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Monday, November 22, 2010

Panasonic announces 14-140mm firmware availability

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Sony debuts back-lit CMOS sensors for cell phones

Sony has announced the world's first 1/2.8" 16MP Exmor-R back illuminated sensor for mobile phones. Offering the smallest unit pixel size of 1.12μm, it will also be incorporated into what is claimed to be the smallest and thinnest mobile phone lens module. The sensor is capable of recording full HD 1080p30 videos and offers continuous shooting speed of 15fps. The company has also announced a similar 1/3.2" 8.13Mp sensor with a corresponding 28mm lens module. Both start shipping from 2011.

Press Release:


Also announces industry's smallest and thinnest*1 lens module for mobile phones

October 7, 2010, Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation (hereafter, "Sony") today announced the commercialization of two new "Exmor R" back-illuminated CMOS image sensors with dramatically improved photographic performance including significantly high sensitivity and low noise. In addition, Sony will launch two new lens modules equipped with these image sensors, which also include the smallest and thinnest*1 model for mobile phones. This is also the first time that "Exmor R" is commercialized for the use in mobile phones.

"IMX081PQ" is world's first*1 type 1/2.8 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 16.41 effective megapixel resolution, and adopts the industry's smallest*1 unit pixel size of 1.12μm. "IMX105PQ" is a type 1/3.2 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 8.13 effective megapixel resolutions for higher sensitivity and adopts a unit pixel size of 1.4μm. By embedding these highly sensitive sensors into mobile phones, including those without camera flash, users can capture high quality photos and videos even in low light settings.

Furthermore, Sony will commercialize "IU081F" and "IU105F2" compact auto-focus lens modules which include the two new "Exmor R" back-illuminated CMOS image sensors. These down-sized modules are suitable and efficient for mobile phones with relatively limited space and are equipped with high performance lens which maximize the image sensors' respective performances. "IU081F" is the industry's smallest and thinnest*1auto-focus lens module (W10.5 X D10.5 X H7.9mm) and is equipped with the 16.41 effective megapixel*2 CMOS image sensor.

"IU105F2" adopts the 8.13 effective megapixel*1 CMOS image sensor, and belongs in the industry's smallest and thinnest*3 size class (W8.5 X D8.5 X H5.67mm). Through its proprietary fine pixel fabrication process technology, Sony will proactively continue the development of "Exmor R" which adopts the 1.12μm unit pixel size for mobile phones. Accordingly, Sony aims to address customer demand by providing appropriately small lens modules especially for smartphones with large displays and limited space for components.

About the realization of high resolution
"IMX081PQ" is world's first*1 type 1/2.8 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 16.41 effective megapixel resolution, and adopts the industry's smallest*1 unit pixel size of 1.12μm achieved by the fine pixel fabrication process technology. In theory, when a unit pixel size is made smaller, there are also some issues such as color mixture among smaller unit pixels. Sony solved this problem by implementing a unique formation of photo diodes optimally designed for fine pixel structure to realize a CMOS image sensor with high resolution, high sensitivity and low noise.

About manufacturing
Since 2009, Sony has been mass producing "Exmor R" for Digital Still Cameras and Digital Video Camcorders on wafer lines (with diameter of 200mm) at Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation's Nagasaki Technology Center. At the end of 2010, Sony plans to start the mass production of "Exmor R," including those for mobile phones announced today, at Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation's Kumamoto Technology Center, on cutting-edge wafer lines (with diameter of 300mm). Sony already announced (September 1, 2010) the investment of approximately 40 billion yen in Kumamoto Technology Center to increase production capacity for CMOS image sensors.

About Back-illuminated CMOS image sensor "Exmor R"
Sony first announced the development of "Exmor R" on Jun, 2008. "Exmor R" has been incorporated in Sony's digital imaging products since 2009, and its use in other products has continued to expand. "Exmor R" CMOS image sensor features Sony's independently developed back-illuminated structure, realizing significantly higher sensitivity as well as lower noise. In this back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, light is directed onto the silicon substrate from behind, allowing light to be used with a level of efficiency not possible with conventional front-illuminated structures.

Main Features

Sensor

CMOS image sensor with the world's first*1 16.41 effective megapixel resolution for use in mobile phones. ("IMX081PQ") --adopts formation technology used to create industry's smallest*11.12μm unit pixelRealizes high sensitivity and low noise through back-illuminated structure.Adopts Sony's proprietary "Column-Parallel A/D Conversion Technique", providing each column within the sensor with its own A/D converter, achieving high frame rates of 15 frame/sec (in all-pixel scan mode) and Full-HD video taking capability.

