Hey! Stop introducing facts! No fair!

Cheers,

R.

So you're happy to be murdered without trial, and without declaration of war against any known state, because I don't like your politics? Pakistan: love it or leave it. Or run the risk that an American drone will kill you; or kill your wife and children while you're away; or kill your next door neighbour, who thinks you're a murdering shit; or.... Well, anyone handy, really. Or maybe a terrorist will bomb your house in th USA:

I wonder how many subscribers I could find for that sort off extra-judicial, extralegal murder, in your personal case. From the general mood of UHH, probably several.

When you're the one looking down the barrel of the gun, suddenly the rule of law looks a lot more understandable. And desirable.

Cheers,

R.

Of course you exclude Christians from this...

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R.

[quote=Archy]...Perhaps a bit more chum will help...[color=blue][b][i]I'll have some pulled pork…tator tots...garlic bread and a sweet tea...please[/quote]

Nah... there's some crap even brain-dead fish wouldn't touch.

Cheers,

R.

Are you saying that the right has the monopoly on shit for brains? Because that isn't always fair.

Cheerrs,

R.

Brilliant! This is the difference between professional advice (yours); advanced amateur advice (people like me who have shot as few weddings successfully for friends when they couldn't get out of it, http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/ps%20weddings.html ), and complete idiots who think they know everything about everything.

Cheers,

R.

Doesn't EVERYONE who is misinformed become more attached to their favourite misinformation?

Surely the only difference between right and left is that on average (far from reliably) the left tend to be more intelligent and compassionate, if sometimes less realistic?

Cheers,

R.

"Decadent" = "having 10 teeth".

Though I was once in my 40s on the receiving end of a great chat-up line from a very attractive punk (punkette?) Harley-Davidson rider some 10 years younger than I. "I like the gold teeth." The other men there were very envious...

Cheers,

R.

You get such people in France too: mostly English, but also Dutch, Irish, German and (of course, though they're thin on the ground) American. They complain almost non-stop against 'the French'. They seem incapable of understanding that (a) nowhere is perfect and (b) unless you're very poor, or unusually stupid, lazy, etc., you rarely HAVE to live in any particular location. Moving somewhere, and then complaining about it non-stop, is evidence of poor judgement.

By all means admit poor judgement in moving to somewhere you don't like, but don't try to tip ALL the blame onto a whole region or even nation. Move somewhere else!

Unless you are very poor, or unusually stupid, lazy, etc., then "Love it or leave it" is an inexplicable response. On the other hand, people who MOVE somewhere, and then spend all their time whingeing about it, really deserve to be sent back wherever they came from. Unless, of course, they're brave enough/honest enough to go back (or to go elsewhere) on their own nickel.

Those who are too stupid to see that there might be anything wrong with the country in which they live, and that they might learn something from other countries, should be stripped of the right to vote.

Cheers,

R.

Absolutely. As a standard reference it's nearly as good as a stand colour reference patch. But for exposure determination? Sure, once you've learned how to use it. How many do?

Oh: and thanks for the kind words about the site.

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R.

Unless there is a greater subject brightness range than the meter assumes, especially if you are shooting negative film.

Normally, for digital and slide, incident readings are quicker and more reliable. The main reason to use a spot meter in such cases is (a) if you can't read in the same light as illuminates the subject or (b) you use the 'keytone' system as recommended by SEI: go about 4/5 of the way down http://www.rogerandfrances.com/subscription/sei.html

The more I read about spot meter use, the more convinced I am that many spot meter users are being saved by the inherent flexibility of the photographic process.

Cheers,

R.

Very true. Photography just isn't as precise as some people imagine. A LOT of Zone System devotees are saved by the inherent flexibility of B+W photography.

Don't imagine, though, that just because something appears on a manufacturer's web site, it's necessarily authoritative. The marketing department doesn't always listen to the technical guys who actually know what they're talking about. Source: general observation, plus a friend who spent many years on the ISO standards committee.

Cheers,

R.

Mostly comedians, I think. It's easy to get a laugh out of people who want to feel superior, especially when they know nothing aboit the subject of the joke or anything else much. Yes, the last Yugo model (the only one I know) was fairly basic, and it was a Serbian version of a Fiat Panda. But the Fiat Panda was such a brilliant design (and I am no fan of Italian design) that it really had very few faults.

We are about to scrap a 1990 Seat Marbella, the Spanish version of the same thing. The ONLY reason to scrap it is that rebuilt gearboxes are no longer available. Otherwise, it's the perfect cheap runabout.

Cheers,

R.

Rrad "The Black Swan"

Most of what we don't expect is... well... gosh... unexpected.

Cheers,

R.

Fair enough. But the client is the judge, not the photographer. I completely agree about being outside the hassle.

Of course I could make a joke of it and sat, "Wimp! What's wrong with 8x10 inch and four plates?"

Things change.

Cheers,

R.