hing is he probably did more good than any president in US history, but the only thing he is remembered for is Watergate.
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x27;s that for a 50 year history of cruising North Woodward in a
nutshell?
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Paul Stenquist wrote:
Yesterday was the culmination of more than a month of activity an
although family legend claims his
grandfather, who supposedly changed the name to English form from the Dutch,
was.
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Articles of
That one is easy, Shel, each bit doubles (or halves if you are going that way)
the dynamic range of the image. Powers of two, you will recall.
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.
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Toralf Lund wrote:
Since the "full-frame" discussion re-emerged yet another time earlier
today, I thought maybe I'd ask, how about a 36x36 mm sensor? Wo
I had a stunning photograph once. It was a matted and framed 16x24 hanging over
the sofa. The nail kept pulling out of the wall. Everyone whom it fell on said
it was really stunning.
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A HP Designjet 130 is only $1300, and will do upto 24" x 36"(or longer). Many on the list paid that much for their istD.
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Kenneth Waller wrote:
latitude and the shadow detail is gone. If that is acceptable
in your final image pushing will work for that image.
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Michael Spivak wrote:
Hi
I have a problem that
Was that a J-2 with a blower that you had, Keith ?
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keithw wrote:
P. J. Alling wrote:
I hope the hen was well cooked...
Ahhh, keeps me in mind of the ol
. Sorry I missed you.
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Cesar wrote:
These are just a few shots to let the PDML and others have a glimpse
into the weekend at the Camera Clinic on Gra
easy on flaming me now guys, I just got home from the hospital a few hours
ago (sinus surgery, had to stay overnight as I was slow recovering from
anesthesia, and bleeding), and am on painkillers right now.
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Thanks, Michael, I needed a pat on the back just now.
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Michael Spivak wrote:
Thanks much people !
i didn't think i will get the aswers so fast
The
buckboard
suspension: info to those who are not old farts)
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keithw wrote:
Graywolf wrote:
Was that a J-2 with a blower that you had, Keith ?
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Would that be this book? No copies available unfortunately.
Press on regardless;: Or, The confessions of a sports car addict, (Unknown
Binding) 1956
by Anne Taylor
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I think you run a MAC. PS uses all the memory on MAC'., With PC's it will only
use up to 2 gigabytes. PS2 is nice.
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Herb Chong wrote:
i don't
Sorry I commented on one of your posts with some simple information for those
who might not know of it. That always sets off a diatribe from you. My only
excuse is that I am brain damaged, and can not seem to learn from experience.
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Those were the days! Glad to bring up happy memmories for you.
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keithw wrote:
Graywolf wrote:
Would that be this book? No copies available unfortunately.
Pre
th, and do to the fixed budget account I did not have
to pay an electric bill last month, so tha money went for the camera. Strange to
think of the electric bill as a savings account .
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knowledgable experienced user Epsons do continue to chug along, even the cheap
ones.
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Bruce Dayton wrote:
I concur on the 820 - I threw one in the trash too! My
at it.
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John Coyle wrote:
Keith's experience is close to my own with an Epson Stylus 800. Very
poor ink consumption, and when it got so clogged that I could
Highest profit of course. Best photograph is too subjective.
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Manuel Magalhães wrote:
No it didn't. It just states the awarding prizes.
Manuel
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There are many. Unfortunately it is hard to convience the clients who have been
sold a bag of BS that annoying you customers is not a good idea.
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Mark Ro
of the techniques used on one work fine on the
other. But in other ways trying to treat them as the same program will lead to
utter confusion, especially with regard to how they us the hardware they are
loaded on.
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difference between you and he is I can safely say, I think you are full of shit.
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Graywolf wrote:
charger like the Maha 401, or a
gee-whiz high tech charger like the LaCrosse is a better way to go. Anybody
want to expound the relative performance of the two.
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guesses.
I get the feeling I am talking with school kids here (lots of facts, not much
understanding).
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Adam Maas wrote:
You stated they were 'two entirely diffe
n the list. Maybe I am in err?
