Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 22:27 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > helper to deal with the cable One of the jobs I did in my live :D. While camera mechanic and stands where very handy, still the cables where an issue. Cable puller is a good job to get in contact with the video and audio business. I still prefe

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-08 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 3:08 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: >> Our RCA studio cameras were a bit bigger, but the peds and controls were >> similar. Control room layout was much the same too. > > At that time "bigger" usually caused a better quality. Th

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 00:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Perhaps we should completely keep it off-list at some point, for the > moment I only add an "OT" to the subject. I like to read such OTs. I > learned by reading yours and I leaned a lot reading experiences of other > engineers, my favorite is

OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > Our RCA studio cameras were a bit bigger, but the peds and controls were > similar. Control room layout was much the same too. At that time "bigger" usually caused a better quality. The funny thing is, that zooming and sharpness was operated di