Please watch your language on the list, Cotty! Tsk tsk.
-frank,
self appointed list morality watchdog
Cotty wrote:
> No scitten Bob?
>
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>I think that's unlikely. My dictionary gives the same origin for
>'shit' and 'shite' (linguistically. Biologically of course they have
>the same origin), namely 'scitan' from the Old English, with ancestry
>going back through the normal Germanic line. If there's a similar word
>in Celtic it's prob
>> > Is "shite" pronounced with a
>> > long or short "i"?
>>
>> Long 'I', as in flying a 'kite'. British slang.
>
>
>
>Actually, its derivation is *Irish*, although
>it has now been "accepted" into English
>so-called "culture".
>
>;-)
I never knew that!
Cheers,
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My first sighting of the word was in James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man" which was required reading during my school years.
Irish born friends of mine use it exactly as a British descended person
would use the e-less form of the word. If Billy Connelly is typical of his
countrym
Cotty wrote:
>
> > Is "shite" pronounced with a
> > long or short "i"?
>
> Long 'I', as in flying a 'kite'. British slang.
Actually, its derivation is *Irish*, although
it has now been "accepted" into English
so-called "culture".
;-)
>Cotty wrote:
>
>I just got fed up with letting the camera
>decide what was in focus or not.
>
>
>REPLY:
>
>Don't know about yours but on my camera I decide what I want in focus and
>the camera does it for me when I'm not able to do it with necessary
>precision myself.
>I use manual focus every tim
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>I have found that I now use manual focus 100% of the time on my DSLR,
>> .In the
>>tv industry, broadcast quality cameras with autofocus are unheard of.
>>Manual every time. Even the aperture is left on manual.
>>
>>.02 British pence
>Hold it right there, Bud,
>Is "shite" pronounced with a long or short "i"? BTW, I understand
>your method of working. The first decent digital cam I buy will
>have a By Golly Gen-Ewe-Whine Viewfinder and an LCD that can be
>turned off. I may change pants, but not horses, in the middle of
>a stream. Us old folks change a
Hold it right there, Bud, and step away from the focus ring!
You do this (manual focus thing) for a living, day in day out. This is a
highly developed skill that few people have. I think that this is a
case where what works specifically for you, won't work the same way for
most people.
BR
[EM
Cotty wrote:
I just got fed up with letting the camera
decide what was in focus or not.
REPLY:
Don't know about yours but on my camera I decide what I want in focus and the camera
does it for me when I'm not able to do it with necessary precision myself.
I use manual focus every time I'm able
Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have found that I now use manual focus 100% of the time on
my DSLR,
> even though it has a reasonable AF system, and in fact is the
first AF
> camera I have come across. I just got fed up with letting the
camera
> decide what was in focus or not.
(...)
> In the
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