http://lucis.net computers, graphics, movies, books, photography, life, universe and everything Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:07:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is officially the last day that Konica Minolta is in the camera (selling) business. Tomorrow (April 1st) it all goes over to Sony. I started using Minolta just over three months ago. In the last three months I have acquired three Minolta camera bodies and about a dozen lenses ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/03/31/goodbye-minolta/ Okay, first a disclaimer. You are going to hate me for doing this to you (just as I can never forgive Debasish). You will spend sleepless nights staring at the computer screen and scribbling on paper, you'll be thinking of this when you work, sleep or eat, and your entire ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/03/19/notpron/ BSG is without doubt one of the best shows on TV ever created. This fact was made ever more obvious in the 90 minute Season 2 finale. Wow! What can I say about this episode. Very rarely have I been so impressed by a single episode of any show (maybe ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/03/12/battlestar-galactica/ I have always been a little skeptical of the four-thirds system mainly because if the lack of cheap and high quality Olympus lenses. Inspite of everyone and their dog predicting the death of the system soon, Olympus and Panasonic seem to be the only companies that are even trying to ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/03/01/panasonic-dmc-l1/ This is probably the only blog I religiously read every day. Not only does it have a nice review of the latest photography/camera news, it also has interesting articles and mini-reviews well worth a read. Highly recommended for anyone interested in photography. http://lucis.net/archives/2006/02/24/the-online-photographer/ Over the past few weeks the homepage of Times of India has been posting picutures of hollywood and (sometimes) Indian celebrities. The pictures go with some absolutely ridiculous piece of news under them (such as, some one famous brushed her teeth today). What really bugs me with these photos is ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/01/28/whitebalance-on-pictures-at-timesofindiacom/ Konica Minolta announced today that they are withdrawing from the camera and photo business. One of the most innovative and creative camera company is coming to an end. Luckily the Maxxum mount will live under the Sony name. As much as I would hate to carry a Sony camera, this ... http://lucis.net/archives/2006/01/19/sad-day-for-the-camera-industry/ I've used gnome as my default desktop for the better part of the last three years. Why? Because it "looked" better than KDE back when I tried them both. KDE was a tad faster, but everyone wants some eye candy! But it looks like KDE has come a long way. ... http://lucis.net/archives/2005/12/31/kde-and-amarock/ Over the past few days I've been trying to decide on a photo sharing website. flickr is extremely popular and the pro account has unlimited bandwidth and storage. It also has an amazing community with millions of cluncky but functional groups. However, I could never get myself to like the ... http://lucis.net/archives/2005/12/27/smugmug-vs-flickr-vs-pbase-vs/ ... or am I? Its been a long time since I wrote anything here. Have lots of stuff to add and lots of pictures to share. I hope I'll try to update this more often. Meanwhile, upgraded WP to the latest version - was really straightforward. To get started, here is ... http://lucis.net/archives/2005/12/26/im-back/