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Aug 23, 2022 02:36:39   #
bnsf wrote:
Maybe the reason they named the camera in the Z series is because this may be the last of this camera? Remember Z is the last letter in the alphabet!


Imho they named it "Z" is because "Z" has more charisma than "A" "B" "C" or any of most of the other
letters of the alphabet.

Just like Eastman named his business "Kodak" for no other reason
than "Kodak" sounds like a good name for a camera.

Make sense of these motorcycle monikers:

GSXR

CBR-RR

R1 or R3... an R1s engine is 700 cubic centimetres larger than an R3

YZF250 and YZ250F... the former is a sports road bike from Yam, the
latter is an Enduro dirt bike from the same company.

I told a class of Aircraft Maintenance Engineer students that I
own a YZF750 (which was Yams homologation model for
the World Superbike formula circa 1993.)
It was a "country town" (pop 150,000) campus so the
young men in the class were bought up on a diet of Enduro and Motocross bikes,
and because the Yamahas of that ilk are called YZ250F... up to YZ450F
they assumed there were no 750 Yam (dirt bikes in their immature minds)... because of their
ignorance I was met with unanimous derision. It did not take me long however
to prove their ignorance to them, which possibly made matters worse.

Sometimes I think I'm an arse hole magnet.
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Aug 23, 2022 01:20:28   #
DennyT wrote:
On all sides of the political spectrum. ALL


Unfortunately there is a lot of truth in your comment Denny.
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Aug 22, 2022 07:13:30   #
jrvinson45 wrote:
I envy you guys. At 77 years old my reflexes and attention span make me a danger to myself and everyone else. I miss it!


achesley wrote:
I know the feeling all to well. Had to give up the 2 wheels at 77 also. After over 600K miles, still miss it.


Sorry to hear that.

But at least you have great memories that many don't.
I'll keep posting so you guys can journey down well furnished memory lanes from time to time.

If you have any photos of your bikes etc, you're welcome to post them in my thread here.
I'd love t' see 'em.
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Aug 22, 2022 07:09:24   #
rlv567 wrote:
For shame! I still ride at 94. (Didn't even ride a bicycle until in my 40s, but have enjoyed riding - including a little motocross - Bultaco 350 Pursang - ever since.) Not much chance these days - and here - to ride just for fun; mostly just going to the store (no car).

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City


Wow... The Pursang was/is one serious motocrosser. Inspirational mate!

Do you still have it?
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Aug 22, 2022 06:59:06   #
Architect1776 wrote:
In the political world, labeling opponents is nothing new. But in our era the Democratic strategists have taken their rhetoric down to a new low. In true Marxist fashion, they follow a tactic developed in Germany’s Frankfurt School in the 1920s and imported to America in the 1930s, arriving at New York City’s Columbia University and then spreading through our system of higher education. In summary, the tactic is this: those who hold conservative viewpoints are to be branded as mentally ill extremists who are therefore a threat to our society. The goal of this strategy is to silence others through means of diagnosis instead of dialogue. It is a scare tactic obviously meant to influence voters. This was vividly underscored just this week by the complicit New York Times’ columnist Charles Blow, who pronounced that the Republican Party is “the real problem in America”, and is “a threat to our democracy”. Understand, branding opponents as dangerous or extreme, or tagging them with some made up diagnoses such as homophobic, transphobic or xenophobic has become the Democrats substitute for debating their conservative opponents. This is because they recognize, correctly, that most Americans would align with many of the view points of conservatives rather than those of the left. They therefore take preemptive strikes at conservatives by labeling them as dangerous, extreme, neurotic or racist.


Extremist democrat candidates who support the murder of a child in their mother’s womb, even up to the moment of birth, often referred to as partial birth abortion. Democrats are against any restriction on abortions. They chronically refer to this as a “woman’s right” where no such right ever existed in our constitution. The Supreme Court was as wrong in it’s 1973 Roe vs Wade decision as it was in it’s 1857 Dred Scott decision. Both cases unjustly took control over another’s right to life and liberty. In time, both decisions were made right.

Dangerous to our economy and our way of life is a party that attempts to describe an inflation rate five times higher than it has been in the past 10 years as simply “transitional”. This is the Party whose policies, in their zeal to advance “green energy”, have sent gas, electric and grocery prices soaring. Believing Americans are completely credulous, they smugly took a victory lap recently over what they call “decreasing gas prices”, which are now in fact double what they were when they took control nationally. Their hope is that the American public will forget or remain ignorant of the fact that in May of this year they began a six month, one million barrel per day withdrawal from the U.S. strategic oil reserve with no plans to replenish it. This daily practice is set to end around early November, sending gas, energy and food prices soaring again just after the Fall election. These withdrawals are atop of 80 million barrels the administration already removed and according to Reuters News, much has been sent to other nations including China. These withdrawals will take our Strategic Reserve to below 1/2 for first time since we began filling it between 1977 and 1983 while trying to reach that half way mark.

