Tuesday, April 21, 2009

rec.photo.digital - 25 new messages in 8 topics - digest

rec.photo.digital
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Today's topics:

* what is full frame? No this is NOT a Troll - 6 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/1d4bed118a3e3f05?hl=en
* Genuine Fractals - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/48484611a04ef3f9?hl=en
* Color matching with Nikon D80 & D90 - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/26f93a0b3e4b7bbd?hl=en
* Why DSLR mirrors must eventually go - 10 messages, 5 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/68febc4ea5622551?hl=en
* New Mandate: Punography - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/e22297df98c46fc4?hl=en
* New foto of my small model ship. - 3 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/7497445075c878e7?hl=en
* Automatic Synchronization - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/57b2d58f43b64865?hl=en
* Endless stream of "me too" P&S crap released - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/7437e6aec8662b70?hl=en

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TOPIC: what is full frame? No this is NOT a Troll
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/1d4bed118a3e3f05?hl=en
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== 1 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:01 am
From: Chris H


In message <755nqnF16sq7iU6@mid.individual.net>, Chris Malcolm
<cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> writes
>Jurgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Deep Reset" <DeepReset@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>"Jurgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>>>Especially when all the lenses for the film
>>>>>cameras will work on the digital ones but not the other way around?
>>>>
>>>> Huuuu? What gave you that idea? First of all there are no special
>>>> "digital lenses".

There are lenses designed to be use specifically with digital cameras.

>>>> All of them are purely analog in the first place, so
>>>> the term 'digital' is a non-starter. And although apparently some
>>>> manufacturers have optimized some lenses for digital photography like
>>>> special rear coating to reduce back reflection or more perpendicular
>>>> illumination of the sensor, there is nothing in there stopping you from
>>>> using those lenses on a traditional film camera.
>>>
>>>Apart from the dark bits around the edge of the frame?
>>>Have you actually tried putting an APS-C lens on a 35mm camera?
>
>> As you said yourself, that would be an DX lens or APS-C lens or whatever
>> you want to call it. And as you pointed out yourself it has to do with
>> the size of the image cirlce but nothing, absolutely nothing, with
>> digital versus film.

I was hoping that this thread would not descend into this sort of
stupidity

>It's also really annoying that we specify lens focal lengths in terms
>derived from Napoleon's mistaken estimate of the distance from the
>North pole to Paris. I think what Chris H has stumbled upon is one of
>the really annoying things about language :-)

I think so. Language and marketing. There is no real need to relate the
digital sensor size to that of one of the many film sizes.

I am quite happy with my DX format digital camera. I can see for various
technical reasons why a larger sensor would be advantageous than the
digital "full fame" APS-C sensor :-) but why call it after an obsolete
size from a different technology (probably should not have said
"obsolete" :-)

As I said Nikon have DX and FX digital. Formats. Give it a few more
years and apart from a very few still using 35mm cameras (who will not
accept "full frame" when applied to digital anyway) I think we will
loose the "full frame" when applied to Digital cameras.

You will have DX, FX and MX (?) when the need a size larger than the FX
arrives. In 15-20 years time the vast majority will assume it was just
an alphabetic progression. Nothing to do with film frame sizes.

As now we have "everyone" with P&S I suspect virtually all the
population who don't have a film camera or DSLR will have little or no
idea about wet film any more. My kid's in their 20's certainly don't
(OK I know there is some one out there with a 10-20 year old who still
develops all their own film at home)

So I think it is time to loose this ridiculous idea of "full frame" for
Digital cameras. They are DX and FX (or whatever the Canon, Olympus,
Sony etc equivalent is) The APS-C format is effectively "full Frame"
for Digital cameras.


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== 2 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:46 am
From: "whisky-dave"

"Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
news:gYyOwpJz7I7JFAS9@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
> Hopefully this will not degenerate... (some hope :-)
>
> What is "full frame"?

36X24mm .

> Think about it. There are many formats of film size from 8*10 field
> cameras down to 110 film.
Yep, and they have sizes too.
Originally my father used to process glass negs whole plate, half plate
etc...
where a plate wasn't defined by the size of your meal, but by the glass
negative area
that the image occupied.

>Probably more if you include special purpose
> film for X-rays, spies, other medical, instrumentation etc.
I guess they had their sizes too.

> There are also several formats of digital sensor size.
>
> All these are their own frame size. The are all "full frame" within
> their own design parameters.

But not full frame for the pghotgraphic market which I think was pretty
established
as a full frame being 36X24mm, olympus did a half frame camera which meant
you could shoot 72 frames on a 36 exp. roll of film.


> So why would you want a Digital frame size to be the same as a
> particular film size?
because if yuor photo is going to be full frame it'd be nice if the sensor
occupied
the full image area.

> Especially when all the lenses for the film
> cameras will work on the digital ones but not the other way around?
Why would this be relivetn I';m sure you could get super 8 lens working too
if you could be bother or other projection lenses.

>
> As far as I can see this "full frame" for DSL's is just a marketing
> gimmick feeding people's egos. The digital "frame" I have in my DSLR is
> "full frame" in its own system.

It was a comparision, but the fiorst sensors coulded really be made
ecomonical
if they were to measure 24X36mm.

> However instinctively I feel there probably is an argument on technical
> grounds for the frame 25MPG and up DSLR's who are chasing the medium
> format market to use a larger sensor.

SLRs were in the past trying to capture the medium format market from the
TLRs
and the quarter/half plate pro markets.
Why do you think phiotgraphers had whole plate cameras when they could have
used
TLRs then SLRs then compacts the P&S then 110 then those horide disc
cameras.
It was a drive my manufactures to sell more of their cameras.


> But does it need to be the same
> as the old 35mm film size?
No, but good for comparison.
Does a loaf of bread have to be about a foot long ?
Why not re-define the loaf of bread as 1 inch long.
what difference does it make, none, all you'd do is buy say 144 loaves of
bread
where previously you'd had brought 1 loaf.

>On that score the Medium format cameras do
> have digital backs.

But what size is medium format, meduim as in the ability to contact they
dead ;-)

I remmebr in teh early 70s I question what the term a standard lens meant.
The typicall focal lenths of standard lens were 50mm, 55mm and some 58mm.
So what was standard about them, I was told because they approximated
the field of view of the human eye.

