Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars
try a 100mph in an old Kombi and you'll know what scared is. It had a hot 2.2 litre VW engine but still handled like crap Alan Steve Jolly wrote: I managed 90 in my 1975 Vauxhall Viva HC once, downhill on the motorway. I still reckon it would have hit 100, but I got scared. S Doug Franklin wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:02:57 -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: I see this has now morphed into the fastest I've ever gone in a car. 155 or 160 on a closed-down runway in a Mercedes 250 SEL (I think). TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars
before the shitty Taurus I now own I had a 308 VN Commodore and took it to 200kph (which is probably similar to 130mph) before I chickened out. Wasn't another car on the road though. Not in the same class as the Shelby of course. I've been in a VW Golf GTI thats speedo was in MPH up to 135mph, now that was scary even though it was on the empty Western Australian roads. I like a bit of metal around me at those speeds. Alan Cotty wrote: On 22/2/04, KENNETH WALLER THE GOD disgorged: About a hundred years ago (it only seems like that ) I had a 59 Bugeye w/hardtop in BRG for my last two years in a commuting college - what a treat. I got a fulltime job and stepped into the real world and bought a brand new 1966 Shelby GT 350 - talk about shock, that shelby could go faster in second gear than the Bugeye could do in forth. On my way to my new job, on the Ohio Turnpike I was able to get the 350 up to an indicated 130+ mph. Master! I am not worthy (etc.. Did you try the 100 dollar bill on the windscreen trick? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars
Start talking motorcyles and there is only one dream machine and it isn't that old but certainly a classic- The Britten V-Twin http://www.britten.co.nz/ Alan William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars On 22/2/04, KENNETH WALLER THE GOD disgorged: I was able to get the 350 up to an indicated 130+ mph. My Mazda RX-2 would go that fast, but sometimes it would also become airborne all on it's own. Real fun is going that fast on a souped up Kawasaki 900. William Robb
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars
They went nice in a straight line, a bit like the Kawasaki 500 mach III. The best Kwaka I ever rode was a Z1R II 1100, now they could handle Alan Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty On 22/2/04, KENNETH WALLER THE GOD disgorged: I was able to get the 350 up to an indicated 130+ mph. My Mazda RX-2 would go that fast, but sometimes it would also become airborne all on it's own. Real fun is going that fast on a souped up Kawasaki 900. I assume you're talking about the original KZ 900? I would hope there was some chassis work done in addition to the engine soup-up! Those things had a scary reputation for stability (or lack thereof)! 130 mph on a modern Kawasaki 900 would be as exciting as watching paint dry - at least until a corner came up ;-)
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars
not like my crappy 3litre Duratec Taurus, talk about slow. Did you watch NASCAR today? Alan Kenneth Waller wrote: It also got real busy in the Shelby @ that speed, trying to keep it between the white lines. I had a string of Ford Taurus SHO's that were capable of this level of speed but they did it with ease, never felt nervous had seats for four other occupants! Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: William Robb Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars - Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars On 22/2/04, KENNETH WALLER THE GOD disgorged: I was able to get the 350 up to an indicated 130+ mph. My Mazda RX-2 would go that fast, but sometimes it would also become airborne all on it's own. Real fun is going that fast on a souped up Kawasaki 900. William Robb
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars:
Cotty wrote: On 21/2/04, DAVE MANN disgorged: Whoa! Ferraris? Zz ! That reminds me... the Ferrari-badged notebook computer is in stock down here. I must go and see if its really as ugly as it looks in the pictures. I guess Apple will have to do a black Lamborghini Powerbook G5. Steve Jobs: I thought of it - if you use my idea you have to give me one ;) factoid The man that designed the Porsche Boxster also designed the shape of the 1999/2000 G3 PowerBook. /factoid Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk Porsche also designed the engine for the Harley V-Rod Alan
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars: List traffic handling - was OT: Netiquette
Mat Maessen wrote: As opposed to the GT-6, which was a Spitfire with a hardtop and the TR6 engine. I have a friend who has a Triumph fetish. 3 GT-6's in various states of rust/disassembly, and a beautiful TR-6 in his garage. Oh yeah, and a Formula Vee as well... -Mat TR-250 was the body of a TR-4 with the engine of the soon-to-appear TR-6. Nice car. Fun car. Nice growl from the exhaust. It convinced me to move from my American Motors Rambler to a Porsche The closest I ever got was a Triumph PI, wish I'd bought a Stag when they were at giveaway prices Alan
