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从 4/3 摄影论坛看到的帖子。

Olympus EP1/EP2/EPL1/EPL2/XZ-1 查看快门数的方法

By following these steps you can check your shutter count as well as a few other things. Follow these steps:
1. While holding the “Menu” button, press Power button to switch on
按住Menu键的同时按电源键

2. Press “Menu” and go to “Monitor brightness adjustment” screen
按Menu进入菜单，进入屏幕亮度调整

3. Press “Info” and “OK” button at same time, you will see the screen showing “Olympus”
同时按住Info和OK键，这时你应该可以看到屏幕上显示Olympus…

4. Press the following buttons in the sequence: Up, Down, Left, Right and then press the Shutter, followed by Up (dial button in my E-P2)
按顺序按下： 上，下，左，右，快门，上，你就能进入工程菜单了

5. Engineering mode page is seen. Press dial button to Page 1, 2, 3, and “D”.
通过上下左右键进入Page1, 2, ,3, D

6. Shutter count is on “Page 2” under “R”.
其中， Page 2的R 显示的就是快门数。

The other lines on the screen mean:

R: shutter release count 快门数
S: flash use count  闪光数
C: CMOS cleaning mode (with mirror lock-up – in E-410 series)
U: number of ultrasonic dedusting, ~ number of power switch on  自动除尘数（相当于电源开关次数）
V: number of use of LiveView  使用Liveview的次数
B: number of shot using In-Body Stablization  使用防抖的次数

Please be careful when doing this. Although it’s probably perfectly safe to do this i hold no responsibility if you mess up your Pen.

有网友测试，Olympus XZ-1、新版E-P3也是用这个方法。 测试了一下我的E-PL2,  快门数883 （其中我自己拍的有100来张）。

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几款非常不错的软件：

Slacker Radio是一款非常出色的音乐电台，可以听到100多个音乐家的音乐和创建自己的自定义站。有详细的歌手介绍，专辑评语等等，免费的。

Lost Worlds Films Lite features 3 of the best documentaries…

三部免费的电影，很喜欢。

今天升级了新的OS:

前些天主要用email、 浏览网站，最近几天才有空儿仔细的研究了下其他功能，比如这个screenshot的功能我是前两天才知道:

simply Press down on the PlayBook’s Volume Up and Volume Down buttons at the same time

So I just got a 16GB Blackberry Playbook…
7寸触控屏幕方便携带，正合我意，WiFi和蓝牙无线功能查看email,浏览即时信息很方便。

《巅峰记忆》主要以登山者李兰的第一视角切入，影片使用情景再现和访谈实录为表现手法，重现了8年前北大山鹰登山队发生山难的那一天的情形和救援活动。

下面这篇《山巅之魅》的报道可能对户外运动爱好者更有借鉴作用，都是专业登山者的经验体会。

延伸阅读：山巅之魅

by Jamie Golombek

With spring comes the official launch of house hunting season. So, what better time to ensure that you are maximizing the tax benefits associated with home ownership, especially since the 2010 tax return filing deadline is fast approaching.

If you purchased a new home in 2010, don’t forget to claim the relatively new Home Buyers’ Tax Credit. Introduced in 2009, this non-refundable tax credit is based on a $5,000 amount for first-time homebuyers which, at the 15% federal credit rate, is worth $750.

Interestingly, you are considered a first-time homebuyer if neither you nor your spouse or partner owned and lived in another home in the calendar year of purchase or any of the four preceding calendar years. In other words, you could have owned a home previously, but if you sold it and then perhaps rented for four years or so, you still may qualify as a first-time homebuyer for the purpose of claiming the credit if you bought a home in 2010.

Did you use the Home Buyers’ Plan when purchasing your home? Under the HBP, a first-time homebuyer can withdraw up to $25,000 from her RRSP to purchase a home without having to pay tax on that withdrawal. Any funds withdrawn must be repaid over a maximum of 15 years or the amount not repaid in a year is added to the participant’s income for that year.

If you participated in the HBP previously and were required to make a repayment for 2010, be sure to designate a portion of your RRSP contributions as a HBP repayment on Schedule 7 of your personal tax return, under “PART B – Repayments under the HBP. ”

You may also be able to get some tax relief from your property taxes, depending on your province of residence. Quebec provides a refund for property tax paid during the year, while both Ontario and Manitoba provide a tax credit for property tax or rent paid during the year.

