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Egg gives customers another security fright
Online bank posts dummy page making it appear customers have wandered into someone else's account
By Will Knight | January 13, 2000 -- 11:09 GMT (03:09 PST) | Topic: Networking
Beleaguered online bank Egg gave some of its customers a security scare Monday when it accidentally posted a "dummy account page" which made it look as if they had gained unauthorised access to someone else's credit-card account.
One Egg customer contacted ZDNet News after apparently wandering into another customer's account in the early hours of Monday morning. He was naturally perturbed by this apparent security cock-up and evidently found little solace on Egg's customer support line.
"The name and the Visa number at the head of the Web page were correct," he says. "But the transactions were for payments made in September of last year. The payments were to companies that I have never dealt with. The credit limit was also for someone else. it wasn't so much getting into someone else's account, it was more the worry that someone could get into mine. "
According to Egg banking strategy manager Andy Thomas this was not so much a security lapse as a rather unfortunate mistake by Egg's Web staff. The blunder took placed at 2am on Monday morning when the site was undergoing maintenance. Thomas says that technical staff accidentally posted a "dummy account", used to practise transferring data through the site, to all its users' account pages while the site was being tested.
Thomas says, "We were meant to put up a screen to show that maintenance was going on. It was only for 10 minutes and as soon as we realised [the mistake] we went back and changed it. This was a small glitch that affected one in 1,000 people."
According to Thomas, however, Egg was contacted by at least one other worried customer about the mistake.
Thomas also promises that Egg's much publicised security record is on the mend, adding: "We've been improving the site continually, advising customers on the best way to use it. Security is the element we probably focus on the most."
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Station workers at one of the UK's major train operators have been given a platform to develop their customer skills with support from adult learning organisation TBG Learning.
Southern Railway is working with TBG Learning, which is part of third sector organisation the Rehab Group, to offer its staff the chance to achieve apprenticeships in customer service, along with Skills for Life awards.
The company, which manages 156 stations across the South of England, has worked closely with TBG Learning since January 2012 to support the development of staff serving its gates, ticket offices and platforms.
Around 170 staff from Southern Railway are currently enrolled on learning programmes led by TBG Learning.
A graduation ceremony was held at Southern Railway's Croydon offices to celebrate the achievements of the first group to achieve level two and three apprenticeship certificates, along with Skills for Life awards.
Richard Evans, head of resourcing and vocational skills at Southern Railway, said the company was delighted to celebrate the achievements of its team.
"People and their learning and development are at the heart of Southern Railway," he said.
"In order to achieve our vision of making every journey better we need to ensure our people are equipped with the skills and behaviours which will allow us to deliver fantastic customer service to our passengers.
"Giving our people the opportunity to develop is a key component of our approach and not only gives our people the skills and confidence to develop at work, but also helps them to support their families and the wider communities in which they live.
"We thank our training provider, TBG Learning, for their hard work in conjunction with our teams. The success of our learning network wouldn't be possible without the commitment of everyone within the business, and each of the learners' line managers have given tremendous support and encouragement to help them achieve their potential."
Among the graduates was Station sales clerk Aleksandra Marciniak, based at Wandsworth Station.
She said: "I've just done the level two NVQ Apprenticeship in customer service and am now really looking forward to progressing on to the level 3 programme.
"The course is really beneficial and helped me to develop my skills not only for now but for the future, while also giving me added confidence when dealing with customers.
"My assessor from TBG Learning, Peter Miller, has been brilliant. He was really supportive throughout the programme and has always taken the time to help out."
Jay Bedwall, account manager at TBG Learning, congratulated Southern Railway's graduates on their achievements.
He said: "The staff enrolled on the Apprenticeships and Skills for Life programmes have worked extremely hard to achieve their goals, have made massive strides and we congratulate them all on their respective achievements.
"Southern Railway has a strong commitment to learning and development, delivering excellent customer service and we are delighted to be working with the company to support the development of its teams."


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"Victims are often reluctant to come forward as they may fear deportation or retaliation from criminal trafficking networks. Prosecutions and convictions of the perpetrators are also very rare.


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Knitting: Nut-Hap … getting set up for a 679 stitch tubular cast on took quite a bit of time!
Reading: Extra Curricular, a lovely New Zealand magazine about people making beautiful things. If you're in the United States, the lovely shop Wool and Honey just started stocking this special little magazine!
See what others are knitting and reading at the original Yarnalong post!
Next Post Thursday Sock-a-long: A Finished Pair, Shire Socks, and WHALES!
That magazine looks lovely! I love cute little magazines like that.
It was so good – filled with lots of inspiration!
679 stitches! Now THAT is dedication!
It has been a multi evening cast on – hopefully it won't put me off tubular cast on forever!
I hope not too! Although tubular cast on is SO pretty! I'm sure even if you do avoid it for a while, you won't be able to avoid it forever!


MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy repeated on Monday a pledge to protect French bank deposits from any losses in the financial market crisis, and called a meeting of bank and insurance bosses to discuss the situation.
"We must not give way in the face of destabilization. We have to support the banks," he told a joint news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
The comment came as shares in French bank Dexia sank on a report that it might need emergency capital and after a string of bank rescue deals in the Benelux countries, Britain and Germany.
The meeting would be held on Tuesday at 0830 GMT and would also be attended by Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde and Prime Minister Francois Fillon, a statement from his office said.
Speaking in Marseille, he said intense contacts between European capitals had been underway to discuss the crisis.
He also confirmed a promise he made in a speech last week in the city of Toulon that he would ensure that French depositors did not lose a single euro if any French bank got into trouble.
French ministers have repeatedly said domestic banks were less vulnerable to global financial market turmoil than their U.S. counterparts but Sarkozy has adopted a more urgent tone since his speech in Toulon last week.
On Monday, he repeated his call for a meeting of world leaders to set the global financial system on a sounder footing.
"I confirm my appeal for a summit in the coming weeks to set the foundations for a new international financial system," he said, adding that a meeting of the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy would be held to establish the agenda.
A summit of European Union leaders on October 15 would also naturally discuss the crisis, said Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.
European Commission President Barroso also welcomed the $700 billion U.S. rescue plan and backed Sarkozy's call for an international meeting to discuss a broader response to the crisis.
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In addition to the short-term emergency measures being implemented, it was essential to formulate a "structured European response" to the crisis. "It is the only way to ensure that stability and confidence can return," he said.


