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Re: Price Drop: AlertsPro (Weather) « iPadRank

shibuya246 — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:20:31 -0000

Weather app for rainy days

Re: Why the new Google server farm could displace Adobe Lightroom

shibuya246 — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:53:04 -0000

Since Adobe have reorganised their CS package to be subscription based, including a cloud server model, then I would assume that Adobe have already figured out this is the path forward for them as well. Could Google replace Adobe in the photo organising photo processing space? Absolutely, they can.

I used to use the desktop software, Picasa, from Google and it kept my photos very well organised. I only moved off it last year when I bought a Mac and installed Aperture instead. I could easily be persuaded to go back to some form of Picasa and cloud. I just wish everything wasn't tied into having to login to Google+ first to do it all.

Most of Googles products feel like a data storage company to me anyway, much more than say being a social media company. The idea that they would store all of our photos for us makes a lot of sense. A real shame Yahoo doesn't own a similar service with billions of photos already uploaded. That could be a real winner for them. (flickr)

Compared to Google, Facebook and Yahoo, Adobe's current market position for data storage of photos has a lot of catching up to do.

Re: The China Experiment – Dumping Nikon for Sony

shibuya246 — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:16:26 -0000

I bought the NEX7 when it first came out here in Japan. It's not a bad camera and the photo results are quite good, but I can't seem to adjust myself to looking through the electronic viewfinder. I feel like I am playing a video game instead of looking at nature. I prefer to take single hand held RAW shots and process HDR with Photomatix rather than setting on a tripod with multiple bracketed shots. As such I rely on the viewfinder more than looking at the back LCD panel. I normally use the D700 for those.

In the 1 year I have had the camera it has mainly been left on the shelf or lent out to friends. Your article makes me want to get the NEX7 out again and have another look. Maybe I will find something that I was missing before.

Re: Scott Bourne and Other Fallout from DSLR Dying article… & Saving Money

shibuya246 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:27:24 -0000

In Japan, where many of the more well known camera brands are developed, the huge market for these new 3rd Generation cameras is the young female market. This market is the hottest selling sector in Japan at the moment as young females have the most disposable income and willingness to buy new things.

The 3rd Gen camera pamphlets in Japan all feature almost 100% coverage of females (age group 20's, early 30's) using the cameras to take pictures of food, pets and travel with their other female friends. There are no guys featured in these pamphlets. The stores are pushing the cameras as being lighter and easier to use, due to lack of mirror, although, they are not actually that much lighter if at all, the marketing push sounds good all the same.

As with the first digital cameras, serious photographers didnt give them much notice at the start, but they soon got better and better, buoyed on by sales of non professional and often first time photographers. Then the cameras and their photographic quality started to become as good and then better than analog ones.

I agree with Trey that the mirror based digital camera is now seeing its main competitor being introduced and that eventually it will be replaced by it in many situations. Whilst you may still want a top of the line DSLR for some situations, you are going to see less development dollars spent on the DSLR cameras as companies encouraged by sales of 3rd Gen cameras start reworking their budgets and diverting R&D dollars to where the new revenue streams come from.

The camera industry is viewing a boom time at the moment. Japan has a lot of innovation and recognized brands, but don't be surprised if some new brands also take advantage of this change and join in.

Timeline ? Depends a lot on the buyers of cameras. I think the market will see an initial pickup of sales from first time photographers, or first time point and shoot photographers who have graduated from their mobile or iphones. In Japan this market is flying. Everyone who has taken a photo with their small mobile or iphone is thinking, hey with a proper camera I could take better pics, and when they go to the store the 3rd Gen cameras are center stage. Keep in mind, in Japan it is the 20's female market doing all the buying, so expect lighter cameras with simpler features and light body colors. Think dogs, cats, flowers and food for ideal photo content. The rest of the market can catch up after the initial push from this 20's female market(called F1 market, in Japan)

Re: Our Winter Holiday in the UK and Spain

shibuya246 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:01:28 -0000

For your flight problem, that's when you should say "You can't force me to get on that flight. Either take my luggage off or wait for my wife. It's your choice". Glad it worked out in the end. Who got to sit next to Pepe?

Re: Warning : Facebook Fan Page Disabled

shibuya246 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:54:05 -0000

I had the same thing happen automatically when the page hit 10,000 fans. I only ever posted photos to the fan page and never had links going to products or services for any external companies.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/...

I had bought ads from Facebook to help increase the fans and they approved the ads and took over $1,000 off me for them. If they already knew at the start that they would close the fan page at 10,000 fans and didn't disclose that as they were approving and taking the ad money, it looks like a fraudulent gain by them.

They can decide any rule to close the page, but if they had already decided and still took the money, they are at fault.

If this is a rule programmed into their systems that sites hitting 10,000 will get closed then it is systematic fraud.

Re: Autumn in Aoyama

shibuya246 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:26:12 -0000

Thanks. appreciate your comment. The pictures in fact were not edited, only reduced in size.

Re: Autumn in Aoyama

shibuya246 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:37:26 -0000

Thanks. Glad you liked them. Once they turn yellow the color is quite striking. Even on a dark day the yellow lights up the whole are. beautiful ^_^

Re: Nikkor

shibuya246 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:36:08 -0000

what do you think of the new D300s coming out?

Re: ようちえんへ行く　Kindy in Japan

shibuya246 — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:16:04 -0000

It does look like the uniform is the same doesn't it. You could almost hand it down from one generation to the next :)

Re: Royce Chocolate

shibuya246 — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:56:56 -0000

I like a good box of Royce chocolates. very creamy :)

Re: You know you are in Japan

shibuya246 — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:37:57 -0000

I like your photo with the bike. :)

Re: Sadako Tokyo 1939

shibuya246 — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:32:45 -0000

Sounds like an interesting series. Would like to see how it turns out in next episode :)

Re: 1916 Hiroshima

shibuya246 — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:20:32 -0000

nice photos :)

Re: Different perspectives on iPhone development

shibuya246 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:31:11 -0000

Just when you think you are moving forward with your software development skills, a new device comes out and you find you have to take a few steps sideways and start the grunt work again.

It's like being promoted a few times at your company, having staff available to do things for you and then leaving to join a new company, only to find out the things you took for granted now have to be done by yourself again. It doesn't mean the new company is a backwards step, it just is different.

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Re: Price Drop: AlertsPro (Weather) « iPadRank

Re: Why the new Google server farm could displace Adobe Lightroom

Re: The China Experiment – Dumping Nikon for Sony

Re: Scott Bourne and Other Fallout from DSLR Dying article… & Saving Money

Re: Our Winter Holiday in the UK and Spain

Re: Warning : Facebook Fan Page Disabled

Re: Autumn in Aoyama

Re: Autumn in Aoyama

Re: Nikkor

Re: ようちえんへ行く Kindy in Japan

Re: Royce Chocolate

Re: You know you are in Japan

Re: Sadako Tokyo 1939

Re: 1916 Hiroshima

Re: Different perspectives on iPhone development

Re: ようちえんへ行く　Kindy in Japan