http://www.illy.com/Salgado/Dreams.htm
I raise my demi-tasse to the PDML!
Bob
Hi,
they are all but unobtainable in the UK these days. I would like a
F-803 satchel, so if anybody hears of a good EU source I'd also like
hear about it, please.
Bob
Sunday, August 17, 2003, 11:53:27 AM, you wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I am looking for a place where to purchase a Domke bag, in Eur
Hi,
no mountains, no snow and no camels. What're they thinking?
http://www.web-options.com/dsc00031.jpg
Cheers,
Bob
Hi,
Friday, August 22, 2003, 9:15:11 PM, you wrote:
> Bob,
> Doesn't Calumet have Domke? I see they have several Domke bags on their
> website, not the one you mentioned. And they are in London, so close by
> for you.
> http://www.calumetphoto.com
they usually have one or 2 things there, but n
skischol.html
> On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Bob Walkden wrote:
>> no mountains, no snow and no camels. What're they thinking?
>>
>> http://www.web-options.com/dsc00031.jpg
--
Cheers,
Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Sunday, August 24, 2003, 10:45:54 PM, you wrote:
> If you could point me
> towards any reviews of the F-803 for the Leica outfit I
> would be grateful.
if you search photo.net or the Leica user group archives you'll find
plenty of discussions about this and other bags. Or Google 'leica
f-803
Hi,
Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 7:28:22 PM, you wrote:
> That's going to be difficult. The Blue Ridge Parkway isn't in WV, it's
> in VA and NC.
He must have one of those pick-ups with the really enormous wheels.
> -Original Message-
> From: Collin Brendemuehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 3:09:00 PM, you wrote:
> New web address (strange but true the old one doesn't work any longer):
> www.mycroft.de
that's a very elegant and simple design.
I see you provide an explanation of the name Mycroft. In case you
don't already know, or in case others who
Hi,
Saturday, August 30, 2003, 1:28:40 AM, you wrote:
>> When I first saw a list of the contents of the SAS survival kit I was
>> amused, "1 tea bag: In survival situation, first sit down and brew a
>> cup of
>> tea". Sounds dumb until you think about it. The worse thing you can
>> do is
>> re
Hi,
Sunday, August 31, 2003, 4:47:33 PM, you wrote:
> WHAT OTHER EQUIPMENT do you stick in your camera bag (for whatever purpose)?
> Marnie aka Doe ;-) Or maybe I should just let it go.
No don't. Keep it going!
Here's what I take:
a well-furnished tent
3 months' rations
collapsible canoe
joi
Hi,
Sunday, August 31, 2003, 5:35:12 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Sunday, August 31, 2003, 4:47:33 PM, you wrote:
>> WHAT OTHER EQUIPMENT do you stick in your camera bag (for whatever purpose)?
by the way, here's a useful tip. Keep all the small bits of junk in a
Tupperware-type container about 15x1
Hi,
Sunday, August 31, 2003, 2:33:12 PM, you wrote:
> Our local Pentax rep was passing through Gastonia on his way to Hickory.
sounds like a line from Lake Wobegon, or some kind of Faulkner
world... I picture him in a pony & trap, with a stovepipe hat and a
black tailcoat. He keeps the *ist-Ds i
Hi,
Sunday, August 31, 2003, 3:21:04 PM, you wrote:
> Lots of folks say they want 100% finders, but I don't
> know why. Slide mounts block part of the image and developers never
> print the entire negative anyway.
not everybody mounts their slides, and some people print their own,
especially no
Hi,
Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 9:35:08 AM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> As Cotty and Jostein have been extolling the virtues of Scotland, maybe
> they will be interested in this.
> http://www.tenba.com/camera/photokilt.htm
I'd keep my 600mm behind my sporran...
--
Cheers,
Bob
Hi,
Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 3:32:38 PM, you wrote:
> here's the list of Scala labs in the US and abroad.