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'Shameless' releases new season ten trailer
AFP Relax 13 September 2019
The Showtime series has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming tenth season, which will premiere on Sunday, November 10.
The new season picks up six months after last season's finale. Without the watchful eye of big sister Fiona (Emmy Rossum, who departed the series after season nine), the dysfunctional Gallagher family is in chaos.
Debbie (Emma Kenney) steps up to fill the void, but she has a different approach to running the family. "For the last time, I'm not Fiona -- wash your own stuff!" she says in the trailer, throwing a pile of dirty laundry at her father, Frank (William H. Macy).
Cameron Monaghan and Noel Fisher return as Ian and Mickey, who are facing relationship difficulties in prison. We also see Lip (Jeremy Allen White) figuring out fatherhood, while Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) returns to finish military school and the youngest Gallagher, Liam (Christian Isaiah) navigates his own identity as he learns more about black culture.
Created by Paul Abbott, the series is executive produced by Wells, Nancy M. Pimental and Joe Lawson.
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Clarksville tobacco shop owner plead guilty to sales tax evasion
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A Clarksville business owner has pleaded guilty to sales tax evasion in a case investigated by the state Department of Revenue.
Amer Ibrahim, 46, owner of ASR Tobacco and Beer at 231 10th St., pleaded to three counts of sales tax evasion and one count of theft over $2,500, according to a Department of Revenue news release.
Judge William Goodman accepted Ibrahim's guilty plea on Thursday and sentenced him to three years of probation. Ibrahim was fined $3,000 and has been ordered to pay $5,164.21 in restitution to the Department of Revenue, the release said.
"Most businesses in Tennessee remit the tax dollars they collect from customers," Revenue Commissioner David Gerregano said in the release.
"This guilty plea should serve as a warning to those that believe they can get away with tax fraud. Our department remains committed to prosecuting tax evaders to ensure a level playing for all businesses."
The department's Special Investigations Section pursued this case in cooperation with District Attorney General John Carney and his staff. Citizens who suspect violations of Tennessee's revenue laws should call the toll-free tax fraud hot line at (800) FRAUDTX (372-8389). For more, go to www.tn.gov/revenue.


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HomeLifestyleEmirates Touches down in Mexico City
Emirates Touches down in Mexico City
The aircraft deployed on the route is Emirates' newly refurbished two-class Boeing 777-200LR which offers 38 Business Class seats in a 2-2-2 layout, and 264 seats in Economy Class.
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Emirates celebrated the inaugural flight of its new daily service from Dubai to Mexico City via Barcelona. The Emirates Boeing 777-200LR touched down in Mexico City at 16:15 local time, marking the airline's first passenger flight to Mexico.
Emirates flight EK255, with a group of VIP guests and media on board, was welcomed by Mexico International Airport with a water cannon salute.
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Salem Obaidalla, Emirates Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Americas said: "We are excited to start a new chapter in Emirates' history, offering a seamless connection between Dubai, Barcelona, and Mexico City. We expect this service to generate high demand and enhance business, culture and leisure connections as well as boost tourism and commerce between these markets."
"Emirates' arrival in Mexico City via Barcelona is the culmination of a lot of planning and hard work. We would like to thank the authorities and our partners in both Spain and Mexico for their support of the new route and look forward to providing our unique product and award-winning service to travellers," he added.
The aircraft deployed on the route is Emirates' newly refurbished two-class Boeing 777-200LR which offers 38 Business Class seats in a 2-2-2 layout, and 264 seats in Economy Class. While the Business Class seats are in the same design and shape of Emirates' latest lie-flat seats, they are now two inches wider for a more comfortable journey.
In addition, the new Business Class cabin features a social area – unique to the Boeing 777-200LR fleet. The mini lounge area features snacks such as crisps, sandwiches and fruit, as well as beverages for customers to help themselves to during the flight. Economy Class seats onboard the 777-200LR have also been refreshed to the latest colour palette of soft greys and blues. The ergonomically designed seats come with full leather headrests that have flexible side panels and can also be adjusted vertically for optimum support.
Customers in all classes can enjoy up to 4,500 channels of on-demand entertainment on ice with 600 movies, over 200 hours of TV, and thousands of music tracks every month. The aircraft is also equipped with Wi-Fi and Live TV across all classes.
Mexico City is the largest city in Mexico and the most populous city in North America. Mexico's capital is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the Americas, accounting for nearly a third of the nation's GDP. Located in the Valley of Mexico at an altitude of 2,240 meters, the city is famous for its historic center known as Zocalo, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mexico City is also an important trade and industrial city, specifically in the automotive, medical supplies and pharmaceutical industries.
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Q: VB2010: Export datagrid to Excel only retieving one row I just want to mention first, I do appreciate everyone who gives of their knowledge to help others learn...
I have been able to piece together code that exports my Datgrid to an Excel file and works fine, except I am only getting the first row of the datagrid. since the datagrid could contain one record, or hundreds, I need all rows to export to Excel.
Here is what I have been able to put together (again, it works fine, file is saved with column headers, but only writes the first row of data from my datagrid):
'Export to Excel
    Dim ExApp1 As Excel.Application
    Dim ExWkbk1 As Excel.Workbook
    Dim ExWksht1 As Excel.Worksheet
    Dim MisValue As Object = System.Reflection.Missing.Value
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim j As Integer

    ExApp1 = New Excel.Application
    ExWkbk1 = ExApp1.Workbooks.Add(MisValue)
    ExWksht1 = ExWkbk1.Sheets("sheet1")

    For i = 0 To dg7.RowCount - 2
        For j = 0 To dg7.ColumnCount - 1
            ExWksht1.Cells(i + 2, j + 1) = dg7(j, i).Value.ToString()
            For k As Integer = 1 To dg7.Columns.Count
                ExWksht1.Cells(1, k) = dg7.Columns(k - 1).HeaderText
                ExWksht1.Cells(i + 2, j + 1) = dg7(j, i).Value.ToString()
            Next
        Next
    Next

    ExWksht1.SaveAs("C:\MyExcel.xlsx")
    ExWkbk1.Close()
    ExApp1.Quit()

    releaseObject(ExApp1)
    releaseObject(ExWkbk1)
    releaseObject(ExWksht1)

Again, many thsanks in advance for helping me learn

A: First of all it seems to me this is a DataGridView as opposed to a DataGrid since from what I know DataGrid does not have "RowCount" or "ColumnCount" properties in either WinForms or Web.UI (I could be wrong).
If it is so is there a specific reason for

dg7.RowCount - 2

If the object you are trying to get data from is indeed a DataGridView then I suppose this task is to omit new(empty) rows. If I am correct that you are trying to export data from a DataGridView this way there is a property for the DataGridViewRow that will serve this purpose:

IsNewRow

So (while I have not used Excel in VB.NET recently) your cycle could be:
For i = 0 To dg7.ColumnCount - 1
    ExWksht1Cells(1 , i + 1) = dg7.Columns[i].HeaderText
Next

For i = 0 To dg7.RowCount - 1
    If Not dg7.Rows(i).IsNewRow Then
        For j = 0 To dg7.ColumnCount - 1
            ExWksht1.Cells(i+ 2, j + 1) = dg7(i, j).Value.ToString()
        Next
    End If
Next

As far as the excel object calls I can't give a reasonable comment since I've not used that object too much.Let me know if that's useful and/or correct.