> Do digital sensors have to be related to the old film sizes? If so why?

Well no, they don;t but we've seen the problems even today the lens focal
length
is given the equavalnet in 35mm (full frame size) which wouldn;t have been
necessary
if they'd started making DSLRs full frame in the first place, but I'm
guessing it was
the cost that they were made smaller.


== 3 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:01 am
From: "whisky-dave"

"Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
news:CZdWAOLPwJ7JFAn8@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...

>
> SO you have a Digital sensor frame size. It does not need to be
> connected to the 35mm film size.

I guess it doesn't but I'd like a pint of milk to be the same
quantity as a pint of beer. It's doesn;t have to be, I could go in a pub and
order a
pint of beer that is only 2/3rds a pint iof milk it doesn;t matter,
I'll just order 33% more pints[1]

Would it matter if your 4 seated car could only seat 3 people ?
The 4 seater could refer to 3 people and a cat, after all I never said
seating space for 4 people I said 4 seats. :-)

We also know how a 'shot' of whisky can be different depending on which
country
yuo are in, but it's nice to have standard points of reference.


[1] probably pay 50% for the privilege ;-)


== 4 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:54 am
From: Don Stauffer


GregS wrote:

>
> This is what the old lens system uses, and all the new DSLR's,
> else your wide angle goes to hell. Large sensors are better
> today.
>
> greg

In the past, too. It is hard to beat sensor real estate. Bigger is
better, all else being equal- except when there are important size or
weight constraints in camera.


== 5 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:55 am
From: C J Campbell


On 2009-04-20 08:04:19 -0700, Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> said:

>
> Do digital sensors have to be related to the old film sizes? If so why?

Only if you want to use the same lenses the same way as you did before.
Since 35 mm film was so popular, the vast majority of photographers
were used to working with the field of view, perspective and depth of
field they got with lenses on 35 mm film. Even expressing lenses in
terms of "35 mm equivalent" on sensors of other sizes does not produce
the same results.

Otherwise, larger sensors tend to give you more resolution and less
noise. In film, larger formats just gave you more resolution and noise
stayed the same. That is all the difference there is.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

== 6 of 6 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:50 am
From: "J. Clarke"


whisky-dave wrote:
> "Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
> news:CZdWAOLPwJ7JFAn8@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
>
>>
>> SO you have a Digital sensor frame size. It does not need to be
>> connected to the 35mm film size.
>
> I guess it doesn't but I'd like a pint of milk to be the same
> quantity as a pint of beer. It's doesn;t have to be, I could go in a
> pub and order a
> pint of beer that is only 2/3rds a pint iof milk it doesn;t matter,
> I'll just order 33% more pints[1]
>
> Would it matter if your 4 seated car could only seat 3 people ?
> The 4 seater could refer to 3 people and a cat, after all I never said
> seating space for 4 people I said 4 seats. :-)

You've ridden in the back of a Jaguar XK-E 2+2 have you? Although three
people and a cat would be stretching it--two people and two cats perhaps, if
the cats were very good friends . . .

> We also know how a 'shot' of whisky can be different depending on
> which country
> yuo are in, but it's nice to have standard points of reference.
>
>
>
>
> [1] probably pay 50% for the privilege ;-)


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TOPIC: Genuine Fractals
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/48484611a04ef3f9?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:06 am
From: "David Ruether"

"van dark" <van.dark@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:gsk04v$1e53$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...

>I should like to instal and use a Genuine Fractals on my PC. Is Genuine Fractals able to run in Windows 2000 and Photoshop 7.0?
> Thanx for reply

Yes, it will run with Win 2000 (but I don't know about
PS-7, but with PS-7 you may not need it...;-) - and I
have a copy to sell, if interested...
--DR

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TOPIC: Color matching with Nikon D80 & D90
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/26f93a0b3e4b7bbd?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:07 am
From: eNo


As documented at my Website, http://esfotoclix.com, under the "Color
Matching" link (toward the bottom of the page), I am struggling wtih
how best to color-match the D80 to the D90 in terms of color
rendition.

1) The D80 seems punchier, but less realistic than the D90.

2) The D90 seems more prone to yellowing of colors, especially in
daylight, so I'm thinking my next step should be to offset with WB.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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TOPIC: Why DSLR mirrors must eventually go
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/68febc4ea5622551?hl=en
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== 1 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:31 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"Chris Malcolm" <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:755nf6F16sq7iU5@mid.individual.net...
>
> I see you have a brightly lit home :-)
>
Yes, now light has come :-)

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com


== 2 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:32 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
news:Ov6dneDHX8duOXDUnZ2dnUVZ8r9i4p2d@posted.plusnet...
> Hans Kruse wrote:
>> You can find a comprehensive study here
>> http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/infos/TheSharpestImage/TheSharpestImage-info.html.
>
> Actually, I found a link to a paid for study, not a study.
>
Correct, it is not for free, but really worth the nomial cost.

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com


== 3 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:38 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2457c9bd9eafea7a98bfb3@news.supernews.com...
> In article <49ed7e81$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Hans Kruse says
> ...
>
>> This issue has been known for a long time. MLU is available for that
>> reason.
>
> According to the article:
>
> "it was confirmed that the vibration generated by releasing the shutter
> remains even when a picture is taken after a certain period of time from
> the mirror lockup to prevent a mirror shock"

The shutter release vibrations has nothing to do with getting rid of the
mirror, does it?
That was the whole point of OP as I understood it. On my dslr's (Canon 5D
and 1Ds mk3) I never saw any lack of resolution from slutter release
vibrations as far as I could tell. According to Michael Reichmann from
Luminous Landscape http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/mf-easy.shtml,
shutter relase vibrations is an issue on certain MF cameras. The higher the
resolution goes the larger these issues are.

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com

== 4 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:14 am
From: "Mr. Strat"


In article
<e0776096-45e4-45bf-8f09-c6cc62dd9bf9@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
RichA <rander3127@gmail.com> wrote:

> With film, and its low resolution (most of it) this was allowable.
> But with 15+ megapixel DSLRs, it is a problem.

Glad to see you're still an imbecile.

When I got my Pentax Spotmatic back in 1969, an instant-return mirror
was a big deal.

The movement in today's DSLRs is almost imperceptible. Going to a
little TV viewer isn't going to change the crappy pictures that most
amateurs produce anyway.


