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A few nice Wave Case Digital images I found:

More Cuba, Dec 2011 – 047
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Image by Ed Yourdon
A neighborhood playground. In the foreground, there’s a soccer game underway; and in the background (on the other side of a fence), there are two or three basketball games underway…

Note: I chose this photo, among the five that I uploaded to Flickr on the morning of Jan 5, 2012, as my "photo of the day." It illustrates a common experience/dilemma that I face as a photographer: what I remember about the scene, when I’m reminded by looking at this photo, is not necessarily the same as what a casual observer would see. In this case, I remember the noise, the action, the high-energy running around that was evident when I watched the two groups of kids. The casual observer might be able to "intuit" some of that, but it’s more likely that his/her impressions will have been based on something else.

For me, it’s a reminder that a lot of scenes of this kind would be captured much more faithfully (and hopefully, in a much more interesting fashion) with a brief video clip rather than a still photo. Of course, most modern digital cameras do have a video "mode," and it’s trivial to turn it on … but for someone like me, who has been trying for 40+ years to faithfully "capture" a scene with a still photo, it still requires a conscious recognition that says, "Hey! It’s the sound and the action and the movement that really matters here!" Maybe I’ll get better at this, as time goes on…

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This is a second set of a couple hundred photos taken in Havana, Cuba in December 2011. The first set, which included what I felt were the best 100 photos of the 3500+ images, was uploaded earlier. You can find it here on Flickr.

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As I suggested in my first set of Cuba photos on Flickr, the notion of traveling to Cuba is — at least for many Americans today — probably like that of traveling to North Korea. It’s off-limits, forbidden by the government — and frankly, why would anyone bother? But for someone like me, who spent his childhood in the Cold War era of the 1950s, and who went off to college just after Castro took power, and just before the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis, the notion of traveling to Cuba has entirely different overtones.

And yet Cuba is only 90 miles away from Key West (as we were reminded so often in the 1960s), and its climate is presumably no different than a dozen of Caribbean islands I’ve visited over the years. Numerous friends have made quasi-legal trips to Cuba over the years, flying in from Canada or Mexico, and they’ve all returned with fabulous pictures and great stories of a vibrant, colorful country. So, when the folks at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops sent out a notice in November 2011, announcing a series of photo workshops in Havana, we couldn’t resist the temptation to sign up.

Getting into Cuba turned out to be trivial: an overnight stay in Miami, a 45-minute chartered flight operated by American Airlines, and customs/immigration formalities that turned out to be cursory or non-existent. By mid-afternoon, our group was checked into the Parque Central Hotel in downtown Havana — where the rooms were spacious, the service was friendly, the food was reasonably tasty, the rum was delicious, and the Internet was … well, slow and expensive.

We had been warned that that some of our American conveniences — like credit cards — would not be available, and we were prepared for a fairly spartan week. But no matter how prepared we might have been intellectually, it takes a while to adjust to a land with no Skype, no Blackberry service, no iPhone service, no phone-based Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. I was perfectly happy that there were no Burger Kings, no Pizza Huts, no Wendys, no Starbuck’s, and MacDonalds. There was Coke (classic), but no Diet Coke (or Coke Light). There were also no police sirens, no ambulance sirens, and no church bells. There were no iPods, and consequently no evidence of people plugged into their music via the thin white earplugs that Apple supplies with their devices. No iPads, no Kindles, no Nooks, no … well, you get the picture. (It’s also worth noting that, with U.S. tourists now beginning to enter the country in larger numbers, Cuba seems to be on the cusp of a "modern" invasion; if I come back here in a couple years, I fully expect to see Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets on every corner.)

But there were lots of friendly people in Havana, crowding the streets, peering out of windows and doorways, laughing and shouting and waving at friends and strangers alike. Everyone was well-dressed in clean clothes (the evidence of which could be seen in the endless lines of clothing hanging from laundry lines strung from wall to wall, everywhere); but there were no designer jeans, no fancy shoes, no heavy jewelry, and no sign of ostentatious clothing of any kind. Like some other developing countries, the people were sometimes a little too friendly — constantly offering a taxi ride, a pedicab ride, a small exchange of the "official" currency (convertible pesos, or "cuqs") for the "local" currency (pesos), a great meal or a great drink at a nearby restaurant or bar, a haircut, a manicure, or just a little … umm, well, friendship (offers for which ran the gamut of "señor" to "amigo" to "my friend"). On the street, you often felt you were in the land of the hustle; but if you smiled, shook your head, and politely said, "no," people generally smiled and back off.

