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Post by PeterW on Jun 7, 2006 9:03:01 GMT -5
One of the cameras in my small haul last weekend was a plastic Canon Sure Shot, auto focus, auto exposure. I noticed that the film counter was at 32 so I thought there might still be a film in it. I shot off four quick shots, two on my way down to my local High Street processor and, sure enough at 36 it said it was time to rewind. I dropped the film in for process only. Unfortunately someone had opened the back, possibly at the boot sale, so quite a few pictures in it were ruined, but I don't think it was a great loss as the rest were pretty rubbishy snapshots. I was quite pleased with the quality of the pics I took to finish up the film but I really did miss a zoom lens. I've got lazy in my old age!! Oh, and the viewfinder is very pessimistic. The pictures were about 120% of what I saw in the finder. I had to crop them quite a lot. The film was Kodak Gold 100 ASA. Here's two of the four I took with it: The very untidy and disorganised computer corner in my den. I took this to test the built-in flash, which seemed to cope very well. Hot dog stand. This is in the pedestrianised High Street, just a short way down from the processing shop. Peter
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Post by kiev4a on Jun 7, 2006 10:23:08 GMT -5
Peter. Looks like you have a cooling problem on your CPU:)
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Post by herron on Jun 7, 2006 10:44:51 GMT -5
Peter. Looks like you have a cooling problem on your CPU:) LOL! On the contrary, Wayne. Looks like Peter has solved a cooling problem! ;D ---------- BTW Peter, you and I look as if we have the same designer for our computer/camera rooms! But I have to say yours looks a bit more organized. I have so much stuff in there my wife refuses to clean the room any more (which is actually OK...since I have to relearn where things are when she does that)! I'll post a picture or two, when I get up the nerve to show the world what a disorganised pack rat I am!!
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Post by PeterW on Jun 7, 2006 11:42:43 GMT -5
LOL Wayne. The CPU doesn't run particularly hot (lots of heat sink paste and a big fan) though it does run quite fast. I seem to have operated on more or less breadboard hookups for yonks. The box on top is a four-way switched splitter so two computers can share the scanner and printer. Alongside it is a SanDisk compact flash card reader and behind it is a small Waco pad I use sometimes with PS. Out of shot is the camera dock for my little Kodak point & squirt digital. These three are linked to the computer via a USB junction box, just out of shot, hanging in the trailing cables. John put the computer together for me from bits and pieces - handy having a computer engineer as a son I don't think the case ever had a side panel. The big hole in the front at the top used to house removable hard drives, but they're now piggy-backed inside. The empty slot under it had a CD read/write drive, but now I've got a DVD drive that does CDs as well I don't need it. The smaller slot below that held a jazz disc drive but I don't use those any more so I gave it to someone who still does. Got to admit, it does look a bit of a toothless wonder I do have another computer, reserved for business use, all neat and tidy, but that lives on a separate desk, away from the muddle! Ron: NO-ONE is allowed to tidy my den - except my grandson Luke (4 years 10 months old) who keeps a box of toys in there, mainly small model cars, so that he can 'be with Granddad' sometimes. He often has to 'tidy' a few boxes or piles of old camera mags on the floor so he has room to play! Peter
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Post by lulalake on Sept 24, 2006 0:32:58 GMT -5
One of the cameras in my small haul last weekend was a plastic Canon Sure Shot, auto focus, auto exposure. I noticed that the film counter was at 32 so I thought there might still be a film in it. I shot off four quick shots, two on my way down to my local High Street processor and, sure enough at 36 it said it was time to rewind. I dropped the film in for process only. Unfortunately someone had opened the back, possibly at the boot sale, so quite a few pictures in it were ruined, but I don't think it was a great loss as the rest were pretty rubbishy snapshots. I was quite pleased with the quality of the pics I took to finish up the film but I really did miss a zoom lens. I've got lazy in my old age!! Oh, and the viewfinder is very pessimistic. The pictures were about 120% of what I saw in the finder. I had to crop them quite a lot. The film was Kodak Gold 100 ASA. Here's two of the four I took with it: The very untidy and disorganised computer corner in my den. I took this to test the built-in flash, which seemed to cope very well. Hot dog stand. This is in the pedestrianised High Street, just a short way down from the processing shop. Peter Well Peter, I get to the UK about once a year and in this years trip, I must meet you. Supper is on me as you seem to be my long lost brother. Cheers Jules PS Notice the picture on my moniter.
