Hi,
Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 7:49:35 AM, you wrote:
> The fact is, nobody can possibly name a single "rule of thumb" a) such that
> it will usefully improve pictures in all situations where it can be applied
> and b) such that pictures which do not conform to the rule will not be
> strong or s
Hi,
at the risk of boring people even more I thought I'd write a few lines
on my view of the place in photography of the primciples of
composition. I hope this will be of some use to anybody who's confused
about the apparently polar differences between the positions advocated
recently.
It's my op
Hi,
Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 8:20:06 PM, you wrote:
>>> The fact is, nobody can possibly name a single "rule of thumb" a) such that
>>> it will usefully improve pictures in all situations where it can be applied
>>> and b) such that pictures which do not conform to the rule will not be
>>> str
Hi,
Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 8:23:19 PM, you wrote:
>>Given the "rules" thread I couldn't resist looking for images conforming to
>>the "rule of thirds". I found a few that were kinda sorta there, but nothing
>>that struck me as a strong use of the "rule of thirds". For what it's
>>worth.
>
Hi,
Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 9:20:19 PM, you wrote:
>>> Fine. You think there are rules of composition? Okay, tell me what they are.
>>> List them. I'd like to know what they are.
>>
>> Disingenuous indeed. You might just as well ask somebody to list the
>> laws of science in an email.
> But
Hi Frank,
> I guess what I'm trying to say is that ~for me~ (and I know I may be alone
> here),
You are not alone! I pretty much feel the same way, only perhaps more
so. Even though I spend a fair amount of my time hanging around
galleries and museums, reading books about composition, looking at
Hi,
>>I've been enjoying Mike Johnston's antinomian approach to photography
> I think it's really more "antedeluvian" (it provokes a flood of responses)
Then shouldn't it be post diluvian?
---
Bob
Hi,
Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:08:59 PM, you wrote:
> I once went winter camping when it was significantly below 0 degrees F. I
> woke up with my head (hair) frozen to the floor of the tent and stuck fast.
> I have a feeling a similar experience would kill me today. I'm not very
> hardy any mo
Hi,
Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:22:00 PM, you wrote:
> I think a couple have mentioned the rule of thirds and the rule of the
> golden mean. BTW: They're different ratios (1:1.618 vs. 1:1.667) and they
> have a significantly different look to my eye. Interestingly, when I look
I did point out i
Hi,
Thursday, January 2, 2003, 6:46:43 PM, you wrote:
> "Daniel J. Matyola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>"If your pictures aren't close enough, get closer" is one I try to keep in mind.
> I believe Robert Capa's comment was "If your pictures aren't good enough,
> you're not close enough." but w
Hi,
Friday, January 3, 2003, 12:32:44 PM, you wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Dr E D F Williams
> Subject: Observations and Opinions - Part I
>> By the way. If you stand right in front of the Mona Lisa, she
> seems to be
>> looking directly at you. If you stand to the side of the
Hi,
Friday, January 3, 2003, 10:21:55 PM, you wrote:
> Bob,
> If you ever get the chance to visit the Art Institute of Chicago, it has a
> large collection of Van Goghs. The advice above truly applies.
me and Vince are old mates. We have a few of his here in London. Of
particular interest to me
Hi,
Saturday, January 4, 2003, 6:30:17 PM, you wrote:
> I'd like to try it, but Uncle Sam has a difference of opinion. If you're
> ever looking for an interesting read, pick up a copy of "The Lore of Still
> Building" by Kathleen Howard and Norman Gibat. They offer up the science and
> practical
Hi,
Saturday, January 4, 2003, 11:23:19 PM, you wrote:
> A bit limited view.
> You forgot Belgium (les bieres trappistes!) and Czech Republic (home of original
>Budweiser and others). I could add Denmark, Finland and Estonia which all have decent
>lagers and Poland actually is
> the current hom
Hi,
Monday, January 6, 2003, 3:19:32 AM, you wrote:
[...]
