They are looking at a large Great Horned Owl, one of the biggest owl around. The owl is perched on what looks to me a fir tree 15 ft/5m of the ground. It's around 10:30am and the owl is sleeping. The Great Horned Owl occasionally opens an eye to make sure that everything is safe, he mostly hunts around dusk and dawn. If he sees something worthwhile during the day, he will go on the hunt for it.

Most professional and prosumer cameras have the Micro Focus Adjustment (MFA). The MFA allows for the variation between the focusing with focusing module and the focusing at the CMOS sensor. I do my MFA on regular basis:

• Before a “big” job, just to make sure when I prepare the cameras, just like fully charged batteries for the cameras and the flashes, empty memory cards… It's part of the ritual.
• Twice a year, usually the end of February and the mid-fall. The temperature extremes can change the MFA settings needed.

Facebook is the world largest photo gallery. Nobody, nobody comes even close. Facebook has 150+ billion photos on line (yes, one hundred fifty Billions) and people are uploading about 250+ million photos everyday, according to Facebook initial public offering (IPO). Photography is big, very big business. It's so big now that many governments are putting in place “Orphan Works” legislation, aka “How can I appropriate somebody else's work without paying a dime.” The “Orphan Works” legislation, usually, goes along the line of:

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There are some people that ruffle my feathers. Most of these people are “absolutists”. The problem with me is that immediately I dismiss them. You've heard the expression“In one ear, out the other”, me I do not even waste one brain cell, it doesn't go through any ear.

In the States, Seattle claims to be the coffee place because Starbucks started there. San Francisco claims to be the best coffee place of US. Vancouver, Canada must be just “up there.” In my area of Vancouver, BC, three to four packed coffee places per block is not unusual.

I was at one of these organic double venti moka coffee with Dan and his friend Walter, more of an acquaintance than a friend, who is also a photographer wanna-be. I don't know how we got onto talking cameras, what do you expect from photographers? In anyway, Walter's argument is that only “idiots” would use APS-C cameras, all photographers must upgrade to either the Canon 6D or the Nikon D600. APS-C could be acceptable for wildlife and birding but for the rest…

Please note that I'm only highlighting Canon's Imaging division which represents 40% of the company.

Demand for interchangeable-lens digital cameras continued to display strong growth across global markets while demand for compact digital cameras shrunk not only in developed countries, but also in China and some emerging nations.

Source: Canon financials for the year 2012

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