration #sciencecakes @cr_uk colours :) pic.twitter.com/GRRjfKIHiG
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I had my rhino & septoplasty 3 weeks ago, I had a real bad diviation that I was only able to breathe from my right nostril, after surgery; my left nostril was amazing, I was breathin like never before but my right nostril was really clogged, 3 weeks post op, I bumped my nose while getting dressed, nothing serious said my doc, however, since then my left nostril is really congested and my right one got worse, is this normal? Am I ever gonna breathe normally again? This is really frustrating.
Is Having More Congestion Normal 3 Weeks Post Op of Rhinoplasty and Septoplasty?
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Nasal Congestion 3 Weeks after Septorhinoplasty
It is normal to have nasal congestion for several weeks after a septorhinoplasty. Unfortunately, the cause of your present congestion cannot be diagnosed in this forum. I suggest that you consult with your surgeon who will be happy to evaluate you.
Congestion after septorhinoplasty
It is normal to feel congested after this surgery. This may take up 6 weeks to fully resolve. Ask your surgeon about the possibility of using saline spray to help with this.
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On the Unlimited Potential team we work with the common understanding that education is the cornerstone of economic opportunity and I am always amazed at how far my team will go to make sure that the benefits of technology are extended to communities worldwide, year-round. One of our global initiatives for education is called Partners in Learning (PiL). We've talked about PiL on World Updates before, but just a reminder that the goal with this initiative is threefold:
1. Help schools gain better access to technology.
2. Foster innovative approaches to teacher professional development.
3. Provide education leaders with the tools to envision, implement and manage change.
Much of this work continues in the summer when teachers have a little more time on their hands. For example, as the school year came to a close in Armenia we welcomed more than 150 Armenian teachers, school principals and education officials to an interactive conference to discuss the use of technology in education.
At the conference we celebrated the launch of the the new Armenian Innovative Teachers Network, a virtual community for teachers who want to transform their classrooms into technology-rich learning environments. In addition to active discussion forums where teachers can connect directly with each other, the network includes a wealth of information, content, tools, and resources that can help educators use technology more effectively in the classroom.
Many thanks to all of the attendees at the event for sharing their experiences. Looking forward to hearing more about how some of the ideas are implemented when the school year starts!
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ST. LOUIS, April 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Financial Services Corp (Nasdaq:EFSC) announced today that, as expected, it had received a notice from The NASDAQ OMX Group ("NASDAQ") indicating that the Company is not in compliance with the continued listing requirements under NASDAQ Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) because the Company did not timely file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. The NASDAQ notice has no immediate effect on the listing or trading of the Company's common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
As previously reported in a Form 12b-25 Notification of Late Filing made by the Company on March 15, 2012, the Company is delayed in the filing of the Form 10-K because of the need to restate its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2010 and the interim financial statements included in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q as of and for each of the periods ended March 31, June 30, and September 30, for 2010 and 2011, respectively.
On January 25, 2012, the Company announced that it will restate its financial statements as a result of an accounting error it discovered related to the calculation of income on loans covered by FDIC loss share agreements. As indicated in that announcement and based on current estimates, the Company expects to report net income of between $1.20 and $1.35 per diluted share for the year ended December 31, 2011. In addition, the Company expects to report continuing favorable trends in its core banking business, including a 29% increase in organic Commercial and Industrial loans for 2011 and a 19% reduction in nonperforming assets to 1.74% of total assets. The Company's principal subsidiary, Enterprise Bank & Trust, remains "well-capitalized" under all regulatory definitions.
The Company believes it will announce its 2011 fourth quarter and year-end financial results and file its Form 10-K no later than April 25, 2012.
The Company is required to submit a plan to regain compliance with NASDAQ's filing requirements for continued listing within 60 calendar days of the date of the NASDAQ notification letter. The Company anticipates that it will fully regain compliance with the NASDAQ continued listing requirements upon filing its Form 10-K and that the filing of the Form 10-K within the 60-day period will eliminate the need for the Company to submit a formal plan.
Enterprise Financial operates commercial banking and wealth management businesses in metropolitan St. Louis, Kansas City and Phoenix. Enterprise is primarily focused on serving the needs of privately held businesses, their owner families, executives and professionals.
