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I think I'll make a tour of the net posting "Is calling yourself a ______________ a license to steal?" on every professional forum. Later I'll write an article on how different professions respond to the same troll....
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That snapshot of Nixon isn't timeless -- show it to some teenagers now and I bet they'll have no interest in it. It's not a particularly good picture.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/06/nixon.resigns/nixon.leaves.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lincoln-memorial/images/iwo-jima-flag.gif
The raising of the flag at Iwo Jima is a timeless photograph. People who don't know where Iwo Jima is and don't care who won that battle can appreciate the photograph because it's a great composition. A thousand years from now it'll still be just as great.
Like Velazquez' famous painting The Surrender of Breda -- better known as "The Spears." If you don't know or care what historical event it portrays it's a great painting regardless.
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The cost of hard drive space has changed over the years. Right now it's about $1 per gigabyte; not long ago a gigabyte's worth of hard drives cost thousands.
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I took this with a Vivitar 3350 digital camera that sells for $20 at
Walmart. Native resolution is 640x480; I cropped it. Other than
that it's straight from the camera, artistic purple fringing and
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"Besides, I've never seen a link in current discussion saying "Hey look at all these great photos posted last year!" "
I've seen a number of posts like that, linking to old threads -- some of them in the Leica forum.
"No one has ever complained about not going back to old WNW threads and unable to view our snapshots."
I've seen those complaints.
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You *can* download a long thread on dialup if you keep hitting refresh every time it times out. It can take half an hour though, and you can't just leave your computer for half an hour and come back to it; you have to keep hitting refresh. It would help a lot if when a thread starts getting long somebody would start Part 2 and everybody switch to that. Half of America is still on dialup....
-Cougar :{)
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I think it's a great idea and I think calling it "Alternative Cameras" would be ideal. That would include me and the pictures I've been making with a toy digital camera (Vivitar Vivicam 3350, $20 at Walmart).
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10 years from now cameras will have electronic viewfinders with more resolution than the eye can see and so little lag the eye can't see that either and they'll have a cheap noninterchangeable superzoom lens with all lens errors corrected by firmware. 20 years from now cameras will be exactly the same but so cheap they'll be given away to promote products that are worth something, and SLRs whether digital or film will be quaint antiques sold in the same stores that sell antique typewriters. Or maybe it won't be 10 years and 20 years, maybe it will be some other times, but those times are coming....
-Cougar :{)
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Tom, bokeh (also spelled boke) is the way the out-of-focus portions of the picture look. Different lenses have different bokeh ... if you run a search you'll find lots of information, arguments, ravings....
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My bokeh is bokier than your bokeh!
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Look -- this is what a photograph of a brick wall should look like. Just so you know the difference between a good lens and a bad one.
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That is the worst image of a brick wall I have ever seen. That lens distorts shapes so badly the bricks don't even look rectangular -- and color rendition is way off too; they came out every color except brick red. The simple meniscus in my old Brownie Starflash could take a better picture of a brick wall than that. My recommendation: do not buy.
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The reason it's irritating is it's using a three syllable word for a thing that already has a perfectly good one syllable word. It's also likely to cause confusion, which "film camera" does not. And it's a new usage that does not seem to have any advantage whatsoever.
The term "analog watch" has an advantage -- it's the most concise way to say it. "Analog camera" doesn't have that advantage. Does it have any advantage? I can't see any....
-Cougar :{)
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Take some photos of your old docs for posterity's sake. The new ones are made in China and they're junk.
-Cougar :{)
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Camera companies (and laptop companies) don't manufacture batteries. They buy them from companies that make them up from standard size cells and resell them to you. You can buy upgraded batteries direct from the makers. Even if you have the only device still functional that uses that proprietary battery you can have it made up as a one-off for a reasonable cost.
Of course the camera companies (and laptop companies) will try to convince you those are "third-party" batteries and inferior to their "genuine" batteries, but they're lying. In fact if your camera has been on the market for a year or more the battery you get direct from a battery maker will be superior; better cells are available now.
-Cougar :{)
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Dec. 25th<div></div>
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I took this one yesterday.<div></div>
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Mother Goose<div></div>
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The year of copyright is the year it was first offered, unless the work has been revised since then. Same with books -- if you buy a newly printed copy of a book that was first published in 1983 it'll still say copyright 1983, or if it's the second edition that came out in 1997 it'll give both years.
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