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Measuring Change in the Atmosphere
Associate Professor Akua Asa-Awuku holding a compact ozone monitor. Photo: John T. Consoli
Look up at the sky. What do you see? Dynamic poems of color and shape attract the gaze of most.
But Akua Asa-Awuku, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, sees beyond beauty. She's interested in the sky she can't see with just a tip of her head.
Asa-Awuku strives to understand the molecular components of the atmosphere that exist at the ultrasmall nanoscale, where one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. (For scale, a human hair is approximately 80,000–100,000 nanometers wide.)
In nature, atmospheric nanoparticles have a range of effects, from interacting with cloud droplets to form or inhibit rain to modulating greenhouse gas behavior. In humans, they can be inhaled and impact the respiratory system or be used as biological or chemical threats in conflicts.
"There are many exciting opportunities and important issues for society that rely on understanding the molecular composition of the atmosphere," she explains.
To do this, her work centers on identifying chemicals' structural "fingerprints," called spectra.
Machine learning (ML) helps her go deeper. It expands the reach and utility of research by helping speed and improve the classification and categorization of air sample data.
One collaborative ML-based project Asa-Awuku's team is working on involves the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The collaboration gives her and UMD students access to ARL's sophisticated Raman spectroscopy technology to make highly detailed molecular identifications.
It also eliminates tedium. "Studying spectra gets laborious. In order to do this, someone has to sit there and manually study it," she says.
Thousands of different molecular compositions exist in the air, and with this ML-informed technology, Asa-Awuku and her colleagues are able to make continuous, real-time measurements as opposed to static "snapshot" measurements showing only a moment in time. Having a fluid series of images helps scientists monitor change over time—and can be applied to defending national security through threat detection.
"The Army Research Lab looks at threat detection, because we know that aerosols are constantly around us," she says. While many of these aerosols are not dangerous at all, other harmful particles could be released in warfare—and Asa-Awuku's collaboration with ARL could help innovate early threat detection and safe responses.
"If you were able to have a real-time measurement and subsequent analysis of atmospheric composition, that would give you really interesting and useful data to help protect against threats," Asa-Awuku says.
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HAVE WE CONSIDERED HONOURING THE ADHAAN?
A grave injustice in our lives is our attitude towards the Adhaan. Most of us continue in our conversations and daily activities; the importance with regards replying to the Adhaan and reciting the duaa thereafter is something that is done on some occasions and left out mostly. The temperament of honouring the Adhaan has to be inculcated in our lives.
The Aalim informed her relatives that she had been given the glad tidings of Jannah and he was curious to know what her good deeds were that entitled her to this great fortune. Her relatives said that leave alone good deeds, she was extremely irreligious. The Aalim urged them to ponder carefully. Finally, they said that the only good deed she had was to become attentive whenever the Adhaan was being proclaimed. She would not speak nor allow others in her presence to speak for the duration of the Adhaan. She would listen attentively to the proclamation of Allah Ta'ala جل جلاله.
By virtue of the respect she showed for the Adhaan, Allah Ta'ala جل جلاله had effaced all her evil deeds. This serves as an immense lesson for us in that if we behave respectfully towards the Adhaan; this can be the basis of our salvation. The demand of modesty is that we revere the name of Allah Ta'ala جل جلاله; through this will we attain respect.


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Roll away yourself — and do His Will.


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ARLINGTON, Texas - The 2017 United States Bowling Congress Senior Championships welcomed 430 competitors to the Las Vegas area this week, and national titles were earned in six age classifications.
The event featured representatives from 48 states and four Canadian provinces, who bowled two three-game qualifying blocks over two days at Texas Star Lanes inside Texas Station Gambling Hall and Hotel in North Las Vegas.
The top six competitors in each category advanced to Friday's medal round.
Pinfall did not carry over, but participants received bonus pins to reward them for their qualifying efforts. The leader after six games earned 50 bonus pins, second place received 40 pins and so on, and those pins were added to their three-game medal-round totals.
The three-game pinfall from the medal round, with bonus pins and handicap (90 percent of 220), determined the 12 champions for 2017.
The 2017 Senior Championships again featured two divisions - Open and Women's - with six age classifications (50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75 and above). All winners received a $1,000 top prize.
In the Women's Division, three qualifying leaders went on to earn their respective titles.
Janice York of Arkansas was able to edge her way to the top spot in qualifying in the 65-69 category and was dominant in the medal round, cruising to the win with a 774 series, nearly 100 pins better than defending champion Donna Shipley of Missouri (679). The win was the second of the summer for York, who also recorded a title in the Topaz Doubles division at the 2017 USBC Women's Championships in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
New Mexico's Jill Levy led wire to wire in the 60-64 age bracket and claimed the title with a 691 series in the medal round, while 75 and above top seed JoAnn Cossu of Oregon outlasted Montana's Peggy Reller in a roll-off, 51-33, after the two tied in the medal round with 703.
Barbara Teape of Illinois (50-54) and Utah's Julie Staheli (55-59) won their classifications, shooting 692 and 752, respectively, and Maryland's Mary Mergler used the format to her advantage, sneaking into the medal round in sixth place, before a 723 effort in the medal round helped her to the overall win in the 70-74 category.
In the Open Division this year, Idaho and Montana each earned a pair of titles.
Idaho's Vince Tracy (50-54) and Louie Serrano (55-59) were victorious, shooting 741 and 714, respectively, in the medal round, while Montana's wins came in the 65-69 and 70-74 categories. The first was earned by Ival Jackson with a 709 performance, and Gary Smith claimed the latter with a 688 set.
The other winners were Alaska's Philip Heine in the 60-64 classification with a 710 series and California's Frank Menchaca with a 730 set in the 75 and above category.
The highest game of the week at Texas Station was a 297 effort by Alford Ellis of North Carolina, which came in the third game of qualifying. He made the 55-59 medal round and finished fifth overall.
The highest series of the tournament was an 806 set by Michael Larson of North Dakota, coming on games of 279, 269 and 258 during the second round of qualifying. Larson qualified first in the Open 50-54 category and went on to finish third overall.
The Senior Championships is a national event for bowlers who have qualified through their state's senior tournament. This year's event featured a prize fund of $43,000.


History is earned. You win the day. And then you win the day after. And then you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.
Francis Underwood, "House of Cards" (US) Season 5, Episode 8.