> That is the part I am still thinking about. And considering what
> I want. I didn't really anticipate that to get good photos I
> would have to be in collaboration with another visual artist
> (the guy at the lab who looks at the prints
Hi,
don't overlook Kodachrome 64 and 200. Provided your local lab handles
it properly it can be almost a reference standard for other types of
slide film. It's not excessively saturated, nice neutral colour
balance and it's very good at handling skin tones.
It also happens to be the cheapest way
Hi,
Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 2:22:34 PM, you wrote:
>> Unless I see a quoted reference on who makes mony from what, I assume it's bogus.
>"Everyone
>> knows " is a meaninless >statement, unless someone can show where they got their
>numbers.
>> I also see facts extrapolated into fantasy. Thi
Hi,
Saturday, January 11, 2003, 7:35:00 PM, you wrote:
>> Are you complaining, or bragging?
> Greywolf,
> I can't decide. I think both, in just about equal measure.
> It's true I take great pride in my photo book library. It's a constant
> source of education and enjoyment. I wish I had the wh
Hi,
Saturday, January 11, 2003, 10:21:58 PM, you wrote:
>> I've only got eight photography books so far, but I haven't been at this long
>> -- just give me time. Hehehe.
> Actually, I know a fair amount about books. I was in charge of the Rare Book
> Room at one of the colleges I attended and wo
Hi,
Sunday, January 12, 2003, 6:41:48 AM, you wrote:
> On the other hand, lots of times the authors are good sources of the books.
> They sometimes buy up the unsold copies and keep them to sell them out of
> their basements or something.
one of the best photo galleries in London is Focus Galler
Hi,
[...]
>> "The Shipping Forecast" - Mark Power
> Isn't Mark Power American? There's a Mark Power who I studied under. He's
> been living in England in recent years, but we're out of touch.
I guess there must be 2 of them. According to the blurb at the back of
the boo 'the shipping forecast ha
Hi,
> There is, and has been a similar thing on the Swedish Radio as long as
> I remember. What you say about the British broadcasts applies also to
> the Swedish ones.
one of the particularly nice things about the book is that the
captions are the shipping forecast for the sea area pictured on t
Hi,
the meter thinks that the scene it is looking at is 18% grey and bases
the exposure time on that assumption. If you're photographing a
starlit field then the scene is unlikely to be 18% grey. It is the
'black cat in a coal hole' situation. In an extreme situation such as the
one you describe y
Hi,
Monday, January 13, 2003, 9:54:54 PM, you wrote:
> One blanket recommendation, buy anything you see by John Szarkowski. Fine
> writer.
I agree. I used to have 'Looking at Photographs', but it disappeared
somewhere along the way. Since it's been reprinted I keep meaning to
buy it again, but h
Hi,
>> When/how do your take your shots? Answer or not. If you have time, I tried to
>figure out
>> how to simplify this question. The following is just what I could think of based on
>reading
>> the list, not necessarily the best choices.
>>
I usually take a camera with me most places when I'
Hi,
Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 9:48:13 PM, you wrote:
> Almost every Enblish/British house has a fireplace or a furnace or
> both, and at the very top of the chimney, there's a tile or metal tube
> coming out of the center of the chimney, and it's capped with some
> sort of device (a "pot?") to
Hi,
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 3:13:56 PM, you wrote:
> The purpose of the exercise was to prove to them how quickly we assume that
> we "get" all the contents of pictures, without really _looking_.
there's a well-known photograph by HCB of a landscape in Brie, showing
an avenue of trees curvin
Hi,
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 3:37:26 PM, you wrote:
> In the trade magazines, and that wonder of infomercials that comes to my
> door every other month, I read about photographers who periodically go
> through their old negatives, sometimes going back decades in time, to see
> what they were d
Hi,
Friday, January 17, 2003, 4:10:33 PM, you wrote:
> Question...I think with Canon and Nikon DSLR's you have to buy new
> flashes. For some reason, you need a "digital" flash.
> Can anyone explain why this is the case?