> http://www.agfa.com/photo/products/film/professional/bwrevfilm/scalalabs/
well it's good to know that once more there's a lab in London that can
process it. But do I really want to sen
Hi,
Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 4:44:05 PM, you wrote:
> Not just British cars that are leaky.
> I had a porsche 911 carrera cabriolet in the mid 80s [one of the last witt
> the useful picnic table rear wing]
> Fabulous car, but after two years the carpets were always wet after rain,
>
Hi,
Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 10:17:19 AM, you wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:28:45PM +0100, Bob Walkden wrote:
>> Am I an imagist? Not sure about that one.
> From merriam-webster
> imagism: a 20th century movement in poetry advocating free verse and the
>
Hi,
Thursday, September 4, 2003, 9:37:18 AM, you wrote:
> More seriously: anyone know of a convertible that doesn't leak? Astons
> and Bentleys do. Three whheeler Morgan hoods reduce the level of
> precipitation somewhat but the hood is so obscuring it is much safer to
> leave it down and wear
Hi,
Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 9:31:50 PM, you wrote:
> As dumb as it may sound, if I move the aperture ring and the aperture blades
> fail to move, does that mean my lens is broke? Is is now rendered useless?
> Thanks
that's how open-aperture metering works. The diaphragm remains fully
open s
Hi,
Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 8:52:02 AM, you wrote:
>> Fra: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:22:49 -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
>>
>> > Is there anyone on the list with Access experience who can answer some
>> > questions?
>>
>> There's only one question tha
Hi,
Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:30:15 PM, you wrote:
> Anyone any experience with MySQL?
http://www.pgro.uk7.net/qu071401.htm
and
http://www.pgro.uk7.net/brand1.htm
should tell you all you need to know about MySQL.
I worked for a dot.com a few years ago who had their warehousing
database
Hi,
Thursday, September 11, 2003, 8:30:02 AM, you wrote:
> What, in the opinion of the list, is:
> A/ too much
> B/ just right
> C/ a bargain
> in any currency you like for the Pentax SMC K 50mm f/1.2 ???
in HM's pounds here in Olde London Towne they are normally priced
around the £250- mar
Hi,
Thursday, September 11, 2003, 9:11:00 PM, you wrote:
> If you could only have four lenses in your camera bag,
> which ones would you chose and why.
35mm SLR:
20/2.8
28/2
50/1.4
85/2
or possibly
20/2.8
35/2
85/2
200/2.8 macro
but more likely the first lot, sticking to stuff I know.
35mm
Hi,
Thursday, September 11, 2003, 10:54:03 PM, you wrote:
> Cotty wrote:
>>
>> At short notice the Nutty Norwegian is on a business trip to London and
>> so we dragged him over here to Oxford for the evening. Just finished a
>> humungous meal of chicken tikka masala, alu ghobi and pilau rice,
Hi,
a theoretical physicist* called Ralf Stubner used to be a regular
here, and once a month he sent out a message containing this:
http://www.tfkp.physik.uni-erlangen.de/~ralf/photo/PDML/Welcome.html
It has fallen into disrepair, but something similar could be quite
useful either as a page on pd
Hi,
Sunday, September 14, 2003, 8:52:45 PM, you wrote:
> Yep, and the sales these dealers are making WILL result in the exchange
> of goods/services. It is an order only if no commitment has been made,
> once this has been done (usually financial, but could be a legal
> commitment) it is a sale
Hi,
Sunday, September 14, 2003, 9:14:24 PM, you wrote:
> On 14/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
>>I find my level of tolerance towards others is in proportion to the amount
>>of dust and noise emanating from the bloody quarry next door. Last week I
>>even shouted at my little dog when she aske
Hi,
Sunday, September 14, 2003, 10:52:51 PM, you wrote:
>> This is also true from the charging point-of-view. The seller
>> will debit your account only after the goods are despatched,
>> not before. However, when you placed your order the card will
>> have been authorised and your 'open to sp
Hi,
Monday, September 15, 2003, 10:54:19 PM, you wrote:
> Thought I'd let you know that now Pentax got themselves a representative in politics.