We caution readers that, whether or not expressly stated, all measures of results of operations and financial condition contained in this press release are preliminary and reflect only our expected results of operations and financial condition as of and for the respective periods referenced following the restatement. Actual reported results of operations and financial condition as a result of the restatement may vary from those expectations due to a number of factors, including additional or revised information or subsequent events.
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Poetry of the Revolution:
Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the "poetry" of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was "manifesto art"--combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century.
Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas. The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made "possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.
"[A] bold venture into relatively unexplored terrain. Poetry of the Revolution is an intelligent and informative work, offering by far the best survey of its subject now available."--Kheya Bag, New Left Review
"From Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto down to the avant-garde theatre of the present, the manifesto is, as Martin Puchner demonstrates in this dazzling, brilliantly original, and deeply learned book, 'an act of self-foundation and self-creation,' unique in its exhortation to action, not by means of lofty principles but through its artistic form. In its fusion of the political and the poetic as they coexist in twentieth-century movements from Futurism to Situationism, Poetry of the Revolution is one of the few indispensable studies of the avant-garde. In a very crowded field, it stands out, quite simply, as a classic."--Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment and The Vienna Paradox
"Martin Puchner navigates masterfully through the complex interactions between political and aesthetic manifestos. His account of the past, however, is also a call to renew and continue the work of manifestos in the future."--Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire and Multitude
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Helio Castroneves won the latest Dancing with the Stars crown Tuesday night by defeating Spice Girl Melanie Brown -- aka Scary Spice -- after the third finalist, Marie Osmond, was knocked out at the beginning of the show.
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Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, has been selected to speak at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo held on March 18-20, 2008, in New York City, at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Enterprise 2.0 and Data Mashups: Building the Web 2.0 Information Gap
In his presentation, Renat Khasanshyn, the founder of the Apatar Open Source Data Integration project, will explore how enterprise architects, developers, and business users can leverage the existing mashup technologies to build and deploy enterprise data mashups. This session will highlight some of the challenges preventing mashup design tools from being implemented across the enterprise sector.
Mr. Khasanshyn, who is also a winner of the 2007 IBM Business Mashup Challenge and a frequent speaker at a wide range of events, will focus on tips, best practices, and strategies on how to implement data mashups between on-premises, on-demand, and Web 2.0 systems and applications. Finally, Mr. Khasanshyn will walk the audience through the process of building the "Cold Call Assistant" mashup that won the 2007 IBM Business Mashup Challenge.
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St. Vincent and David Byrne – Love This Giant
The artists who collaborate with ex-Talking Head David Byrne are an eclectic bunch – from legendary Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso to Dirty Projectors and Fatboy Slim. But in US singer-songwriter Annie Clark – better known as St. Vincent – he may've found his musical soulmate.
Both Byrne and Clark's solo careers have been defined by their slick production and uniquely self-aware lyrics, but their first collaborative album Love This Giant feels like a meshing of both artists' distinctive characters. The album's first track, 'Who', sets the stage with the pair embracing the rich character of their own work, adding eerie harmonies over a mix of jaunty rhythms and minor changes.
But it's the intense use of brass that sets Love This Giant apart from being a mere merger of Clark and Byrne's previous work. The rich orchestration that underlies each track gives a sense of warmth that counterpoints the often cold, disconnected lyrics. It's these contrasts that make Love This Giant one of the most original and thoroughly surprising releases of the year.


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1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons lemon extract
Grated rind of 1 lemon
1/4 cup poppy seeds
2 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
Set the oven at 350 degrees. Have on hand 3 6-by-3-by-2-inch loaf pans. Grease them lightly and dust them with flour, tapping out the excess.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl, or until the batter is light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition. Beat in the lemon extract, lemon rind, and poppy seeds.
Add 1 cup of flour to the batter and beat well. Add the buttermilk, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat in the remaining 1 cup flour until the batter is just mixed.
Divide the mixture among the prepared pans and transfer to the hot oven. Bake the cakes for 35 to 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
Make the syrup.
1/2 cup lemon juice
In a saucepan, combine the sugar and lemon juice and warm them, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat.
When the cakes are done, transfer them to a rack. Leave them in the pans. With a cake tester or toothpick, poke holes all over the tops of the cakes. Brush the tops of the cakes with half of the syrup and let the cakes cool for 15 minutes.
Turn the cakes out onto a wire rack and set it over a plate.
Brush the bottoms of the cakes with the remaining syrup and let them cool. Turn the cakes right side up to cool completely.