== 5 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:32 am
From: bugbear


Hans Kruse wrote:
> "bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
> news:Ov6dneDHX8duOXDUnZ2dnUVZ8r9i4p2d@posted.plusnet...
>> Hans Kruse wrote:
>>> You can find a comprehensive study here
>>> http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/infos/TheSharpestImage/TheSharpestImage-info.html.
>> Actually, I found a link to a paid for study, not a study.
>>
> Correct, it is not for free, but really worth the nomial cost.

Nominal? 30 bucks?

Many I just have a too low discretionary income.

Here's some free information on the subject (more on focus than mirror slap)

http://www.findatlantis.com/wiki/index.php/Keeping_it_Sharp

BugBear

== 6 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:58 am
From: Don Stauffer


whinee wrote:
> The EVF is the future, whether you want it or not.
> It is cheaper to manufacture electronic viewing systems than traditional
> mechanical/optical hybrids.
> Cost and not technical issues will dictate future camera design.
> The coming generations of photographers will move up to SLRs from EVF
> P&S cameras and will have no idea what they are missing by not looking
> directly through the lens and seeing the exact same light that the image
> capture device will see.

Not for me. Not until the EVF has as many pixels as the main sensor!

I do a lot of macro work. I don't use AF. In macro work I need to
focus on a particular part of the object or a selected plane of the object.

The AF computers do not yet know enough about macro photography to use
in that situation.

I find even when not doing macro, I find I prefer manual focus. I can
focus where I want to, not where there are edges or features the AF can use.


== 7 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:00 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
news:T-mdnQJ9npuaVnDUnZ2dnUVZ8sGdnZ2d@posted.plusnet...
>
> Nominal? 30 bucks?
>
> Many I just have a too low discretionary income.
>
> Here's some free information on the subject (more on focus than mirror
> slap)
>
> http://www.findatlantis.com/wiki/index.php/Keeping_it_Sharp
>
Well, for 30$ you get access to DAP reviews this guy has done and it is
quite a lot and it is very throrough. If you like to look at free stuff
only, there is a lot of it, but some of the valuable stuff you only get
access to paying for it.

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com


== 8 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:01 am
From: bugbear


Hans Kruse wrote:
> "bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
> news:T-mdnQJ9npuaVnDUnZ2dnUVZ8sGdnZ2d@posted.plusnet...
>> Nominal? 30 bucks?
>>
>> Many I just have a too low discretionary income.
>>
>> Here's some free information on the subject (more on focus than mirror
>> slap)
>>
>> http://www.findatlantis.com/wiki/index.php/Keeping_it_Sharp
>>
> Well, for 30$ you get access to DAP reviews this guy has done and it is
> quite a lot and it is very throrough. If you like to look at free stuff
> only, there is a lot of it, but some of the valuable stuff you only get
> access to paying for it.
>

Agreed. I buy books quite often - it was the use of "nominal"
w.r.t. 30 bucks that surprised me.

BugBear


== 9 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:14 am
From: nospam


In article <01fda57a$0$25471$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Wilba
<usenet@CUTTHISimago.com.au> wrote:

> Leaving aside the ergonomics of manual focus, would it be practical to focus
> by moving the sensor, thus doing away with focus within the lens?

contax did that.


== 10 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:20 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
news:Yf2dndQ_NuZeTHDUnZ2dnUVZ8vqdnZ2d@posted.plusnet...
>
> Agreed. I buy books quite often - it was the use of "nominal"
> w.r.t. 30 bucks that surprised me.
>
Yes, I know, nominal might not be the best word to describe, but I feel that
30 bucks is ok for a year subscription to the DAP articles plus access to
all existing material. He is doing stuff that I haven't seen anywhere else.

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com

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TOPIC: New Mandate: Punography
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/e22297df98c46fc4?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:36 am
From: John McWilliams


Paul Furman wrote:
> Frank ess wrote:
>
>> Humor is my second-favorite thing, and I'd purely admire if someone
>> could open up that new vista for me.

Gee, I wonder what that first thing might be?

> Puns are inherently bad humor though <g>. Verbal slapstick.

Well, there was this punster who was sure he was good at it. So he
entered a contest for the best short pun, and in fact submitted ten
entries. Did many of them prove to be winners??

No pun intended.

--
john mcwilliams

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TOPIC: New foto of my small model ship.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/7497445075c878e7?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 6:53 am
From: Alexander Blokhin


http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/uss-malone-pc-553.html

Please see!


== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:04 am
From: bugbear


Alexander Blokhin wrote:
> http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/uss-malone-pc-553.html
>
> Please see!

The models look pretty good, although it's hard to tell
from such poor photographs.

BugBear


== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:27 am
From: bugbear


bugbear wrote:
> Alexander Blokhin wrote:
>> http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/uss-malone-pc-553.html
>>
>> Please see!
>
> The models look pretty good, although it's hard to tell
> from such poor photographs.

Try these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdphotos/sets/72157615849683870/
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/burgerbahn/steam.html

BugBear

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TOPIC: Automatic Synchronization
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/57b2d58f43b64865?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:00 am
From: Don Stauffer


Clo-Clo wrote:
> Any simple way to synchronize 2 or more (preferably identical) digital
> cameras?
>
> Synchronization of the order of 0,1 sec. or better?
>
> The cameras can be cheap and simple (point'n'shoot) or more advanced (DSLR).
>
> I will consider as I said the simplest solution.
>
> Thanks.
>
>


Search on digital stereo photography. The stereo enthusiasts are
working on that problem, and have found certain cameras whose accessory
remote inputs allow very good sync.


== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:17 am
From: Allodoxaphobia


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:08:04 +1000, Jeff R. wrote:
> Clo-Clo wrote:
>> "Jeff R." <contact.me@this.ng> wrote
>
>> Have you rigged together an equally ingenious stereoscope?
>
> Yes, for parallel pairs (which my sample above is not), but I usually
> distribute my pix via the web, cross-eyed free-viewing is far superior.
> Easier for me, at my age, too.

The better technique is to view them wall-eyed, IMO. Maybe that's why
yours did not look 'dramatic' enough -- they were switched
left-to-right? Or, maybe it was the artifacts introduced by sharpening
and compression -- which would be different in each and which would be
more apparent in stereo viewing.