They emit photons as particles rather than waves to save on conversion
in
Hi,
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 7:05:12 AM, you wrote:
>>>Having seen the pro-level reflector that Cotty (you know how hard it is to
>>>type the name CoTty when your name is CoRy?) built for his AF280T and having
for a history exam at school I once had to write an essay about the
first Prime Min
Hi,
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 5:32:30 AM, you wrote:
>>> Bokeh's good. Photo is good. Is that a cormorant of some sort?
>>
>> I havent got a clue. It just happened to be in my back yard that
>> evening. It's got duck's feet so must be some kind of water bird.
>> Anybody know?
>>
>> JCO
> It
Hi,
> I Like it... very Milliganesque.
> I've always wondered, why is it called a shag?
Here's what Chambers says, roughly:
shag, from old English 'sceacga' and old Norse 'skegg', meaning beard.
Comes to mean a ragged mass of hair or something similar. Applied to
the green cormorant apparently b
Hi,
Sunday, January 19, 2003, 9:38:06 AM, you wrote:
> Good work, Bob. Are they all from Moscow?
Thanks. Yes - they're all from Moscow.
Bob
>>
>>http://www.web-options.com/pcd4671/img0002.jpg
>>http://www.web-options.com/pcd4671/img0008.jpg
>>http://www.web-options.com/pcd4671/img0009.jpg
>>ht
Hi,
Monday, January 20, 2003, 5:49:06 AM, you wrote:
>>>At a recent camera club meeting some slides were
>>>shown in black and white, this caught my eye as
>>>I had not thought such a film was available?
>>>
>>>Is this the case? If so, how is this effect created?
>>>
>>It's probably a film ca
Hi,
living here in London (England!) I see it quite often, most recently
this weekend. Even though it's quite a commonplace sight, people still
stop to look. It's an amazing piece of work and a great pity it's on
the way out. I wish they'd sell it to Virgin so it could keep flying.
I first saw it
Hi,
Thursday, October 2, 2003, 10:06:44 PM, you wrote:
> Nottingham? Like the Forest? Robin and the Merry Men and all?
yes. Except the forest was called Sherwood Forest, and now for some
unfathomable reason is called 'The National Forest'. The merry men and
their bows and arrows are long gone,
Hi,
gender really just means 'type' and is related to 'genus'. It's come
to be associated with sex because in some languages, e.g. French,
males and females are different genders and the genders themselves
have been labelled 'masculine' and 'feminine'. However it's only a
metaphor. The notion of a
Hi,
I think you're being naive about language. I support completely and
wholeheartedly all the causes you mention, but I do not agree that
they have progressed through the censorship of words or language.
Orwell used the idea of Newspeak, a highly restricted form of
language, because he thought t
Hi,
Thursday, October 9, 2003, 6:22:17 PM, you wrote:
> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Here's a cheerful thought. I learned today that the whole of
>>Yellowstone is in the caldera of an enormous and very, very powerful
>>active volcano of extraordin
Hi,
I shoot mostly on slides, though not Velvia. I tend to use Kodachrome.
If your aim is to produce scans you can get perfectly good results
from colour negative. In fact they may even be better than slides for
scanning because they have more exposure latitude so you will probably
have a better
Hi,
Thursday, October 9, 2003, 7:54:13 PM, you wrote:
> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Thursday, October 9, 2003, 6:22:17 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>>Here's a cheerful thought. I learne
Hi,
Monday, October 13, 2003, 1:43:59 PM, you wrote:
> The only thing I can't figure out (not having seen a *istD) is how can one
> upload new software to it? Or any DSLR for that matter?
Same way as you'd upload software to your washing machine. Devices
like this use [erasable] programmable re
Hi,
Monday, October 13, 2003, 5:50:44 PM, you wrote:
> Here is a scenario. Assume you are shooting a
> reflection of sunlit tree; reflection is occupying
> full frame. Water is dark except for the reflection.
> When I spot meter for dark subject, I do -2 stops to
> get %18gray.
> Going back t
Hi,
Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 10:25:28 AM, you wrote:
> On 13/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>>[Have you heard the term for that activity? It's known as 'chimping';
>>folks staring at their camera dispay anf going "Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!"]
