Why a DSLR Anyway?

Anyone who has had the dubious pleasure of listening to a Justin Bieber fan trying to articulate the appeal of a star who seemingly can’t even exude testosterone let alone charisma will know photographic terminology can be just as baffling. Often those considering upgrading from a compact camera to a DSLR can’t escape the idea that suddenly the whole thing seems very complicated, just like Justin can’t help running into packs of screaming girls between blow drying his hair. The good news is a DSLR needn’t be complicated unless you want it to be.
There was a time when enthusiast  photographers had to do all sorts of adjustments and measuring and alterations just to take a picture of their cat.   Those days are well behind us.  Today, the entry level DSLR’s such as the Canon NB-5L or Canon 550D to  even the semi-professional Canon 7D have a an AUTO mode: point and shoot.  Your cat could do that - I know mine can.  But the benefits are still there anyway.  DSLR cameras have much larger imaging sensors - the part that captures the light to take the picture - which results in a photograph with much more detail.


What was a going to be a photograph of a puckered collection of wrinkles taken with a compact actually becomes a portrait of my mother in law taken with a Pentax K7. The killer detail for most however is the speed with which DSLR cameras operate.  The minimum rate on the current cameras is at least two frames per second.  C
ompare that to past experiences when the subject of your photograph is walking out of the room when you pressed the button when they were sitting on the couch. Moments worth photographing are often fleeting - an instant response time is an essential tool in the photographer’s kit.  Hence the popularity of DSLR’s with parents: kids do everything but sit still. Suffice to say when you read in your research  - about ISO capabilities, maximum shutter speed, dynamic range, noise reduction, barrel distortion plus vignetting and bracketing and image stabilization -  its easy to get the idea that you are in over your head. However, for most of us a lot of it can remain a mystery.  SLR functions explained I don’t pretend to understand it all myself, just as my niece doesn’t understand why she is taller than Justin Bieber when she is five years younger. The camera can do most of the work. If you want to learn how to tweak the settings for stronger images the potential is there but it needn’t be thought necessary. The dictionary can stay on the shelf - the camera shouldn’t though.  The words may need explanation but pictures never do.
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Battery Maker Couldn’t Make a Profit

ational Battery announces that it could not make a profit, and had to close its Upper Macungie plant, putting about 60 workers out of work.
Last week, International fujitsu lifebook s2020 series battery , on Snowdrift Road, closed its doors after giving employees one-day’s notice.
Yesterday, the company issued a statement through its California public relations firm.
“While International acer btp-43d1 battery has a unique product and green manufacturing process, it has not been able to reach profitability,” the statement says.”‘Unfortunately, given the challenging market, it was unable to raise additional capital to fund its operations.”
International Battery produces rechargeable lithium batteries with an environmentally friendly process, according to its web site. Its “water-based manufacturing process eliminates millions of gallons of NMP (a toxic solvent), while reducing operating and capital costs.”
But apparently the market for Dell Vostro 1400 batteries is “extraordinarily challenging” and the company said it would now sell its equipment and technology to pay off creditors.
About 60 workers had been employed at the factory. It moved to 6845 Snowdrift Rd. in Upper Macungie from a New Jersey site in 2008, lured here by about $4 million in tax incentives and grants from the state.

• Here is the official statement for International Battery from its PR firm, Jennings and Associates Communications Inc.:

The market for energy storage, including lithium ion Dell latitude d630 battery, has been extraordinarily challenging.  While International Battery has a unique product and green manufacturing process, it has not been able to reach profitability.  Unfortunately, given the challenging market, it was unable to raise additional capital to fund its operations. While it is no longer manufacturing any products, it is focusing on selling it assets and technology. Moneys received on account of these assets will be used to pay creditors.

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The New iPad Has a Really Massive Battery

It's basically more battery than anything else.

When Apple unveiled the new iPad (which is now designated as "third gen" from Apple's site), it said boasted that it featured Acer aspire 5740 battery life that was no different from that of the iPad 2.
Having something the same as the previous generation isn't typically something to brag about, but in this case, it is. The battery of the new iPad is 42.5 Wh, which is literally huge. The one in the iPad is just 25 Wh in comparison, making the new one 70 percent greater in capacity.
To put that in perspective, that's more juice than in the 11-inch MacBook Air and nearly as big as the Inspiron 1545 AC Adapter battery in today's 13-inch MacBook Air at 50 Wh.
Obviously LTE brings a lot more dell inspiron 6400 charger battery drain, as evidenced by 4G smartphones. The real need for all that extra power is likely the upgraded screen with its 3.1 million pixels.
The new iPad may be thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, but all that heft and bulk (which is actually quite minimal) has gone to all the places where it counts.
We can't wait to see the teardowns to show us how much of the entire device is just compaq presario r4000 battery.

Joliet man charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, and more

These arrests were taken from Joliet Police arrest information, as well as information from the Will County Adult Detention Facility and Will County Circuit Clerk’s Office.
Residential Burglary

• A 40-year-old Joliet man from the 300 block of South Raynor Avenue was arrested around 1:15 p.m. March 5 for residential burglary during a police contact at a home on the 2200 block of West Jefferson Street. He is scheduled to appear in court March 27 for a preliminary hearing.