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars:
David, I just saw it in todays Press about 1/2 an hour ago, red case and all. Yuck but full of features not like the minis of old. An Acer isn't it. I learnt to drive in a red mini and even did the deed in one when I was young(er). Awful cars. I saw a new yellow Lamborghini today and boy was it ugly but it sure was a head turner. I'll stick to my Porsche GT3 I think (and dream). Alan David Mann wrote: On Feb 21, 2004, at 11:27, Cotty wrote: Whoa! Ferraris? Zz ! That reminds me... the Ferrari-badged notebook computer is in stock down here. I must go and see if its really as ugly as it looks in the pictures. I guess Apple will have to do a black Lamborghini Powerbook G5. Steve Jobs: I thought of it - if you use my idea you have to give me one ;) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars: List traffic handling - was OT: Netiquette
graywolf wrote: An early 4 cylinder Healy only had 4 of ground clearance. Yah, you had to be carful. You could also break the rear end loose and spinout in a heartbeat. The heater was next to useless. But god were they fun. I remember driving one, a BRG '56, around Denver about 1961 with the windshield down in the racing position. Hey, I was about 18. When this guy with a middle eastern accent comes up and tells me, Only in America! Only in America would they build a car like that. I did not have the heart to tell him it was made in England. -- frank theriault wrote: A The Big Healeys! Now those were sports cars. If the Sprites were the cutest sports cars ever, the big Healeys were the most handsome. I read that somewhere (likely Peter Egan of Road Track), and I thought, Yes, handsome is the perfect description. Of course, you had to watch how you went in and out of driveways and parking lots and the like. Apparently had to do it at a particular angle, elsewise you'd scrape some part of the steering linkage on the ground and bend it - a curbside fix that was crucial for any Big Healey owner, so I've heard. Wow. Meeting Donald Healey, eh Paul? I heard that he was one of the truly nice guys in the business. And, that he truly loved his cars. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAY OT - English Sport Cars: List traffic handling - was OT: Netiquette Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:20:34 -0500 I love Austin Healeys. They are true sports cars with an everyman personality. I see quite a few of them around Detroit in the summer months. When I worked in New York I was a member of the Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Asociation. We held monthly meetings with guest speakers, lunch, and lots of booze. The members threw dinner rolls at speakers they didn't like. One of the most active members was Donald Healey (yes, the Healey of Austin Healey), who at the time owned a New York restaurant called Chanterelle. He was a very nice man with a lot of stories to tell. Good times in the big apple. _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/featurespgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca Now you're taking me back, remember the Jensen Interceptor Alan
Re: Grain Surgery for PS
Grain Surgery is a plug-in for PS Alan Herb Chong wrote: i still don't understand Dave's comments since neither PSP 7 nor Photoshop include any nosie reduction tools at all unless you call Gaussian Blur such a tool. as for display for reduced size images, i find PSP one of the worst programs out there. all of the Photoshop versions do it better on all of my systems. Photoshop Elements does full color management, even version 1.0, but it doesn't bother explaining how to do it much. first, you have to run Adobe Gamma from Control Panel to set up your monitor properly, but it's very hard to do unless you know your monitor phosphor, white point, and color temperature setup. assuming you can get past that, then you have to use a color management dialog that is barely explained. however, this is better than PSP since it doesn't even bother telling you that you need to do this before you can enable color management and assumes that the monitor is already calibrated anyway. Herb - Original Message - From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:41 AM Subject: RE: Grain Surgery for PS I find Photoshop really poor at displaying images on screen too. When not viewing at 1:1 magnification you get REALLY bad Jaggies all over the place whereas PSP is fantastic. I just this last weekend has another go with Elements 2.0 because I REALLY want to get somewhere with using colour profiles etc, but I just couldn't make head nor tail of how to do this in Elements - do you need full CS to do it properly? From what I can deduce, I think David's preference for PSP is that the tools for grain reduction are perhaps better than his version of Photoshop. Personally I only look at grain reduction when scanning and then use the ICE/ROC/GEM built into the Nikon Scanning interface because it is partly hardware based.