ATLANTA (NFC) - Signed Chris Hinton, offensive guard. Waived Jason Kuipers, center; Albert Thomas, Kenny Johnson, Kevin Guidry and William Evers, defensive backs; Jackie Cline, defensive end; Greg Ross and Randy Watts, defensive linemen; Darrell Jordan, linebacker; Scott Barrows, guard; Scott Adams, offensive tackle; Chris Ellison, safety; Mark Hopkins, tight end; Dana Brinson and Gary Lee, wide receivers.
BUFFALO (AFC) - Waived Fred DeRiggi, nose tackle; Jason Novacek, tight end; Michael Adams, cornerback; Clyde Glover, defensive lineman, and Greg Smith, offensive lineman.
CHICAGO (NFC) - Agreed to terms with Steve McMichael, defensive lineman.
CINCINNATI (AFC) - Waived John Holifield, running back; Craig Patterson, nose tackle; and Andre Riley, wide receiver.
CLEVELAND (AFC) - Waived Ellis Dillahunt, safety; Anthony Florence and Mike Wallace, cornerbacks; Kevin Simons, Pete Scott and Matt Patchan, offensive linemen; Kevin Sprinkles, tight end; and Kerry Simien, wide receiver. Placed Kyle Kramer, safety, and Tim Manoa, fullback, on injured reserve.
DETROIT (NFC) - Waived Gary Richard, cornerback; Delmar Chesley, linebacker; Curtis Wilson, center; and Mark Holfland, offensive tackle.
GREEN BAY (NFC) - Waived John Spagnola and Mark Keel, tight ends; Van Jakes, defensive back; James Cribbs and Willie Fears, defensive ends; Scott Kirby, Paul Beradelli, John Duren and Vince Stroth, offensive linemen; Kirk Baumgartner, quarterback; Steve Avery, Damon Stell and Harry Jackson, running backs; Jerome Martin, safety; and Tracy Martin, wide receiver.
LOS ANGELES (AFC) - Waived Ron Lewis and Sammie Archer, wide receivers; Myron Jones, running back; Bruce Klostermann and Joe Campbell, linebackers; George Streeter, safety, and Arthur Walker, defensive tackle. Placed Newt Harrell, guard, on injured reserve.
MIAMI (AFC) - Waived Fred Highsmith, running back; Paul Soltis, linebacker; and Pee Wee Smith and Ricardo Cartwright, wide receivers.
NEW ORLEANS (NFC) - Waived Gerry Gdowski, defensive back; Broderick Graves, running back; Webbie Burnett, nose tackle; Daniel Liimatta and Buddy King, offensive tackles; and Jerome McIntosh, wide receiver.
JETS (AFC) - Traded the rights to Reggie Rembert, wide receiver, to the Cincinnati Bengals for Joe Kelly, linebacker, and Scott Jones, offensive tackle. Signed with Jim Sweeney, offensive lineman, to a four-year contract. Waived Carl Howard, cornerback; George Radachowsky, safety; Demetrious Douglas, linebacker; and Jeff Oliver, offensive tackle. Placed Marty Lyons, defensive tackle, on injured reserve. Placed Terry Williams, cornerback; Rich Miano, safety; and Pat Kelly, tight end, on the physically-unable-to-perform list, and Paul Frase, defensive end, on the reserve-non-football illness list.
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Nov. 16, 2006, 12:31 AM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
Restaurants nervous about New York City's proposed trans fat ban could get a few breaks such as extended deadlines and other revisions when health officials vote on the measure next month, the city's top health official said Wednesday.
Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said the city has been sifting through hundreds of public comments — some from alarmed fast food chains and industry representatives — and is considering some changes to the proposal that would make New York the first U.S. city to outlaw the harmful man-made ingredient.
Frieden said officials are giving serious attention to complaints that the timeline is unrealistic, especially for national restaurant chains. The original proposal gives eateries six months to replace their cooking oils and shortening and 18 months to eliminate trans fats altogether.
Addressing an investor conference Wednesday, McDonald's Corp. CEO Jim Skinner touched on the difficulty in racing to replace trans fats. Four years after the company first pledged to significantly reduce trans fat levels in its fries, Skinner said the chain is making "very good progress" but still would not give a timetable for making the switch.
Skinner said McDonald's will be ready to comply if New York passes the ban in early December, but said "it's just taking a little bit of time" because the company does not want to risk anything when it comes to its famous french fries.
McDonald's has been quietly testing new oils in some U.S. restaurants but has avoided making a full switch like some of its competitors. Wendy's International Inc. introduced a zero-trans fat oil in August and Yum Brands Inc.'s KFC said Oct. 30 that it will stop using oil with trans fats by April.
For mammoth fast food chains, compliance with the ban not only means finding that perfect blend in the lab but also involves overhauling its supply processes and changing menus throughout the entire company, which is "kind of like turning around a large army," Frieden said.
"There are transition difficulties for some places and we're looking at a combination of timing issues, technical support issues and phasing issues that we think would help deal with that," he added.
Support does not mean monetary assistance, but could come in the form of help from consultants and other resources that would ease the transition, Frieden said. He declined to elaborate further on the revisions because they are still being hammered out for the vote before the New York City Board of Health.
Double damage of trans fats
Trans fats are typically found in partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil, an ingredient for frying and baking that is also used in processed foods like cookies, doughnuts, pizza dough, taco shells and crackers. Trans fats also turn up in pre-made concoctions like pancake and hot chocolate mix.
The fats are believed to be unhealthy because they do double damage by raising bad cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol. It is because of that effect on good cholesterol that some experts consider trans fats to be worse than saturated fat.
While many health and medical associations are applauding New York City's move to ban trans fats, the American Heart Association has cautioned that a rushed timetable might cause restaurants to revert to unhealthy replacements like palm oil, which is high in saturated fat.
"The idea of reducing trans fat content is something we favor. Our only concern is the time plan for implementation — we just thought it wasn't very realistic," said Robert H. Eckel, the group's immediate past president.
A number of public comments also expressed concern about the supply of healthy alternatives, like corn, canola and soy oils. Frieden acknowledged it may be a valid concern if the ban sparks a nationwide trend, but said it's not an issue for New York City.
"I think it's OK if we're first on line," he said.