Weapons-Related

• A 20-year-old Joliet man from the 800 block of North Raynor Avenue was arrested Feb. 29 for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm during a 7:45 a.m. warrant-related police contact at his home. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

Public Violence

• A 20-year-old Joliet man from the 100 block of Pleasant Street was arrested Feb. 29 for aggravated battery to a peace officer who was responding to a 5:30 a.m. domestic-battery complaint on the 600 block of Summit Street. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

DUI

• A 19-year-old Joliet male from the 800 block of Sherman Street was arrested March 1 for aggravated DUI during a 2:40 a.m. traffic stop at Ottawa McDonough streets during a hit-and-run investigation. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.
• A 30-year-old Crest Hill man from the 1500 block of Pioneer Road was arrested March 1 for aggravated DUI and driving on a suspended license, and ticketed for driving without headlights and improper lane use during a 3:10 a.m. traffic stop at Washington Street and Mississippi Avenue. He is scheduled to appear in court March 23.

Drug-Related

• A 43-year-old Joliet man from the 2200 block of Tamarack Drive was arrested around 10 p.m. Feb. 29 at his home on a warrant charging him with selling cocaine on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 in Joliet. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 35-year-old Chicago man was arrested March 6 by a special drug unit and subsequently charged with possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in court March 28.
• A 31-year-old Joliet man from the 0-100 block of Broadway Street was arrested March 5 by a special drug unit and subsequently charged with possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine. He is scheduled to appear in court March 27.
• A 32-year-old Joliet woman convicted Jan. 23 of possession of a controlled substance and firearms possession was arrested March 1 by Illinois State Police and subsequently charged with one count of selling more than 100 grams of cocaine and one count of possession of more than 100 grams of cocaine. The resident of the 200 block of Lincoln Street is scheduled to appear in court March 23 on the new charge.
• A 31-year-old Joliet man from the 1500 block of Glenwood Avenue was arrested Feb. 28 during a 7:10 a.m. warrant-related police contact on the 1100 block of North Charlesworth Avenue and subsequently charged with selling 1-15 grams of cocaine. He also is charged with violating parole on a seven-year sentence for a weapons-related conviction. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 24-year-old Joliet man from the 100 block of Arizona Avenue was arrested Feb. 28 by a special drug unit and charged with selling more than 15 grams of cocaine on Aug. 30 and Sept. 1 in Joliet. He is scheduled to appear in court March 21.
• A 19-year-old Joliet female from the 2200 of West Acres Road was arrested March 6 by a special drug unit and charged with selling more than 15 grams of cocaine.

Prostitution

• A 34-year-old Lombard woman was sentenced to 10 days in jail and given a 12-month suspended sentence March 5 after pleading guilty to prostitution.

A Look at Your Next Smartphone

What is your next phone going to look like? At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week manufacturers are giving an idea.
Bigger, brighter, faster, more powerful. They'll do more but will be easier to use. If it's not an Apple, it's likely an Android, and all the smartphone makers are struggling to make their devices stand out among the hundreds of glass-plated rectangles out there.
So, for instance, Nokia introduced a phone with a 41-megapixel camera. That's not a typo. Forty-one megapixels. Samsung introduced a projector phone that lets you show a movie, play a game or give a business presentation in a 50-inch space on any white wall.
Fujitsu showed off phones that can be dropped in a bathtub or other porcelain fixture filled with water and come out just fine, thank you. And a Chinese company few Americans have heard of, Huawei, introduced the “world's fastest smartphone.”
With more than 1,400 exhibitors and 60,000 attendees, the Mobile World Congress has become one of the most important annual tech trade shows in the world, reflecting the rise of mobile computing. Top executives from Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Ford and Facebook were scheduled to speak.
Apple stayed home, because it can. The smartphone and the tablet, the now and future of mobile, were created with the iPhone and iPad. Why associate with all that Android riffraff?
And so, even though Microsoft was scheduled to debut a test version of Windows 8, devices powered by Google's Android operating system dominated—so much so, that Google developed an (Android) app to help attendees collect all 86 of the various Android-figure pins available at exhibitor booths.
Some trends are emerging in the best phones: Fast, quad-core processors; huge, brilliant screens of 4.5 to 4.7 inches and with greater resolution than the iPhone's vaunted Retina Display; 4G LTE high-speed data network capability; near-field communication, or NFC, which will enable a rollout of digital wallet technology later this year; and running the much-improved version 4.0 of Google's Android, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
A good example of this is HTC's One X smartphone, with a 1.5-GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 4.7-inch, 1280x720-pixel touchscreen, 32 gigabytes of built-in storage, 1 GB of RAM, 4G LTE, NFC, an 8-megapixel camera capable of shooting 1080p high-definition video, and will run Android 4.0. The camera can be ready to take a photo in 0.7 seconds, and it's capable of continuous burst shooting with a 0.2-second autofocus. Oh, and it runs Dr. Dre Beats audio for great sound.
Clearly, at least from a hardware specifications standpoint, this and phones like it will be superior to the iPhone 4S. Apple will have some upgrading to do on the hardware side when it launches the iPhone 5.
There's also a separate trend of low-end smartphones, particularly the Windows phones, as Microsoft and Nokia team up to try to get a foothold in a market dominated by Apple and Android phones. There should be at least a few up-to-date, full-featured smartphones offered by wireless carriers for free by next fall with the standard two-year contract.
Now on to the unusual. Top of the list would have to be Nokia's 808 PureView smartphone with its 41-megapixel camera using Carl Zeiss optics. The PureView isn't much of a smartphone, running on the antiquated Symbian operating system, but it likely rivals a lot of digital cameras and happens to be a phone, too. While megapixels aren't everything to picture quality, sample photos have been stunning. Nokia promises a Windows Phone version of the device is coming.
Samsung's Galaxy Beam brings projection to the masses. It's even OK as an Android smartphone, and is only about a half-inch thick in spite of housing a bulb big enough to project anything from its 800x480-pixel screen for up to three hours. Need to entertain a bunch of kids with SpongeBob? Find a wall.
Fujitsu's phones have a waterproof seal on the camera battery case and are leakage protected to about a 5-foot depth, which should be good enough to protect against bathroom accidents. The phones will be offered late this year in Europe, but the company is still looking for a U.S. carrier.
China's Huawei is no stranger to mobile devices, but the brand is unknown in the U.S. The company has made some low-end “white-label” phones sold by carriers here, but now it wants a bigger piece of the market, and the credit.
The company showed a series of Android phones, including the Ascend Quad D, which uses the company's own quad-core chip that it claims runs faster than Nvidia's Tegra 3, making the phone the “fastest smartphone in the world.” Other specs are in the same class as the HTC One X, and hands-on reviewers have been impressed by their performance. If they're successful in finding a carrier, look for them in the U.S. later this year.
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The solar cell is not clean energy