Re: pentax 67 ques.
I think if you are using tele lenses often MLU is well worth having. I seem to remember shooting at 1/4 sec (or it was some similar slow speed) that MLU is advantageous also. My 645N doesn't have it and I don't notice any mirror vibration but it does have anti vibration mirror system. The wind can be more of a problem Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much better are the newer 67 bodies (67II) than the old? Is the MLU and the metering that comes in the newer body worth the $$$? I've been wanting to get a MF body to do some BW work, and these older 67 bodies are frequently offered on auctions for bargain prices. Is this a good way to get into MF inexpensively. TIA rg Hi Robert. I picked up a used 6x7 MLU,well worn but in good shape,about this time last year,plus the 90 LS lens. I thhink that the older bodies might be the best way to go until you see if you want to spring up for the 67II etc.Its not overly heavy but fits nicely in my stubby fingersgI have good success hand holding the 90 and 200 but if there is any wind at all,i use the mono. I have the metered prism but dont use it much,mostly the hand helds or the spot. I really like what i get as far as BW negs and colour slides.Almost like being there.:-) At first i debated after i bought it if i should have,but if i sell any gear this will be the last to go,for sure. Dave Brooks
Re: OT Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?
i wonder if the 45 in the other hand had anything to do with it g. Alan Cotty wrote: On 16/2/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: I gave the clerk a ten dollar bill for an $8.59 purchase. She placed 3.50 change in my hand. I said, sorry, too much change, and tried to hand it all back to her, but she figured feverishly for a couple of minutes and proudly added another dollar to the pile in my hand. I was a little embarrassed for her, but still feeling honest I said sorry too much change I think it should be a buck forty-one total and again tried to hand her the money back. The clerk went back to figuring with furrowed brow, hearing the crowd in line start a murderous murmur, and after much figuring and the people in line about to kill me she added *another* dollar to the growing pile in my hand. Hearing the train wreck of killer customers about to happen I smiled, closed my hand and put the six bucks or so in my pocket, said Perfect, thanks and left the building. Ethics question: if I had tried one more time to get the right change, would it have been suicidal, considering the angry mob in line behind me? She might have just handed you the cash register. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
Re: virus
Was it toasted g Alan Larry Hodgson wrote: Just to let you know. My internet provider has a virus scanner that scans my messages before they get to me. It just picked up the Bagel virus from someone in this list and isolated it before it got to me. Larry from Prescott
Re: Shots
the links didn't work for me Alan Chris wrote: Whist these shots were taken with a N***N,*istD unavailable,and they are my first offering,(God!)I would appreciate some feedback s'il vous plait. www.pbase.com/image/26052290 www.pbase.com/image/26052996 I can't decide whether I like the Colour or the BW version.Which was done with the silver oxide filter via Photshop Elements. Merci and Mille Grazie. Chris Kennedy
Re: Walkabout
Pack the thermals Alan mike wilson wrote: Hi, Off for a few days to deepest, darkest (and, from what I hear, coldest) Poland for a few days. If anyone there wishes to meet up, I will be in Dom Studentski Zaczek in Krakow from Monday night until Friday night. Well, not literally, but that's where I will lay my tired little head. mike
Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?