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This whitepaper introduces Nokia Lumia 1020 and its new hardware and software camera innovations. The Nokia Lumia 1020 re-invents zoom by combining a very large sensor with OIS for the first time. Also it pushes the boundaries of smartphone creative photography with a new intuitive touch UI that provides manual controls for shutter speed and other controls. This whitepaper provides a background on how our PureView technology has evolved, and then introduces the new HW (sensor, lenses, OIS) and describes the evolved zoom. Nokia Pro Camera UI and its manual controls are introduced together with a new method of lossless editing of your images.
Background...........................................................................................................................................................................4 Best of both worlds: Sharpness and low light.....................................................................................................................4 Sharpness is more than just megapixels................................................................................................................5
Why 5MP?...................................................................................................................................................5 Oversampling results in 5MP photos with amazing detail.......................................................................6 High resolution zoom................................................................................................................................6 Getting rid of hand-shake.........................................................................................................................8
Photos in the dark...................................................................................................................................................8 Back side illuminated sensor.....................................................................................................................9
Exposure time............................................................................................................................................9 Flash...........................................................................................................................................................9 Real life sharpness measurement..........................................................................................................................9
Nokia Pro Camera...............................................................................................................................................................11 Zoom reinvented and reframing...........................................................................................................................12 Photography tools and creative control...............................................................................................................14 Manual controls: EV, shutter speed, ISO, focus, WB..............................................................................15 Nokia Pro Camera Video..........................................................................................................................16 Nokia Rich Recording...............................................................................................................................16
Photo examples..................................................................................................................................................................18 Key technologies and specs...............................................................................................................................................21 Credits.................................................................................................................................................................................22
The Nokia 808 PureView camera phone, launched in 2012, included world-leading advances in image quality in terms of resolution, sharpness and clarity. Innovative oversampling technology provided a level of image detail previously unseen in mobile, or even small scale, digital imaging systems. In addition, pixel oversampling combined many pixels to create a single super-pixel. This allowed us to keep virtually all the detail but to filter visual noise away from the image. Images looked more natural and were purer, giving a more accurate representation of the original subject than had ever been achieved before. Nokia 808 PureView was pioneering and provided benchmark image quality. We received extremely positive feedback but users kept challenging us for even better low light imaging capabilities, especially without flash. This feedback influenced the development of our second generation PureView phone the Nokia Lumia 920 PureView. The Nokia Lumia 920 was the first global smartphone to implement optical image stabilization (OIS) to set a benchmark in low light image quality. We implemented a back-side-illuminated (BSI) sensor with f2.0 aperture, optical image stabilisation and the most sensitive pixels seen in a camera. All this was built on top of the Windows Phone 8 platform for seamless social media sharing, and equipped with Nokias own state-of-the-art imaging algorithms. This allowed the Nokia Lumia 920 and the more recently announced Lumia 925 and 928 to revolutionise low light imaging. In 2013 we had two kinds of camera phone in our PureView range, providing imaging capabilities previously unseen in mobile, each one leading different areas of digital imaging. One provided benchmark performance in capturing details, and another set records in low light imaging. The natural next step was to take those two
Figure 1. The latest generation BSI sensor captures a lot of light. Illustration only.
award-winning PureView innovations as the starting point to create the ultimate next generation imaging smartphone. Let us introduce the Nokia Lumia 1020.
meaning high resolution zooming and pixel oversampling plus new innovations in a revised, more modern camera module. The Nokia Lumia 1020 introduces the second generation of our optical image stabilization (OIS) system first found in the Lumia 920 PureView, to provide a new benchmark in image stabilisation systems. We include the most sophisticated xenon flash and video-light LED implemented on any Nokia phone to help users freeze the moment. One of the critical design decisions in a camera is balancing the subjective image sharpness and noise performance. Image sharpness and low light performance (noise or grain) are two sides of the same coin in camera
Best of both worlds: Sharpness and low light
The second generation 41 megapixel sensor uses the latest generation 1.1 micron back-side-illuminated (BSI) pixels, providing excellent noise performance as well as benchmark resolution. The sensor format is 1/1.5 and it is up to five times larger than typical smartphone sensors. The redesigned sensor provides all the imaging innovations introduced with Nokia 808 PureView
systems and it is extremely difficult to achieve benchmark performance in both simultaneously. However this is exactly what we have done with the Nokia Lumia 1020.
Sharpness is more than just megapixels
Resolution is the sum of several parts in the imaging chain, starting from how we capture images, how much hand-shake is involved, and ending with technical functions including the camera optics, the image sensor, and the algorithms. Its not enough to just include a high megapixel sensor the lenses conveying the image to the sensor have to be of equally high quality. Together with our partner Carl Zeiss, we yet again pushed the limits of optical design to match the resolution of the 41 megapixel camera sensor. To provide the best optical resolution we increased the number of lenses used from the five in the award-winning Nokia 808 PureView, to six. The first lens element is made of high precision glass, and five of the lenses are moulded high-performance plastic, taking lens manufacturing precision to the next level. The lenses are physically very big for a smartphone, and the optical assembly alone is unique. But that is not all. We put the whole system inside a completely new kind of optical image stabilisation system, which uses an extremely high accuracy sensing system linked to very small motors which actively move the lens. The extremely sharp image projected by the six-element lens system is recorded by the second generation 41MP BSI sensor, capturing even the smallest of details in the scene, including detail not visible to the naked eye. The 41MP sensor can capture 34MP and 38MP image files at 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios respectively. In addi-
Figure 2. Six Carl Zeiss lenses including a high-precision glass element. Illustration only.
tion to the 38MP and 34MP full-resolution images, the Lumia 1020 camera captures 5MP oversampled images so that every pixel in the 5MP image has been created using the data from up to seven pixels of the sensor. The oversampling technology ensures that these 5MP images are incredibly sharp, natural and low noise. The best part is that the camera saves both the full resolution and oversampled image simultaneously. This is referred to as dual capture. It enables creative post-processing while still allowing users to share a high-quality small file size image straight after shooting.
Why 5MP?
5MP is the sweet spot for image quality that is easy to share and printable up to A3 size. And because our 5MP images condense the information from the 41MP sensor, they have amazingly high image quality. The 5MP images get the full benefit of the oversampling technology and their quality is way above that produced by any traditional imaging device. In addition to oversampling, the 41MP sensor can also be used for lossless or high resolution zooming (see page 6).
Oversampling results in 5MP photos with amazing detail