Hint: Viewing them in Firefox with it's image resizing as you resize
the window helps get the centers of the pictures closer to a reasonable
range that can be accommodated by your IPD.

I first learned how to do unaided stereo viewing when I worked one
Summer as a go-fer for a surveyor in the 'bad lands' of western
Colorado's oil shale country (circa 1966). He would lay out two
USGS aerial photographs on the hood of the truck and go wall-eyed to see
the terrain features. It's Way Less head-achy for me than cross-eyed.

Jonesy
--
Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux
38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2
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TOPIC: Endless stream of "me too" P&S crap released
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/7437e6aec8662b70?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 7:15 am
From: "Fred"


> "Rich" <nobrain@nowhere.com> woffled in message
> news:RfWdnbIkx91KKnfUnZ2dnUVZ_j9i4p2d@giganews.com...
>
>
Do not feed the troll.


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SLCAdobeUG Reminder - Meeting TOMORROW Wednesday April 22nd at 6:30

Hi Everyone,

Just a final reminder that we will be meeting tomorrow.

Karl Petty will be giving us a presentation on some cool Photoshop
and
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rec.photo.digital - 26 new messages in 7 topics - digest

rec.photo.digital
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital?hl=en

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Today's topics:

* what is full frame? No this is NOT a Troll - 8 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/1d4bed118a3e3f05?hl=en
* Why DSLR mirrors must eventually go - 10 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/68febc4ea5622551?hl=en
* Automatic Synchronization - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/57b2d58f43b64865?hl=en
* Genuine Fractals - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/48484611a04ef3f9?hl=en
* D90 with grip faster with AA batteries? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/0cf4d98bd234f06e?hl=en
* New Mandate: Punography - 4 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/e22297df98c46fc4?hl=en
* I hate environmentalists - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/32b4ab5866516ef6?hl=en

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TOPIC: what is full frame? No this is NOT a Troll
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/1d4bed118a3e3f05?hl=en
==============================================================================

== 1 of 8 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 11:51 pm
From: "Jack Torrence"


"Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message news:CZdWAOLPwJ7JFAn8@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
> In message <200420090843000310%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam
>
> Fair enough but it does not answer my question. The "full frame"
> referred to 35mm FILM cameras. Digital is completely different other
> than the similarity in size and external appearance to 35mm cameras and
> the fact that most can sue the lenses originally for 35mm film cameras
>
> SO you have a Digital sensor frame size. It does not need to be
> connected to the 35mm film size.

No. but at the current time it is. So live with it!


== 2 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 12:39 am
From: Jürgen Exner


"Deep Reset" <DeepReset@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>Especially when all the lenses for the film
>>>cameras will work on the digital ones but not the other way around?
>>
>> Huuuu? What gave you that idea? First of all there are no special
>> "digital lenses". All of them are purely analog in the first place, so
>> the term 'digital' is a non-starter. And although apparently some
>> manufacturers have optimized some lenses for digital photography like
>> special rear coating to reduce back reflection or more perpendicular
>> illumination of the sensor, there is nothing in there stopping you from
>> using those lenses on a traditional film camera.
>
>Apart from the dark bits around the edge of the frame?
>Have you actually tried putting an APS-C lens on a 35mm camera?

As you said yourself, that would be an DX lens or APS-C lens or whatever
you want to call it. And as you pointed out yourself it has to do with
the size of the image cirlce but nothing, absolutely nothing, with
digital versus film.

jue


== 3 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:07 am
From: Chris H


In message <gsiu18$l4q$1@news.motzarella.org>, Charles
<charlesschuler@comcast.net> writes
>
>"Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
>news:gYyOwpJz7I7JFAS9@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
>> Hopefully this will not degenerate... (some hope :-)
>>
>> What is "full frame"?
>
>An "old" standard based on 35mm film, which is fading toward extinction (the
>film itself is, but not the size).

Now THAT will start the usual trolling as to whether 35mm fill cameras
are dead, live or expanding greatly because film sales have doubled from
2 to 4 rolls a week globally :-)))

> There are lots of lenses out there that
>were designed for 35mm, so the standard and the term "full frame" will
>outlive it roots.
>
>Railroad track spacing can be traced back to Roman times. It's the way
>technology progresses.

Hence it's effect on the size of the space shuttle boosters. I agree,
the term "full frame" is now marketing and does not really have any
relevance as it did. I suppose "full frame" is as good as DX+ or DX2 as
a name as much as "home made" (in our factory :-) or "original" etc

--
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== 4 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:25 am
From: Chris H


In message <4qupu4thkc36lispqe615t5saee2ql986u@4ax.com>, Robert Coe
<bob@1776.COM> writes
>So as a practical matter, I think the debate now is indeed about terminology
>only, and "full frame" means whatever the term's users say it does. I think we
>should graciously accept Chris's assertion that his original post wasn't a
>troll. But the next time somebody brings the issue up in that form, it
>probably will be.

Thanks. It was thinking about it and came to the conclusion that as the
only connection between a DSLR and a 35mm SLR was the size and external
appearance or both. As noted elsewhere therer are P&S and phone cameras
for which iti is all irrelevant (MP is king :-) So the "full frame" for
a DSLR is independent for a "full frame" for a film camera.

As you say I think it comes down to marketing and the psychological link
between 35mm Cameras and the "35mm" DSLRs as opposed to the "Medium
Format" digital cameras.

I suppose "full frame" is as good as any other name. To be fair Nikon
do refer to it as FX I think over time it probably will be DX and FX
when Nik-anon pull out the next generation of sensors that are bigger...
so MX and "medium-Format"?

IT will be interesting to have physically similar with different sensors
going DX, Full frame, Medium format , the medium coming after the "full
frame" . Perhaps by that time there will be so few who remember the film
cameras that it will just be DX, FX and MX.

Then people will assume the size is just based on an alphabetical
progression.

Personally I am happy with my DX DSLRs and DX lenses with a 12Mp sensor
I can see not reason to go "full frame" The pictures I can produce are
as good as anything I could do with other "miniature" cameras as a
professional studio photographer I know used to know refer to 35mm
cameras.

I can see that the 25MP FX cameras are taking on the lower end Medium
format cameras for studio work. But here the nomenclature blurs as you
are using "full frame" (FX) DSLRs in a space where there are "medium"
format cameras (both Digital and film.) As I said above I think
eventually the next sensor size will be MX and go against the "Medium"
format cameras.

