Yesterday, July, 23 was announced new great project by Google: Knoll.
Bethink as "Wikipedia-killer", new portal for knowledge share at the moment of time looks relatively poor (at least in sense of content). There is some number of articles, mostly around health-n-medicine. These topics are not interesting for me, but for the beginning it’s OK. At least one interesting (and useful for me) article I can to found: How to Backpack by From Scratch. Have the new Google project chances for success, on not? History of Internet knows both enough of success and flop stories. Let’s make a look (I hope, unbiased).
To the beginning: digital camera in comparision with a film camera has own bugs and own features. Not all of the old rules do apply.
There are a lot of half-truths going around about photography. Generally, the various photographic equipment companies spread one or two of them for marketing purposes, and then the various photography magazines and megasites play along because they realize that to go against what the photography companies want is a great way to not get access to the latest and greatest for review.
Disinformation have caused unexperienced users to buy inappropriate (as a rule too complex and therefore too expensive) cameras. And there are plenty of bad habits already forming by users of this relatively young technology.
In 60's-70's PENTAX was top manufacturer of SLR cameras and wonderful lenses. At the beginning of digital era this company stays on second positions, but in very last years they provides number of successful cameras together with another great player - SAMSUNG Corp. But using of compatible K-mount lenses (many of them are really cool!) described in camera's manuals extremly poor.
It’s impossible to count how many times questions like “Which lenses can I use on my Pentax DSLR?”, “Can I use old lenses on my Pentax Digital SLR?” and “How will this lens type function with my DSLR?” have been asked on forums.
