Hi, Saturday, June 5, 2004, 12:14:57 PM, Collin wrote:
> I met the NIkon rep yesterday. Had a good talk. > The Nikon D1 and D2 series bodies now accept a Nikon adapter which is 802.11b > and allow specific logging into another computer. They're now real network > devices. There's a choice of antennas for transmitting 50 or 500 ft. Interesting stuff. I have a mental image of a pack of front-line press photographers in a war zone being followed 150 metres behind by a flock of geeks with laptops being pushed in shopping trolleys. Of course, each team of geeks will also need a hacker to try and steal the competition's photos right off the airwaves, and another nerd to run the countermeasures against each other team's hackers. Perhaps that's what they mean by 'Extreme Programming'. The picture editors won't be happy until they can get a continuous satellite feed from the cameras and they can send out trained monkeys to do their bidding by remote control. In fact, before too long I should think the press will be flying microdones into dangerous places. -- Cheers, Bob