It's hardly a reasonable expectation to compare all your new wonder pics to a set of hand picked images out of a lifetimes body of work. :-) Bob, I know exactly what you are saying here. The other day I showed my portfolio to someone in the hope of obtaining some work. She was amazed and gave me the job on the spot (didn't even discuss rates). She is a friend of my wife and later when the two of them were having coffee she asked my wife how long it took to put my portfolio together. Twenty years and my wife explained to her not to expect more than a couple of similar quality shots a day (a lot of them were moody early morning light type images) Alan Bob W wrote: Hi, Now comes the hard part. Place all your new wonder pics on a table, and open up books showing the works of Mr. Smith, or Capa, or Cartier-Bresson, Stieglitz, or Margaret Bourke-White. Now then, Do your pics compare well with theirs???... as though I didn't know. Possible of course, but not very damn well likely. It's hardly a reasonable expectation to compare all your new wonder pics to a set of hand picked images out of a lifetimes body of work. :-) I've tried that with my Leica M3, which is precisely the type of manual camera that the aforementioned photographers used. I placed a whole bunch of my wunderbare Leicasnappchen on a table, and I opened up some books by Smith, Capa, HCB c. Guess what? None of my pics compared well with theirs! I might as well sell it and buy a Nikoltanon-D AF IS with Auto-Esthetix Bluetooth with Rednose attachment for seasonal family snaps. Yours in disappointment, Bob
Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?
I wouldn't want to be without spot metering, AEL, aperture priority, shutter priority, honeycomb metering, DX coding (which as well as setting ISO gives the camera information for flash photography), wireless flash, predictive focussing, exposure compensation, flash compensation. I agree everyone should learn the basics if they are serious about photography but you don't need a relic to learn it on. It is just as important to learn about DOF control, tricky lighting situations, etc. with a modern camera as with an older model. If you don't know the basics you won't be able to use all these new tools and you are not going to learn how to use them on a camera that doesn't have them. I don't find my 1920 Kodak No. 2 Autograph any harder or easier to use than my modern slr just slower. Modern cameras may simplify our control over the image but they only make decisions based on our input. To use these highly sophisticated tools to their full potential ones needs to learn the finer points of photography and what better way to learn it than on the camera they are going to use. The same goons that set a modern camera to fully automatic because they don't know any better twenty years ago wouldn't have known anymore, they would have just moved the dials until the needle lined up. Photography is not rocket science, the basics are very easy to learn then it is a matter of experimenting and finding what works. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/14/2004 8:23:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Believe what you like, but the majority of the photographers that I know wouldn't know how to set an exposure without some sort of automation is their life depended on it. If you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. The automatic camera is the fish that you can filet daily. William Robb I am actually finding my fully automated Canon harder to use than my previously manually oriented (but fully automated) ZX-5n. All the buttons, all the options!!! Confusing. So I usually put it into manual. Which is a bit tougher to do on the Elan, too, but I it anyway. That way, at least I know, sort of, what is going on. So, IMHO (in my humble opinion), it's better to learn on a totally manual camera (which for me was the K-1000). I can't imagine learning on one of these automated marvels (while not in manual mode), how would one learn anything? Well, one could learn composition, but not much more. Okay, one could learn the ways different types of film react to different situations. And to remember to take the lens cap off, and maybe a few other things... Marnie aka Doe :-) Actually, forget it, I am not really that humble.