In traditional imaging systems, the true resolution of the system is lower than that of the nominal sensor resolution. The traditional camera sensor resolution may be 5MP, but it does not really capture photos that have five million pixels of independent data. The data is spread across multiple pixels causing, for example, blurring and artifacts. There are two technical reasons for this: one is related to the optics design and aliasing, and the other to the way the sensor samples the data with Bayer colour filters. A traditional 5MP camera has only 2.5 million green pixels and 1.25 million red and blue pixels1 for example. See Figure 3 for a comparison in sharpness of a standard 5MP image versus an oversampled 5MP image and Figure 4 for an illustration of how oversampling reduces noise compared with a standard sensor. The oversampling technology in the Lumia 1020 makes it possible to solve both of these issues, and enables full details to be captured with the 5MP image, visible as amazing sharpness, naturalness and low noise. It is physically impossible to capture this with a traditional 5MP camera.
Figure 3. Comparison of a standard 5MP image and an oversampled 5MP image.
Output from a standard 5MP sensor shows noise as variance in the signal
Output from a high resolution sensor before oversampling
Output after oversampling reduces the noise
Figure 4. Illustration of how oversampling reduces noise compared with a standard 5MP sensor
High resolution zoom
In addition to oversampling, the large sensor also allows for high resolution zoom. As you zoom there is no drop in the default 5MP resolution; in other words the high resolution zoom is lossless. The level of pixel oversampling is highest when youre not using the zoom. It gradually decreases until you hit maximum zoom where the pixels start behaving in a more conventional way. The relationship between zoom level and oversampling is shown in Figure 5. At maximum zoom, the Lumia 1020 system behaves more like a traditional camera, but there are still some advantages: as only the center part of the optics is used, the optical and geometric distortions are minimal and vignetting is negligible. The problem with traditional digital zoom is that the zoom level is extremely limited without clearly visible loss of image details. This happens because the system needs to zoom further than the required output resolution of the final image, and the camera needs to upscale the captured image to achieve that resolution. In practice this means that, for example, a 12MP device might capture only 4MP after zooming, and the 4MP image is then digitally up-scaled back to 12MP. This up-scaling has a significant impact on image sharpness. However with Nokia Lumia 1020 we never need to upscale the final images, because the starting resolution is already so massive. In Full HD video mode the massive resolution means that the camera never zooms further than the required two megapixels, which ensures that the resolution stays excellent throughout the zoom range. The advanced PureView method of lossless zooming also provides multiple benefits over traditional optical zoom. Traditionally the aperture of optical zoom systems becomes significantly smaller towards the long end of the zoom range compared to the wide end. This has a big impact on low light performance and usable exposure
Zoom Quality Comparison
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Figure 5. Oversampling vs. high resolution zoom in the case of Lumia 1020 (blue) compared with conventional digital zoom (orange). High oversampling means high image quality.
times. Also with traditional zoom lenses the macro distance often changes while zooming, which means that the photographer needs to change the physical camera-to-object distance while zooming for macro shots. In addition, most optical zoom lenses suffer from overall reduced sharpness towards the long end of the zoom range; this is because of optical design issues that often produce different distortions at the wide angle end compared to those at the telephoto end of the zoom range, which in the case of Full HD is up to 4X. See Figure 6 for a visual on the maximum high resolution zoom for 5MP (3X) and 720P video (6X) compared with the full resolution sensor in 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios.
However with Nokia Lumia 1020, the aperture stays at a constant f2.2 throughout the zoom range which is, in SLR terms, 25/27-69/74mm (16:9/4:3) for stills and 25-100mm for Full HD video. These zoom range/aperture combinations are rare, and expensive even in the SLR world. Also as the aperture stays the same throughout the zoom range in the Lumia 1020, the macro distance of ~15cm also stays the same. With Nokia Lumia 1020 we are actually using the centre part of the lens where distortions, diffractions and lens shading are smallest, giving extremely high levels of resolved details and distortion-free images and videos throughout the zoom range.
The advantages of the Nokia Lumia 1020 zoom compared to an optical zoom are: The aperture size of a typical optical zoom drops dramatically when zoomed in. For example, a typical optical zoom can have aperture size f2.8 in wide, but it can drop to f6 in tele. This means that the camera needs almost a five times longer exposure time in the tele position. The problem is multiplied by the fact that the camera is most prone to hand-shake in the tele position and the user should actually use shorter exposure times to avoid blurred images. In the Lumia 1020, the aperture size and exposure times stay the same throughout the zoom range. The smaller aperture size required for telephoto shots with an optical zoom camera increases diffraction which can make images blurry even when there is no hand-shake. The optics in Lumia 1020 are simplified and robust compared to optical zoom a key enabler for the amazing image sharpness. As the Nokia Lumia 1020 is based on a huge image sensor, it enables much higher performance and oversampling in the wide-angle position. Lumia 1020 macro distance stays the same throughout the zoom range. As the zooming is done without mechanically moving any parts, it is silent, fast, and intuitive. Additionally the Lumia 1020 slide zoom can be operated by using one hand only. Dual capture allows for post capture zooming and reframing . More on this in the reframing section on page 12
4:3 Full Resolution 16:9 Full Resolution
5 MP, 3x zoom
720p, 6x zoom
Figure 6. The high resolution zoom is limited to 3X for stills, ensuring that the output is 5MP. Full HD video can be zoomed 4X whereas 720P video has 6X zoom.
Getting rid of hand-shake
Lens design and sensor resolution are often the only factors considered when discussing camera sharpness, but an equally important factor is totally neglected handshake. Even the sharpest optical systems in the world cant capture a sharp image if the camera is moved during capture. We have implemented a completely new OIS system to overcome this. In traditional SLR OIS systems just one lens element in the lens stack is moved to counteract hand-shake, but in our OIS the whole optical assembly is moved to cancel out unwanted camera movements. What
this means is that we are able to cancel out larger movements compared to traditional OIS systems, enabling super-sharp images.	Technically our OIS is the barrel shift type first seen in the Nokia Lumia 920. (Other ways of making optical image stabilisation systems include barrel tilt, sensor tilt or module tilt, but for our purposes barrel shift gives the best quality.) In the Lumia 1020 the optics are much bigger, and adding OIS technology to optics of that size required some really clever engineering: the whole lens system is resting on top of ball bearings and is actively
moved with very small motors to counteract the unwanted camera movements detected by a gyroscope. If you lightly wobble the phone and listen to the camera, you can actually hear the module that absorbs the shaking of your hand. Once the camera is activated, give the phone the same wobble and the magnets kick in and soak up the movements.
Photos in the dark
The standard factor used for determining good low light performance is the amount of visible noise in the image captured. But there is a lot more to it than just the amount of noise.
Back side illuminated sensor
It is extremely difficult to make a high resolution sensor with just a small amount of visible noise because pixels must be kept small to keep the sensor size reasonable. The smaller pixel size is especially problematic with traditional front side illuminated (FSI) sensors, because each pixel needs many wires to power up the photo diode and
to transfer the photons out from the pixel. With traditional pixels all these wires are located on top of the pixels and light must bypass the wires to reach the photosensitive area of the pixel. We used a modern-generation BSI sensor where all these wires are located underneath the pixel. With this design a significantly larger amount of light can actually reach the photosensitive area of the pixel. This again means that we can amplify the signal created by much lower levels of light, significantly reducing the amount of visible noise.
Another extremely important factor contributing to low light performance is the exposure time. A camera can be compared to a dam where the shutter plays the role of the gate. The longer the gate is open, the more water can flow through it. In a camera, the longer the shutter is open the more light can be gathered by the sensor. However, if the shutter is open too long, the captured image can suffer from hand-shake, which means reduced sharpness. With its OIS system, the Nokia Lumia 1020 camera can actually tolerate up to of 3-5 times longer exposure times compared to traditional mobile cameras a significant benefit in low light situations. Using the Lumia 1020 together with a tripod, users can manually set the exposure time up to 4s, which allows you to take amazing images in nearly complete darkness.