Lens module

The industry's smallest and thinnest*1 lens module equipped with CMOS image sensor, lens and auto-focus functions in which the pixel structure and lens are optimally designed. ("IU081F")Approximately twice as sensitive as a conventional front-illuminated CMOS image sensor by combining back-illuminated CMOS image sensor and bright lens with small f-number. ("IU105F2") Equipped with 28mm wide-angle lens (35mm conversion) which is convenient for daily shooting.


*1 As of October 7, 2010
*2 Based on the effective pixels of the image sensor
*3 Compared to CMOS image sensor with the same pixel count as of October 7, 2010


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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Voice of the background, lens

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Memorial Day Indictment

Investigate, Then charge or impeach.

And if there are no grounds,

Let the voters throw them out!

If Al-Qaeda intended to change the United States by their inhuman acts on September 11, 2001, they accomplished what they set out to do.? Americans took the bait and President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their cronies took advantage of our fears to begin to reshape America in their own vision.

??? We went to war to wipe out the Taliban.? Then, before we could finish the job in Afghanistan, Iraq became more important. What could have been more important than totally vanquishing the government in power in Afghanistan, the one government that we know directly participated on September 11, 2001? Incredibly, the Taliban today controls sign cant portions of Afghanistan.


??? This Administration never told us we were voting for a war in Iraq if we were voted for Bush/Cheney.? Perhaps I missed the code words during the speeches and debates in the run up to the election.? It appears that one needs to be able to divine this Administration's code in order to understand its intentions.? A little like Bill Clinton's verbal linguistics but?far more dangerous and much more personal.? A good example is the code word "Coalition".? What that means to this Administration is mostly US and several other countries with most committing a minimal number of troops.? Watch Bush's lips move and listen for the code.? It happens all the time, now that he is President. I must admit I do not yet fully understand much of the code I hear.?

????We went to war on Iraq based on the Administrations' request, to us, and Congress, to trust their Intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.? Rumsfeld even told us where they were located.? We are now told that since there were no weapons of mass destruction we were nevertheless justified in waging war because Saddam Hussein is a terrible person.? If that is a?justification for going to war, what about all those other really bad guys out there?


??? We were also told that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist acts.? Ooops, that was a mistake in Intelligence as well.

???? And the biggest failure of Intelligence lead to the Administration's biggest mistake, next to our entry into Iraq.? Because they thought our troops were going to be greeted by the Iraqis with flowers and candy instead of bullets, they massively underestimated the number of troops we needed to commit if we had any chance of a successful outcome.? Then, when it became clear that we could not provide security in Iraq, the Administration refused to admit?its mistake and thereafter refused to significantly raise the number of troops when they could have done the most good.? There was no backup plan.? If no flowers and candy, maybe we should have had a contingency plan to seal the Iraqi borders.?? Maybe we could have stockpiled armor in the event the flowers and candy turned to IED's.? Maybe we needed to have more troops in reserve, ready to win the war if things did not go as we were lead to believe?? In response to the question, "who could have known?" I spoke to many people in the lead up to the war that made these exact arguments.??

?????Who gained by this war?? Are there fewer deaths in Iraq now than there were in the years before the war?? What about the thousands of soldiers and the tens of thousands of civilians?? Is the typical Iraqi not living in the Green Zone better off today in their personal security, economically, in their freedom of religion and by most other measures?? I think not.? Are Americans any safer?? While there been no terrorist attacks in America since the September 1, 2001 attacks, the war has nevertheless cost the lives of a similar number of Americans as did the airliner attacks.? And the financial cost to our kids and grandchildren?? What about our standing in the world?? ?

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?????So who did benefit from this unjustified war?? The only clear beneficiaries are a few multi-national corporations, like the Kuwaiti firm that is building the massive American embassy in Baghdad and Dick Cheney's old pals at Halliburton.? I make no claim that this result was the aim of the Administration.? It is sad enough to report the results of this Administration's actions.?

?????And when we discover that our Intelligence was faulty, and it is revealed, the Administration retaliates by leaking the name of a CIA agent.? This is the very Administration that complains about leaks and the irresponsibility of the press revealing the governments' actions.