As for the photography: well, I was in one of three different workshop groups, each of which had roughly a dozen participants. The three dozen individual photographers were well equipped with all of the latest Nikon and Canon gear, and they generally focused on a handful of subjects: buildings and architecture, ballet practice sessions, cockfights, boxing matches, rodeos, fishing villages, old cars, interiors of people’s homes, street scenes, and people. Lots of people. As in every other part of the world I’ve visited, the people were the most interesting. We saw young and old, men and women, boisterous children, grizzled elders, police officers, bus drivers, and people of almost every conceivable race.

The streets were clean, though not spotless; and the streets were jammed, with bicycles and motorbikes and pedi-cabs, taxis, buses, horse-and-carriages, pedestrians, dogs (lots of dogs, many sleeping peacefully in the middle of a sidewalk), and even a few people on roller skates. And, as anyone who has seen photos of Havana knows, there were lots and lots and LOTS of old cars. Plymouths, Pontiacs, Dodges, Buicks, and Chevys, along with the occasional Cadillac. A few were old and rusted, but most had been renovated, repaired, and repainted — often in garishly bright colors from every spectrum of the rainbow. Cherry pink, fire-engine red, Sunkist orange, lime green, turquoise and every shade of blue, orange, brown, and a lot more that I’ve probably forgotten. All of us in the photo workshop succumbed to the temptation to photograph the cars when we first arrived … but they were everywhere, every day, wherever we went, and eventually we all suffered from sensory overload. (For what it’s worth, one of our workshop colleagues had visited Cuba eight years ago, and told us that at the time, there were only old cars in sight; now roughly half of the cars are more-or-less modern Kia’s, Audis, Russian Ladas, and other "generic" compact cars.)

The one thing I wasn’t prepared for in Havana was the sense of decay: almost no modern buildings, no skyscrapers, and very little evidence of renovation. There were several monstrous, ugly, vintage-1950s buildings that oozed "Russia" from every pore. But the rest of the buildings date back to the 40s, the 30s, the 20s, or even the turn of the last century. Some were crumbling, some were just facades; some showed evidence of the kind of salt-water erosion that one sees near the ocean. But many simply looked old and decrepit, with peeling paint and broken stones, like the run-down buildings in whatever slum you’re familiar with in North America. One has a very strong sense of a city that was vibrant and beautiful all during the last half of the 19th century, and the first half of the 20th century — and then time stopped dead in its tracks.

Why that happened, and what’s being done about it, is something I didn’t have a chance to explore; there was a general reluctance to discuss politics in great detail. Some of Havana looks like the less-prosperous regions of other Caribbean towns; and some of it is presumably the direct and/or indirect result of a half-century of U.S. embargo. But some of it seems to be the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the subsequent collapse of foreign aid that Cuba depended upon.

As for my own photos: I did not attend the ballet practice sessions, nor did I see the rodeo. I did see some interesting graffiti on a few walls, which I photographed; but for some reason, I missed almost all of the numerous political billboards and stylized paintings of Che Guevera on buildings and walls. What I focused on instead was the "street scenes" of people and buildings and cars, which will hopefully give you a sense of what the place is like.

Enjoy!

Choices…
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At Google this weekend. Seeing a CMU telepresence robot now.

Some details from the scifoo Wiki:

I’d like to discuss an idea I’m formulating to improve climate modeling called "Global Swarming." The core idea is to deploy tens of thousands of ocean probes by leveraging the creative smarts and logistics coordination of the web.

As someone who served as an expert witness in the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial, and who has worked in the "creation-evolution" arena for a long time, if there is any interest I would be happy to run a session on "What happens post-Dover?" What will be the next wave of anti-evolutionism and anti-science? What needs to be done to combat it and raise the American public’s awareness of the evidence for evolution? Why is this issue critical to the success of basic research in this country? How do scientists, educators, and tech folks fit in?

I’d like to brainstorm about programmable matter ProgrammableMatter. Programmable matter is any substance which can be programmed to change its shape or physical properties. We are currently working on constructing programmable matter and investigating how to program it. I would be most interested in talking about how one might program ensembles.

I’d like to present on OpenWetWare, a wiki promoting open research among biologists and biological engineers. With 65 labs and 1200 users on OpenWetWare, I can provide practical examples of how scientists are currently making use of the web(2.0) to support research and education in new ways. I’ll also talk about where the site is headed in the future, and how foocampers could help make it easier for scientists to share more of their secrets online.