> Since a couple of weeks back I am running for a seat in the local parliament of
> Aland (the Aland Islands) as well as for a seat in the city council
Hi,
Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 4:19:17 PM, you wrote:
> I'll add one more comment. Frankly, I don't care if Reifenstahl was a Nazi or
> not -- her film, like all art work can stand alone, independent of the
> creator.
Her work is so recognisable as being of that time that I don't believe
you
Hi,
Thursday, September 18, 2003, 2:41:20 AM, you wrote:
> Telling these people that tripod use
> makes for better pictures is like talking to a brick wall.
makes a change from photographing one, eh?
--
Cheers,
Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 4:12:52 PM, you wrote:
> "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>> that is the new definition ever since the atmosphere has gotten polluted
>>> enough not to see a real blue moon.
>>>
>>> From: "Kevin Waterson" <[EMA
Hi,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 12:59:50 AM, you wrote:
> I was asked earlier this year to help in the slide show presentation for the year end
> horse banquet(Oct 3, 03)
I'll bet that's popular with the local French population...
--
Salut!
Maurice Chevaline
Hi,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:41:41 AM, you wrote:
> > Hi,
>>
>> Sunday, September 21, 2003, 12:59:50 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I was asked earlier this year to help in the slide show presentation for the year
>> > end
>> > horse banquet(Oct 3, 03)
Hi,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 2:58:34 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> To me at least, "Once in a blue moon" always meant rarely, not never
> Indeed. And that would be true for all of us alive today.
I've always taken it to mean 'never'. Perhaps you have more blue moons
on your side of the ocean bl
Hi,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 7:39:34 PM, you wrote:
>> Who would be correct, the critic, or us, who had the benefit of the composer's
>> desire for how it should sound? Seems to me the same would apply to a
>> photographer's interpretation of his image.
> Don't have time right now to go dig
Hi,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 10:31:50 PM, you wrote:
> Now, in my local camera club here, there has been a lot of head-shaking and
> sighing over the low quality, and that is only a publicity stunt. But is it?
Excerpt from 'The Camera Club Guide to Photography'*:
"1. First, stick your head r
Hi,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 10:24:34 PM, you wrote:
> Whether one is an artist or not is, I think, simply a matter of intent.
> If ones intent is to produce art than one is an artist. Now I am willing
> to admit that becoming a good artist, much less a great one, can take
> years or even d
Hi,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 4:31:55 PM, you wrote:
> Time to get into the fray.
> I have long disagreed with the concept that something is art simply because
> someone calls it art. The lady urinating in the bucket would be a good
> example of it. I'm slowly revising my position. People can
is a spectacular waste of time, too, but millions
> do it anyway!
> Yeah, we're arguing Angels on the Head of a Pin, but I still think it's fun.
> cheers,
> frank
> Bob Walkden wrote:
>> Confronting the Art Question is the most spectacularly irrelevant waste
>> of time that I can think of.
Hi,
Saturday, September 27, 2003, 7:39:34 AM, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> the prices are dropping for used Carl Zeiss lenses for Contax/Yashica
> bayonet mount. Some of these lenses do have no Pentax equivalents which
> makes them rather interesting to me, e.g. the Planars 100/f2 and 135/f2
Hi,
Monday, September 29, 2003, 2:41:33 AM, you wrote:
> I took my usual weighty kit:
> 2 PZ-1p bodies
> F17-28 f3.5-4.5
> FA 20-35 f4.0
> Tokina AT-X Pro 28-80 f2.8
> Sigma 70-200 f2.8
> FA* 24 f2.0
> FA 31 f1.8 Limited
> FA 50 f1.7
> I also took a monopod (which got used) and a tripod (which
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
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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
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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
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