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Post by daveh on Sept 25, 2014 14:50:58 GMT -5
Taken X (that's the Roman numeral for 10, by the way) years ago, a still photo at 1.2mp taken on a Panasonic NV-GX7 with the built in flash.
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Post by daveh on Sept 25, 2014 1:17:15 GMT -5
I was racking my brains to recall the film I had seen with at least some filmed in Dufaycolor. I found it later - it was a Will Hay film, Radio Parade of 1935. The next thing I need to work out is why I had remembered it. Maybe some was shown as an example of the process on a BBC2 (or similar) programme.
In terms of which process holds sway, there is usually one factor that decides things. Sometimes it's technological superiority, sometimes it's cost, but there again sometimes it's just that one company has more "clout".
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Post by daveh on Sept 25, 2014 0:56:25 GMT -5
Years and years ago my uncle used to belong to the Southport Aero Club (or whatever it was called). I recall him piloting a De Havilland Moth. They used to take off and land on the beach. I don't think I've ever been to the Southport Airshow, not unless I went in the 1950s when I was young and it was much less of an affair. I have made it to Liverpool (I wonder where those photos have gone) and to the model aero show at Woodvale. One says models, but a 20+ foot wingspan Halifax bomber is really quite impressive.
p.s. on the subject of flight, the Canada Geese have been going over this morning in their droves. Noisy beggars, hopefully on their way back to Mickey soon.
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Post by daveh on Sept 25, 2014 0:39:40 GMT -5
Talking of shelter, U for Underneath the arches, Jameos Del Agua, Lanzarote, Canary Islnds, Spain. Created by volcanic activity these cave waters house a blind albino crab: the only place in the world this species live. This holiday was the try-out of my new Panasonic FX200. Had I taken my Canon DSLR and its accessories I'm sure I would have got better shots of the cave and the crabs. I think too, with a bit more time getting used to the FZ200 would have been beneficial. The pictures produced, even at ISO 100, is much noisier than the Canon but one can't argue with its big zoom range at a constant f2.8 in a camera weighing about a quarter of the Canon with (smaller range) zoom lens.
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Post by daveh on Sept 24, 2014 15:21:23 GMT -5
Funnily enough I was just thinking last night that I must get mine out of the loft and start using it. I bought it several years ago reasonably cheap when a shop was closing down. I tried it out when I first bought it but have never really used it in earnest. I've no idea how powerful my units are, but I suspect they are not up to the standard of yours.
Is the Godard anything to do with Jean-Luc Godard?
As regards the selfie, I thought "Django Reinhardt" on a bad hair day! Great stuff.
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Post by daveh on Sept 24, 2014 7:49:58 GMT -5
In a way yes, but in another way no. Rugby and Continental travel could be described as two of my hobbies.
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Post by daveh on Sept 24, 2014 0:51:30 GMT -5
30+ years ago we met a family in the South of France who were from South Africa. A year later we went abroad again and when we got home we found a note stuck to the front door: "We are camping in your back garden. We took you up on your offer of calling in if we were in England, but didn't think you might not be at home". (Or words to that effect.)
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Post by daveh on Sept 23, 2014 17:30:43 GMT -5
I did turn up at a Penzance rugby club supporters' meeting, after saying there would be no chance of me getting there. It was 375 miles by road each. They were there.......fortunately. Perhaps if I had told them I was coming they wouldn't have been.
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Post by daveh on Sept 23, 2014 12:26:33 GMT -5
It just goes to show there is nothing wrong with an iPhone as a camera (within its own limits). The trees are turning here too. Nice shot.
Edit - I've just seen that predictive text had turned nice shot into notice shot!
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Post by daveh on Sept 23, 2014 12:21:43 GMT -5
Phil, totally agree on the money slang. It is noticeable that much of the slang used was Cockney rhyming. Anything that forms a rhyme can be, and probably has been, used by those cheeky devils from the Smoke.
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Post by daveh on Sept 23, 2014 12:11:31 GMT -5
Just to add to Col's mention of Kate's Place (yes, I do spend time there most days), Wednesday mornings at 9.30 is the time when Albany Film Users Group (AFUG) meets for coffee and conversation. If you are an interested Albanian, drop in and join us. Come to that, if you are visiting Albany and have an interest in film photography/old cameras call in a Kate's and ask for the photographers. If ever I'm in Albany I shall do just that. The trouble is that it's a long way to go for a cup of coffee. Mind you, most Aussies are bonza, or bonzo if you prefer that spelling, so it would be well worth it. I can't make it tomorrow, though. How about next week? I wish I could get there.
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Post by daveh on Sept 21, 2014 14:05:45 GMT -5
This has to be an optimal setup, or, least, the setup has to be within certain fairly close limits. We have already said L-R is easier than R-L, so that is one aspect: cross-eyed is easier than wide-eyed for most people. Every other part of the equation will have a similar finding. For instance, it's no good having the images so far apart so they can't both be seen at the same time.
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Post by daveh on Sept 19, 2014 6:52:29 GMT -5
I appreciate that the pair can be set up L-R or R-L (if you want to designate them that way) and the former can be seen more easily with the naked eye as a 3D image. The wrong way round can be done, but it is more difficult. My own feeling is that much depends on image size , distance between the images and eye to image distance. There must be a formula somewhere to show the optimal set up.
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Post by daveh on Sept 19, 2014 4:45:31 GMT -5
Phil, you're spot on with flickr. It was never the best set up, but recent improvements have made it words, especially so as just about every time you visited there seemed to be another version. Another thing that caused a problem, to me anyway, was that what showed on screen was different on different computers. (Certainly at one stage that was true, I must recheck.)
I used to use the "one with the frog" (can't think of its name at present). Then they introduced a fee if you had more than a couple of hundred photos, so it seemed sensible to use flickr. When that started being really awkward I tired a few others and settled on Photobucket. As you say there are too many ads. Maybe I'll fotki a try.
The trouble is just when something seems to be just what is needed they improve it and it becomes less user friendly. Or , even worse, they start wanting to charge a fee. flickr pro is reasonably priced for its storage size. Any other site would have to be significantly better for me to change to it. And then if I did it would be changed and I would feel the need to go somewhere else.
Dave.
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Post by daveh on Sept 19, 2014 4:24:16 GMT -5
It's like those 3D books. Sometimes the photos will snap into 3D and sometimes they won't. I just been giving them another try. At the. Last attempt I almost had it on the building but I just couldn't get that final snap.
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