Pas a Pas is an interactive educational tool for schools that enables children to learn and experiment with different sets of elements using animation. It aims to use the physicality and the animated outcome of stop motion animation to bridge the gap between abstract concepts from maths, physics or arts (usually represented by graphs, equations or words) and reality.

The system consist of three aspects: a platform to record and display animations, sets of elements for animating and a community to share the content generated.

The platform has a display, a camera and an interface with three main modes:

- Assistant: the display shows a guide for the children to place the elements at the right position in each frame. This way it introduces the students to the set of elements and enables them to explore concepts that are being taught in the conventional curriculum. It also intends to give a progressive learning of stop motion techniques in order to create better and more realistic animations.
- Director: children can create their own animated movies using the pieces provided or other objects.
- Collection: children can browse through movies that have been recorded on the same platform, or on remote platforms located in other schools.

Different sets of elements are designed to teach specific content for a certain age group, such as Geometry for 4 to 6 year olds. Each set comes with a cartridge that contains the animation guides. Aside from the sets that the system offers, the collection is scalable as teachers can easily create new animation exercises and share them with the community.

The community serves to provide a space for exchanging knowledge and material generated using the system and discuss new methods of teaching using stop motion animation.

Since Nikon's announcement, a persistent theme in my email InBox has been torturous grappling with which one to get. After all, they are both fast-shooting cameras with 100% viewfinders, the same new AF system, and 12mp sensors. Indeed, the differences are few: 1. FX or DX.

DSLR Camera Remote is the next-generation cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR or Nikon DSLR camera. Just connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer and the DSLR Camera Remote software enables you to use your Apple iPhone or iPod touch to wirelessly adjust cameras settings, fire the shutter, review images, even get a live viewfinder preview. DSLR Camera Remote is a must-have for remote shooting applications like high or low angles, self portraits and children.

Now there are a few ways to address this small focusing error. You can either send your equipment in for calibration, but that means you are without your equipment for what is a small, yet seriously niggling problem. Or, you can adjust the camera yourself if you are fortunate enough to own one of the more recent models of D-SLRs that boast a feature where you can micro-adjust the auto-focus. The Canon 50D, 5D mk2, 1D mk3, 1Ds mk3; or Nikon D300, D700, D3, D3x; and even the most recent Sony A900, and Pentax K20 have this feature. You can either create a make-shift device, or you can take a convenient shortcut like I did, and get the LensAlign Pro kit, which allows you to do the AF micro-adjustment on your camera with confidence.

Zoals beloofd in dit topic en tot 't nut van 't algemeen, post ik hierbij een korte beschrijving van de hoekzoeker DR-6 van Nikon.

In a separate thread, there was a bunch of discussion of various focus and exposure modes on the D70. I was pretty confused about what the various options do and which I should use for the different types of shooting so I waded through the manual, through Thom's ebook and played with a bunch of settings on my camera to settle on two combinations I actually want to use for different types of shooting. These two combinations give me a great default behavior for a half press of the shutter and give me easy overrides using the AE-L/AF-L button. If you ever want to focus and meter on different parts of the frame or want to track a moving subject with AF-C focus, but not lock exposure at the half press, then you should definitely read this.

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