> ROTFLMAO!
> That is hilarious! I see it all the ti
Hi,
>> From: "arnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> p.s. I have a few days off now, anyone know of some scenic places to take
>> pictures around NYC?
>>
photograph the places on the Monopoly board, and have a drink in a
hotel on every street!
--
Cheers,
Bobmailto:[EMAIL
Hi,
Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 9:12:16 AM, you wrote:
> Hey ppl..
> This has probably been asked before, but I was wondering how good this lens
> (SMC M pancake 40mm 2.8) is and what it's worth.. Any experiences to share?
I have one in good condition which cost me about US$100 (equivalent).
I
Hi,
Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 10:42:32 PM, you wrote:
> Here's a conundrum. Out last night taking night shots.Arrived with tripod,
> but I'd forgotten the remote release. With the LX, I can use mirror lock up
> or the self timer to reduce camera shake.
> What do people think would be the best
Hi,
Thursday, October 16, 2003, 9:13:55 PM, you wrote:
>> If you've forgotten your Homburg then, as far as I remember, you can also use
>> both the mlu and the self-timer on the LX.
> The one thing you _can't_ do on an LX. I remember being flabbergasted
> when I wanted to and realised I couldn'
Hi,
Friday, October 17, 2003, 5:38:09 PM, you wrote:
> On 17/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>>Yesterday I saw the same ad in some German photo magazine, and the text was
>>all in German - a friend of mine (Sylwek :-) said it read exactly what you
>>wrote - "a perfect body with perfect acces
Hi,
Friday, October 17, 2003, 7:12:45 PM, you wrote:
[...]
> A couple of the numerous times we've visited that (northern) part of
> England, we visited Whaley Bridge, had the standard touristy shots by
> the road sign, and so on.
> We did notice that place is growing! Between visits, perhaps 18 y
Hi,
Saturday, October 18, 2003, 1:00:42 AM, you wrote:
> I know at least Leica M have plummetted in value over the last 12 months, the
> last two of mine I sold (had 6 bodies) went for far less than I would have
> liked, the flailing US$ doesn't help either. Also many European eBayers are
> pra
Hi,
Saturday, October 18, 2003, 12:07:00 AM, you wrote:
> Quoth Cotty:
>> >The difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans
>> >think a hundred years is a long time, and Europeans think that
>> >a hundred miles is a long distance.
>>
>> What's a European? I'm British!
> The ex-
Hi,
Saturday, October 18, 2003, 3:25:07 PM, you wrote:
>>A European is someone who thinks in kilometres; a Brit is someone
>>who thinks in miles.
>>
> So americans are brits?
Wannabes...
--
Cheers,
Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"To argue with a person who has renou
Hi,
Sunday, October 19, 2003, 11:22:44 PM, you wrote:
> Chuck the first part of that journey, unless you like traffic and misery,
> and substitute with M11, A14, M6 then...
that was according to Bill Gates, so it must be correct! (Autoroute
software).
--
Cheers,
Bob
Hi,
Sunday, October 19, 2003, 11:44:33 PM, you wrote:
> You have to go back 6 or 7 generations for my whole nation to be interrelated.
> I don't know haw far you have to go for the whole of earth's population
> though.
> Thrainn
Mitochondrial 'Eve' lived about 150,000 years ago. That is about
Hi,
Monday, October 20, 2003, 12:20:30 AM, you wrote:
> I have many thousands of ancestors, but not billions, or even
> millions, and am certainly not related to everybody in the world even
> indirectly. [...]
congratulations, you must be a different species to the rest of us.
--
Cheers,
Bo
Hi,
Monday, October 20, 2003, 8:34:00 PM, you wrote:
> There is a Leica digital camera, or maybe more than one, by now. The
> styling is, well, very retro. More like a tall screw-mount body than an
> M-series, really. I suspect that they had to do that to live with
> themselves.
I saw one of
Hi,
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 6:31:41 AM, you wrote:
>> Malcolm, you photograph motorway exits?