So what size do people call the digital backs for Medium format cameras
now?


BTW I am please to see that thus far it has (almost) been a sensible
discussion without it getting too silly.
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== 5 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:34 am
From: bugbear


David J. Littleboy wrote:
> "Chris H" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>> What with Dxo (RAW processor) and Photoshop it seems irrelevant with
>> most of the pro-sumer and better DSLRs that the DX frame size is not the
>> same as the 35mm frame size.
>
> It is quite relevant if you care about producing medium format quality
> prints.
>
> There is a difference in image quality that is significant for the people
> who need it or want it. For 12x18" and larger prints, 21MP in FF is real
> nice. If you don't need the print size, you can use a smaller format.
>
>> The need for "full frame" DSLR's seemed to come down to the egos of the
>> pedants arguing.
>
> No, it's the image quality, stupid.

I think it's backwards compatibility with 35mm (film) lenses.

If it was (all) about image quality, we'd have bigger
sensors than so-called-full-frame.

BugBear


== 6 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 3:44 am
From: Derge


On Apr 21, 3:34 am, bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
>
> I think it's backwards compatibility with 35mm (film) lenses.
>
> If it was (all) about image quality, we'd have bigger
> sensors than so-called-full-frame.
>
>    BugBear

Well we do, of course, but they're *really* expensive. Cost is the
other part of the equation.

== 7 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:09 am
From: Chris Malcolm


Jurgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Deep Reset" <DeepReset@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>"Jurgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>>Especially when all the lenses for the film
>>>>cameras will work on the digital ones but not the other way around?
>>>
>>> Huuuu? What gave you that idea? First of all there are no special
>>> "digital lenses". All of them are purely analog in the first place, so
>>> the term 'digital' is a non-starter. And although apparently some
>>> manufacturers have optimized some lenses for digital photography like
>>> special rear coating to reduce back reflection or more perpendicular
>>> illumination of the sensor, there is nothing in there stopping you from
>>> using those lenses on a traditional film camera.
>>
>>Apart from the dark bits around the edge of the frame?
>>Have you actually tried putting an APS-C lens on a 35mm camera?

> As you said yourself, that would be an DX lens or APS-C lens or whatever
> you want to call it. And as you pointed out yourself it has to do with
> the size of the image cirlce but nothing, absolutely nothing, with
> digital versus film.

It's also really annoying that we specify lens focal lengths in terms
derived from Napoleon's mistaken estimate of the distance from the
North pole to Paris. I think what Chris H has stumbled upon is one of
the really annoying things about language :-)

--
Chris Malcolm

== 8 of 8 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 5:01 am
From: Chris H


In message <755nqnF16sq7iU6@mid.individual.net>, Chris Malcolm
<cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> writes
>Jurgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Deep Reset" <DeepReset@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>"Jurgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>>>>>Especially when all the lenses for the film
>>>>>cameras will work on the digital ones but not the other way around?
>>>>
>>>> Huuuu? What gave you that idea? First of all there are no special
>>>> "digital lenses".

There are lenses designed to be use specifically with digital cameras.

>>>> All of them are purely analog in the first place, so
>>>> the term 'digital' is a non-starter. And although apparently some
>>>> manufacturers have optimized some lenses for digital photography like
>>>> special rear coating to reduce back reflection or more perpendicular
>>>> illumination of the sensor, there is nothing in there stopping you from
>>>> using those lenses on a traditional film camera.
>>>
>>>Apart from the dark bits around the edge of the frame?
>>>Have you actually tried putting an APS-C lens on a 35mm camera?
>
>> As you said yourself, that would be an DX lens or APS-C lens or whatever
>> you want to call it. And as you pointed out yourself it has to do with
>> the size of the image cirlce but nothing, absolutely nothing, with
>> digital versus film.

I was hoping that this thread would not descend into this sort of
stupidity

>It's also really annoying that we specify lens focal lengths in terms
>derived from Napoleon's mistaken estimate of the distance from the
>North pole to Paris. I think what Chris H has stumbled upon is one of
>the really annoying things about language :-)

I think so. Language and marketing. There is no real need to relate the
digital sensor size to that of one of the many film sizes.

I am quite happy with my DX format digital camera. I can see for various
technical reasons why a larger sensor would be advantageous than the
digital "full fame" APS-C sensor :-) but why call it after an obsolete
size from a different technology (probably should not have said
"obsolete" :-)

As I said Nikon have DX and FX digital. Formats. Give it a few more
years and apart from a very few still using 35mm cameras (who will not
accept "full frame" when applied to digital anyway) I think we will
loose the "full frame" when applied to Digital cameras.

You will have DX, FX and MX (?) when the need a size larger than the FX
arrives. In 15-20 years time the vast majority will assume it was just
an alphabetic progression. Nothing to do with film frame sizes.

As now we have "everyone" with P&S I suspect virtually all the
population who don't have a film camera or DSLR will have little or no
idea about wet film any more. My kid's in their 20's certainly don't
(OK I know there is some one out there with a 10-20 year old who still
develops all their own film at home)

So I think it is time to loose this ridiculous idea of "full frame" for
Digital cameras. They are DX and FX (or whatever the Canon, Olympus,
Sony etc equivalent is) The APS-C format is effectively "full Frame"
for Digital cameras.


--
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TOPIC: Why DSLR mirrors must eventually go
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/68febc4ea5622551?hl=en
==============================================================================

== 1 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:06 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"RichA" <rander3127@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e0776096-45e4-45bf-8f09-c6cc62dd9bf9@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> With film, and its low resolution (most of it) this was allowable.
> But with 15+ megapixel DSLRs, it is a problem.
>
> http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33903

This issue has been known for a long time. MLU is available for that reason.
The issue with light tripods and longer vibrations than what might be
expected is also known. You can find a comprehensive study here
http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/infos/TheSharpestImage/TheSharpestImage-info.html.
On modern DSLR's where you have live view you can also easily study the
phenomena yourself by turning on live view on a tripod and zoom in e.g. 10x
and see the vibrations. You will also see for nature photography how even a
light breeze of the wind will make movements. Live view is a great tool to
use to make sure that you get the sharpest image on a tripod. I use it all
the time instead of MLU.

