“copyleft”

Everybody knows what this symbol  © means.  It’s that type of symbol that says, “Don’t mess with me, unless I allowed you to.”  But if there’s such a word as “copyright,” is there an antonym of the word similar to right having its opposite, left?

I was reading a blog from Mashable about “The Last True Hacker” when I chanced upon “copyleft.”  The word does exist but not in Microsoft Word’s vocabulary.

And logically, it's symbol looks like this.  No kidding!

Face-off: Nikon and Canon

I’ve always wanted to get into photography the minute I laid my hands on my father’s trusty Nikon FM2 SLR a few years back.  What held me back was the accompanying cost in dealing with film and prints.  Then came the digital age of photography with the advent of what we call the “point and shoot” type of cameras that eventually resulted to the conversion of SLRs to Digital SLRs.  With DSLRs, no more worries about spending on film, shoot as much as you want and you may choose not to print your work and instead upload it to photo sharing sites up in the cloud. 

Filipinos here and abroad are crazy over photography.  A few years back, the common camera gear you’d see in the streets are point and shoot cameras, DSLRs are mainly reserved for photojournalists and their big bad lenses.   That’s not the case today.  With the creation of different market segments for DSLRs, there’s a particular model/brand out in the wild that would meet everybody’s performance and budget requirement.  I attended a christening a year ago and the DSLRs in the room totaled to 6: 5 Nikons and 1 Canon, including 2 from the official photographer…  I’m just saying :).  It’s a shame though that Nikon doesn’t have a local service center in the Philippines!  Boohoo!

Nikon or Canon?

I’m a little biased when it comes to brand and I blame my father for that.  But in all honesty, I have no issues with Canon, Pentax, and Sony etc.  I apologize for the question excluding the other brands but let’s face it… most users are either into Nikon or Canon.  But let’s not forget, as every seasoned photographer (I call myself a hobbyist by the way) would say… taking great pictures does not depend on the brand/model you use… it depends on whose eye is behind that viewfinder!

And the reason we ended up with the uber-popular Nikon D90 (according to Flickr), simply… it was the latest released model at that point in time we decided to get one.  And there’ve been no regrets since.

Nikon vs. Canon

Here’s an interesting take on the rivalry between Nikon and Canon.  I got this info graphic below from Mashable  and our Canon friends won… yipppeee? :)  I’d be delighted to hear your own take on this one!