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Post by daveh on Nov 2, 2017 22:04:44 GMT -5
Just to show what the menu is like on the 'reply page' - don't use 'quick reply' as that has no menu attached, use 'reply' and the page should come up like this:
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Post by daveh on Nov 2, 2017 21:57:08 GMT -5
Paul, I'm running Widows 10 (not that I really like it) + Firefox + Adblock. The menu bar comes up and I'm just using this photo to check the photo button is working:
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Post by daveh on Jul 7, 2017 16:00:20 GMT -5
Imageshack did similar a few years ago. If I recall correctly the free account went from be able to store a lot, to only the last 200 being retained. At the moment Flickr still has big storage on free accounts, unless things have changed in the few weeks since I looked. However, Flickr and the others will probably follow suit given time.
As regards the on-board hosting, the thumbnail is visible to all but the full size picture is only accessible if logged in.
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Post by daveh on May 9, 2017 14:26:57 GMT -5
Oh well daveh, we'll just have to disagree on that one. Captain Eugene Andrew (Apollo 17) was the last man to walk on the moon and also one of the first? Disagree on it all you like, One of Captain Cook's crew would have been the twelfth person from Britain to have stepped ashore in Australia. Would you say that he would not be classed as one of the first? It's not the fact that the astronaut was the twelfth man to step on the moon which dictates the phrase but that no one, as yet has come after him. When, at some point in the future, many more do so it will be correct to say he was one of the first.
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Post by daveh on Apr 11, 2017 13:43:40 GMT -5
John, I don't know that being six years after the first necessarily disqualifies it as being "one of the first". If there have been just three or four others made with open aperture metering the claim is arguably still valid but if there has been a significant number then the claim is not valid. I have to say that I don't see many other sites making the same claim, and, in any case, "one of the first" is a long way from "the first" which is what your original post said. I see a certain irony in this.
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Post by daveh on Apr 10, 2017 14:31:54 GMT -5
Very true, Sid.
My grandfather came to Spain with us a year or two later. There was a German family with their pop who was about the same age as my grandfather. He had been in the German trenches close to where my grandfather had been. They struck up quite a friendship. How mad is war?
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Post by daveh on Apr 10, 2017 14:25:26 GMT -5
As regards the Topcon Uni, I presume someone, somewhere has referred to it as quoted above. What I seem to recall having seen is that it was billed as the first with auto-exposure open aperture metering. The Topcon RE is the camera usually credited with the first practicable open aperture metering.
Of course all facts are subject to scrutiny. Did Fleming discover penicillin? In one sense yes, but in another definitely not. In the Middle Ages moldy cheese would be strapped on an infected wound. I bet it, or similar, was done by others a long time before that.
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Post by daveh on Apr 5, 2017 16:11:52 GMT -5
My grandparents, Easter 1958, Ypres. My grandmother died 6 months later. My grandfather lived another 10 years in spite of looking ill in the photo. When I re-found the photo about twelve years ago I realised why he looked so gaunt on the photo: he had just been looking at the names of fellow soldiers he knew forty years earlier who did not survive the carnage. I don't know who took the photo, but I'm pretty sure it was on the Box Brownie, which I still have somewhere.
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Post by daveh on Apr 3, 2017 4:57:25 GMT -5
Nigel, welcome here. You are obviously far more into collecting than I. I'm also at the other end of the county - well it used to be Cheshire, Merseyside now.
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Post by daveh on Apr 3, 2017 4:46:44 GMT -5
Welcome, Jon. I missed your post earlier. I'm the other side of the Mersey, more Deeside than Merseyside - Irby. I'm not 40!
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Post by daveh on Mar 27, 2017 5:12:59 GMT -5
Barbarian, I enjoy your photos, and those from Mrs B too. I always find it strange that 'live' the eyes automatically compensate for converging verticals and odd angles in a way they can't when they are on a photograph. Like you, I try to get things to 'look right'.
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Post by daveh on Mar 25, 2017 18:25:53 GMT -5
I'm just back from holiday. News like this does put some perspective on things. Randy wasn't young but neither was he old by today's standards. While he occasionally spoke of his health problems, his passing still comes as a shock.
My condolences to his family.
RIP, Randy.
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Post by daveh on Mar 5, 2017 17:32:44 GMT -5
Welcome from sunny Wirral.
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Post by daveh on Mar 4, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5
We bought a small TV (10" or thereabouts) through eBay for the kitchen. The USB port doesn't work: it refuses to find any USB stick that I install. We contacted them, and the next thing was that there was a note from eBay themselves. We got a full refund but could keep the TV. It's from Poland. While Polish isn't as difficult to read as Chinese it is nearly so, so the instruction book is pretty useless.
Anyway, at least the company you are dealing with have tried to sort the problem out. I do have automatic extension tubes for the Pentax, but not a bellows. However I hardly ever use them. The 100mm macro lens which came as a kit with a ring-flash and an SFXn has a screw-in supplementary lens to bring it to 2:1 and I find that more convenient.
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Post by daveh on Mar 2, 2017 11:19:23 GMT -5
The ins and outs of buying a set of bellows, eh? Just use it very occasionally, or, in other words, never!
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