[...]
>> I'd like to see your collection ;-)
> Anyway, what's the matter with photographing Motorway exit signs ;-)
sounds like you need Transport Font for sharing those pictures over
the web: http
Hi,
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 7:17:36 PM, you wrote:
> Hello,
> can users of Pentax AF-140C Macro Ring Light how does it work in praktice?
> Does it have build-in modelling light to aid focussing in the dark? if
> soomeone could show me some results, I would be more than happy ;-) Thanks!
I had
Hi,
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 11:13:30 PM, you wrote:
> There is always money for a new highway. Never any for repairs. Political fact
> of life in the US.
I found myself in Zanzibar a few years ago, being driven out to the East
coast. Eventually the tarmac ran out and the road became a track.
Hi,
the 2003 exhibition opened in London last week, and I went to see it
today. It's up to its usual extremely high standard, and I recommend
to everybody.
You can see it here:
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wildwin/2003/
Velvia and Sensia seem to be the films of choice, as usual. As far as
I
Hi,
Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 9:07:28 PM, you wrote:
> I enjoyed looking at these:
> http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wildwin/2003/ad_picnumb.dsml?catdescrip2=aite&posdescrip2=ru&picnumb=16
> http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wildwin/2003/ju_picnumb.dsml?catdescrip2=10yau&posdescrip2=ru&picnumb
Hi,
Thursday, October 23, 2003, 5:17:36 PM, you wrote:
> http://www.dantestella.com/technical/digital.html
> I really enjoyed reading this one
I'm surprised you were able to. You'd think someone working in a
visual medium would know better than to put bright white text on a
black background, es
Hi,
Thursday, October 23, 2003, 10:14:35 PM, you wrote:
> 60 Hz is very low, Bob.
> I can very well imagine your problems; my previous screen didn't support any
> higher refresh rates. In the end I developed a chronic headache.
> Usually, the graphics card in the PC support higher refresh rates t
Hi,
Friday, October 24, 2003, 6:35:23 PM, you wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, John Francis wrote:
>> But what about long-time image storage? Well, what about it?
>> I'm sure my mother-in-law isn't the only person who throws away
>> the negatives and just keeps a handful of prints for a while.
>> P
Hi,
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 7:45:50 AM, you wrote:
> Does anyone know where Kodak process Kodachrome sent to their UK "lab"?
> I can remember a good few years ago that they closed down processing in
> Wimbledon and moved it somewhere else, (France?).
> I'm not a regular Kodachrome user, but f
Hi,
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 6:20:33 AM, you wrote:
> This is a really useful tip. I'm downloading 'The Bat' as I write this, but
> would appreciate your comments when you have evaluated it.
A lot of people on this list use The Bat!, including me. It's very
good.
--
Cheers,
Bob
Hi,
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 3:47:49 PM, you wrote:
> For me, the
> _major_ drawback to digital is the dependence on batteries, as I
> sometimes find myself in situations where a purely mechanical device is
> a better option. Can't see that one being solved.
well, what with recent breakth
Hi,
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 9:07:25 PM, you wrote:
> Could one of the users of the Bat very kindly tell me how to
> pre-process my mail on the server?
what do you mean by 'pre-process'? What do you actually want to do?
--
Cheers,
Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 4:40:11 AM, you wrote:
> Ok I finally have to ask why everyone here uses the term LXen when referring
> to their LX in plural. I must be slow but I can't for the life of me figure it
> out. LXes yes, it sounds right but LXen throws me every time.
> vic
I've al
Hi,
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 2:37:52 PM, you wrote:
> This is archived somewhere. We actually had a fairly lengthy thread on
> what name we wanted to use for plural LX.
> We just liked the way LXen sounded.
> Cesar, do you remember this?
shouldn't that be
Hoc meminis, Caesar?
--
Cheers
Hi,
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 1:32:29 PM, you wrote:
> Roman numerals are not abbreviations. V is not "short" for anything in
> Latin.
