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Feb 4, 2022 14:51:36   #
markngolf wrote:
Here are two videos of the very famous and talented duo of Les Paul & Mary Ford.
The first is an appearance on Omnibus, explaining how they pioneered their unique recordings.
https://youtu.be/BjKX0P4t_ac


The 2nd is a longer video of the history of the duo.
https://youtu.be/05EEEVVHwXk

Enjoy,
Mark


Les Paul was way ahead of his time in music.
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Feb 3, 2022 15:29:31   #
jerryc41 wrote:
Twenty years?!


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Feb 1, 2022 14:44:31   #
Almost looks like a Charlois.
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Jan 28, 2022 14:44:50   #
DaveC wrote:
This is sort of a hypothetical question since I really don’t wish to spend this much. But:

I take a wide variety of photos but this would relate mostly to my nature and wildlife work. I am quite shaky in holding and end up with a lot of blurred photos. Some background. I’m 87. I have never been very strong, more the 97 pound weakling type. For years I was fine but as I got older I got shakier. I compensated to some extent by heavier equipment. (A Nikon 7100 with aux battery box,and a L-bracket.) I found the weight helped dampen my shaking to some extent. Then VR came along and I bought some VR lenses. That also helped. But as I get older I also get weaker and I find that the increased weight is as much a hinderance as a help. On top of that I have, the last few years, developed Essential Tremor where my hands shake. This is continuing to get worse with time. So, I am looking for a solution. Please don’t say tripods, I bought my first tripod, a Linholf, about 1956 and I now have tripods everywhere. The same with monopods. And a piece of string attached to the bottom. Etc. It’s not my type of photography, plus it’s more weight. Anyway, my thought is, if I should buy a Nikon Z6II, and also continue to use my existing Nikon lenses with VR, would the additional VR in the camera body make a noticeable improvement in optical steadiness?
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DaveC;
I too at 75 years have begun to have slightly shaky hands. I depend a lot on a very light carbon fiber monopod, its compact and I always have attached to my small bag. I agree sometimes its a hassle. When digital began I loved the fact that the cameras were small and light, of course I was younger then. I had a couple of bridge cameras and they were OK. The Canon EOS SL1 was advertised and I went for it. It was small and light, then my hands began to shake. Some one had said get a heavier camera, so I bought a Canon 70D, it seemed to help. I've found that if I lean against something: tree, wall, pole, a fence, I stop shaking. For most situations I prefer my light weight monpod.
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Jan 26, 2022 16:05:43   #
Phil327 wrote:
I recently acquired a Nikon N90s camera. The back ( MF-25 ) was very sticky as was most of the camera. The camera works fine and I decided to see if I could restore the finish on it.
Materials used - alcohol- above 90%, paper towels, ArmorAll, automotive car wax, micro fiber cloth.

It is fairly simple process. Use the alcohol to remove the sticky coating on the back, lots of rubbing and changing the paper towel often. Then clean the rest of the camera with alcohol to remove the migrated coating from the rest of the camera.

Once that is done, I sprayed some ArmorAll on a paper towel and wiped down the entire camera. Remove any residue with a clean cloth.

Now the camera is nice and clean and no longer sticky.

The final step I used is to put a coat of automotive wax on the camera. Apply the wax, let it sit for a few minutes, then polish the camera with a clean cloth.

Some cautions:
don't get and cleaners on any lens, it you have one attached. With any liquid, spray on a cloth or paper towel,
DO NOT SPRAY DIRECTLY ON THE CAMERA.

The N90s had some printed information on the back. This was removed as part of the cleaning process. I have attached some images showing what they looked like. I have no way of restoring this information, They are white and even if my printer actually printed white, I would have no way of getting that back on the camera.

This whole process took less that an hour and I now have a like new camera.
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I'm very surprised that the auto wax would apply over the Amorall, that stuff is pretty slippery. I applied it to a motorcycle seat once and spent all day trying not to slide off the rear of the bike!
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Jan 17, 2022 15:04:12   #
What a fantastic group of pictures, great work! Some of the best bird pics I've seen on UHH.
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Jan 17, 2022 15:01:50   #
Great picture!! Where on earth did you such a capture?
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Jan 17, 2022 15:01:14   #
Great picture!! Where on earth did you such a capture?
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Jan 17, 2022 13:50:17   #
marvinjwolf wrote:
Unless you're quite old, or if you have worked as a photojournalist, the name Gordon Parks, Sr., probably won't mean much to you. But if you are an American, and especially an American of color, his work is something you will be glad to know about.