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com


== 2 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:36 am
From: bugbear


Hans Kruse wrote:
> "RichA" <rander3127@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e0776096-45e4-45bf-8f09-c6cc62dd9bf9@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
>> With film, and its low resolution (most of it) this was allowable.
>> But with 15+ megapixel DSLRs, it is a problem.
>>
>> http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33903
>
> This issue has been known for a long time. MLU is available for that reason.
> The issue with light tripods and longer vibrations than what might be
> expected is also known. You can find a comprehensive study here
> http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/infos/TheSharpestImage/TheSharpestImage-info.html.
> On modern DSLR's where you have live view you can also easily study the
> phenomena yourself by turning on live view on a tripod and zoom in e.g. 10x
> and see the vibrations. You will also see for nature photography how even a
> light breeze of the wind will make movements. Live view is a great tool to
> use to make sure that you get the sharpest image on a tripod. I use it all
> the time instead of MLU.
>

Don't forget gain-up viewing in poor light.

BugBear


== 3 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 2:49 am
From: Chris Malcolm


In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> Bob Larter wrote:
>> RichA wrote:
>>> With film, and its low resolution (most of it) this was allowable.
>>> But with 15+ megapixel DSLRs, it is a problem.
>>>
>>> http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33903
>>
>> As usual, you're an idiot, Rich. Mirror bounce is no more or less of an
>> issue than it's ever been.

> I'd even maintain it's less an issue, as better materials for the mirror
> and dampening pads have become available.

> No one has given any current data on meaningful effects of mirror slap
> over the last three or so years.

I notice mirror slap blurring on a fairly heavy tripod with column
extended at 500mm on a 14MP 1.5 crop sensor at shutter speeds of less
then about 1/250th sec. It's a slight vertical smear which higher
shutter speeds remove (Benbo tripod, Sony A350, Sony 500mm f8 reflex
lens). I've yet to discover whether such common sense options as fully
collapsing the column to increase tripod stiffness, not using a quick
release plate, adding some more mass or support to the lens, etc.,
will lower the speed at which it obtrudes.

Considering that the camera hasn't got MLU (or a shutter delay which
raises mirror a few secs before shot) this is an annoying discovery!

--
Chris Malcolm

== 4 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 3:10 am
From: "Hans Kruse"

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
news:7Y2dnbhyO4YAGHDUnZ2dnUVZ8gli4p2d@posted.plusnet...
>>
>
> Don't forget gain-up viewing in poor light.
>
In poor light go home ;-)

--
Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards,
Hans Kruse www.hanskrusephotography.com, www.hanskruse.com


== 5 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 3:50 am
From: bugbear


Hans Kruse wrote:
> You can find a comprehensive study here
> http://diglloyd.com/diglloyd/infos/TheSharpestImage/TheSharpestImage-info.html.

Actually, I found a link to a paid for study, not a study.

BugBear


== 6 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:03 am
From: Chris Malcolm


In rec.photo.digital Hans Kruse <hans.kruse@mail.tele.dk> wrote:

> "bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
> news:7Y2dnbhyO4YAGHDUnZ2dnUVZ8gli4p2d@posted.plusnet...
>>>
>>
>> Don't forget gain-up viewing in poor light.

> In poor light go home ;-)

I see you have a brightly lit home :-)

--
Chris Malcolm

== 7 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:17 am
From: Alfred Molon


In article <49ed7e81$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Hans Kruse says
...

> This issue has been known for a long time. MLU is available for that reason.

According to the article:

"it was confirmed that the vibration generated by releasing the shutter
remains even when a picture is taken after a certain period of time from
the mirror lockup to prevent a mirror shock"
--

Alfred Molon
------------------------------
Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site


== 8 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:19 am
From: Alfred Molon


In article <e0776096-45e4-45bf-8f09-c6cc62dd9bf9
@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, RichA says ...
> With film, and its low resolution (most of it) this was allowable.
> But with 15+ megapixel DSLRs, it is a problem.
>
> http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33903

Mirrorless cameras are the future. It's not just the mirror vibration.
Getting rid of that mirror allows you to place the lens much closer to
the sensor which is beneficial for the image quality.
--

Alfred Molon
------------------------------
Olympus 50X0, 8080, E3X0, E4X0, E5X0, E620 and E3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site


== 9 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:24 am
From: Bruce


"whinee" <fac_187@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>The EVF is the future, whether you want it or not.
>It is cheaper to manufacture electronic viewing systems than traditional
>mechanical/optical hybrids.


If it's cheaper, it must be better, eh?

Complete nonsense!

== 10 of 10 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:44 am
From: "Wilba"


Alfred Molon wrote:
>
> Mirrorless cameras are the future. It's not just the mirror vibration.
> Getting rid of that mirror allows you to place the lens much closer to
> the sensor which is beneficial for the image quality.

Leaving aside the ergonomics of manual focus, would it be practical to focus
by moving the sensor, thus doing away with focus within the lens?

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TOPIC: Automatic Synchronization
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/57b2d58f43b64865?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:29 am
From: Bigguy


Clo-Clo wrote:
> Any simple way to synchronize 2 or more (preferably identical) digital
> cameras?
>
> Synchronization of the order of 0,1 sec. or better?
>
> The cameras can be cheap and simple (point'n'shoot) or more advanced (DSLR).
>
> I will consider as I said the simplest solution.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
With DSLRs it is fairly simple; use two wired remotes and bodge the fire
buttons onto a relay or opto to get them to fire simultaneously. Or just
press both buttons at once. Or fire both with a single IR remote.

P+S cameras generally (?) don't have wired remotes and rarely any (IR)
remote at all. You can 'modify' the fire button - wiring directly into
the contacts on the switch.
I have seen kite photograhy rigs where the fire button is pressed using
a solenoid/actuator.

With P+S cameras there is also the autofocus/shutter lag problem; they
may not both respond at the same time. Are there any P+S models where
you can use pre/manual focus?

Maybe a simple pair of P+S cameras with an IR remote would sync
reasonably well - It's worth a try...

