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  - Does higher density sensor imply more noise?
    11/30/06
    This year, there is a trend toward increased sensor density in DSLR, mainly because of the new 10 megapixels cameras.
    Many people (including me) are wondering about the noise level of those cameras compared to the lower density sensors. We have the following models that are in competition:
  - Switching raw negatives to DNG?
    11/16/06
    I am wondering about swiching my raw files to DNG, mainly because of space constraints.
    
    Right now, my Minolta (5D) raw files are about 9 MB each one. Of course, it's quickly becoming (storage) space consuming, but I'm still reluctant to only keep jpeg versions. When you decide t
  - Quad cores benchmarks and LAME
    11/07/06
    Some samples of Intel "quad cores" processors are now available. As with the introduction of dual cores, we'll see a lot of hardware websites doing some benchmarks. Several of them will also use LAME encoding as one of the tests.
    
    In the current version (3.97) LAME is not mu
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