???? Our citizens discovered that the NSA was conducting communication intercepts through the press.?? The Secret Court pushed for by the Administration was never consulted.?? While this Secret Court does not sound particularly American, we clearly need to take some secret action to fight terrorism.? Apparently, the Administration did not trust that these intercepts would be found legal by its' Secret Court so it did not try to secure warrants for these intercepts. The President's lawyer who gave the stamp of approval to this program then is promoted to Attorney General.? That is the head of the Agency that, in normal times would investigate the legality of the program.

?????The Administration refused to grant their own Justice Department attorneys security clearances in order to investigate the Justice Departments' lawyers role in these communication intercepts.? Therefore the investigation was closed by the Administrations' Justice Department.? Is that how our system is set up to work?? Where are the oversight and the balance of powers contemplated by the Constitution?


?????We are continuing to incarcerate suspected terrorists in Cuba so that they can be far from American justice.? They are subjected to what has been described as "coercive" measures to get them to reveal information.? When questioned,?the Administration justified Guantanamo Bay and practices such as water boarding as necessities and legal during war.? If necessary, and lawful why did we have to carry out those practices in Cuba?? Now, many of those "terrorists" have been released after years in custody and more will be freed soon.? Many because they were innocent.? After more than four years of detention and "persuasive interrogation".? A few of these "high security" detainees were just children.? Would that have been allowed if they were jailed in America and subject to the scrutiny of the Courts?? I hope not. And what about those high level terrorists captured over the past four years?? Why are they not brought to the United States?? Why are we hiding them in other countries?? This is America and I did not think that we did things that way.?

???? An American is arrested in the United States.? He is held without access to the Courts or even an attorney for years as an "enemy combatant".? When a challenge to that status is like to be upheld by the Supreme Court the Administration finally charges him with a crime to remove that issue from being decided by the Court.

??? Now we learn that most of our telephone records have been mined by the NSA.? Again, this was revealed by the press.? Again too, the Secret Court was not consulted for fear that the massive spying on Americans would not have been deemed legal.

???? Is this Administration telling us that in this war on terrorism, the American Courts cannot be trusted?

?????The head of the NSA at the time, these determinations were made and carried out, a general, is made head the civilian CIA. ?The first general to head the CIA in over 25 years.


?????The Administration defends some of these actions by the fact that there have been no terrorist incidents since September 11, 2001. Don't tell the American public that avoiding the scrutiny of the Secret Court prevented terrorist acts.? Even though it would not justify the Administration's failure to attempt to secure warrants, I would like to know exactly how many terrorist acts were prevented by the Administration learning what we read and who I call.

???? Some of these actions appear to fly in the face of the law of the land.? The Administrations' response?? The President has the inherent power to order these actions in a time of war.? In other words, this President has a right to defy the law of the land, when he determines it is in our best interest. Trust him.

???? I do not.? This is the same Administration that never told us before the war started what the plan was and what the commitment would be.? Did they do this out of evil intent?? Maybe not.? But they have lost my trust, and hopefully the trust of millions of Americans.

??? That is not all.

???? As unbelievable as it may seem, we are further cutting taxes, in this time of war and deficit.? It is a fact that these cuts benefit mostly the wealthy.? The excuse the Administration gives is that these tax cuts are needed to stimulate the economy.? Yet the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates since June, 2004 in order to control economic growth to control inflation.? The upper class gets major tax cuts while the rest of us get enough to fill our car up, once, if we are lucky.? Our children and grandchildren will finance this Administrations additions to the deficit and the entire war on Iraq. Where is the Republican fiscal conservatism?

??? Enough already.? If there are crimes that were committed by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their friends, let us bring them to justice.? If?we cannot do that because of his presidential power, then Bush should be impeached.? If there are no crimes or impeachable offenses, then let the voters, Republican and Democrat alike run these very dangerous rascals out of office.

???? Al-Qaeda wins when, because of fear, we lose our civil liberties.?? This Administration took advantage of the events of September 11, 2001 by stoking our fears to foster its own agenda.? We need to fight terrorism by Determination, Brain Power, Manpower, Funding, Technology and Intelligence and by cherishing and respecting the Constitution and protecting our rights and civil liberties.? We only foster the aims of terrorism when we allow ourselves to forget what a great, strong and potentially united a Nation we are.? We have to fight terror with all our might.? We should never agree to fight it by allowing our leaders to frighten us into submitting to our own form of dictatorship, where our leaders make up the law as they go along.

