Posts for: therwol
Mar 27, 2024 17:51:32 #
SteveR wrote:
Why weren't there protective concrete pylons in front of each bridge support that would have brought any ship to a stop before actually hitting the bridge supports? Granted, I'm not an engineer, but it seems like common sense.
This has been brought up. I'll bet the replacement has this sort of protection.
Mar 27, 2024 17:49:01 #
Red Shouldered Hawk perhaps 200 feet away. Taken at 200mm with a Nikon 70-200 f/4 VR. Second image is a crop. The images look darker on my screen than they do when I simply view the pictures. I don't know what's up with that.
Mar 27, 2024 17:20:48 #
cbtsam wrote:
I guess you guys just don't ever crop. An enviable luxury!
Yes, it does make a difference in cropped images, but otherwise it makes none the way that images are normally viewed and printed. Super large prints? Okay, but most people don't make them.
Mar 27, 2024 17:13:58 #
Let's start another thread on jpeg versus RAW, just for fun. Always good for insults. When we're done with that, how about Sony versus everyone else? Nikon versus Canon. Don't forget purple streaking with Foveon sensors. That was the best for insults. I look forward to them all. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy myself trying to figure out Jerry's problems with everything he touches.
Mar 27, 2024 12:41:54 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Why are there so many different ways to attach win... (show quote)
I have a 2012 Mini Cooper Countryman. I bought wipers in a local car parts place whose book directed me to the wipers. They weren't correct. The mounting system was wrong. I returned them and went to the nearest Mini dealer for the wipers. That was a pain. The dealer is 40 miles away, but I felt I had no choice. I didn't trust Amazon to sell me the correct wipers.
Mar 25, 2024 23:03:14 #
Nancysc wrote:
It was L. Bernstein who brought Mahler into the popular realm (popular among classical music listeners. This was in the 1960s. And of course this was 20 years after WWII, so enough time to bring German music in general into the airwaves and concert halls.
Bernstein is buried with the score to Mahler's 5th, said to be his favorite. I was once listening to the last movement of the 5th at a very high volume in my car and didn't even notice the police siren on my tail as the officer tried to get around me. Big music.
Mar 25, 2024 17:11:43 #
Nancysc wrote:
Youtube has a video of Bernstein conducting the Mahler II in an English cathedral (not in London). It will make a believer out of the most devout atheist!
I'm not sure about that, but it's a magnificent piece of music.
You surely know that he was Jewish, married a Christian, converted to Catholicism, but still encountered anti-semitic issues that increased toward the end of his life. The Vienna Philharmonic didn't play his music after WWII until the 1960s.
Mar 25, 2024 17:06:34 #
neillaubenthal wrote:
One of my fave's as well…but I would put Tchaikovsky #1 and Beethoven #5 ahead of the Rachy 2 and 3…and the Tchaikovsky wins over all the rest.
It's a matter of taste, of course. Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff wrote emotional pieces. Beethoven is more intellectual. Tchaikovsky in particular wrote many memorable romantic melodies in his pieces. Rach 2 has at least two that I can think of that have been borrowed over and over. Rach 3 is more harsh than 2, and I have to be in a mood for it.
Mar 25, 2024 13:44:52 #
fourlocks wrote:
Love his work but my all time favorite is Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony) sometimes describe as the most beautiful symphony ever written.
If anyone wants to know, my favorite symphony is Brahms' 4th.
Mar 25, 2024 02:23:50 #
niteman3d wrote:
I hope it's true... just read a rumor that a 28-400 Nikon Z mount lens is in the pipeline. I really miss my Tamron 28-400 which doesn't work with the FTZ.
Nikon is a very secretive company. We read rumors for years that the D850 would be replaced by another DSLR like maybe a D860 or D880. There were rumors that they would produce a mirrorless camera with a 61MP sensor to match Sony. It didn't happen. What you're seeing may or may not be true, but the only way to know is to wait and find out.
Mar 25, 2024 02:16:09 #
BK-ALA wrote:
These are a few of my favorite birding pictures.
Nice photos. I grew up in Mobile and saw the kinds of birds you photographed. The Mobile river delta is teeming with birds and other wildlife.
Mar 24, 2024 16:46:46 #
markngolf wrote:
So melodic!! So many popular "tunes" have been derived from this concerto. Bravo Sergio Rachmaninoff!!
https://youtu.be/yCHpdfPvYhs
Enjoy,
Mark
https://youtu.be/yCHpdfPvYhs
Enjoy,
Mark
My favorite also. It's a tie with Brahms 2. This is a great performance. I judge all performances of Rachmaninoff 2 against Van Cliburn's. His performance of this in Moscow on Russian TV is also astonishing but suffers from poor sound and video.
Mar 24, 2024 09:26:36 #
imagextrordinair wrote:
On the other hand the lack of a mirror has little to do with anything except in what you see in your viewfinder.
The list of the "anythings" has been repeated over and over in this thread, "anythings" such as noise, speed, size and weight, IBIS, possibility of better lens designs, what you see is what you get and so on.
Image quality isn't the issue. The issue is features not possible with a DSLR. Does everyone need them? No, but you can't argue that no one benefits from them.
There will be a time in the near future when you won't be able to buy a brand new DSLR unless Pentax continues to be a holdout. You buy what's on the market. Many people will look back and wonder why we put up with the noisy beasts.
Mar 22, 2024 23:25:11 #
National Park wrote:
My photos are a time machine of my life, including my children and grandchildren, my travel, adventures and vacations, my early mornings and late evenings, my parties and holidays, and the wonder which I have felt on city streets and in nature.
Same here. My photographs and video, as well as the photos my parents took of our family and vacations, are the diary of my life, my family's lives, extending to my friend's lives. I have always shared photos generously with friends and family.
Mar 22, 2024 09:52:37 #
User ID wrote:
I use Ronsinal lighter fluid. I think its either naptha or benzine.
Naptha was removed from that lighter fluid in around 2010. Benzene is carcinogenic. It is used in manufacturing but is not supposed to be in any consumer products at greater than 0.1% by weight. But whatever works. I just like to look things up.