Wrap the cakes individually.
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Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis to Star in Farrelly Brothers Film Hall Pass 2010-01-06 10:30:53
Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis Get a Hall Pass
Is infidelity Hollywood's new hot topic?! Following the Vince Vaughn movie news on the same subject, his Wedding Crashers buddy Owen Wilson is getting a project of his own on the topic.
Titled Hall Pass, the film centers on a husband (Wilson) who gets a "pass" from his wife to cheat after their marriage wanes. Saturday Night Live regular Jason Sudeikis has been tapped as Wilson's best friend, who also gets permission from his wife. The Farrelly Brothers are directing the comedy, so I'm sure we'll get a healthy dose of slapstick and gross-out humor, which — if it's anything like There's Something About Mary — is fine by me. I've also been crushing on Sudeikis ever since he played Floyd, Liz Lemon's love interest, so I'm excited to see him get a good big-screen bit here.
What do you think about this movie news? Doesn't the premise remind you of that Curb Your Enthusiasm plot or that Friends episode where Ross laminates his "freebie list"?


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The sexy Italian denim house has just put out a new fragrance that might be their best yet. Diesel Fuel for Life women starts off bold and then dries to a soft, powdery femininite scent. It's both innocent and sensual with notes of jasmine, patchouli and blackcurrant. Fuel for Life men also holds a modern mix of grapefruit, lavender and raspberry notes for a sweet twist. Fuel for Life Women and Men are each wrapped in a vintage fabric classic of the Diesel style. This scent is warm enough to make a perfect winter fragrance for the cold months ahead– it has quickly become one of our new favorites! Get your own at sephora.com, bottles start at $46. Tell us: What do you think of the new Diesel scent?


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This data set (NmIDCS3G) consists of daily, global image composites constructed from Nimbus 3 and Nimbus 4 Image Dissector Camera System (IDCS) imagery for the region between 60 N and 60 S. Images were acquired between 23 April, 1969 - 04 April, 1971. Data are available as GeoTIFFs and browse images. For global image composites in the HDF5 format, see the Nimbus Image Dissector Camera System Remapped Visible Imagery Daily L3, HDF5 (NmIDCS3H) data set.
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Gallaher, David and G. Garrett Campbell. 2013. Nimbus Image Dissector Camera System Remapped Visible Imagery Daily L3, GeoTIFF, [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/NIMBUS/NmIDCS3G.
Nimbus 3 Satellite
Image Dissector Camera System (IDCS)
Northernmost Latitude: 60° N
Roughly 10 km
|23 April, 1969 – 04 April, 1971
Visible Brightness
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David Gallaher
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA
G. Garrett Campbell
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA
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University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 USA
phone: +1 303.492.6199
fax: +1 303.492.2468
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The Nimbus Data Rescue Project: Nimbus 1, 2, 3 was supported by NASA contract #NNG08HZ07C as a subtask to NSIDC at the University of Colorado. The PIs also wish to thank Alex Calder, Carl Gallaher, and Anna Schroeder for their contributions to this project, and NSIDC student workers William Harris and Amy Randall.
This data set (NmIDCS3G) consists of daily image composites for the region between 60 N and 60 S, constructed from Nimbus 3 and Nimbus 4 Image Dissector Camera System imagery. These data files are GeoTIFF versions of the HDF-formatted equatorial projection file only from the Nimbus Image Dissector Camera System Remapped Visible Imagery Daily L3, HDF5 (NmIDCS3H) data set. See the NmIDCS3H documentation for details.
This section explains the file naming convention used for NmIDCS3G data files.
Example file name: NmIDCS3G.[YYYY].[MM].[DD].G.tif
Refer to Table 2 for descriptions of the file name variables listed above.
|Year (1969 or 1970)
|Equatorial Projection
Data files are about 16 MB.
Roughly 10 km
Data are provided in a 10 km cylindrical equidistant projection. The grid was constructed by defining an initial 4000 east-west by 2000 north-south global array at the equator to establish roughly 10 km x 10 km cells. Only the portion of the grid from 60° N to 60° S (4000 X 1334) was saved for the final output.
23 April, 1969 – 04 April, 1971
The parameter of interest in this data set is visible brightness. See the Data Acquisition and Processing section of this document for details.
Please visit the Order Data page to see options for obtaining NmIDCS3G data files.
