At 05:02 PM 1/2/2004, Tanya wrote:
WHAT a fantastic way to wake up in the morning, I came to my 'puter and
literally laughed my way through breakfast. You guys are so hilarious, and
have just increased my motivation to get to GFM about 10-fold...
This one of the reasons I hang around this list.
, Australia
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From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
SNIP
Tanya specifically
wants to sit with someone else to show them her photos.
Herb
PM
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
I guess if I wanted to minimise the weight and size of the kit, and
maximise
the flexibility I would buy a laptop and a second monitor, which could be
plugged into it. I've used that setup to demo programs to clients, and it
works well
This is assuming of course that you are comparing them next to a CRT with has a
high reflectivity phosphor mask and isn't hooded (or otherwise protected from
direct lighting). Using a CRT under ideal conditions can provide a 10x contrast
advantage over LCDs.
If not more - I think Barco
On 2/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
World Goes Mad - Official.
Not a very long journey for me, Cotty.
-frank
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Get in line behind me,
On 3 Jan 2004 at 5:09, John Francis wrote:
If not more - I think Barco claim around 10k:1 for their top-of-the-line
systems.
Sure Barco's products are very capable as are LaCie but most top line CRT
monitors that are within the average consumers $$$ will out-perform comparably
priced LCD in
Ok, I'll play too... These are just my photography related ones, you
should see my personal list...
1. To complete my calendar and see it for sale in every
newsagent/Target/Kmart/Angerson Robertson Bookworld in Australia...
2. To get my books setup properly so that the tax man doesn't hunt me
Anyone make one this year that relates to photography? If so, would you
care to share it with us?
Yup. I'm going to produce illustrated articles for magazine use, see how
I go. I've got 6 subjects lined up at the moment and I just need the
resolution to see them through. One will be about the
For an amateur like me: PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, submit a few images
again, oh and of course PRACTICE!!!
Bestest
Naomi
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From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:56 PM
To: pentax list
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years
Cotty said: snip...and I just need the resolution to see them through.
Bloody whinging Poms, never happy, I thought that 6mp should be plenty of
resolution for you...
vbg
tan.
Hi!
TMP 5. To purchase a big flat screen LCD monitor...
Tanya, you're not going to use it for photo editing, are you?
Boris
Mainly for showing proofs to my clients Boris, but probably for photo
editing too, I have a window that site right behind me and I really need a
non-reflective surface to work from... Is this a no-no?
I can feel another lesson for fairygirl coming on...
tan.
Hi!
TMP 5. To purchase a big
: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
Mainly for showing proofs to my clients Boris, but probably for photo
editing too, I have a window that site right behind me and I really need a
non-reflective surface to work from... Is this a no-no?
frank theriault wrote:
I normally don't make New Years resolutions. I did this year, though.
Anyone make one this year that relates to photography? If so, would you
care to share it with us?
Okay!
I resolve to get my old hard drive installed in my brand new computer,
and get the whole
On 2/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
Cotty said: snip...and I just need the resolution to see them through.
Bloody whinging Poms, never happy, I thought that 6mp should be plenty of
resolution for you...
vbg
tan.
I did walk straight into that one didn't I.
Cheers,
Cotty
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:25:53 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Bloody whinging Poms
How do you pronounce whinging? I assume
Hi,
'winjing' is correct. The phrase is usually 'bloody whinging Pommie
bastards' though.
Australians pronounce 'bastards' wonderfully. That's why we whinge so
much - we just love to listen to their cute little accent.
--
Cheers,
Bob
Friday, January 2, 2004, 4:25:53 PM, you wrote:
On Fri,
Being the font of arcane knowledge that you are, Bob,
What does Pom (or Pommie, or whatever) mean?
What does whinging mean?
Just so I don't have to keep thinkiing about Tanya in that cheerleaders
outfit (not that it's a bad mental image, I'm just starting to feel a bit
guilty about it is
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, frank theriault wrote:
Hmmm.
See, now I had a different mental image on that one, Chris.
I was thinking winging as in slang for throwing.
Not being familiar with this ever so quaint Aussie slang, I have no idea
what a pom is, but in my mind, I'm thinking pom-poms, like
Hi,
really? Don't you have schools up there in Canadia?
'whinging' is one of those strange practices involving pomegranates
that gets priests defrocked, and is illegal even between consenting
adults in the USA's Bible Belt states. Surgeons on ships taking convicts
to Australia used to engage in
I don't think it would be a lesson though. Our company bought a couple
of 17 flatscreens for our purposes. Or may be it was 15. It does not
really matter. They were on a mid-cheap band of the spectrum g. So
we got them installed and calibrated. You know, setting brightness and
stuff.
Ah, the young are so eager.
Mine was to actually make a print with that enlarger I bought last May. Done.
As I suspected the column roller is worn to the point where I can not get the
enlarger into alignment. There are no parts available for that old DeJur. And,
of course, there are no machine
graywolf wrote:
Ask me about my 94 cent print washer.
So, how about that 94 cent print washer?
-Mat
I thought no one would ask g.