When discussing low light performance its only natural to also consider the flash. Even though many prefer the natural ambient feeling in images captured without flash, even with the very best of cameras we occasionally run into situations where the use of flash is mandatory, especially if the target is moving. Flash performance is often assessed by comparing the light output of different flashes, however flash pulse duration is an equally important parameter to consider.
Figure 7. Clever engineering: Ball bearings float the large lens system. Illustration only.
With the Lumia 1020 we use a no-compromise xenon flash with very high light output and extremely short flash pulse duration. High flash output provides excellent illumination to targets three metres away, and the short pulse of the xenon flash ensures that the final captured image is extremely sharp while preserving the ambient lighting of the background.
Image sharpness measured with handshake as function of illuminance
Lumia 1020 Lumia 1020 with xenon ash Competitor Competitor with digital stabilisation Competitor with LED ash
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Real life sharpness measurement
Image sharpness is usually measured using a tripod (an accessory that the average person rarely carries) in good lighting conditions (also a luxury). We replicated real life situations, using a hand-shake simulator running at 4Hz frequency, with the Nokia Lumia 1020 challenging a market leading 13MP device in multiple lighting conditions. The Lumia 1020 was tested using the more shareable 5MP images and the measurements were done from centre frame for both devices. The results are depicted in Figure 8. The graph shows that Nokia Lumia 1020 resolves very close to the theoretical maximum of the 5MP image in good lighting conditions, but what is even more remarkable is that because of the combination of OIS and xenon flash we can provide practically the same huge resolution also in extremely dark conditions. And this was measured while introducing handshake to the device! Even without help from the xenon flash the resolution never drops below 50 percent of the theoretical maximum. In low light conditions the competitor device was only able to provide around 10 percent of its theoretical maximum resolution, and even in really bright lighting conditions only 40 percent of its capability was used. So one might ask, why use 13 megapixels, if only 10 percent of the theoretical resolution can be used? We have explained how image quality, sharpness and good low light imaging capability are a result of multiple features and the whole imaging chain working seamlessly together.
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Figure 8. Image sharpness, during simulated 4Hz 0.5 degree hand-shake, as a function of illuminance. The results are shown for Lumia 1020 with/without flash and for a leading competitor device with and without flash as well as with digital stabilisation.
Image quality is not only about megapixels but also about carefully optimising the whole imaging system to let people capture moments that matter the most wherever, whenever.
Nokia pro camera
You dont take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams To make the most out of the innovative hardware in the Nokia Lumia 1020 we have designed a new camera application called Nokia Pro Camera. It helps you to create the photo you want, and to become a better photographer. It is filled with features previously only found in digital SLR cameras. Taking excellent photos has never been so easy, as complex settings are turned into easy adjustments with immediately visible results. Nokia Pro Camera has image quality at its core. In the full-auto mode it is simple to use, but if you want to take more control it offers a powerful UI with access to manual controls for creative photography. With the Lumia 1020, Nokia Pro Camera also introduces dual capture, which means that in addition to the quality optimised 5MP image, the original full resolution image is also stored. This allows reframing, which we describe below. Nokia Pro Camera also revolutionises user-generated video content by offering superior Full HD video quality with hi-fidelity stereo audio without distortion. Full HD video comes with 4X high-resolution zoom, which means you can zoom 4X without any drop in resolution, and for 720P it is 6X.
Figure 9. Nokia Pro Camera viewfinder
Zoom reinvented and reframing
For stills, the 3X high-resolution zoom has very high image quality, but what is even more interesting is what happens after the photo is taken. By saving a full-resolution photo we can in fact zoom OUT or un-zoom from the 5MP image presented for easy sharing after capture, offering a unique way of zooming that has never been possible before. Unlike in optical zoom, the Lumia 1020 zoom is not permanent; you can open the photo afterwards and remove the zoom to reveal the full scene. And not only can you zoom out but you can also move around and zoom in to another part of the image, which can reveal details you did not see when you took the image. Find a new story within the full story! Another benefit is that you can straighten a tilted scene without having to crop the sides and make the image smaller, or un-crop someones legs that you unintentionally cut off while shooting. An example of straightening and improving the composition is shown in figures 10 and 11. Besides un-zooming and straightening, you can also zoom in, to discover details you might have missed during capture. The post-capture zoom can magnify the scene up to 25-31X (depending on aspect ratio). The 5MP resolution stays the same up until 3X zoom. After that the resolution drops as the graph in figure 12 shows. One of the greatest benefits of the re-invented zoom is the reframing experience. It promotes creative storytelling by framing a small detail within a bigger story. By always keeping the original full resolution image, you can reframe over and over again without losing any quality. The large Lumia 1020 sensor puts image quality first and creates a stunning detailed image in the wide
Figure 10. Saving the full resolution photo allows you to straighten and reframe your image after capture without losing any corners. This is not possible with traditional digital zoom, nor with optical zoom.
Figure 11. After reframing: The photo is straightened using the full resolution original. The object is positioned according to the rule of thirds
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When dual capture is on, a full resolution image is always saved
Full resolution image + Region of Interest is saved. This allows user to change zoom level and region after capture
Full Resolution image is kept intact between reframe actions. This allows reframing over and over again
Figure 12. The high resolution zoom is not locked but can be zoomed out in the post-capture phase. Then magnification can be done all the way to 25X (or 31X for 4:3 images).
Figure 13. Dual captures saves two images, one oversampled 5MP image and one full resolution image. The full resolution image is stored for zooming out or for allowing after-capture reframing.
position, yet it allows for zooming too. Dual capture and zooming during or after capture are summarised in Figure 13. You can zoom into every detail of a full resolution image, revealing detail you might have missed during capture, as shown in Figure 14. You can toggle between the most popular aspect ratios such as 16:9, which is great for landscape, 4:3 which is good for portraits, 3:2 which is used by classical 35mm film situations, and the increasingly popular 1:1 square crop.
Photography tools and creative control
To help you compose the shot, Nokia Pro Camera has a number of framing grids which can help place the subject in your photo. See figure 15. On top of the viewfinder, you find a dashboard with indicators for all manual controls and their current settings. The default value of each control is auto but tapping the value brings up a control ring where you can adjust the value manually. You find a dashboard with indicators for all manual controls and their current settings (see Figure 16).
Figure 14. The high resolution zoom used while taking the photo is lossless and is 3X. The post-capture zoom allows for finding detail you might have otherwise missed.
Figure 16. Dashboard with manual controls.
Controlling the flash is also done from the dashboard, and this also controls the focus light which is the lamp that helps the camera to find focus when its dark. The settings for the flash are:
Auto On
Auto On Off Auto Off
Auto Auto Auto Off Off
Focus light only No focus light Off
Figure 15. Rule of Thirds and Golden Ratio help make photos look visually pleasing in a classical way. Cross hairs helps with aligning the horizon correctly and Square helps you to compose if you intend to reframe it to 1:1 later.
If you put the flash to focus light only the flash is off but the focus assist light is on, which is great when you want to shoot sharp images without flash. With no focus light, flash works automatically but the focus light will not go off, and if you set it to off, both the flash and the focus assist light will be turned off which is good
if you are in a situation where you dont want to disturb anyone with the light from your phone.
Manual controls: EV, Shutter speed, ISO, Focus, WB
