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This article may be more advanced than most of us using our digital cameras will ever need. However, I found it very interesting; especially how painters utilize brightness, saturation and hue to create a 3-D image. It’s rather lengthy but I think even the more advanced photographer will find some very useful information.

Reality and Digital Pictures

by Charles Maurer

People often ask me if I think digital photography is as good as film or will ever become as good as film. I reply that for all but a few special purposes, digital is better already. Technically, my digital photographs are at least as good as the best conventional photographs I ever took with 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ (6 cm x 9 cm) film, and pictorially they are better. With my digital camera I can take pictures in the street that used to require a studio.

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“Retirees in Long Beach and Weaverville, Calif., halibut fishermen in Alaska, data entry clerks in London, casting agents in New York—all separated from the classroom by age, distance or circumstance—are learning from some of the world’s top scholars,” Michelle Quinn (Los Angeles Times) tells her readers. They’re learning by downloading podcasts from iTune U, where “28 colleges and universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Yale, now post select courses without charge at iTunes.”  Read more …

Turn your player into the ultimate learning guide

Walk down the street in most cities—or through any college campus—and you’re likely to see more iPods than you can count. But those iPods can do more than just pump up gym-goers as they work out, or enable students to rock out as they walk to class or watch videos during study breaks. The devices can also serve as powerful learning tools. Whether you’re trying to pass Physics 101—or just learn passable French for your next business trip to Paris—the iPod can accommodate the eternal student in all of us.

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You get a new study partner.
Your kind of school.

Now you can use iTunes for school, too. iTunes U lets you find, download, and organize audio and video your professors have posted — the same way you do with music, movies, and podcasts. Like everything in iTunes, course content can be played on your Mac or PC, or you can sync up your iPod and learn whenever, wherever you want.
Define your own campus.

Listen to language lessons at the gym. Watch lab demonstrations at the café. Review lectures in the car or on the bus. With iTunes U, you can study on your own schedule — no matter how crazy. Learning has finally caught up with your lifestyle.

Over 16 Universities - Duke, MIT, MI Tech, Stanford, among others - participate in this program. MIT has made available almost their entire course catalogue available. FREE!