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Comment by johnha posted on watermarking at 26/06/2013 - 23:37
michaelblue wrote:
Just look what's happened to mobile phones....they went from a telephone the size of a house brick to a minaturized wonder (Great!) and are now a do-it-all, phone/camera/electronic book/alarm clock/GPS system/typewriter/heart rate-pulse monitor/music playing gadget the size of house brick!
And they're rubbish at all of those (even making phone calls in some cases) Just look what's happened to mobile phones....they went from a telephone the size of a house brick to a minaturized wonder (Great!) and are now a do-it-all, phone/camera/electronic book/alarm clock/GPS system/typewriter/heart rate-pulse monitor/music playing gadget the size of house brick!
This is my favourite walk-round lens when shooting film (OK I haven't got the 43 Ltd), just the right focal length. Surprised it hasn't gone for this price to be honest.
John.
John.
Comment by johnha posted on M40mm f2.8 at 25/06/2013 - 22:50
Had to laugh today when I saw a box for Photoshop Elements 11 complete with photo of a Mamiya C330 on the front - minus the 'Mamiya' and model number logos of course...
Comment by johnha posted on Adobe releases subscription-only Photoshop CC at 23/06/2013 - 01:27
Removed from sale, it's been up for a month with little interest so I'll keep hold of it.
Thanks for looking.
John.
Thanks for looking.
John.
Comment by johnha posted on FS: SMC-A 50mm f/1.7 at 23/06/2013 - 01:14
Smeggypants wrote:
here's an analogy. You can make your house almost burglar proof, but you'd soon get tired of living in a house where you've got to open 20 locks each time you want to move from one room to another or go outside, etc
Don't get me started! One photo insurance company I got a quote from required of the insured premises: "All doors and windows to be locked and all alarms activated between 9pm and 9am...", kind of hard to do in a house!here's an analogy. You can make your house almost burglar proof, but you'd soon get tired of living in a house where you've got to open 20 locks each time you want to move from one room to another or go outside, etc
I see it more as a means to force users into some kind of 'pro' creative social networking arrangement. Information is power/money on the web today (one example is FB replacing real email addresses with their own). The big companies are trying to 'tie-in' users to their services and tie those who'd like to communicate with them, in to them too.
Comment by johnha posted on Adobe releases subscription-only Photoshop CC at 22/06/2013 - 00:43
cabstar wrote:
Why is this wrong? Do you doubt a subscription method will not stop piracy? Sky used to have a problem with chipped cards and their technology department soon found ways to stop that.
Chip based security systems are a completely different scenario - they use tamper resistant hardware encryption (the chip) - and attacking that with a scanning electron microscope is considered a 'medium' level attack. Obviously though, some chips are better than others and any security weakness is more likely to be somewhere else.Why is this wrong? Do you doubt a subscription method will not stop piracy? Sky used to have a problem with chipped cards and their technology department soon found ways to stop that.
Implementing similar security in software is almost impossible, which is why Pay TV, mobile phones etc. use the chips in the first place.
Comment by johnha posted on Adobe releases subscription-only Photoshop CC at 21/06/2013 - 21:36
A quick update:
I've acquired a 67 + metered prism + S-M-C-Tak 75mm f/4.5 lens fitted with the split-image focus screen. I bought it from a proper camera shop and had some time to consider the purchase before buying it. All of the rangefinder options previously mentioned would have been much more expensive - even if they were readily available.
My first impressions were that it was lighter than I expected and the mirror/shutter smoother than reports on the web suggested. Surrounded in the shop with various RBs & RZs it didn't look too big - the sheer size of it wasn't really that obvious until I'd left the shop (or was that the looks it attracted from passers-by?).
Since then I've shot a roll (not processed yet). Loading is rather fiddly compared to other medium format gear I've used (at least at first) , but the first roll looks to have run through without problems. Handling feels good if using similar techniques to a manual 35mm SLR - vertical shots are comfortable cradling the lens in 35mm style and I feel the wooden grip would interfere with this.
It is the right camera for the purposes I outlined in my original post (wish I'd bought one years ago...). Thanks for the comments (and Peter's images), the PM's received and those who looked at this.
Regards,
John.
I've acquired a 67 + metered prism + S-M-C-Tak 75mm f/4.5 lens fitted with the split-image focus screen. I bought it from a proper camera shop and had some time to consider the purchase before buying it. All of the rangefinder options previously mentioned would have been much more expensive - even if they were readily available.
My first impressions were that it was lighter than I expected and the mirror/shutter smoother than reports on the web suggested. Surrounded in the shop with various RBs & RZs it didn't look too big - the sheer size of it wasn't really that obvious until I'd left the shop (or was that the looks it attracted from passers-by?).
Since then I've shot a roll (not processed yet). Loading is rather fiddly compared to other medium format gear I've used (at least at first) , but the first roll looks to have run through without problems. Handling feels good if using similar techniques to a manual 35mm SLR - vertical shots are comfortable cradling the lens in 35mm style and I feel the wooden grip would interfere with this.
It is the right camera for the purposes I outlined in my original post (wish I'd bought one years ago...). Thanks for the comments (and Peter's images), the PM's received and those who looked at this.
Regards,
John.
Comment by johnha posted on 6x7 for travel? at 21/06/2013 - 21:05
Still for sale.
Comment by johnha posted on FS: SMC-A 50mm f/1.7 at 21/06/2013 - 12:52
I have 'Medium Format Photography' by Lief Ericksenn from '91 (AMPHOTO). Covers pretty much everything from TLRs onwards and has some good photos of NASA launches in it.
Most of these books are still relevant, and apart from the latter AF film cameras, still up to date. Now we have the web, thousands of forums and social media pages - all peddling somebody's ideas/agendas and most of it is worthless.
Most of these books are still relevant, and apart from the latter AF film cameras, still up to date. Now we have the web, thousands of forums and social media pages - all peddling somebody's ideas/agendas and most of it is worthless.
Comment by johnha posted on Found a 1981 book on medium format at 20/06/2013 - 23:11
Recently I've started to shoot more film and have gone back to adding them more subtly to my film scans on flickr (partly in response to the changes in copyright law). I limit images to 800px (longest side) but leave the jpeg compression reasonable. It's not going to stop anyone from stealing any images but I don't think they get in the way too much and I'm happier that I've tried to assert my rights to some extent.
The current web-generation often believe anything on the web is public domain and therefore fair game, whether it be images, music, video, homework, source code etc...
John.