Extreme is a party that touts “follow the science” but can’t even define a woman, and believes that men can become pregnant. They do not follow the science on biology - insisting that boys can be girls, and therefore should compete against them in sports, and afterwards shower with them in the same locker rooms. They refuse to follow the science on vaccinations and mask mandates. Their credo “my body my choice” only applies to things they cherish like infanticide, but do not apply to forced experimental vaccinations upon Americans under threat of losing their jobs and livelihood. The vaccines were even forced upon millions of our workers who had already developed the preferable “natural immunity”. “Follow the science” for the left means, follow the science that fits their narrative and their agenda of taking control over the will of a free people.

Extreme is a political party that weaponizes our law enforcement, from the district police officers at school board meetings all the way up to our Department of Justice, who fast-tracked the FBI’s classification “domestic terrorists” for parents who spoke out against their local school boards. In PA, Governor Wolf and the executive branch bullied small business with threat of losing their licenses unless they kowtowed to their unscientific, draconian executive orders, causing many of these business to fail. When it comes to law enforcement, this the party that cries “defund the police”, while permitting criminals to exit our prisons and enter our Country unimpeded through open borders.

Dangerous is a party and their candidates who seek to take away the guns of law abiding Americans, while simultaneously arming 86,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents who will soon be unleashed primarily upon small businesses and their owners. This move aptly sums up the Democrat’s understanding of economics, which is that the government doesn’t have a spending problem, it has an income problem that they plan to fix with more taxation.
This IRS agent hiring was part of the Democratic 1/2 trillion dollar spending bill passed this week that they dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act”, which was known in advance by everyone NOT to reduce inflation at all. A bill who’s name even the liberal media are now calling “Orwellian disinformation” by achieving the opposite of what it’s name portrays - a purposely misleading bold faced lie that is dangerous to a nation which values truth, integrity and transparency.
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Mate... The "organ" of the "International Socialist Organization"
is a "news" paper called "The Socialist Worker."
If you want a good laugh at the most trite, ridiculous, outlandish patently false diatribe
of obvious BS propaganda, have a read. Talk about double digit IQs.

It really is a laugh. User Id should get a job with them. He'd fit right in... a round plug for a round (arse) hole.
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Aug 22, 2022 06:29:07   #
Sunday I did the "Epic Ride". It's a group ride that takes place most weekends.
Usually Saturday but occasionally Sunday if the weathers more favourable.

It's Winter down here so there was only 3 of us on it. When the weather is warmer
there's often a dozen or so.

We meet about 20 miles ESE of the CBD of Melbourne.

Anyway, the photo was shot at a stop at Poweltown. We went further east and did
the Baw Baw Walhalla loop et al... and down the bottom of the map for lunch...
The guy on the Yam is a fan of the fish and chip shop down there. I have to
say the portions of whiting are massive and tasty.

So we spent about 8 hours fanging through the twisties in those parts
of the "Great Dividing Range".

Just for the record; no alcohol was consumed.


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Aug 19, 2022 11:59:51   #
LFingar wrote:
Oh, it burns! Don't need that picture to prove it.


Steel burns too. Having said that, I believe the matrix that holds the carbon/graphite fibers
will ignite long before the fibres.
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Aug 19, 2022 08:16:49   #
Great work.
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Aug 19, 2022 08:08:48   #
LFingar wrote:
Another shot from the internet. Apparently some photographers are more dedicated then others!


As are those that want a sex change operation:


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Aug 19, 2022 08:03:33   #
kenArchi wrote:
Yeah, 'Coolpix'. Whimsy, wimpy names.

And cars with wimpy names, what's a Fit.?


Hotpix has a better "ring" to it.
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Aug 19, 2022 07:50:24   #
jerryc41 wrote:
I've often said that camera companies need better names for their products, and they should hire an outside company to help them with that. You shouldn't have to be an insider to know which camera is better just by looking at the name. The Z fc is a perfect example.

Nikon made a mistake with that name. Nikon has the Z6, Z7, Z9. Why did they feel the need to put a space between the "Z" and the "fc"? And why lower case? If you look online, it is written three different ways: "Z fc," "Zfc," and "ZFC." This is going to continue as long as people write about the camera. Even I use "Z fc" and "Zfc" when writing about it. And why not start the series with the Z1?
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KFC has cornered the ZFC market.
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Aug 18, 2022 11:51:07   #
JTs noise reduction with my white balance, tone mapping and local contrast up a smidge

I used Rawtherapee (a free program) which is not bad but lacks decent noise reduction... unlike
the nice job JT did with the noise.


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Aug 18, 2022 11:33:24   #
markngolf wrote:
8 point Buck, early AM today. Unfortunately lots of noise - it was somewhat dark and thru the window. I suspect someone who is more adept at post processing can improve the quality of the processed image. However, "noisy" beats no image!

Thanks for viewing
Mark


The white balance was crook Mark, and visually a bigger problem... which was easy to improve in RawTherapee.
To hit it with noise reduction in that program would remove detail so I left it as is.


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Aug 18, 2022 11:18:34   #
Awesome.
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Aug 18, 2022 11:16:05   #
Nice shooting. I like your POV
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