I’ll bring a memory stick with the recent radar images of what appear to be hydrocarbon-filled lakes on Saturn’s moon, Titan, and some movies from Titan. I’m also happy to discuss the interesting phenomenon of "instant public science" done by enthusiasts everywhere who have instant access to the latest space science data from the web. BTW, Nature magazine’s piece on exciting questions in chemistry (this week) included a mention of Titan, which should be on every organic chemists’ hit list for places to visit.

I am interested in discussing the dichotomy of design and evolutionary search as divergent paths in complex systems development. – jurvetson.blogspot.com

I could begin a session about Systems Biology, with a general theme of building towards whole cell or whole organisms models in biology. I have some (whacky) ideas about this in addition to having done some real science on this subject.

I could present about novel circuit-focused neurotechnologies I’m developing, for advancing the study of brain function and consciousness, and for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders. Although I’ve been exploring this question in academic research settings – and I’m gearing up to set up my own university laboratory – I’d like to brainstorm about how to build the significant community of clinicians, engineers, scientists, and psychologists that we’d need to make strong scientific progress on the timeless, unyielding problem of understanding the nature of consciousness.

I could talk about/demonstrate: digital fabrication in the lab and its impact in field fab labs around the world, mathematical programs as a programming model for enormous/unreliable/extended systems and their application in analog logic circuits and Internet 0 networks, and microfluidic logic to integrate chemistry with computation

I could contribute to a session on powerlaws in nature, markets and human affairs. They’re found nearly everywhere, from earthquakes to species distributions to cities to wars. We used to think the world was mostly defined by gaussian distributions (bell curves) with neat medians and standard deviations. But now we see that powerlaws, where low-frequency events have the highest amplitude, are far more common, and they’re infinite functions where concepts like "average" are meaningless. What are the factors that create powerlaws and what does nature have in common with economics and social networking in this instance?

I’d like to talk to the assembled folks about a project we are running to help scientists move large datasets without using the internet (which can be very slow or expensive.

I hope to demo a viral database and talk about efforts to build real time surveillance via the WHO.

I’d like to discuss the range of applications being discussed in HE (HigherEd) that permit faculty and research groups to store and share a wide range of scholarly assets, including research data, texts (articles such as pre-prints and post-prints), images, and other media. These next generation academic apps provide support for tagging, community-of-use definitions, discovery, rights assertions via CC, and new models of peer review and commentary. Early designs typically implicate heavy use of atom or gdata for posting and retrieval, lucene, and ajax.

I can offer a brief introduction to the Human Genome, and the field of Comparative Genomics which focuses on comparing our own genome to that of other species. I’ll try to give a taste of some of the startling revelations, seeming paradoxes, and many open questions that make working with this three billion letter string a ball.

I could offer the opposite point of view, looking at the very simplest organisms, what they do, how they work, and what life looks like when the genome fits on a floppy.

I would like to talk about the future of the scientific method. How the scientific method was one invention the Chinese did not make before the west, and how the process of science has changed in the last 400 years and will change even more in the next 50 years. I’d love to hear others’ ideas of where the science method is headed.

I could offer some (possibly naive) ideas on how we could design evolvability into the scientific process by learning from the evolution of cellular complexity. I can also include some examples from language evolution and software evolution.

I can describe our general approach for open collaborative biomedical research at The Synaptic Leap.

I have in mind a presentation related to my project on Milestones in the History of Data Visualization – an attempt to provide a comprehensive catalog documenting and illustrating the historical developments leading to modern data visualization and visual thinking. The talk might encompass some of (a) some great moments in the history of data visualization, (b) ‘statistical historiography’: the study of history as ‘data’, (c) a self-referential Q: how to visualize this history. The goal would be more to suggest questions and aproaches than to provide answers – in fact a main reason to present would be to hear other people’s reactions.

As we’re on the topic of visualizations, I could give a talk about the rise of the geobrowser/virtual globe and how it is revolutionizing the geospatial visualization of information. I can showcase some of the best examples of scientific visualizations, show how geobrowsers are helping humanitarian causes and discuss the social-software aspect of Google Earth and other expected ‘mirror worlds’, where geospatial information is shared, wiki-like. Above all, I would love to brainstorm the possible use of geobrowsers in the projects of other campers.

I’m willing to give a talk about imaging projects in the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory, such as our large array of cameras, our handheld camera whose photographs you can refocus after you take the picture, and our work on multi-perspective panoramas (the Google-funded Stanford CityBlock Project). These projects are part of a trend towards "computational photography", in which computers play a significant role in image formation.