Solar cells in the course does have no emissions, no noise, and energy consumption of clean energy title, but the mainstream today, but ignore the glossy surface of solar cells behind the production process of high pollution, high energy consumption.
    First, the high pollution
    Solar cell is 90% for crystalline silicon cells, the raw material for polysilicon, silicon metal (industrial silicon) purified from the country are using the chemical method (Modified Siemens): first silicon metal into trichlorosilane, and then fractionation and distillation purification, high purity trichlorosilane (toxic, corrosive and explosive), and ultimately restore from hydrogen; this process is only about 25% of trichlorosilane transfer into polysilicon , and the remaining direct emissions; the most polluted, is a byproduct during the restore process - silicon tetrachloride (an extremely corrosive, toxic liquids that are difficult to save, with acute toxicity due to silicon tetrachloride natural degradation of the silicon tetrachloride dumped or buried, the water will be subject to serious pollution, land will become barren land). This does not include a large number of chlorine and other toxic and flammable and explosive gases.
    To produce 1KW solar panels consuming 10Kg polysilicon, silicon tetrachloride produce 80Kg above. Domestic through hydride reduction of the closed-loop process cycle to reduce the emission of silicon tetrachloride is only one; and even by hydride reduction of the closed-loop process cycle, silicon tetrachloride emissions still reached 50%; silicon tetrachloride is a chemical raw material, downstream chemical plant digestion is very limited. A small part of most domestic polysilicon manufacturers of silicon tetrachloride at low prices sold to downstream manufacturers, part of the store, then secretly buried.
    This does not include other accessories post-processing of the silicon. Such as acid and alkali solution used in the texturing process, proliferation of the use of phosphorus oxychloride, the use of PECVD silane, these auxiliary consumption of less than the main material.
    As the solar timeliness, sunlight will produce electricity; maintain the power supply must be used to charge storage batteries when the sun without the sun. While the canada batteries mainly in the lead-acid batteries the degree of pollution is considerable.
    Second, the high-energy
    Silica smelting silicon metal, metal silicon purification for polysilicon, the polysilicon film processing requires a lot of electricity, mainly concentrated in the smelting of the silica, polysilicon ingots and proliferation of these processes; to produce 1KW solar panels need to spend 5800-6000 electricity (national average). We can calculate: the average exposure time of 4 hours / day, the solar cell is the life expectancy of 15-20 years (20 years), the total generating capacity of 1KW solar cells 4x365x20 = 29200KW • h; and consume 6000 kWh compared to electrical energy regeneration than 4.87, it's not even counting the loss of light efficiency as well as the loss of the power inverter and control circuits; far below the hydropower and wind power. If coupled with ultra-white glass, aluminum, steel, cable accessories, power regeneration ratio is quite low.
    More than 90 percent of current domestic production of solar panels for export to other countries in enjoying the clean energy, China is suffering from the pain of energy consumption and pollution. China's solar cell production in 2003 10MWp, 50MWp, 2004 200MWp 2005, 2006 400MWp 2007 1088MWp, 2008 2600MWp, 2009 4000MWp; reason why there will be a blowout, just because the only growth on the ZF and only the GDP value. Enterprises only copy or imitate, without making technological innovation, lack of supervision and weak environmental awareness is another important cause of high pollution and high energy consumption.
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