I bought a plastic dish washing pan from Wal-Mart for $0.94. Drilled a line of
1/4 holes across one end about 1-1/2 from the top. Set it in the bathtub and
turned tha shower spray into it at the lowest rate that gave me a good spray. It
fills up to the holes and
of the image and the LCD for normal work. that takes up much
more
space.
Herb
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From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 7:38 AM
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Mainly for showing proofs to my
1:37 PM
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Sshhh - don't tell the guys in the film industry. Back when I was
working for SGI the biggest customers for the LCD displays were from
the folks working on special effects for films. One of the major
selling points of the LCD
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LCD monitors were great for one thing. My high-end CRT 19 monitor was
bought
used for about $100 3 years back when all the corporations were converting
over
to LCD.
PM
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
I was given a flat screen color LCD monitor for Christmas, and it has a
contrast ratio of 450:1.
How does that stack up with a decent analog RGB CRT monitor, of
approximately the same size and resolution?
Or, can one talk about both
be.
the phosphors have faded a lot.
Herb
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From: Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
Nate's old CRT just died, and it was tough finding him a good
replacement
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From: Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
My Collins says, among a number of explanations are: (1) based on a blend
of IMMIGRANT and POMEGRANATE (alluding to the red
specifically
wants to sit with someone else to show them her photos.
Herb
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From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?
I've had numerous CRT monitors, including some
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See, now I had a different mental image on that one, Chris.
I was thinking winging as in slang for throwing.
Not being familiar with this ever so quaint Aussie slang, I have no idea
what a pom is, but in my mind, I'm thinking pom-poms, like the fuzzy
Chris asked... How do you pronounce whinging? I assume it's wine-ing,
but I keep saying win-jing in my head.
then, Bob said: Australians pronounce 'bastards' wonderfully. That's why we
whinge so much - we just love to listen to their cute little accent
followed by Franks image of fairygirl in
That has to be the best o' the lot so far. Thanks, Tan. :)
chris
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Chris asked... How do you pronounce whinging? I assume it's wine-ing,
but I keep saying win-jing in my head.
then, Bob said: Australians pronounce 'bastards' wonderfully.
On 2 Jan 2004 at 13:37, John Francis wrote:
That sounds very much as though they were still using a monitor gamma
response curve. LCD displays have a very different gamma value.
Virtually no photo-apps (but some specific LCD cal products) have the complex S-
shaped curves required to pull LCD
Ok, so moral of the story is that I am better off just bying a normal flat
screen 19 monitor that costs pretty much half the price of the LCD displays
anyways?!!? Just gotta find room on my desktop for the huge montrosity of a
thing...
tan.
Chris said: That has to be the best o' the lot so far. Thanks, Tan. :)
Chris, I have no idea what you are talking about, those definitions were
plaguarised straight from the Oxford Dictionary of Australian
Pronounciations and Prose - a text that is used and referred to in
Universities all over
On 2 Jan 2004 at 16:44, Bob W wrote:
Hi,
'winjing' is correct. The phrase is usually 'bloody whinging Pommie
bastards' though.
Australians pronounce 'bastards' wonderfully. That's why we whinge so
much - we just love to listen to their cute little accent.
Bob, I don't know if you are
Really Chris, do I detect a strange tone to your voice? Sarcasm? Cynicism
even? I promise you, I could never lay claim to such eloquently written
words, and yes, I do agree that the imparitiality and objectivity are to be
admired. I'll have to look it up and see just who it is that gets chosen
New Years Resolutions?
Anyone make one this year that relates to photography? If so, would you
care to share it with us?
On 1 Jan 2004 at 17:42, frank theriault wrote:
I normally don't make New Years resolutions. I did this year, though.
Anyone make one this year that relates to photography? If so, would you
care to share it with us?
Try to get my backlog of film files sorted, labelled and entered in my
Yes ... I have resolved to put together a portfolio of some essays made a few decades
ago. These were never completed because I moved
from my studio and didn't have a good situation to continue with darkroom work.
Also, I want to photograph more in the rain and at night.
And to see more
I'm going to archive and scan all the stacks of photos that are lying
around - and try to stay on top of that this year.
I also want to try to visit some places I've been meaning to visit,
partly so I can shoot them.
And I want to obtain a decent macro lens and a new tripod this year.
Hi Frank,
I made one to join the PDML and now I've done it (scary isn't it). Thanks to
everyone for the great welcome and yes Tan I like to think that I have a
pretty good sense of humor. With some of the mistakes we all make it pays to
be able to laugh at oneself. I'm looking forward to the PDML
I have few...
Buy *istD, *istFilm or its next generation, Sigma
70-200 f2.8, Tokina 28-80 f2.8.
At present, I spend too much editing the film scans.
With the help of *istD I should be saving some time.
I need to start selling photos online.
Ramesh
--- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank Theriault wrote:
I normally don't make New Years resolutions. I did this year,
though.
Me either, and me too...
Anyone make one this year that relates to photography? If so, would you
care to share it with us?
I don't really call mine a resolution; more of a determined goal. I want
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