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<p>Not exactly the top of the town (which is in this picture), but from the terrace of my old apartment on the 16th floor (which in NYC isn't much!) Still, I always enjoyed this view, I was sorry to have to leave. Now I look out on trees and brownstones. Sorry, no Leica involved in the taking of this photograph!</p>

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Wow...I'd like to see that. I drank in that bar (on occasion) in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Times Square (and all of NYC) was a very different place back then. I can remember nights heading home south on 8th Avenue past the Sun Hotel down the block, past crowds of prostitutes, pimps, drunks. Unfortunately I never carried a camera with me to those places (too chicken...plus, it really was dangerous, and I would have probably either lost it or gotten mugged). I also spent time down on the other strip south of Penn Station on 8th ave...the Penn Terminal, Gus' Bar...what a crazy time that was!

 

I'm glad that that someone had the courage to document this.

I don't have a problem with .png files, I have a problem with Adobe .dng files. Thanks though...

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I downloaded version 2, and it seems to work fine. I have a Pentax *istDS which has .pef raw files. Only big issue for me is that I converted a bunch of .pef to .dng, then archived the .pef files to DVD (I needed the disk space, and it seemed like a good idea at the time, since I use RSE which reads both .pef and .dng files). It turns out that Picasa v2 sees my .pef files fine, but won't read .dng! So much for standards! Hopefully, I have missed some setting in Picasa that enables .dng!

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<p>And don't forget these guys...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.akochanowski.net/" target="_blank">Andrew</a> and <a href="http://www.pbase.com/andye/root" target="_blank">Andrew<a></p>

<p>And it has nothing to do with the fact that they are both Andrews!</a>

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<p><center><i>Neither Alex nor Andrew</i></center></p>

Wigstock was started by some drag queens at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A back in 1984. Its moved from Tompkins Square to Union Square to the West Side piers, and back to Tompkins Square (several times!) over the years. Its usually a lot of fun.<div></div>

Hi Alex...that was fun. Wish Sam would post some of his shots...<div></div>

<p>Sorry...forgot to close the Italics!</i> My bad...</p>

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<p><center><i>Sort of rusty...Rollei MX-EVS, Kodachrome 64 (I think)</center></p>

Hi Alex,

 

If you are going to be in NYC Aug 25-31 drop me an email...you can send it to my photo.net address (agardner at photo.net). I'd love to meet up with you...I'm not working that week so I'll have some time.

<p>Hopefully this isn't off topic...Jorn did have his Agfa, and Alvin brought his Canon 7!</p>

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<p><i>Sam's fan club</i></p>

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<p><i>Jorn Clicking (or was it Clacking?) away!</i></p>

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<p><i>Sam explaining the finer points of pinhole Holga photography</i></p>

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<p><i>Are they for sale?</i></p>

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<p><i>Jorn had to hide his camera from Sam!</i></p>

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<p><i>Alvin: Canon 7 - Jorn: Agfa Clack (Click?) - Sam: Holga Babe Magnet!</i></p>

<p>A fine time was had by all! Congratulations Sam!</p>

Some of the old Robot cameras (Otto Berning of Dusseldorf) from the 50s were 24 x 24. I believe there were some that could not use standard 35mm cassettes, but the later models could. I believe they used a spring advance. Pretty pricey on the used market...probably hard to get one repaired also.

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Patricia,

 

That permit isn't something the general public (ie, a tourist, a street photog, nature photographer, etc.)would need to be worrying about.

 

The permit is for commercial photographers, film companies, etc. An amateur photographer still has the right to shoot without a permit on public property, and to use a tripod on public property (private property owners such as Rockefeller Center can and will prohibit tripods!) As long as you are not causing a nuisance (ie, blocking a busy street or sidewalk) I believe it is legal (a reserver the right to be wrong on this though...I'm not a lawyer!)

Is your problem with Photoshop CS or with trying to upload to Photo.net? Your question doesn't make that clear...

 

Otherwise we're just shooting in the dark!

<p>Dominic-</p>

<p>Have you checked out <a href="http://www.rokkorfiles.com" target="_blank">http://www.rokkorfiles.com</a>?</p>

<p>Antony has some great reviews and comparisons there. Actually, I see a comparison of the lenses you are referring to (I think) <a href="http://www.rokkorfiles.com/Battle%20of%2050s1.htm" target="_blank">right here</a>.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

I love the Liverpool and Manchester shots...right up my alley (so to speak!)

<p>I knew with a little luck I'd find the answer to this (well, part of the answer at least)! Turns out this is actually 125th Street between 7th and 8th Ave (north side of the street).</p>

<p>Don't know who the photographer was. Here are a couple of links, one of which has a photo taken a little further down the block showing Crawford, the Palm Cafe, the Harlem Opera House, and the Apollo.</p>

<p><a href="http://206.103.49.193/tars/htm/tars153.htm" target="_blank">Third Avenue Railway Site</a></p>

<p><a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theater/533/" target="_blank">Cinemea Treasures Harlem Opera House page</a>.</p>

 

<p>Cheers!<p>

One-way streets...

 

Only problem with the one-way street theory is that this picture was obviously taken a long time ago. If its a cross town street (east-west), it could be 125, 135, 145, or 155 (they all go 2 ways if I remember correctly). I remember as a kid that there was definately 2-way traffic on 5th and Madison avenues, and probably others. This would have been the mid-1960s.

 

Looks like a movie theatre on the right side of the street a little ways down...if someone can see what it says it might help you get closer.

Seems like it does what it is supposed to do, and it integrates with Hello for blogs quite nicely. Only problem is that it only indexes 8-bit Photoshop (.psd) files, and almost all my Photoshop format files are 16-bit. I installed it and wondered what happened to all my .psd files!

 

I'm thinking about buying IMatch. I installed the demo and it looked pretty nice, and it supports 16-bit .psd files. Its not free ($59.95), but then you usually get what you pay for. I may keep Picassa for the photoblog stuff, since it does index jpegs.