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		<title>The Love-Hate Relationship with A Fujifilm X20</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 00:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall, the Fujifilm X20 beat other digital compact cameras in the same class. The near instant autofocus and no shutter lag made the X20 the best digital compact camera for street photography compared to others in its class. Fujifilm's new OLPF-less sensor and the LMO processor helped the X20 to produce images with superb clarity; even at ISO 1600.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2841&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing Vivian Maier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We dissect a photo from Vivian Maier's collection to study her composition technique and more...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2707&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympus OM-D EM-5 &#124; Street Point of View and a Little Vacation</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/04/05/olympus-om-d-em-5-street-point-of-view-and-a-little-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Patrick Valera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Olympus OM-D EM-5 has been my primary “go to” setup for street photography since early April, almost a year of everyday use. My OM-D has seen better days, a few bumps and bruises, nicks and scratches, but I can say it rarely stays at home, locked away on the top shelf of a closet [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2790&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things I&#8217;ve Learned About Cameras</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/03/05/five-things-ive-learned-about-cameras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. They&#8217;re&#8230; Cameras. I used to be this stupid guy, who thought a new camera would give me better photos; until one day, the Photo God hit me upside the head with an Argus C3. 2. They have no brain. They are just as dumb as bricks. It broke my heart—after it broke my savings [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2738&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Black Snake</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/02/22/the-year-of-the-black-snake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some points, the camera isn&#8217;t important any more. What becomes important is how I am going to show my viewers what I saw the moment I captured that picture. I don&#8217;t want to think about either the compositions or the camera settings. I only want to capture the scene the way it approaches my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2628&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Here II “Shoot A Cop”, Celebration of the Boys in Blue by David Valera</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/02/11/you-are-here-ii-shoot-a-cop-celebration-of-the-boys-in-blue-by-david-valera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past ten days, my buddy had been walking the streets of LA shooting for the second &#8220;You Are Here&#8221; exhibition, which will be held at the Think Tank Gallery in downtown LA next week, on Valentine&#8217;s Day. Have a peek into David Valera&#8216;s work and the Think Tank&#8217;s press release about this project. For [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2591&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Copyright © 2013 David Valera. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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		<title>Felix Lupa</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/01/17/funky-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in the Ukraine in 1972, Felix Lupa immigrated to Israel and currently lives and works in Tel Avis. In the recent years, Lupa concentrates on long-term social projects such as his award-winning street documentary, &#8220;Dwellers of the Magic Car&#8221;. In &#8220;Dwellers of the Magic Car&#8221;, Lupa tells the story of a blind man, Boris [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2581&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The More I Want to Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2013/01/09/the-more-i-want-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”― Susan Sontag If I were living in the 1840—when Alexander Wolcott invented the first camera—the Indian would have scalped me [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2563&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Lenses: Chromatic Aberration, Circle of Confusion &amp; Depth of Field</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2012/12/23/about-lenses-chromatic-aberration-circle-of-confusion-focal-length/</link>
		<comments>http://opticalcollimator.com/2012/12/23/about-lenses-chromatic-aberration-circle-of-confusion-focal-length/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In photography, the lens is my eye while my eyes become the brain of the camera—the control center where the decisions about compositions and other adjustments are made. To me, the quality of the lens is more important than the amount of the pixels on my camera&#8217;s sensor. Without a decent lens, the powerful sensor [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2522&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Compact Cameras: The Big Picture</title>
		<link>http://opticalcollimator.com/2012/11/12/the-big-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To me, photographic gear is like gourmet food. I see cameras as the entrées, lenses and other equipment are the side dishes and wines. While compact cameras are the sweet desserts. Sometimes, the desserts are tastier than the main course. And that, my friends, is the reason for me to shift my affection to those [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opticalcollimator.com&#038;blog=25306470&#038;post=2511&#038;subd=opticalcollimator&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Digital compact cameras.  Copyright © 2012. stFOTOgrafer. All Rights Reserved!</media:title>
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