Guy

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TOPIC: Genuine Fractals
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/48484611a04ef3f9?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 1:29 am
From: van dark


I should like to instal and use a Genuine Fractals on my PC. Is Genuine
Fractals able to run in Windows 2000 and Photoshop 7.0?
Thanx for reply

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TOPIC: D90 with grip faster with AA batteries?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/0cf4d98bd234f06e?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 2:54 am
From: douglas@fair-dinkum.com.au


On Apr 16, 10:06 am, "Focus" <d...@mail.me> wrote:
> If you can believe the manual: on page 184:
>
> "Higher frame rates are available with AA batteries; note, however, that in
> the case of AA batteries the frame
> rate will decrease as battery level drops."
>
> That's all. Nowhere it reads how many frames or how much difference between
> EN-EL3e and AA batteries and which kind.
> Does anybody know? I tried but I can't feel hear or see a difference.
>
> However, I do have a theory: it seems the D90 manual is a copy of the D300
> manual and a bad one. They left things in that a clearly about the D300.
>
> On page 178:
> "Exposure can be fine-tuned separately for each Custom Settings bank and is
> not affected by
> two-button resets."
>
> I searched high and low, but I'll be a donkey's ass if I can find any custom
> settings bank on the D90. However, the D300 did have 4 custom settings
> banks.
>
> --
> ---
> Focus

What it doesn't tell you is the life (number of frames) is no were
near that of using a pair of genuine batteries!

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TOPIC: New Mandate: Punography
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.photo.digital/t/e22297df98c46fc4?hl=en
==============================================================================

== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 3:51 am
From: Chris Malcolm


In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Frank ess <frank@fshe2fs.com> wrote:
> Chris Malcolm wrote:
>> In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Leon@here.com wrote:
>>> On 19 Apr 2009 09:51:02 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> In rec.photo.digital Leon@here.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BUT you can use cats in various puns, I once had a photo of a
>>>>> naked girl with a pussy cat between her legs... a photo pun for
>>>>> sure...
>>>>
>>>> A photographic reference to a verbal pun. A truly photographic pun
>>>> would be language-independent.
>>
>>> It would be quite hard to describe a photo, or even think, without
>>> language... and the word 'pussy' is used for the same thing even
>>> in French. I've heard the word 'chat' used in France to describe a
>>> womans....!
>>
>> I often see this claim that it's hard to think without words. I
>> guess it depends on what kind of thinking you habitually employ. For
>> example, when trying to think of some solution to a mechanical
>> problem I think purely in terms of mental images of things
>> interacting with one another. Not only are no words involved, but
>> it can be quite hard to find the words to describe what can be
>> easily seen in the mind's eye. It's also famously the case that
>> musical thinking can be very detailed and precise yet often
>> impossible to put into words.
>>
>> The paintings of Salvador Dali sometimes employ quite outrageous
>> purely visual puns that do not depend on words.

> I guess I need to have someone show me an example of a visual pun that
> does not depend on words.

> Please? More than one, if you got 'em.

A visual pun is something that looks like something else where the
concatenation of both likenesses is funny. I wouldn't like to second
guess what kind of sense of humour you have, but looking through any
book on optical illusions should get you started.

--
Chris Malcolm

== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 3:55 am
From: Chris Malcolm


In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems tony cooper <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:24:47 -0500, George Kerby
> <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>On 4/20/09 6:08 PM, in article
>>bISdnSMPQqzGnXDUnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d@giganews.com, "Frank ess"
>><frank@fshe2fs.com> wrote:
>>> Chris Malcolm wrote:
>>>> In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Leon@here.com wrote:
>>>>> On 19 Apr 2009 09:51:02 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> In rec.photo.digital Leon@here.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BUT you can use cats in various puns, I once had a photo of a
>>>>>>> naked girl with a pussy cat between her legs... a photo pun for
>>>>>>> sure...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A photographic reference to a verbal pun. A truly photographic pun
>>>>>> would be language-independent.
>>>>
>>>>> It would be quite hard to describe a photo, or even think, without
>>>>> language... and the word 'pussy' is used for the same thing even
>>>>> in French. I've heard the word 'chat' used in France to describe a
>>>>> womans....!
>>>>
>>>> I often see this claim that it's hard to think without words. I
>>>> guess it depends on what kind of thinking you habitually employ. For
>>>> example, when trying to think of some solution to a mechanical
>>>> problem I think purely in terms of mental images of things
>>>> interacting with one another. Not only are no words involved, but
>>>> it can be quite hard to find the words to describe what can be
>>>> easily seen in the mind's eye. It's also famously the case that
>>>> musical thinking can be very detailed and precise yet often
>>>> impossible to put into words.
>>>>
>>>> The paintings of Salvador Dali sometimes employ quite outrageous
>>>> purely visual puns that do not depend on words.
>>>
>>> I guess I need to have someone show me an example of a visual pun that
>>> does not depend on words.
>>>
>>> Please? More than one, if you got 'em.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>
>><http://www.lifeisajoke.com/pictures388_html.htm>
>>
>>You are welcome.

> All visual puns depend on words. It is the words that the visual
> suggests that makes the pun.

I argue that those are not visual puns, but verbal puns being referred
to visually.

> If we didn't know the words associated with the visual on the link, it
> would be neither a pun nor amusing.

That's why it's not a visual pun. A visual pun depends on "looks like"
rather than "there is another word which sounds like a word describing
this picture" which is a visual reference to a verbal pun.

--
Chris Malcolm

== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:00 am
From: Chris Malcolm


In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems Robert Coe <bob@1776.com> wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2009 09:51:02 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> : In rec.photo.digital Leon@here.com wrote:
> :
> : > BUT you can use cats in various puns, I once had a photo of a naked girl with a
> : > pussy cat between her legs... a photo pun for sure...
> :
> : A photographic reference to a verbal pun. A truly photographic pun
> : would be language-independent.

> The concept of a language-independent pun is a challenge to the imagination.

Try subsituting "looks like" for "sounds like" plus any other
concomitant changes from auditory to visual in your definition of pun.

--
Chris Malcolm

== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:36 am
From: Bruce


Paul Furman <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote:
>
>Fish puns anyone?


The only fish puns I know would be better not repeated here. ;-)


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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 21 2009 4:50 am
From: "whisky-dave"

"Dudley Hanks" <dhanks@blind-apertures.ca> wrote in message
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>

>
> Let's try to at least keep the posts to something with a remote connection
> to recreational photography here...
>
> Take Care,
> Dudley


OK, then lets talk about his image, could we really do his image justice
using a P&S
or would you need a DLSR, and would he be upset depending on whether we use
a Canon or Nikon. What sort of exposure would be required.