I’m a Hugo Award-winning science-fiction writer, and I’m working on a trilogy (my 18th through 20th novels) about the World Wide Web spontaneously gaining consciousness once the number of interconnections it has exceeds the number in a human brain. I’d love to talk a bit about my ideas of how such a consciousness, at first an epiphenomenon supervening on top of the web infrastructure, might actually come to access the documents and input sources available online and how it might perceive external reality, and I’d love to brainstorm with people about what sort of interactions and relationships humanity might have with such an entity.

I could talk about the current and future generation of astronomical surveys that will map the sky every three nights or so (e.g. the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope). They are designed to be able to address multiple science goals from the same data set (e.g. understanding cosmology and dark energy through to indentifying moving sources such as asteroids in our Solar System). With hundreds of thousands of variable sources detected each year (on top of the ten billion non-variables) the flow of data presents a number of challenges for how we follow up these sources.

I could talk about insights gained as part of the NSF-funded Pathways research project (Cornell U, LANL) that looks at scholarly communication as a global workflow across heterogeneous repositories and tries to identify a lightweight interoperability framework to facilitate the emergence of a natively digital scholarly communication system. Think introspecting on the evolution of science by traversing a scholarly communication graph that jumps across repositories. I could also talk about work we have been doing with scholarly usage information: aggregating it across repositories, and using the aggregated data to generate recommendations and metrics.

I’d love to show the prototype of an NSF-sponsored web-based simulation designed to help students learn about the nature of science. I’ll bring the server on my laptop; we can all connect and play cosmologist. Advice welcome. More at NatureOfScienceGame

Making Open Access Affordable (free): There is a move afoot to put all science literature in the public domain (it is mostly funded with tax-free or tax money). There is a move afoot to put all science data in the public domain (ditto). These are unfunded mandates. We can not do much about the funding, but we computer scientists can do a LOT to drive the needed funds to zero by making it EASY to publish, organize, search, and display literature and data online. This also dovetails with Jill Mesirov’s approach to reproducable science – future science literature will be a multi-layer summary of the source data – words, graphs, pictures on top and derivations + data underneath. Many working on these issues will be at this event. We should have a group-grope.

Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for small labs with BIG data. It is embarrassing how many scientists use Excel as their database system – but even more embarrassing is how many use paper notebooks as their database. New science instruments (aka sensors) produce more data and more diverse data than will fit in a paper notebook, a table in a paper, or in Excel. How does "small science" work in this new world where it takes 3 super-programmers per ecologist to deploy some temperature and moisture sensors in a small ecosystem? We think we have an answer to this in the form of pre-canned LIMS applications.

Related to this I could talk a bit about how our work on myGrid has been aiming at taking the escience capabilities offered to large well funded groups down to a more ‘grass roots’ level – grid based science is traditionally the realm of people and groups with serious money but we don’t think this has to be the case.

I could present a software demo of a new web-based collaborative environment for sharing drug discovery data – initially focused on developing world infectious disease research (such as Malaria, Chagas Disease, African Sleeping Sickness) with technology that should be equally applicable for scientists collaborating around any private or public therapeutic area. This demo is a collaboration initiated between Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc and Prof. McKerrow at UCSF which could shift drug discovery efforts away from today’s fragmented, secretive, individual lab model to an integrated, distributed model while maintaining data and IP protection.

Our present vaccine production infrastructure leaves us woefully unprepared to deal with either natural or artificial surprises – think SARS and avian influenza (H5N1), which can both easily outpace our technological response. There are superior technological alternatives that will not be widely available for years to come due to regulatory issues, and I would like engage the other campers on ways to address this problem. In particular, I would like to explore the potential contribution of distributed, low cost science – garage science – to improving our safety and preparedness.

The "Encyclopedia of Life" is a buzz phrase being bandied around by biologists – the idea is having an online resource that tells you what we know about each species of organism on the planet. It’s an idea that seems obvious, but how would we achieve this given the scale of the task (number of known species about 2 million, those waiting to be found maybe 2-100, we really don’t know), the rapidly dwindling number of experts who can tells us something about those organisms, the size of the literature (unlike most sciences, taxonomists care about stuff published back as far as the 18th century), and the widely distributed, often poorly digitized sources of information? I’d willing to chat about some of the issues involved, and some possible solutions

I would like to share briefly with you the results of a five year project to create and publish the world’s first totally integrated Encyclopedic vision of food – its origins, variations, complexity,nutrients, dimensions, meanings, enjoyment, history and a thousand and one stories about food. The result is a new kind of truly multidimensional Encyclopedia of Food and Culture that I edited with a whole team of scientists and scholars, and Scribner’s (Gale /Thompson) published in 2003. The Encyclopedia has been well reviewed and we won, among many awards, the Dartmouth Medal (the top prize in the reference world) in July 2004. I am bringing a three volume HARD copy with me and will put it on display at the “Table” for everyone to peruse at your leisure -(it is designed to ‘catch you’ – so if you are a browser and you love food you may have trouble giving it up for others to read!)I would also be delighted to talk about a new kind of World Food Museum that is designed to make the Encyclopedia come alive (please seem my bio statement for more).