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My email address has changed to duby@bellsouth.net.

(The author, Michael Dubiner is a professional image maker and lawyer who lives in Wellington, Florida. His articles will appear twice monthly on PixiPort. His work can be seen at PixiPort.com and at his web site, duby.com.)

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Panasonic to expand Lumix camera brand to phones

Panasonic is set to extend its Lumix digital camera brand to include mobile phones. A teaser campaign on the company's Japanese site indicates that the first Lumix-branded phone will be announced at CEATC electronics trade show in Tokyo on October 5. Its processor has been branded as Mobile VenusEngine and it will offer microSD/SDHC slots.

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

PIXIPORT art photographer event list grants and opportunities

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Sony announces NEX-3 in pink

Sony has announced a pink color variant of its NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera that will only be available in the Japanese market. It joins the existing color choices of black, red and silver. The pink version will be available from November 2010 with a variety of optional pink accessories.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Pixiport black and white fine art photography

Supports all colors of my 40 years of discovery, Queen was in black and also. Auguste Renoir

Using Fuji digital camera and digital camera Panasonic's black and white digital photography techniques.

Evoke emotions "black and white photography, and soon not freezing time than other media. In ten years this famous photographers as seen in Steigletz, helped Weston Adams, promoted to a black and white photography, art form. Many of the strong and subtle tones of grey, black, and stressed because of the lack of white soft subject and natural color composition closer to look. Queuesabcdget and emotions always draw the contrast completely and the subject of sharp focus for black and white ". -Bob Snell

"Trying 私通 STB chose the black and white colors lack Viewer easily at home my themes at the same time emotions improves, because they feel support creating mood-Jeff Alu

See photos rather build on the existing style from challenging, that repeatedly coming. Have the courage to develop one's own style, it freely, form and inventively think is important. "-Helyn Davenport

"Point to the camera of my existing world towards the outside of my soul inside.
Since there is the reality of existing photography and his world to create really!
Results from the opposite side of the two approaches are especially different, and in my opinion, is the concept.
Photography is a high-level photo, painting, poetry, music, sculptures of artistic expression form. Adopts the special talent of intuitive vision. Main reflection of answers to questions by converting photos language concept of personal, it is possible: birth, death and life.
Ideas to create a transform reality, is the concept of critical processes.
"-Misha Gordin

"I think sometimes, and have some forms ? objects ? moments ? like silent mind absorbed, petty details of free solutions, Visual guide ? a ', 'many of the area, are provided as a means of penetrating. Frees the mind 'logic' of ' to formal definition ', and can be reasonably overcome world cross-labels and categories. Ships where 'understanding' analysis understanding before. In Singularity away lines, contours, pattern occurs. Anymore ? in requested 'meaning' there is no rational sense. [Begins to appeal to the sense of opacity of the shape ? texture ? tone ? our feeling is clearly expressed form ? 'fit in the category' and 'ideal' recognizable images. Detained in the area of darkness can move free and other associations to form and to form partnerships with other light ? free ". -Subir Chatterjee

"Is like looking for a balance of power of black and white, China yin and Yang, positive and negative. Finding the balance in one if you are lucky, you can describe the world, such as black and white photos. Expectations can be close to the light and truth in this field my attempt, available), is to find a harmonious play "
Nick Chaldakov downloads

Of losing income formation of personal perspective, a nostalgic touch, and universal environment than real black and white photography is one of the image method. Black and white photography can add timeless powerful images, as well as age strongly to life. I almost creating color picture of me, but I resist beauty and charm of black and white-Dubi Rome.

"Before digital, for years I always surface black and white usually add paint takes. Now I converting to black and white and color photos of the! to the benefits of dropping the image under the black and white, its basic form, form and composition of independently now. "-Judy Mandolf

"Create image to black and white color is not the removed one of this as it easy to combine elements. Gradient from the sound like what black to white. "-Nathan Khan

"My black and white, unique interpretational ability by making images of effecitve communication strength, subscribe. You can read the black and white photography, rather than only one theme "-Bob Evans

"There is fine personalised way to describe my work. But certainly the quality of light and shade is important. Matter of fact, an important element of these designs, consider as part. For me, without visual order of the images, despite the content fails. You must consider all of that. Must be fluent in harmony messages. To it that all together symphonically will need. If there is too much noise at least hear melodies for me is hard. The audience is assumed. I in shooting at East experience. Attempt frame in a Zen "-the David Mendelsohn.


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