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 24, 2006 6:24:24 GMT -5
Peter, Sir, Not long ago a wise man wrote: "Not necessarily photographic, and I'm sorry to say this, but something which irritates me is the American trait of adding 'wise' to the end of all sorts of words. Only a few days ago, and American senior officer in Iraq stated that "Escalationwise (ugh!!) the situation is under control". And now we are subjected to the Anglicised: "This is in the pedestrianised High Street,". (Ugh. Ugh.) It's a good thing we Canadians are doing our best to preserve the Queen's english. Eh? Eh! This is Killer scowling at me for keeping my desk in such a disorganised state and for daring to criticise anybody for anything. Mickey
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Post by PeterW on Sept 24, 2006 18:57:31 GMT -5
Guilty, m'Lud. Sorry, Mickey, just shows how easy it is to slip into 'modern' phraseology. But then I suppose that's how the English language evolved, absorbing or building words from almost everywhere. Many acronyms and abbreviations are now accepted words. Today's ugh may become tomorrow's accepted grammar and syntax. Strange: words like modernised, Anglicised and motorised don't grate, so I'm inclined to accept pedestrianised. The 'ised' suffix seems natural. Yet we have electrified not electricised, and emulsified not emulsionised. I've become accustomed to sit-in, but the older stand-in has a totally different meaning. Funny old language, English. I'm fairly flexible. If it makes the meaning more clear, or avoids a long clumsy sentence, I'll cheerfully split infinitives with the best of 'em. Or start sentences with conjunctions or end them with prepositions. But if someone said pedestrianwise, I'd yelp. That is the sort of uneuphonic adjective building designed to impress the listener or reader up with which I will not put. (Sort that sentence out and parse it!) . PeterW
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 24, 2006 19:07:27 GMT -5
Peter, You are correct about the language evolving and, I suppose, that is what makes it so interesting and colourful and beautiful. Even "ugh" has been used by me as a word, with great emotion I might add. That is when my family doctor uses his 3 foot forefinger to (at risk of being censored) see if my hat is on straight.
Mickey
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Post by byuphoto on Sept 26, 2006 10:41:28 GMT -5
Do all of us, on here, A.. live in the same house B.. Have the same office decorator C.. Just all appear to have sloppy housekeeping ethics
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Post by herron on Sept 26, 2006 11:25:55 GMT -5
Do all of us, on here, A.. live in the same house B.. Have the same office decorator C.. Just all appear to have sloppy housekeeping ethics A. Yes, apparently B. Yes C. Yes And no...I'm not inclined to show my work area...the barrister cases the other day were the neat part of the room, and I'm content to leave it at that! LOL!! ;D
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 26, 2006 14:57:31 GMT -5
Despite the somewhat unkempt appearance of our work/storage areas I'll wager any one of us could lay our hands on an urgently need item within 6-1/2 weeks of starting to search for it.
Mickey
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Post by herron on Sept 26, 2006 15:05:08 GMT -5
LOLOL! ;D Mickey: I'd never get to it if it took 6-1/12 weeks . . . I would have forgotten what I was looking for after about 17 minutes!
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Post by John Parry on Sept 26, 2006 16:37:01 GMT -5
Mickey
My desk at work is notoriously a bomb site. Every so often, one of my bosses asks me for a particular document. I can flick through the piles of random garbage and come up with the document required within two minutes.
But then there'll be an inspection by one of the 'heavies'. Everything gets disappeared, and for the first time in months the cleaners actually have to clean the desktop, As soon as that happens, the bosses know that relocating any document will take at least a day (and may not happen at all - I work on the principle that anything I haven't used for six months, I don't need. That equates to around 2.5 inches down, so on a clear-up I bin anything below the 2.5 inch level. "You made me do it"!)
At home I can never find anything!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Sept 26, 2006 17:41:00 GMT -5
I once had an editor with a unique foolproof daily filing system. First thing in the morning he went through the Times, then opened it and spread it on his desk over yesterday's paperwork. That day's paperwork went on top of the Times, and important stuff was dealt with and filed. This went on until the pile grew just too high, about a fortnight. If he wanted something, and knew approximately when it was received, he would go down through the 'sandwich' till he came to the right date! Always seemed to work.
Every fortnight he would ask his secretary to clear everything more than three days old and file any of it she thought might be wanted some time in the future. She'd been with him for years, and filed very little of it.
If someone asked him about something that had been published he would look at them over his glasses and say "Don't remember, Laddie. Go and look in the issue files and the cuttings files. If it's not there it isn't important".
PeterW
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Post by kamera on Sept 26, 2006 18:55:49 GMT -5
Well...I have made a decision on a rather lengthy consideration.
I WAS going to post some pics of my den where I have my work station, display cases and pics on the walls.
But...I am a neatnik, so they probably would not be appropriate amongst the majority here.
Ya know...even among the neatness of all...there are times I still cannot immediately remember where something I want is.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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