I would like to present Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Citizen Science work as an example of several of the broader citizen science interests described in the Wiki. These include: Challenges of involving the public in data collection for professional research, scientific tradeoffs and possibilities, internet data collection tools, dynamic graphing and mapping tools, data mining, sustainability, webcommunity building plans for the future, and recruitment models within the contexts of conservation science and ornithology.
I would also like to demonstrate the new Pulluin software chip that fits in a TREO palm cell phone. It has a bird ID tool, lets you hear vocalizations, see pictures, and enter data into one of our citizen science projects, eBird. The ideal way to show you this toy would be to take interested campers on an early morning bird walk. If I can get enough signups, I will try to get eBird project leader, Brian Sullivan, to come up from Monterey, providing he is available. We would probably carpool to the shore to bird. If you are interested, email me and tell me which days, Sat., Sun., or both, you would be available.

Who are we? I’d like to give a short talk to argue for the importance of addressing an old question with a new meaning: What is it like to be human? Why do we dare, care and share? Why are we curious, generous and open? We have to deal with these questions before artifical intelligence, genetic engineering and the globalisation of cultures have changed us irreversibly. Many areas of activity in science, technology and the arts offer new perspectives: Sexual selection, algorithmic information theory, perception, nutrition, experimental economics, game theory and network theory, etc. They point to a coherent view of humans as flows and processes, rather than things and objects. Openness is essential. Attention is essential. Time is ripe for a new collective effort at producing a view of human being relevant to our age.

Robotics for the Masses – I would like to present two new technologies that we are public-domaining imminently. One is Gigapan, a technology for taking ultra-high-resolution panoramic images with low-cost equipment. We can generate time lapses of an entire field with enough detail to see individual petals in detail as they bloom and wither. The second is the TeRK site, which is designed to enable non-roboticists to make robots for tools without becoming robotics experts. I will bring Gigapans and TeRK robots with me and would love to show them doing their techie things. Both of these strands have the potential to be useful scientific tools.

Science, not near as much fun as math! :~) But without it the world remains untouchable. Do you want your child with maximum understanding? We better equip the rest to understand her, so that she is heard when speaking about this exquisite world. But how to reach as many as can be reached? Free is not near enough, full access comes close. The challenge is to deliver science, as the compelling, engaging, tantalizing world that it is, the very first frontier to cross into who we are. The quality of that experience needs freedom of expression. NASA World Wind is a bold step towards that. We are delighted to share the not-so-secret secrets thereof.

I could discuss how our fundamental discoveries on bipedal bugs and octopuses, gripping geckos and galloping ghost crabs have provided biological inspiration for the design of robots, artificial muscles and adhesives. I can include a demo of artificial muscles from Artificial Muscle Incorporated. I will bring two robots in development – a gecko-like climbing robot from our collaboration with Stanford and an insect-like hexapedal robot built by our UPenn colleagues. I will carry with me live death-head cockroaches that serve as our inspiration. I could facilitate a discussion of neuromechanical control architectures. I will introduce briefly our new center at Berkeley (CIBER – Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research) and a new journal – Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. I welcome this group’s creative suggestions not only for the next generation of robots, but also for novel designs using tunable skeletal structures, artificial muscles and dry adhesives

I would be interested in discussing and debating technical and nontechnical issue involving Social Semantic Search and Analytics. There is a significant interest in Social Search, and some interest in Semantic Search. Here is a scenario that probably involves more futuristic capabilities but a modest verion of this can lead to lower hanging fruits involving "little semantics" and "weak semantics" which would involve less infrastructure in creating and maintaining ontologies (albeit my experience shows building and maintaining large ontologies is doable, see Semantic Web: A different perspective on what works and what doesn’t: (a) a research paper is published ;Eg: Semantics Analytics on Social Networks www2006.org/programme/item.php?id=4068], (b) there is a popular press article with numerous factual errors and unsupported conjuctures e.g., this one, (c) there are several versions on popular web sites along with numerous blog postings containing emotional reactions See for example, (d) Tim O’Reilly digs into the facts and sets the record staight in Datamining Social Networking Sites. How can we track the string of these stories along various dimensions [thematic, spatial, temporal] while provding overview, ranking based on various criteria, contextual linking, insights on individual postings, and more? I am interested in more than clustering and linking through statistical analysis which are good to put some stories in font of a reader,but would not sufficiently help someone who needs to creat a cogent understanding of an event or a situation.