Still have a mortgage? If so, have you considered whether you could restructure your financial affairs to make your mortgage interest effectively tax deductible?

If you have non-registered investments, consider selling them to pay off your mortgage (non-deductible debt) and then borrowing back the funds for investment purposes (tax-deductible debt). This allows you to effectively write off what otherwise would have been non-deductible personal mortgage interest.

This strategy has often be referred to as the “Singleton Shuffle,” because it was named after Vancouver lawyer John Singleton’s 2001 Supreme Court victory, which upheld the notion that you can rearrange your financial affairs in a tax-efficient manner so as to make your interest on investment loans tax-deductible.

Before doing so, be sure to consider any tax consequences of selling your non-registered investments along with any prepayment fees associated with paying off your mortgage early.

Finally, if you sold your home in 2010, the good news is that the gain is likely taxfree, provided you didn’t also own a second home.

The principal residence exemption (“PRE”), if available, can shelter the gain on a principal residence from capital gains tax. A principal residence can include either your main home or a vacation property, even if it’s not where you primarily live during the year as long as you “ordinarily inhabit” it at some point during the year.

The CRA assumes that if no gain is reported on your return for the year of sale, the PRE has been used to eliminate the gain and therefore, no other property (such as the vacation property) can be designated for the years in which the PRE was presumed to be claimed on the sold property.

As a result, a conscious decision should be made as to whether the gain should be reported, as failure to report jeopardizes claiming the PRE in the future on the sale of your other property for the years in which you owned both properties.

– Jamie Golombek, CA, CPA, CFP, CLU, TEP is the Managing Director, Tax & Estate Planning with CIBC Private Wealth Management in Toronto.

在文学城读到的帖子，很详细的信息：

http://bbs.wenxuecity.com/health/258413.html

二月十二、三日，在Toronto Botanical Garden举办了兰花展。以前曾多次逛花卉展但这回却有所不同，只因近来迷上了摄影，还添了个红百微，正好可以练练手。

只有周日的早场可以使用三角架，所以不到九点就来到了展厅， 兰花的品种不少，一些盆景精致养眼，但场地有限，确实人很多，脚架一个挨着一个，要见缝插针才行，另外闪光灯此起彼伏，有些干绕。
这次拍兰花，基本上都是用的小光圈加大景深，没用闪光灯，慢速拍摄，用了快门线和mirror lock-up, 另外调好对焦和曝光后还用了LCD放大5-10倍来查看对焦效果并进行微调。

拍微距、花卉，真的要静下心来观察、揣摩、练习。

虽然知道在拍风光片时要尽可能使用小的光圈，但对如何应用超焦距，特别是在变焦镜头上应用总是不得要领，最近看了网上的一些文章，加深了理解，周末外拍加以应用。

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/hyperfocal-distance.htm

 
http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/shooting/using-hyperfocal-distance-to-ensure-maximum-depth-of-field-in-landscape-photography/

Worldy 最近订购了一套Feisol的carbon fiber三脚架。

Feisol 的碳纤维三脚架以其特有的结构、性能和价格深受色友的喜爱，silentworld和 easywave 就是用的Feisol的三脚架，而silentworld还有两套。

几经思虑之后，考量到耐用、重量、稳定性、方便携带、性价比等因素，并参考几位用此脚架的朋友的建议，便决定购入首支碳纤维三脚架- Feisol CT3401 kit. Worldy 周二从美国取回来了三脚架，爱不释手，期待周末有个好天气去外拍。

CT-3401 Rapid with RAL Anti-Rotation Legs

Feisol Ballhead CB-40D with quick release plate

没有开箱照，在大瀑布那边取货时匆匆忙忙开了箱，打开试了下就往回赶。

这个脚架很不错，我原来用的那个与这个新的简直没法比，就是稍微高了点，132cm + CB40 ballhead 9.5cm+相机 就超过1.5m了。应该订那个CT3402的。

http://www.feisol.net

BBStar 上的高人实在高，谈到三角构图，水果同学贴了个图文并茂的贴士：

学习ing。。。