Any GeoTIFF-compatible software package can be used to read and display NmIDCS3G data files.
To obtain the along-track scan, the IDCS rotated the sensor counter to the motion of the satellite for 200 seconds (the cross-track scan was acquired by a drift tube sensor). After 200 seconds, the sensor returned to the starting position to began the next acquisition 210 seconds after the previous image. As a result, successive images overlap each other in space by 50 percent.
The IDCS output was stored as brightness levels on a tape recorder and transmitted as an analog signal to ground stations within range of the satellite and eventually to Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). At GSFC, the images were reconstructed on a television picture tube and captured on black-and-white 70 mm film. The film images were then duplicated onto long reels and archived at NASA (and later NOAA). The film rolls remained in storage for some 40 years until NSIDC investigators undertook the task of digitizing the images for new climate research and preservation.
Navigation parameters were derived from the user guide description of the instrument. Satellite ephemeris and image times were used to calculate latitude and longitude for every pixel. Although the images contained tick marks indicating lines of latitude and longitude, the investigators believe the calculated positions better align the images with identifiable landmarks.
To construct the daily composites, all IDCS images for the 24 hour period were accumulated from the NmIDCS1H data set. When multiple observations were available in a grid cell, the observation closest to satellite nadir was given preference. The cosine of the selected observation's view angle is stored in the cosine_view_angle data field, for users who wish to make additional corrections based on view angle.
As discussed in the Nimbus Image Dissector Camera System Visible Imagery L1, HDF5 documentation, IDCS images in these composites were calibrated by constructing individual histograms from all images in an orbit and matching histograms between many orbits. This helped remove some of the variations due to film exposure and developing. Although the calibration is not perfect, this approach yields a better composite compared with simply mixing the uncalibrated, raw images.
None of the original Nimbus calibration programs have survived. In addition, the navigation accuracy is limited by the satellite attitude control, which was no better than 1 degree, and no further information about the attitude is available. By eye, the navigation and continental boundaries line up with some random error.
However, due to ambiguity in the user guide description of the instrument, the navigation has systemic errors that produce noticeable mismatches between images showing the same geographic features. This error may have arisen because the roll, pitch, and yaw of the satellite were not recorded. Based on a review of many images of the Mediterranean, navigation accuracy is better in equatorial regions.
The PIs estimate that the actual gray scale resolution is 4 bit, limited by the initial sensitivity of the IDCS and the accumulated degradation due to photo processing and digitization. However, the resolution is sufficient to at least qualitatively recognize clouds, ocean, land, and ice. Albedos and optical depths are likely irretrievable. Nevertherless, the IDCS represents a considerable improvement compared with the earlier AVCS instrument.
The Image Dissector Camera System (IDCS) was a shutterless, electronic scan and step tube mounted behind a 108 degree wide-angle, 5.7 mm focal length lens. The camera was installed on the bottom of the satellite sensory ring and pointed vertically down toward the earth at all times. The optical field of view was 73.6 degree in the direction of flight and 98.2 degree in the plane perpendicular to flight. The instrument optics focused the image on the dissector tube's photosensitive surface, while a line-scanning beam scanned the surface at 4 Hz with a frame period of 200 seconds. At the nominal spacecraft altitude of 1100 km, the resulting pictures covered approximately 1400 km on a side with a ground resolution of 3 km at nadir. Scanning and stepping functions occurred continuously as the satellite progressed along its orbital path. Pictures were either transmitted to ground stations in real time or stored on magnetic tape for subsequent transmission.
For additional information about the Nimbus IDCS, see the National Space Science Data Center's Image Dissector Camera System (IDCS) Web page.
Gallaher, D., G. G. Campbell, and W. N. Meier. In Press. Anomalous Variability in Antarctic Sea Ice Extents During the 1960's with the Use of Nimbus Satellite Data. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
Meier, W. N., D. Gallaher, and G. G. Campbell. 2013. New Estimates of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Extent During September 1964 from Recovered Nimbus I Satellite Imagery. The Cryosphere Discuss 7:35-53. doi: 10.5194/tcd-7-35-2013.
The acronyms and abbreviations used in this document are listed in Table 7.
|Advanced Vidicon Camera System
|Distributed Active Archive Center
|Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid
|Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format
|Goddard Space Flight Center
|Hierarchical Data Format
|Image Dissector Camera System
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|The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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