Text 37662, 70 rader
Skriven 2010-05-11 17:43:44 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: FAR AWAY 51  00507
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Hey Glen!
How odd! I replied to this yesterday
on this system and today here are
the same messages marked as unread,
and my replies are nowhere to be found! 
Wonder if the system rebooted and 
dumped em?

->  ->  HN> I have relented and gotten a small "all in one" camera
->  ->  HN> as well.....a Canon G11, pretty nice for a pocket camera!
->  -> Haha!  Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century at last!
->  -> It had to happen.
->  ->  
->  HN> Oh, I walked through the turnstiles quite willingly!
-> 
-> Huh!  That's what they all say - after the conversion.  My eldest
-> daughter (aka "Mrs Ludd") had to be given a digi camera by her husband
-> to drag her away from her film camera.  Now she loves it.  Same with
-> her fear of computers; she had to be threatened with loss of her job
-> before agreeing to learn to use one.  Now she sends emails and funnies
-> all over the place just as much as the other public servants.  Also
-> texting with mobile phones; I coached her in sending her first SMS
-> message to a surprised friend who was overseas at the time.
-> 
I've had digital cameras for quite a while now,
mostly because clients expect work to be 
in digital now and look at you with wide eyes
if you even mention film!

->  ->  -> With SD cards going up to 16 Gig and beyond, you can store 
plenty of
->  ->  -> pics with as good resolution as on a fine-grain film.
->  ->  ->
->  HN> For the most part I'll agree with that, but film still
->  HN> has it's advantages in certain areas.  And the larger
->  HN> the format the more "information" on the film.
-> 
-> The police still use film for critical photos which may have to be
-> produced in court, as digital can be modified too easily, and could be
-> rejected by a defence lawyer for that reason.  Photos for police IDs
-> are still taken by a Polaroid camera, as each photo is unique.
->  
->  -> Coincidentally yesterday I heard a radio interview with a woman who
->  -> does the still photos used for publicising movies.  She still uses
->  -> medium format roll film, as she can get special effects in the
->  -> darkroom, in particular the creative use of graininess which can be
->  -> done with film.  I have also recorded a program on Annie Leibovitz to
->  -> watch later.
->  ->
->  HN> Not a big fan of Leibovitz, 
-> 
-> The above interviewed photographer intimated that Leibovitz was not a
-> particularly pleasant person to work with.
->  
->  -> I still use the 1989 version of XTreeGold for handling my files.  It
->  -> works well on the Windows 95 computer.
->  -> 
->  HN> I actually have a copy of that around somewhere!
->  HN> as well as OS2, MSDOS 5 and other ancient things!
-> 
-> My W95 computer has both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives.  I dig out stuff on
-> the older disks occasionally.  MSDOS 3.1 was simple, safe, and my
-> favourite for many years.
-> 
My current desktop system still has a 
3.5 in drive, and it's running WinXP pro.
chat with you soon!
hap 
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