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
"Every bit goes through that 5% of code and comes out different. The
other 95% is the user interface
working its way across the
country it was marked as returned to shipper. What kind of idiot would try to
ship something to a PO Box address via Fed Ex Ground? Oh the seller does
not answer email either.
So, anyway, I figure I understand how you feel.
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, and charge them willy-nilly and they still
seem to last a couple of years. Sometimes we can worry too much about such
things.
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Dario Bonazza wrote:
Discuss
You the man, Cotty, you the man.
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Cotty wrote:
I thought some readers might like to see me defending good old SMC - from
an
they refused to pay the token fee makes them liable for full
commercial rates.
If one really has no monetary interest in ones images the common license you
posted a link to makes makes complete sense. All it requires is that they
attribute the image to the photographer.
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of damage). However, as I have
mentioned before, these lenses are mostly 25+ years old and we have no idea
what they have been through.
I found less sample to sample variation in the m50/1.7 lenses. The one I kept however was super sharp at f/1.7 even at close focus distances.
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I is a fact of life that one of the ways manufactures save money these days is
by letting the customer do final testing. Sorry you got caught out by it, Shel.
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I have read that "educated mid-western english", and "upper-class british english" (I
assume not- the TV and movie, "I, say, what?" stuff) are the only unaccented english dialects.
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I have noticed that too.
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Jens Bladt wrote:
BTW:
I've noticed about performers, especially the very professional ones. They
can quickly spot a ca
shadows predominate in a
low-key print.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/4/2005 2:04:39 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does
independently owned stores, but
chains are notorious for insisting that all spiffs go to the company as
discounts.
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Canon and Nikon are probably givi
e, or over the next hill, one to whom the trip was always more interesting
than the destination, I have never called myself either one.
These days I do not have the energy to walk (really the best way to go), nor
the money to go any other way...
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contrast at 100%, but better
seems to be about 95% then you do not get those false blown highlights on the
screen.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of these days you a
er, I still prefer the Crown
Graphic for fun, and I am keeping the MX's.
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
No need to apologize for the Olympus ;-))
http://www.olympusame
Photoshop.
Probably there are better techniques. My copy of "Adobe Photoshop CS2 for
Photographers" does have a chapter on using the RAW converter, but it is somewhat
elementary. I shall have to try your technique, Paul.
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Yeh, well you are better than me.
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Hi,
You should be able to do better than an 8x10. My 4mp Sony will do
"stunning" 8x10
Yeh, real customizers use an airbrush...
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Jens Bladt wrote:
Gaffering is not customizing - no functionallity is added or removed. It's
simply disgu
Changed your name again have you, Dorian?
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william sawyer wrote:
Paul,
I solved the age problem several years ago by having my portrait done, then
putting
How about a 1.7gb (10K x 12K 48bit) digital back?
http://www.betterlight.com/
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Cotty wrote:
Leaf/Mamiya 22MP DSLR:
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/05
site to see if they have more
color profiles for your cameras available for download.
Anyway the method in the first couple of paragraphs pretty much is all I use.
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I think that and proper attributation are a matter of common sense. In other
words putting it into the FAQ won't help much. But if everyone wants it there,
I will be glad to update it.
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without
scrolling it can not do that.
Bottom posting is something that is left over from the old dial up and download
uucp days. Come on guys it is not 1972 anymore.
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read if they bottom post.
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frank theriault wrote:
On 9/14/05, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That is okay as I see your name and scroll down. Howe
pratice one could do a lot better. I guess one of those panarama heads would make things a bit easier, but a standard head and a $2 level would probably do as well.
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Bill, Don, and I are all pretty much the same age. They put my problems into
perspective (none of them life threatening). The both have my best wishes, and
prayers for a complete and permanent recovery.
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What obsolete primitive mail read are you using?