Nokia Pro Camera lets you take full control over your camera with a set of manual controls normally only found on advanced SLR cameras. Naturally the default for all controls is auto but the UI is very intuitive and it helps you and encourages you to start experimenting with the controls so that you can become a better photographer. EV stands for Exposure Value and it influences the brightness of the photo. The default value is 0 which means correct exposure for most situations. If you increase the EV it will make the picture brighter and you can see it in the viewfinder. This is great, for example, if your subject is in the shade, and you need to over expose. And if you slide it down, your photo will get darker, which is good if you want the sky to be dark blue. This is useful for example when you are at a concert and the stage is extremely bright compared to other areas. The EV can also be used creatively to make artistic-looking washed-out photos or silhouettes. Shutter speed is also called Exposure Time, and defines how long the shutter is open to expose the sensor to light. You can set it to as low as one sixteen-thousandths of a second (1/16000s), which is good if you have a lot of light and want to freeze the motion. By setting the time all the way up to four seconds, you can capture amazing night shots like seeing the light streams from car lights. ISO is how much the signal from the sensor is amplified. This is good when you dont have much light, but high ISO-numbers can introduce noise in the picture. In a dark situation with movement, you typically want to increase the ISO, to amplify the light, so that the camera
Figure 17. Nokia Pro Camera viewfinder with manual controls. From left to right: White balance, focus, ISO, shutter speed and EV.
does not have to keep the shutter open so long. Typically in daylight ISO 100 works well, and you might want to increase ISO to 800 in dark situations. Focus: With focus you can set the focal plane manually from 15cm to infinity. If you lock it to infinity most things beyond 10m are in focus. The manual focus is great if you know how far away your subject is, and want to take a picture quickly, without having to wait for the AutoFocus (AF). Manual focus is also useful when you shoot close-up or macro shots, and when you want to lock the focus to a point the AF is not able to focus on. WB: White balance controls what is white in your picture. What looks white depends on the light sources in the scene and sometimes you might prefer warmer or colder tones than those the camera automatically provides, so you can experiment with the manual settings. The Lumia 1020 includes settings for cloudy, sunshine, fluorescent and incandescent.
An alternative way to access the controls is by sliding the digital shutter key on the screen to the left. This gives an overview of all the controls and their value. You can swipe the shutter key a second time to the left to reset all the values to auto. To help you get the best shot, the Pro Camera UI also offers guidance. The camera will show you when you are about to over- or under-expose, by showing a value between -3 and +3 in the EV field on the top right. Some values of ISO and Shutter speed might result in noisy images or a lot of blur due to hand-shake or movement. This is indicated in the dashboard by an underlined value. You can also see what value the camera is going to use in the auto-mode.
If youre in a low-light situation and decide to increase the ISO manually, keep Shutter speed set to auto. In this mode, the indicators on the dashboard will show you what shutter speed the camera is going to use. This is because ISO, Shutter speed and EV are interdependent as described in the diagram in figure 18.
EV-1 EV=0 EV+1
Nokia Pro Camera video
Nokia Pro Camera records video in two different resolutions, 1920x1080 (Full HD) or 1280x720, and also supports three different frame rates, 24, 25 and 30 frames per second (fps), depending on which region you are intending to play back the video in. The video mode also offers zoom, which can be used while recording by sliding a finger up or down the screen. For Full HD, the zoom is 4X and for 720p it is 6X. The zoom is high resolution, which means it is completely lossless and the resolution doesnt drop at all while zooming there is no loss of detail. The indicator bar shows three manual controls. You can turn the video light on and off. You can set the white balance. You can lock the focus manually. If youre in a concert with a seat far away from the stage, you can zoom in while recording video to see more than you can with your own eyes. The video can be uploaded straight from the phone to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. You can also edit the video straight from the phone before uploading.
Overexposed (Light)
400 200 100 Underexposed (Dark)
1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/ 1/500 1/250 1/125 1/60 1/30 1/15 16000 8000 4000 2000 1000
1/8 1/4 1/2 1 2s 4s
Figure 18. ISO, Shutter speed, and EV are interdependent
Figure 19. Conventional audio recording (on the left) vs. distortion-free Nokia Rich Recording (on the right). Illustration only.
Nokia Rich Recording
Sound quality is essential for high-quality video recording. In Nokia 808 PureView, we introduced Nokia Rich Recording, a technology developed exclusively to deliver the highest quality stereo audio recording. With Nokia Pro Camera Video we bring Nokia Rich Recording to Lumia 1020. Nokia Rich Recording technology comprises two specially designed digital microphones with an extended dynamic range to handle high sound pressure levels. 32-bit arithmetics preserve the dynamic range in digital signal conditioning as well as acoustics design optimized for stereo image and full audio bandwidth. Where the Lumia 1020 really excels is its ability to record high sound pressure levels such as when you are in a rock concert where the sound levels are high enough to be able to feel the bass. In such conditions conventional recording solutions fail by cutting off the low frequencies or clipping the signal entirely.
With Nokia Rich Recording you are able to record even the loudest concerts with good quality. It is possible to record about six times louder sound pressure level than with a conventional smartphone microphone. The result has to be heard to be believed - deep bass and bright treble without a note of distortion. For more advanced users - based on the feedback from Nokia 808 PureView, we have provided a simple user interface to get the best from the hardware in different recording scenarios and applications. Audio bass filter provides controls on the low frequency audio characteristics with three options: The Default option is the best all-round setting and provides sonically balanced recordings in most conditions. It applies a shelf filter to 0200Hz frequency band and works especially well in loud concert recordings, where the bass level can be too excessive for balanced playback. The Strong option can become handy in the presence of wind-noise or in-car noise. It applies a 200Hz highpass filter cutting effectively all low frequency content
from the recording. The Off option is convenient for more advanced users who may want as flat a frequency response as possible for post editing. It extends the low frequency range down to around 20Hz without attenuation.
Photo examples
The Nokia Lumia 1020 is designed to deliver the best possible results in real life situations. Be it a rocking sailing boat or a night club filled with motion. Unlike competing devices the Lumia 1020 delivers maximum resolution in all these situations.
Figure 20. Manual setting of the long exposure time emphasizes the busy atmosphere at Grand Central station. This image was taken with the Nokia Camera Grip and a tripod (1/3 s exposure time, ISO 100, and EV -0.7)
Figure 22. Capture great images at night: Freezing motion with xenon flash.
Figure 21. Capture great images with exceptional sharpness even on a rocking sailing boat. OIS keeps the images free from blur.
Figure 23. The Nokia Lumia 1020 41MP sensor enables capturing a tremendous amount of detail.
Figure 24. A woman drinking tea
Figure 25. and her teabag tag.
Figure 26. Take control of shutter speed and create some breathtaking night scenes with light trails by exposing for up to 4s.
Figure 27. Crank the ISO up to 3200 to shoot brighter photos with higher shutter speeds.
Figure 28. Use exposure value creatively to play with light and to decide which areas are over- or under-exposed.
Figure 29. Manual focus makes it easy for you to experiment with distance. You can choose to have a nice Bokeh effect in the foreground or background.
Key technologies and specs
Latest generation high-performance BSI sensor Sensor size 1/1.5, 41MP, pixel size 1.1 micron, true 16:9/4:3 aspect ratio. Total sensor is 7712x5360=41.3MP. 16:9 mode is 7712x4352=33.6MP and 4:3 mode is 7136x5360=38.2MP. See Figure 30. 35mm equivalent focal length: 25mm for 16:9, 27mm for 4:3 F-number: f/2.2 Mechanical shutter Optical image stabilisation (new type of barrel shift actuator which enables moving a heavy and complex full lens assembly) System of 6 lenses (5 plastic molded high performance plastic, one high precision glass element) Nokia image processing and pixel oversampling technology Nokia-developed 3A algorithms (auto-exposure, auto-focus, auto-white-balance) to increase image quality New white balance technology New generation powerful xenon flash with flat capacitor technology which enables more power in a more compact package. Video LED light
4:3 16:9
Figure 30. The total sensor size is 7712x5360=41.3MP. This image shows also the full optical circle and shows that the corners of the sensor are not used because they fall outside of the optical circle and additionally they are not needed for either aspect ratio. The 4:3 mode image makes full use of the height of the image sensor within the optical format area and provides a genuinely taller vertical view with a size of 7136x5360=38.2MP. The 16:9 mode image makes full use of the width of the image sensor within the optical format area and provides a genuinely wider horizontal view with a size of 7712x4352=33.6MP.
Written by Juha Alakarhu, Kristina Bjrkns, Marcus Olsson, Ari Partinen, Eero Salmelin, and Heikki Sassi on behalf of many dedicated Nokia imaging and audio experts. Lumia 1020 photos taken by Ted Bergeron, Kristina Bjrkns, Stephen Elop, and Ari Partinen.
Figure 31. Mechanical shutter. Illustration only
J. Alakarhu, S. Koskinen, E. Tuulos, Image quality of oversampling cameras, in Proc. 2013 International Image Sensor Workshop
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