I’d like to discuss the planning of a Mountain View Consensus, in response to Bjørn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus, a ranking of where to spend money on the world’s biggest problems. The frustrating thing about the Copenhagen Consensus is that it is published as a report – so if you think the compund interest rate should be 2% higher, you can only speculate on what the effect would be of changing it. For the Mountain View Consensus we would publish findings as a collaborative spreadsheet, with annotations for the values that different participants place on each variable, and the opportunity for anyone to add annotations. Also, while Lomborg invited only economists, we would include scientists and engineers who understand the technologies, and venture capitalists who understand risk factors and chances of technology bets.

I have two projects I’d like to share at Science Foo–and i’m eager to hear your thoughts on how best to build and deploy them both:
1) An open source project–the Family Medical History Tool –that could graphically capture essential medical data and which could be shared by family members (with this goes a myriad of challenging issues around privacy, HIPPA laws, etc.
2) We’re initiating a "citizen science" approach to a retrospective clinical trial providing open and transparent results real-time. We believe that additional data could be rapidly collected to demonstrate a correlation between drug metabolism and genotype for the 2D6 gene and the drug tamoxifen. Preliminary data shows that 5-10 % of women who are 2D6 poor metabolizers taking tamoxifen (to avoid a reoccurrence of cancer) may be getting nothing more than a placebo effect, and worse, run a 3 times greater risk of a cancer reoccurrence.

I could give a talk and lead a discussion on the status and prospects for advanced nanotechnologies based on digital control of molecular assembly. I’d start by describing machines that already do this (in biology) and how they are being exploited to make nanostructures. I’d then outline a path forward to some very powerful technologies that today can be studied only by means of physical modeling and computational simulation. There are potential applications on a scale relevant to the climate change problem.



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Some cool All Film Digital images:

Canon G10 [2009] x Canon Demi [1963]
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Image by Damiao Santana
Não, a G10 não é uma digital half-frame. Esta foto trata-se apenas de uma comparacão em tamanho.

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CANON HALF FRAME CAMERAS

Canon jumped into the half-frame fray shortly after the Olympus Pen series took off. They had two successful half-frame series of cameras — the Demi line and the Dial line. The Canon’s generally had more features that the Pens, but were also larger and heavier — an approach that Canon used with their full-frame rangefinder cameras, as well.

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Canon Demi

In 1963, after the success of the Olympus Pen camera, Canon decided to enter the half-frame market. The Demi was the first Canon half-frame and sported a 28mm (f2.8-22) manually-focusing lens (5 elements in 3 groups). Shutter speeds of B, 1/30 – 1/250. It had a selenium meter, with a match-needle system (readout on top of camera) that set the shutter speed and aperture at the same time by turning a single ring on the front of the lens. At f2.8 the shutter speed is 1/30, at f22 the speed is 1/250. The settings could be made manually — disregarding the meter — but you were stuck with the combination of f-stop and shutter speed that it gave you as you turn the ring. This exposure setup was used by several other half-frame cameras, such as the Soviet Agat 18. At the B and FLASH (1/30) settings, the f-stop could be set independently of the shutter speed. The camera also had a PC contact, but no built-in shoe. Focus detents at 1 m, 3 m, and 15 m. The lens shows distance icons instead of numbers, however a scale on the back of the camera translates the icons into numbers. Close-focusing to 0.8 m. Film speed range of ISO 10 – 400.

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Bell and Howell/Canon Demi

Canon made agreements with Bell and Howell to sell several of their cameras. The Demi was just one. All the features were the same except that the front name-plate said "BELL AND HOWELL/CANON".

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Canon Demi Color

Same as the Demi original, but it came with a special "leatherette" covering that was available in black, red, white or blue. The wrist strap and case were also dyed the same color — very attractive!

