Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2009
Last week I ordered a Kindle 2 international edition.
Four days ago, when I just received it, the first impression was: it is better than I expected. The display has a high resolution, small font look sharp, and the technical sketches in the “Kindle User’s Guide” look crisp too. The e-paper looks so good under strong [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009
Many people are talking about F100fd’s performance on dpreview’s forum, especially low light performance. Well, instead of endlessly contemplating and discussing, I took my F100fd out and did test shots and found some tricks. F100fd has a very weak flash. You can make use of its weakness. Normally, you don’t want to fire the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
There was some dust on the sensor of my Nikon D80 so I sent it to a camera shop for cleaning up. They said I would be able to get the camera back in at least four weeks. Oh well. I was thinking for long about getting an ultra-compact camera which could be carried full-time. [...]
Posted in computer science, hardware, news, software engineering, technology on Jun 7th, 2007
This time Microsoft Research is bringing up something marvelously cool. Their new Surface Computing concept and technology is truly world-changing and I see the future has arrived. First of all, my high respect and admiration to the computer scientists and software engineers at Microsoft Research. I was so thrilled after watching these two videos:
The first [...]
Posted in hardware, photography on Jan 10th, 2007
Here are two features I hope for the Nikon D400:
1. HDR sensor. In November 2006 I saw HDR CMOS sensors were exhibited in the Vision Messe 2006, Stuttgart. Currently the targeted clients are not consumers but I hope the consumer market will adopt this kind of sensors in the near future. HDR images have been [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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