Re: And then then came minolta
Pentx is my latest acquisition, I think the Minolta folk are the ones who think I'm a traitor :-). There are quite a few on the Minolta group who own both Minolta and Pentax and usually they are quick to defend Pentax when the need arises. Alan David Miers wrote: Don't feel bad, there's more then one traitor here! -Original Message- From: Alan Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: And then then came minolta sorry thought that was going to my Minolta group :( Alan Kerr wrote: They can call it whatever they like as long as it fits my Maxxum lenses (don't know what all you that have Dynax lenses will do g) Alan Peter Alling wrote: Yes it does. Yes it will. Does anyone find it ironic that Konica left the SLR market years ago and bought Minolta, who always had a better reputation and larger customer base to get back in. At 09:03 PM 2/12/04, you wrote: Anything is possible, but the question is, Will Pentax do it in the near future? The same question has been asked countless times over the years and the answer is always no. Btw, does anyone think the name konica minolta looks stupid? Are they really going to make it the final product? :-o Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan With in body anti-shake (to get back on topic, this will show Pentax that it is possible - and that perhaps they do not need to look at IS lenses anymore)... http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021220maxxum7digital.asp _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn .com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean Nathan
Re: miscellaneous off-brand ramblings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would I like to see from Pentax? An extension of the FA limited series into slightly more extreme focal lengths. Some way to put K-mount lenses on a $1000 DSLR. Something more like a full-frame sensor would probably be important if I were actually shooting a *istD right now simply because the make-wider-lenses-for-smaller-sensors game has its problems. How 'bout a FA limited CAMERA to replace the LX? Didn't somebody say that Pentax had a cooperation with Kodak. That new sensor would be nice in the 645-system... DagT supposedly the 645NII has the electrics for a digital insert Alan
Re: And then then came minolta
Great looking camera, just like the awesome maxxum 7 :-). Sorry couldn't resist, I'm a MF Pentax shooter but I guess you know my 35mm brand. Can't wait to try IS on all my existing Maxxum lenses. I'm sure Pentax will follow suit. It is a shame it can't be done with film cameras as it is achieved by moving the sensor and they would have to move the film plane in our 35mm SLR's Alan William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Rob Brigham Subject: And then then came minolta With in body anti-shake (to get back on topic, this will show Pentax that it is possible - and that perhaps they do not need to look at IS lenses anymore)... http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021220maxxum7digital.asp Ugly camera. William Robb
Re: And then then came minolta
Btw, does anyone think the name konica minolta looks stupid? Are they really going to make it the final product? :-o awful isn't it. I wonder how long it will be till the Minolta part is dropped and they will just be Konica. How could anyone say they are a proud Konica owner :-( Alan Alan Chan wrote: Anything is possible, but the question is, Will Pentax do it in the near future? The same question has been asked countless times over the years and the answer is always no. Btw, does anyone think the name konica minolta looks stupid? Are they really going to make it the final product? :-o Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan With in body anti-shake (to get back on topic, this will show Pentax that it is possible - and that perhaps they do not need to look at IS lenses anymore)... http://www.dpreview.com/news/0402/04021220maxxum7digital.asp _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
Re: A Very Unusual Camera: Digital Rangefinder?
Its possibly the new Leica M-D Alan Shel Belinkoff wrote: Care to speculate on what it may be? Or perhaps someone can read the Japanese site? The camera is shown with collapsible Leica lenses, looks like a Bessa body, but it also appears to be digital, and has an Epson nameplate: http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcupdate/articles/0402/13 /news003.html Shel Belinkoff
Re: taxi in motion
In NZ there are several types of camera and AFAIK they all record both oncoming and receding traffic. Just paid a ticket from one yesterday. Are you sure they do a shot of the rear. They all seemed to be aimed at oncoming traffic especially the ones in the back of vans. I have heard before they shoot front and back but the way they are set up facing oncoming traffic I can't see it. Alan p.s. where is home for you David? I'm in Queenstown David Mann wrote: On Feb 11, 2004, at 12:18, mike wilson wrote: There are a number of examples here, in NE England, where a camera is on a pole in the central reservation and is swivelled to cover either lane. In both instances, the camera takes the rear of the vehicle. No front number plates on motorcycles here, too. In NZ there are several types of camera and AFAIK they all record both oncoming and receding traffic. Amazing - has there ever been any incidents of accidents caused by an oncoming speed camera flash? It must be waiting to happen... Can't be any worse than sneezing, hiccuping, lighting a fag, tuning the radio, spilling coffee or any of the other things I see people doing whilst driving. Not usually all together but. The flashes on our speed cameras are filtered with an orange-yellow filter which apparently makes them much less dazzling/distracting. I've never seen one go off so I wouldn't know. NZ number plates are black-on-white and are made to reflect very efficiently, so the actual flash power required would be pretty low. One of the TV networks here is playing Top Gear (UK motoring show) - the episodes are about a year old now. On an episode screened here a few weeks ago, they tested a speed camera on their track to see just how fast you had to be driving so that the camera wouldn't detect you. I don't remember the result... it was something like 160mph. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
