DSLR Wified + Andoid TV Stick

dslrcontroller

Dongle para tornar a DSLR wifi e para colocar na TV e usar como tablet de ecrã gigante. Em vez de teclado + rato remote, usar no tablet app que os simule:

http://www.howtogeek.com/161602/how-to-use-your-android-device-as-a-mouse-keyboard-joystick-and-more/

apps para diminuir o stress, combater insónia, acabar com a ansiedade...

apps Personal Trainers

1. Diminuir o stress

“Calm” é uma aplicação que, tal como o nome indica, promove uma sensação de calma, relaxando o sistema nervoso. Basta selecionar a duração da sessão (entre 2 a 20 minutos) e escolher uma imagem da natureza como cenário de fundo. Para acompanhar, do som das ondas do oceano até ao ruído da chuva, as opções são infinitas. Uma lufada de ar fresco com uma versão online que pode experimentar aqui. O uso de headphones é, obviamente, recomendado (não só nesta como na maior parte das aplicações aqui referidas).

3. Acabar com as insónias

As insónias são um problema sério para muitas pessoas e é por isso queGlenn Harrold decidiu lançar a aplicação “Relax & Sleep Well”. Se quer evitar pertubações do sono, experimente ouvir a “sleep version” para adormecer mais rápido. Já a “awake version” visa estimulá-lo/a para o novo dia e deve ser ouvida assim que acorda. Duas versões que pretendem acabar com as preocupações, stress e ansiedade que impedem uma boa noite de sono.

9. Acabar com a ansiedade

“Take A Break” não é mais do que uma pausa que promete acabar com os momentos mais stressantes de um dia caótico. Existem duas sessões, uma de sete minutos e outra de 13, com diferentes músicas de fundo especialmente pensadas para transmitir uma sensação de calma e segurança. “Comece por deixar em pausa tudo aquilo que estava a fazer e deixe a sua imaginação fluir”, explica uma voz suave.

Canon 100d review

Ken Roockwell on rebel sl1 aka canon 100d

The question is, how to improve quality? should I get a L lenses to step up to the next level?... my quest is in the wide zoom arena where I already have the 18-55stm and a 18-50 F2.8 tamron. and the 24stm and the 40stm...

but 17-40 L is outdated and doesn't perform well with the new >8 megapixel sensors, 2.8L are big and heavy. the new 16-35L F4 is also heavy and expensive.

maybe the new 24-70L F4 is what I need?

Ken Rockwell comparisons sl1-vs-5d-mk-iii


it seems it'll cost thousands to improve quality and improvement will be noticed mainly under special conditions: mostly with lowlight. (not really surprised here, but I expected bigger differences under better light, I'd say).

So to improve quality, the best option (for a non professional) is to spare some bucks and take more shots, learn how to use the camera (e.g. sharpening 6 and saturation 3or 4 for nature and 0 or 1 for people), avoid the lenses weakest perfomance zones (usually wider and bigger aperture for wide lenses - e.g. I avoid on my tamron 17-50 the 17mm specially with F2.8 whenever possible, and max. apertures on my 18-55 stm or 40stm. with these lenses going for a F/5.6 or F/8 we usually boost quality in reducing vigneting and cromatic aberrations and putting resolution at its best)
and get the best light (time of day, positioning).

I don't think 100d will match a 5d when dealing with noise, nor the stm lenses beat the L lenses in vigneting or chromatic aberrations but, under a resonably good light, stepping down the stm lenses away from max apertures (only one or two steps will make a big difference) I'll be close to the 5d / L lenses quality. resolution? hardly I'll spot differences, specially in center.

Rota das Cascatas - Vila de Rei

Rota das Cascatas - Vila de Rei

Para explorar e fotografar - aprox. 10km / 4h a pé.

Descrição, fotos e vídeo de um passeio aqui:
http://porfragasepragas.blogspot.pt/2014/02/cascatas.html

Macro Photography, using extension tubes

Extension tubes

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The cheapest tube set with electric contacts is about $60 to $70 I understand. At least, it was that a couple of months ago, although prices may have gone up by now. Just check Amazon or the B&H site. For a good set but more expensive, get a Kenko 3 tube set (plastic), and if you want metal the only option is Canon. However, with a 40 mm you could just get away with a 12 mm tube to begin with anyway. As this lens has an MFD of 25 cm, a 12 mm tube at MFD will give you a new MFD of approximately 175 mm with 113 mm WD and a magnification of 1:0.55, or slightly better than half size. A 25 mm tube 161 mm MFD, 86 mm WD, and magnification of 1:0.875. A 30 mm tube will provide you with 1:1 for this lens.
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The most important aspect of having tubes with contacts is the ability to control the aperture on an EF or EF-S lens."

Caminho Português de Santiago pela Costa

Seguindo o caminho central até S. Pedro de Rates:

http://pt.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=3001949

262km; 2.900mts desnível positivo acumulado.


ou indo logo para a costa pela Póvoa de Varzim (track em baixo só até Caminha, mas a continuação é igual ao anterior):

http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=xbqrrborsaybdjro

Açores

 "Já percebi que o que as ilhas têm de mais belo e as completa é a ilha que está em frente", Raul Brandão

hincentives_what_really_makes_people_work_hard

hincentives_what_really_makes_people_work_hard

reason drives conclusion
emotion drives behavior

ocitocina - empatia
dopamina - cognição, memória

Project Communication

project-communications-a-plan-for-getting-your-message-across

the future of management - Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel - Future of management << quotes and preface

In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century—centered on control and efficiency—no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies must reinvent management.


"how do you build organizations that are as nimble as change itself"

 “Like the combustion engine, it's a technology that has largely stopped evolving, and that's not good.” What then does the future of management hold? Hamel timidly won't say. “My goal in writing this book was not to predict the future of management, but to help you invent it,” he wrote. Useful things to bear in mind, he suggested, are the need for companies to have purpose, to seek out ideas from the fringes, and to embrace the democratising power of the internet.