You must have missed the following sentence from my post: "I think of LX as
an abbreviation, not as a word, even though it is really the Latin numeral for
60.
Hi,
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 7:06:44 PM, you wrote:
> Will Robb wrote:
> 'Plural of LX is LXs.
> As in, "I have three LXs".'
> So, Wheatfield, do you have:
> A flock of LXs?
> A herd of LXs?
> A gaggle of LXs?
> An exaltation of LXs?
> Grammarians on the list, please help.
3 of them must
Hi,
Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:15:21 PM, you wrote:
>>TV remains the standard that the public compares images to. How many
>>times have
>>you been in someones house where the TV showed green faces and purple
>>grass and
>>it did not bother the viewer at all?
> That's NTSC for you ;-)
Naah.
Hi,
Friday, October 31, 2003, 12:35:59 AM, you wrote:
> I think I am the one who started using MXen as the plural for MX, based on
> German usage, in response to all the English grammer critics on rec.phot.* who
> claimed that it was improper to use MX's. I have since discovered they are full
Hi,
Two nations divided by a common language, I think.
I'm certainly aware of the use of the apostrophe to indicate
contractions. What we are taught is that there are 2 main uses for the
apostrophe: to indicate possession, and to replace missing letters in
contractions. There are one or 2 excepti
Hi,
Friday, October 31, 2003, 5:50:23 PM, you wrote:
> I'm sadder than you. I am intrigued to find fedex in that list. Only
> comes out as a company name on Google.
I saw that too. It's ok because people use fedex as a verb ("Fedex it
over to me for tomorrow") just as people use hoover (and go
Hi,
Friday, October 31, 2003, 7:18:44 PM, you wrote:
> Paraphrased (plagiarized) from another source...
> Rare plural forms like oxen are left over from that period, with -en used
> for a very few words that fought off the encroachment of -s. The only other
> common plural in -en that survives i
Hi,
Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:18:39 AM, you wrote:
> Had a look at your gallery David. Did you know Big Ben has a crack? To start
> with someone (interfering with the design) increased the weight of the
> hammer and that cracked the bell quite soon. A lighter hammer was installed
> and the bell
Hi,
Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 9:55:06 AM, you wrote:
> Yes, I order from Peter is Sunny Brighton, he told me he can't get hold
> of the *ist D. So I ordered from TechnikDirekt in Germany, it would take
> two weeks. That was 15 days ago, yesterday I received an email from
> TechnikDirekt that the
Hi,
Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 3:30:58 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Thinking (dreaming, more like) about how to become fabulously wealthy, I
> wondered if there is a potential market for new lens hoods for DSLRs.
> I assume that the original, 35mm coverage, lenshoods could now be
> significantly exte
Hi,
Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 1:28:13 PM, you wrote:
> As I recall, the comment provoking much of that was that HCB could eyeball
> perfect exposure, and then someone said with b&w film experienced photographers
> could get close enough to make printable images.
> I'm nowhere near the age, e
Hi,
Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 10:18:04 PM, you wrote:
> Yeah, that's the jobbie. Its not that it is amazingly expensive, just expensive for
> something that you only use once in a while. Also, I have an LCD at home and want
> the version which works with
> that, plus I want to calibrate th
Hi,
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 2:24:49 PM, you wrote:
> It's an interesting thought, but what I perceive to be blue might actually
> what you perceive to be green. Imagine people around you who go thru life
> seeing 'blue' vegetables (though it seems perfectly normal to them *because*
> that's w
Hi,
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 3:18:52 PM, you wrote:
> "Weather permitting, on the night of November 8 in the U.S. and very early
> in the morning on November 9 in other parts of the world, there will a lunar
> eclipse that is visible over most of North America, Europe and Africa. In
> the U.S
Hi,
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 9:42:35 PM, you wrote:
>>I don't think it's empirically testable. If two people attach the same
>>label to the same experience then that is all we can know, or need to
>>know. (...)