I met him just once when I was a very junior Public Information Officer at Fort Benning in 1967. I was escorting a couple of guys from National Geographic and we had lunch at the Officer's Club. Seemingly out of nowhere, Parks appeared and was invited to join us. I knew who he was, of course, because my road to a commission and a job as an Army Information officer had begun with nearly a year as a combat photographer with the justly famed First Cavalry (Airmobile), and this had brought me into contact with a who's who of the world's finest photojournalists.

Even before that, I spent half a year of evenings in libraries looking at back issues of America's best photo magazines--National Geographic, LIFE, Look, and Pageant.

The most important thing I recall from this chance meeting was that Parks had decided that print photojournalism was walking dead. He had enrolled in film school, and it was his intention to make movies. Which it was and which he did. And more's the pity that weekly magazines like LIFE and LOOK and PAGEANT no longer publish.

Anyhoo, here's a little peek at Gordon Parks and his work:

https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TDbMKyjMS7IwYPSSS88vSsnPUyhILMouVijJSFXIzCvLLM5MyklVyE3MAwBvEBAv&q=gordon%20parks%20the%20invisible%20man&oq=Gordon%20parks%20the%20inv&aqs=chrome.1.0i355i512j46i512j69i57j0i22i30l2j69i60l3.11268j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&fbclid=IwAR1uUqZ4MorAcKSrsuyp0tmxNGTSkfNYsKh2X3JJDZq_2PV1_REq7o3waok

And, more generally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks?fbclid=IwAR2hCoayj9SnheQaIJaakpMAB18tMwYpLHvnEFZklHqOsCHJhhwo7Zy8JcA


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks?fbclid=IwAR0cTFneJSfoCJCn0N2K6kBpnQUCszNfHVJy7wcAwF54WNkPnF3IpUrI4AY
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I too was an Army public information officer in 1971. I was assigned to the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. It was a very intense 12-week course in military communications. We learned radio and TV the first 4 weeks; the people with "on air" backgrounds stayed with that subject. Perhaps you knew Eric Kronaure the main character in the movie "Good Morning Viet Nam. He attended Dinfos about that same time; late 60's. The rest of us then spent the next 8 weeks learning photojournalism. I had a BA in Journalism from OSU upon enlisting into the Army. I remember the name Grodon Parks came many times using his work as examples. His picture was hung on a wall in our darkroom classroom. I think that I really learned more about researching a story and combining pictures than I did at college. I was assigned to the US Army Recruiting Station as an information officer, back my home state of Ohio. I spent the remainder of my enlistment there, it was a great job. I thought about re-enlisting, but was told I'd probably go over-seas for a new assignment, so I got out .
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Jan 13, 2022 15:55:54   #
Welcome, welcome, welcome!! You are going by blurry photographer; that tells me that you must have some great blurry shots of BIGFOOT? Maybe?
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Jan 13, 2022 15:46:40   #
I've been using after market inks for a while now with out any problems for my 3 year old Canon TS9020. My only complaint is the fade resistance. If left out in sun they seem fade rather quickly.
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Jan 13, 2022 15:21:41   #
Welcome to the forum. I checked out your YouTube channel (WOW!), it is a plethora of information, YOU will be a valuable asset to this community.
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Jan 13, 2022 15:07:44   #
What about the dark area east of the larger anomaly it is the largest and appears to have even more surface disturbance than the other two?
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Jan 13, 2022 13:55:55   #
I grew up on a farm with a big red barn, it was a wonderful place to during a rainy day, of course it was fun any day.
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Jan 5, 2022 21:44:36   #
Received a call from a dear cousin, seems he came a crossed a 35mm camera his deceased brother bought while in the Army in Germany in the early 1950's. He asked me if I could find its value and possibly know any camera collectors who might be interested in such a camera. For its age (over 70+ years) it seems to be in very good condition. I took about a dozen photos for illustration. This camera seems to work OK and appears perfect except for some scratches on the leather lens covering. There are no crackes or wear on the bellows. Even the old battery in the flash did not leak or corrode. No one remembers this camera being used very much. The leather case is neither rotted or dried out. I hope someone can help. Please PM me if anyone has interest or any information about the camera. Thanks for any in-put you might have.


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