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Tom Reese wrote:
>
Not everyone reads them that way. My mail program doesn't thread anything. I
Actually I can kind of agree with you. I was removing some no longer
used software from my computer and the uninstall program of one of them
must have removed something essential, as it would not boot anymore. So
I tried reloading the OS (damned MickeyShit Software), it refused to
load with the
A bit dark, did it on a Mac? If I increase my screen brightness to about
1.8 gamma it looks good.
Anybody interested in hearing what Martin Evening, author of Adobe
Photoshop CS2 for Photographers has to say about 1.8 gamma .
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
On the way to a friend's house early this e
or is
not calibrated, you came pretty close going by what my calibrated by
MK-I eyeball monitor shows. I, BTW, do like the tight crop.
graywolf wrote:
A bit dark, did it on a Mac? If I increase my screen brightness to
about 1.8 gamma it looks good.
Anybody interested in hearing what Mart
Anybody else notice that the folks who find this kind of thing funny are
all bottom feeders, err... I mean bottom posters? They also clip
attributions .
--graywolf
mike wilson wrote:
Cotty wrote:
IFAIR the endoscope is currently the main source of income for
Pentax.
If it's n
Neat!
I would not have thought you could do a handheld 5 panel panorama that
looked so good. Maybe I had better rephrase that, I don't think I could
do it.
Mark Roberts wrote:
5-shot stitched pano taken from the top of the tower in the crumbling
ruin of Montrichard Chateau on the river Ch
stuff
which are simply pictures of people or things). To me that IS art.
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the computer is working again).
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frank theriault wrote:
On 9/19/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I was asking
days. And the high-end stuff, where
there is actually some money to be made, is still shot with a view
camera to the best of my knowledge. I doubt that Scott could make enough
to pay for that 14mm lens and a DSLR.
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Mark Roberts wrote:
Scott Loveless <
Was the ISO set to a fixed value or was it on AUTO?
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
No metering, Paul. It was all in manual. Camera in Manual mode (M on the
dial), aperture set manually, shutter speed set manually.
about?
William Robb
--
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live in the modern world a couple of years before they
confirm to the old ways. They seem like very sensible people to me.
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John Francis wrote:
Nope - that'
is supposed to minimize purple fringing. I have not
used it because Ihave not seen the problem to the point where it is
visible in the 8x10 to 8.5x11 prints I do, so this is all theoretical to
me.
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that issue.
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Whenever I have prints made on the Lightjet or the Frontier, I use 300ppi
to 330ppi or so for the resolution (is that the term?
I was here a bit before that while it was still with Pentax.
I want to thank Doug for keeping up this list for almost five years now.
And, mostly, putting up with the likes of me.
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, some may fail
immediately some may go 10 times that long, but it does give some idea
of how long something is intended to keep on working.
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I fact, historically, licensing technology has been one of Pentax's ways
of doing business.
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William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From
Pentaxes current distribution plan.
The only distributors that may stockpile stuff are those that are not
owned and operated by Pentax, but most of those seem to be dropping
items like they are hot potatoes.
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Load fine for me. Your servers are responding faster than most as well.
However, I am on ultra high speed cable (roughly equivalent to a T3 line).
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Well then, Merry Christmas to You.
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Woo Hoo.
I was out in the field the last few days on some pipeline work east of
Toronto,
Guilty of using 30 year old cameras by preference, and even 50+ yo ones.
Also guilty of using 30 year old hi-fi. However I really don't think
manufacturers should cater to the likes of me.
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Leave it to you Brits to come up with a color code and then use the same
color for two of the states . Why not black, black special, black
extra special, black ultra special, and black with cream and sugar?
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information may be of interest to those on the list who,
like me, can not afford one of those dream printers.
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Adam Maas wrote:
The individual tanks are also a
helps with a dead piezo element however.
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David Mann wrote:
On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I print with an Epson 2200 and am very satisfi
hand shortly it will probably be just as cheap to buy a
full-frame camera and crop the image for shift as it would be to buy a
special APS shift body. So I guess the issue is moot.
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not only used to set aperture with every lens, but also as a
shutter speed switch, an ISO switch, etc. Almost guaranteed to reduce
the usable life of the camera by a factor of 100 or so (To be honest it
also reduces the cost of manufacture by a factor of 2 or 3). This is
progress?