>>Bob
> Among some amazonian groups, there is a single word for both green or
> b
Hi,
Thursday, November 6, 2003, 11:10:00 PM, you wrote:
>> I'd imagine a hood for the M 85/2 would do the job. Try Jessops
>> Classic - you never know.
> Surely it's going to intrude at the corners?
Not necessarily. These things are 'generously cut', as tailors say.
>> http://www.schneideropt
Hi,
Friday, November 7, 2003, 11:34:56 PM, you wrote:
> Problem with plastic is that it doesn't brass. First thing I do with a
> black camera is judiicously apply a bit o' sandpaper to the edges for that
> "been to Vietnam and back" look (I guess we should say, "been to the Gulf
> and back lo
Hi,
Saturday, November 8, 2003, 11:33:00 AM, you wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Stenquist) wrote:
>> Go with the Spotmatic F. It will give you open aperture metering with
>> Super Multi Coated lenses. I have a gaggle of them and love them all.
>> Some will
Hi,
Saturday, November 8, 2003, 2:25:25 PM, you wrote:
> But, who else but Leica could command the sort of price it does for the MP?
Nikon resurrected their old rangefinder a few years ago and it commanded
similar prices if I remember correctly.
> And who else but Leica Buyers would pay that pr
Hi,
Sunday, November 9, 2003, 12:20:33 AM, you wrote:
> So who else is shooting the eclipse tonight? It's going on right now. I
> just tried some shots from my balcony.
I can see it from my house - it's quite a clear night in London. I'm
not shooting it because a 300/4 with 2X converter is not r
Hi,
Sunday, November 9, 2003, 9:11:34 PM, you wrote:
> With full frame 35mm, even a 1000mm lens wont fill the frame so
> 300mm is definately too short for lunar photography.
> JCO
here is a table from the Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide which
gives the size of the sun's or moon's disk in mil
Hi,
Thursday, November 13, 2003, 6:00:35 PM, you wrote:
> P.S. As a Ziess Ikon and Rolleicord owner, I will concede to your comment
> about the finer German optics. You'll notice that I said 'dollar for
> dollar'. I wish I could get Leica gear for the cost of my Pentax.
over the years I've me
Hi,
I think the first page should show a picture from each category. This
should persuade us that it's worth the effort to click on the links
and look at the next page. "Content, now" should be your motto.
The pictures on the index pages look quite nice, but the thumbnails
are far too big. People
Hi,
I was going to suggest you join Magnum, and let them look after this
sort of thing .
But then I remembered that they have similar problems. Philip Jones
Griffiths told a story about it at a talk I went to once.
After Francis Ford Coppola had eventually finished 'Apocalypse Now!'
it was clear
Hi,
Friday, November 14, 2003, 10:13:47 PM, you wrote:
> "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Here's a report in english:
>>
>>http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2003/11/10/daily44.html
>>
>>I guess you *can* make a few bucks with digital.
> As a side note, I learned something interes
Hi,
Saturday, November 15, 2003, 8:16:51 PM, you wrote:
> Hi All,
> Its summer right now and it rains every second day or so. Today I saw the
> most perfect rainbow, didn't have my camera with me as I was driving, and it
> was gone in a few minutes anyway. But it will come again.
> Any tips for
Hi,
Saturday, November 15, 2003, 7:28:07 PM, I wrote:
>> 3.You are cretans and don't know how to change the subject line?
> People from Crete have this problem? Jeez, no wonder the Minoans are all
> dead...
of course, I remembered immediately after I sent this that all Cretans
are liars, so
Hi,
Saturday, November 15, 2003, 10:48:11 PM, you wrote:
[...]
> Now, I can't remember the last time a salesman brought slides. It has to
> be at least ten years since I've seen one. Presentations have been
> composed in Microsoft's Powerpoint and projected from laptop computers for
> many y
Hi,
Saturday, November 15, 2003, 8:22:23 PM, you wrote:
> Did you compare it to the D100, as you suggested you might. If so,
> any comparison comments you care to share?
Shall I compare thee to a Nikon D?
Thou art more cheapskate and more plasticky.
Rough winds do shake the tripod legs in
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