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Mar 26, 2024 10:17:13   #
fuminous wrote:
First grade: Sharon Sherlyke....


I wonder if she got into real estate?

"Sharon Sherlyke Homes?"
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Mar 25, 2024 23:10:22   #
Just watch out for colorful Chinese drives not much bigger than a stick of gum and no name. Faked sizes abound.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:51:55   #
Every once in a while I meet someone with a memorable name. A name that sounds like it should be in a novel.

These three stuck in my brain for years.

Richard Victor Mondragon.

As a gringo, I thought it was mon-dragon, but it probably is mon-dragone.

Sounds like a film noir detective name to me.

Garnet Mantor.

She sang in my college choral group. A bit older than most of us. And with the right clothes and dark hairstyle, she also could look like a noir pulp fiction character.

Tangerine Antoinette Richardson.

Another college student. I wonder what nick-name she had? Toni?

Anybody got any other memorable names?
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Mar 25, 2024 12:58:53   #
SuperflyTNT wrote:
Except it’s a lot harder to do video on a DSLR using the viewfinder.


Yeah, my little Lumix DG100 is about 90% dedicated to video.

Up to now, I never cared much about putting video in digital still cameras. But now that I have a light need for one, the DG100 works very well.
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Mar 25, 2024 10:48:09   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
If you want to be a better photographer, there are two things you must do above all others: buy a mirrorless camera and use it.


Reminds of the old joke about seeing the work of some famous photographer from years passed. Someone says "Just imagine what he (or she) could have done if they had a good camera!"

I suppose a person could build a house with NO windows in the rooms, just large flat-panel displays that show what is outside, along with time &temp and scrolling headlines.

I prefer seeing the real world as it is through windows. I even like optical viewfinders! I also own mirrorless, and they are OK.
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Mar 16, 2024 00:29:59   #
JD750 wrote:
That is priceless and why are those not the titles of the books?


Those were real. The first was a multimedia CD. The second was a printed book.

The rights to the multimedia one was sold to a [then] big dot.com and incorporated into a million-dollar website. That's all gone now, but I got paid!

The next one will be an ebook.
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Mar 15, 2024 21:01:29   #
burkphoto wrote:
Those old 1970s lenses are okay for some things, mostly producing results that look like old '70s lenses.


I may want to quote you with the above in a new lightweight book [Tentatively, "The Spirt Of Photography"] that discuses a lot of he wonderland and garbage dump of used photo gear being "discovered" in a camera-phone world.
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Mar 15, 2024 11:23:35   #
I'd love to fool around with an old DOS laptop again.

My first was a T-1000 Toshiba with Zen Word on a disk. When I quit my radio job and wrote my audionbook cassette guide "The DOS Tape" I used it to confirm what I was saying was accurate, but wrote the script on an early Mac!

But now DOS laptops are "collectable."
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Mar 15, 2024 11:16:46   #
Bill_de wrote:
Pretty much every section has it's own rules.

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/all-section-list

What are your plans for this collection? Looks like some cool stuff.

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LOL. I am not the owner of these. Someone on eBay wants $1,000 for the whole set.

The company that made them in 1998 gave me one and I still have it. Happily, I opted for the parallel port version and recently bought a Windows XP laptop that has parallel, serial AND USB ports AND DVD so I should be able to run it after all these years.

Apparently someone is selling this batch from the estate of a person involved with the old LEAF camera system.

Essentially it makes 3 BW photos shot through R, G and B filters and combines them.

This is meant for still subjects but moving clouds come out very odd!

We've come a LONG way since 1998.
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Mar 14, 2024 17:43:17   #
Apparently pointing out an eBay listing with a link gets deleted.

SoundVision brand cameras.

This person probably got this at a estate sale. TEN 1998 Sound Vision tethered digital using a triple exposure/color wheel system.

Rare boat anchors.

But TEN intact ones with parallel cables and Windows 3.1 drivers?

Rotsa Ruck!

They were $2,200 each in 1998.

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Mar 11, 2024 10:08:00   #
I've just started writing a small semi "how to" book after publishing "How To Buy Your First Digital Camera" years ago and a follow-up, "How To Use The Digital Camera You Just Bought."

The working title is "The Spirit Of Photography" and is a overview of decades of cameras found everywhere and how they differ in use.

This book is NOT for this crowd. It is for the post-smartphone crowd who "discovers" some older film or digital camera and needs some basic guidance about how it works.

I was inspired by the sudden surge of interest in adapting 70's lenses and now the idea that CCD digital cameras deliver images that are more "film-like." I don't agree, but I see an opportunity to fill a need.
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Mar 5, 2024 13:11:17   #
I couldn't help but laugh.

This reminded me of the episode of "Married With Children" where there is a heat wave and Al Bundy gets a deal on a HUGE WWII German Army air-conditioner (still with iron cross markings on the side).

After extolling what a good buy the thing is, he plugs it in, turn it on, and knocks out power to the whole neighborhood.
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Mar 5, 2024 12:54:28   #
Great place to get an education from both sides : consumer or provider.

https://copyrightalliance.org/
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Mar 5, 2024 12:51:19   #
I am fortunate to have some good DNA and have not been in a hospital or had any procedure since birth. I'm 75.
This is an online response I posted to the NYT about the cost of weight-loss shots, etc.

"I know that for some, these drugs are needed, so don't get me wrong here. During the pandemic lock-down I worked from home. No dining out, no snacks on the way to/from work, no lunches at fast-food places. At home, a family member cannot eat wheat gluten and citric acid, so basically ALL pre-made food, ready to eat food, heat 'n eat, etc, is not consumed. We cook from scratch, and a year into the lockdown we tried going plant-based. We shopped the produce/fruit area and ordered a variety of grains. I learned to make great baked beans with dry pintos, curry, plain mustard and molasses . My pants kept getting loose. Dropped from a 40-42 waist to a 36-38. Dropped 50+ pounds, cut blood pressure meds in half. Weigh less than I when I was a chubby 18. I'm 75 now. Factory food is NOT your friend, fast-food is NOT your friend, restaurant food is NOT your friend. I'm no finger wagging vegan. Just someone who broke out of being hypnotized into thinking that the commercial food industry is good for you. It is not. It will kill you or make you miserable."
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Feb 26, 2024 12:19:38   #
yorkiebyte wrote:
Older cameras with CCD sensors (for that retro film look) are the Instagram rage, prolly the same for Facebook.


Aha! Kinda like "discovering" Vivitar and Soligar T-Mount lenses!
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