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Canon Demi C

(1965) An "upgrade" from the Demi, the camera itself has the same features. It had a 28mm (f2.8-22) manually focusing lens with five elements in three groups. 34mm filter thread. Shutter speeds from 1/30 – 1/250, plus B. It had a selenium meter, with a match-needle system (readout on top of camera) to set the aperture and shutter in a stepped program taking you from f/2.8 @ 1/30 sec to f/22 @ 1/250 sec. The camera also had a flash PC contact. Most importantly, it had a lens which could be removed! Canon also made a 50mm (f2.8) lens (seven elements in six groups) that was fully interchangeable. This was equivalent to a 75mm lens in full-frame 35mm format. It was not just a simple add-on converter as some authors report. 48mm filter thread. Otherwise, the size and shape were like the Demi. Film speed 10 – 400. In many ways this was a spare-no-effort attempt to make a half frame which could do what the later Leica CL would do — except for the lack of freedom of exposure and rangefinder. In any event, it got two precision lenses into the hands of people who might never have had such a chance!

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Canon Demi EE17

30mm (f1.7) manually focusing lens from infinity to 31 inches. The CDS meter can be set for manual operation or shutter-preferred automation. The shutter speed is selected and the meter readout in the viewfinder indicates the correct f-stop. ISO from 25 – 400. Focusing, parallax and over/under exposure information is also in the viewfinder. Cold shoe with PC connector, tripod socket, self-timer, and cable release socket included. Shutter speeds from 1/8 – 1/500, plus B. Also has +1 and +2 exposure compensation setting. 34mm filter size. Takes one 625 battery.

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Canon Demi EE28

A less expensive version of the Demi EE17, it had simpler and fewer features, such as an f2.8 lens, selenium meter, and no self-timer. 34mm filter size.

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Canon Demi II

Later version of the Demi.

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Canon Demi S

(1964) An "upgrade" from the Demi, it had a faster lens and more shutter speeds. Now it has a 30mm (f1.7-22) manually-focusing lens with six elements in four groups. Shutter speed from 1/8 – 1/500, plus B. It had a selenium meter, with a match-needle system (readout on top of camera) to set the aperture and shutter. Also had a PC contact. Film speed from 25 to 400. 34mm filter thread.

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Canon Demi Rapid

(1964) An updated version of the Demi S, this model used the Agfa Rapid cassettes. The lens was the same as on the Demi S — a 30mm (f1.7-22) manually-focusing lens . Shutter speeds and film speeds were also the same. But the meter was upgraded from the selenium to a CDS cell with shutter priority automatic exposure. That freed up space to improve the viewfinder — exposure readout and distance information were added in the viewfinder. Film speed was set by the film cassettes. Self-timer added as well.

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Canon Dial 35

(1963) The Dial cameras were a unique approach at the time. The cameras were small, thanks to the half-frame format, but offered exceptional features. This model had a manually focusing, 28mm (f2.8 – 22.0) (5 elements in 3 groups) lens. The lens could be focused with a distance scale on the lens or distance symbols in the viewfinder. Close-focusing to 0.8 meters. Shutter speeds were set manually from 1/30 – 1/250. Then the correct aperture could be set manually or automatically with the built-in CDS meter. For manual exposure, the button under the viewfinder was pulled out and rotated. The viewfinder had an f-stop readout for metered-manual use. For automatic exposure, the button was pushed in. After the shutter speed is manually selected, the meter displayed the set f-stop in the viewfinder. Either way, you never had to take your eye away from the viewfinder to set the exposure or the focusing — very nice!!! Over and under (use flash) exposure symbols in the viewfinder. But that’s not all!!! The camera also had a spring-wound film drive. While not as speedy as the electronic drives of today, this unit was built into a small "handle" on the bottom of the camera. Rapid shooting was possible if you had a quick finger — about 20 shots could be taken with each winding of the spring. To rewind the film, just press the rewind button — no cranking was needed. Film speed range of ISO 8 – 500. 48mm filter thread. Cable release socket in shutter release button, and tripod socket in spring drive. ISO/DIN converter on the back. An amazing camera for the time, it sold on the street for under . PC contact and cold shoe. Soft leather case. It’s a good thing that it’s a half-frame (with up to 72 exposures per roll), because you can burn through film pretty easily with this guy!

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Bell and Howell/Canon Dial 35

Canon made agreements with Bell and Howell to sell several of their cameras. The Dial 35 was just one. All the features were the same except that the front name-plate said "BELL AND HOWELL/CANON DIAL 35". This is NOT the same camera as the "BELL AND HOWELL DIAL 35" — see below.