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The last one was a test to see if anyone would bother to read through
all of them.
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E.R.N. Reed wrote:
graywolf wrote:
Leave it to you Brits to come up with
.
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Cotty wrote:
On 23/9/05, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
So, right now, my only workable bike actually has gears and brakes.
Yeah, but you d
Irony (probably does not translate well).
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Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, graywolf wrote:
So the way to make cameras
tore, kid, etc)?"
Unfortunately I have not been doing much of anything the past few weeks,
but am feeling better now.
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Bill D. Casselberry wrote:
Hey k
In this case my experience says Bill is correct. If the subject looks
dead center into the taking lens the eyes of the portrait will seem to
follow the viewer around, but if they are just slightly off they will
not. Portrait painters have used this optical illustion for centuries.
graywolf
I believe the MX is being used as a viewfinder, not just a display.
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keith_w wrote:
Tim Sherburne wrote:
On 9/23/05 11:31, keith_w wrote:
Which lens to
And I was being ironic, although no one will be able to tell that from
your quote. Oh well.
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P. J. Alling wrote:
No, I was being sarcastic.
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those three.
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Adam Maas wrote:
And then you referred to the 'Extreme DoF' of APS formats, which
doesn't exist. There's a small shift,
If you can believe those Wilhelm (sp?) test the HP Designjet prints will
outlast Epson prints by a factor of at least 2. But I will not be around
to care.
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most of the engineering, and as most MZ-S owners will tell you it is
a damn good base to build on. I can not imagine them building a full
frame sensor camera on a *ist chassis unless the sensors became as cheap
as a can of tuna fish.
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and highest contrast ones they ever made.
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Adam Maas wrote:
Ironically, my worst film performer (Formula 5 28mm f2.8) is quite
acceptable on Digital. And it
the Contax had more to do with piss-ass poor software than
the sensor, although many still think the sensor was the problem.
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Cotty wrote:
On 23/9/05, Shel
Simply rewrite the firmware .
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Resistance is futile?
It's still an stupid setup, imo. Just as not being able to turn of the
was that Pentax should floor-plan (provide on
consignment) the high-end stuff. He said that is NOT going to happen.
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Don Sanderson wrote:
Well, so far, not so g
Congradulations.
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Dario Bonazza wrote:
Remember this picture in my ETH gallery?
http://www.dariobonazza.com/enter/eth11.jpg
This is what a magazine made
text printing has been done on a laser printer for the past 15 years,
and it still works as good as new. Now, if we could get photo quality
inkjets like that...
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that but the consumer photo printers did not and
they were notorious cloggers. Anyway since I now have the R200 I hope
that it does not have the clogging proplems I had with the 820, I did
find a way to mostly work around it but it was a bit of a hassle.
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Aways having prefer RF's for general photography, I am glad someone
makes such a digital. I only wish I could afford one. However if I had
one I would propably wish it was full-frame .
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I had to replace it.
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Don Sanderson wrote:
Oh, DUH!
http://www.adorama.com/BG3021BP.html
One O' Dose!
Don
-Original Message-
Glad to hear that, Sid.
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Hey Gang,
We had a long backroads trip out of Lake Charles before the storm, but we all
made it out. I ha
Well, anyone with an Imacon just send it to me. You just heard from two
experts it is worthless.
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Mark Roberts wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECT
ronic that adapters to mount
mics on my photographic stands are rather expensive, but not quite as
expensive (by a couple of bucks) as buying mic stands.
-graywolf
Cotty wrote:
> Hi Bill, this is rather long - get yourself a stiff drink before you read
>
> I discombobulated
>
decent. I remember the old direct
stereo (2 mics) recordings as sounding better than the current mixed
stuff, maybe just a case of reminiscence making it seem so, but I want
to give it a try.
-graywolf
Cotty wrote:
>
> I suppose it depends what you're going to mic up WRT what you ne
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