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Canon Dial 35 II

An updated version of the original. The differences were nice, but not enormous. This version used the smaller PX625 battery. The readout in the viewfinder was similar but showed all of the f-stops and a blue scale where everything would be in focus (if the distance on the lens was set to the hyperfocal distance). In addition the ISO was changed to 10 to 1000. Also, a hot shoe was added, and a wrist strap (very convenient) added to the spring-motor drive. Same 48mm filter thread. Same cable release socket in shutter release and tripod socket in spring drive. The nice soft leather case was changed to a hard leather(?) case. The ASA/DIN converter on the back was changed to a "Check List for easy picture taking". You can tell a Dial II from a Dial I, not only because it says Dial II on the front plate, but the front plate (under the focusing scale) is black on the Dial II. It was also sold by Bell & Howell as the Bell & Howell Dial 35. Overall, these nice improvements make the Dial II the shooters’ choice. Takes one 625 battery.

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Canon Dial Rapid

(1965) This was an modified version of the Dial 35 with a faster lens. It had a 30mm (f2.5), manually-focusing lens. The lens could be focused with a distance scale on the lens or distance symbols in the viewfinder. Close-focusing to 0.8 meters. Shutter speeds were set manually from 1/30 – 1/500. Then the correct aperture could be set manually or automatically with the built-in CDS meter. The viewfinder also had an f-stop readout for metered-manual use. The camera also had a spring-wound film-drive. Film speeds of 25 – 400. Self-timer built in. PC contact and hot shoe. 48mm filter thread. It used Agfa Rapid cassettes. Takes one 625 battery.

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Bell & Howell Dial 35

Canon made agreements with Bell and Howell to sell several of their cameras. The Dial 35 II was just one. All the features were the same as the Dial 35 II except that the front name-plate said "BELL AND HOWELL DIAL 35". The "CANON" part was dropped and it did not say "DIAL II", but just "DIAL". Takes one 625 battery.

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Which is Which Canon 350D, 1956 Argus C44 and 1952 Zeiss Ikon Contax IIIa?
All Film Digital

Image by Metrix X
Its easier in Color so please guess before you use this link and if you give your guess in a comment then please only use your guess from the Sepia version.

Believe it or not they all have close to the same FOV 50mm equivalent but they are taken with shifted perspectives to the fence. Also the lens on the 350D is a state of the art L lens.

Answer
Top: 1956 Argus C4 50mm lens at f11 at 1/100sec
Middle: 1952 Contax IIIa at the same setting
Bottom: Canon 350D 24 – 105L set at 40mm equivalent f9 1/40sec with polarizer

All The Pretty Boys
All Film Digital

Image by NMCIL ortiz domney
digital collage using original photographs and pastel painting & scans – part of my TVIcons & Film Strips – The Whedonverse

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WIDE + TELE LENS Kit FOR All 58mm Digital & Film Camera
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Dicapac WP-S10 Underwater waterproof housing case for ALL film/digital SLR camer
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Lowepro All Weather (AW) Digital or Film Camera Pouch
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Vintage camera flash grip for ALL film or digital cameras.Works with all of them
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Noritsu 3311SM digital minilab w S2 film scanner!! we have it all call us!!!!!
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Canon Auto EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III DSLR Digital/Film for Rebel & ALL EOS Cameras
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Sealife Underwater Digital Camera

Posted on Jan 01, 2012 under Best Underwater Camera | 6 Comments

Check out these sealife underwater digital camera images:

Gainer Spring Bank
sealife underwater digital camera

Image by PMC 1stPix
Minnows congregate along the edge of the bank among the fallen debris and vegetation in Gainer Springs.

Gainer Spring Gar
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Image by PMC 1stPix
While I was focused on this turtle I spotted climbing a top this bed of algae, I almost missed the Gar hiding in the branches nearby.

Econfina Creek: Emerald & Gainer Springs
sealife underwater digital camera

Image by PMC 1stPix
A view across the surface from Emerald Spring, looking towards the mouth of Gainer Springs and upstream into the Econfina Creek. A recent rain has turned the stream murky.

Gainer Spring: Loggerhead Musk Turtle
sealife underwater digital camera

Image by PMC 1stPix
While I was focused on this turtle I spotted climbing a top this bed of algae, I almost missed the Gar hiding in the branches nearby.



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Sealife Spare Battery for DC1200 Underwater Camera

  • Lithium-ion battery pack
  • 3.7V - 2.6 Wh; 700 mAh
  • Compatible with the SeaLife® DC1200 camera
Keep your SeaLife® DC1200 camera charged up with this spare battery.

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