Personally, the image I have of him is the south park representaion.


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[PSP-Snags] Re: Tag shares

Hey Becky! I'd actually like the one that says "Love My Attitude" on it that I saw on Chrissy's site.

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Morning all, just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful shares, they really are very much appreciated!!! I know it is not much but if anyone sees my tags (usually have Tag By Becky on them) and would like one then please let me know as I would be happy to make them.

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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Apr 19 2009 2:14 pm
From: "Roy G"

"NavyCorpsman" <NavyCorpsman@Navy.com> wrote in message
news:6badnXhS6LnZ7XbUnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d@giganews.com...
> dillu wrote:
>> 550+ Keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop CS4 :
>> Check it out ..
>>
>> http://gxxxxx.blogspot.com/2009/03/550-keyboard-.html
>>
>> ENJOY .. !!Be
>
> Better have all POP-Up's blocked this site will fill your computer with
> pop up after pop up. Lucky for me I have a Mac.


If it is so bad why did you include the Link to it.

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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 10:48 am
From: Catharsis


Any way of having the program center our lettering (both left, right &
up, down)?


== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 3:21 pm
From: "Leo Lichtman"

"Catharsis" wrote: Any way of having the program center our lettering
(both left, right &
> up, down)?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There may be a better way, but this is how I did it:

There are three justification options: Left, right and center justify. At
the top right of the screen. Choose center. After you have set your type,
put a selection rectangle around it. Activate the Grid. Use the move tool
to place your lettering in the middle of the page.


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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Sun, Apr 19 2009 6:16 pm
From: maps@bkwds.comcast.net


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:40:34 +0000 (GMT), Dave Symes
<dave@triffid.co.uk> brought the following to our attention:
>
> <maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Running PSP9 here and like it a LOT!!
>
>> Often I reduce the colors of an image to 256, and then export using
>> GIF Optimizer selecting `Existing Pallet.´ The one problem is that GO
>> has Format 89a (transparency) set as the default and I must select 87a
>> (no transparency) each time. How do you set format 87a as default?
>
>> -ed
>
>I usually set the File-Preferences-General-'Display and caching' Tab item
>"Re-use last type in file save dialogue" ticked ON.
>
>Then when 87a is set and used from the SaveAs (f12) it remains so.
>
>Dave


I'm afraid that's not working. Have tried multiple times and have the
Display and caching tab, `Re-use´ ticked as described.

-

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 6:43 am
From: Dave Symes


In article <e3jnu4de9m4mu7qhev2j8n1va628jktoai@4ax.com>,
<maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:40:34 +0000 (GMT), Dave Symes
> <dave@triffid.co.uk> brought the following to our attention:
> >
> > <maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Running PSP9 here and like it a LOT!!
> >
> >> Often I reduce the colors of an image to 256, and then export using
> >> GIF Optimizer selecting `Existing Pallet.´ The one problem is that GO
> >> has Format 89a (transparency) set as the default and I must select 87a
> >> (no transparency) each time. How do you set format 87a as default?
> >
> >> -ed
> > I usually set the File-Preferences-General-'Display and caching' Tab
> >item "Re-use last type in file save dialogue" ticked ON.
> >
> >Then when 87a is set and used from the SaveAs (f12) it remains so.
> >
> >Dave


> I'm afraid that's not working. Have tried multiple times and have the
> Display and caching tab, `Re-use´ ticked as described.

Interesting.
I've just retested by saving a picture as a type 87a gif.
I then totally quit PSP, then re-ran it, took a different picture and
prepared to save that as a Gif, the SaveAs dialogue was still set to 87a
gif type.

So it works here.

Sorry, No idea why it doesn't work on your system... I assume you are
using the SaveAs (f12) dialogue window..
Dave

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== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 12:19 pm
From: maps@bkwds.comcast.net


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:43:51 +0100, Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
brought the following to our attention:
> <maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid that's not working. Have tried multiple times and have the
>> Display and caching tab, `Re-use´ ticked as described.
>
>Interesting.
>I've just retested by saving a picture as a type 87a gif.
>I then totally quit PSP, then re-ran it, took a different picture and
>prepared to save that as a Gif, the SaveAs dialogue was still set to 87a
>gif type.
>
>So it works here.
>
>Sorry, No idea why it doesn't work on your system... I assume you are
>using the SaveAs (f12) dialogue window..
>Dave

Oh.. I see.

It works using F12, but I'm using the File, Export, GIF Optimizer
function, which is the blue tool button on the right side, next to the
Overview window. It's always defaults to 89a in the Format tab.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/PSP9_DC10.jpg


-ed


== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 1:17 pm
From: Dave Symes


In article <4aipu4t8ss15bj1d5b9vkfvu8rdbqf7qvq@4ax.com>,
<maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:43:51 +0100, Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
> brought the following to our attention:
> > <maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm afraid that's not working. Have tried multiple times and have the
> >> Display and caching tab, `Re-use´ ticked as described.
> >
> >Interesting.
> >I've just retested by saving a picture as a type 87a gif.
> >I then totally quit PSP, then re-ran it, took a different picture and
> >prepared to save that as a Gif, the SaveAs dialogue was still set to 87a
> >gif type.
> >
> >So it works here.
> >
> >Sorry, No idea why it doesn't work on your system... I assume you are
> >using the SaveAs (f12) dialogue window..
> >Dave

> Oh.. I see.

> It works using F12, but I'm using the File, Export, GIF Optimizer
> function, which is the blue tool button on the right side, next to the
> Overview window. It's always defaults to 89a in the Format tab.

> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/PSP9_DC10.jpg


> -ed
>
Works with that here as well.

I guess you want me to explain.

Open the Gif Optimizer dialogue window, put in the required settings.

Click the floppy icon, top right hand side.
Give the Preset a name. (I've just called mine "Type87a"
Look at your Preset list and make sure it includes the line...
"File version File version 87a"

Then the [OK] button.

Now, when ever you click the Gif Optimizer the "Last used" will auto give
you 87a type on.

Let me know how you get on... My email address is valid.
Dave

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== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 20 2009 8:45 pm
From: maps@bkwds.comcast.net


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:17:49 +0100, Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
brought the following to our attention:

>Works with that here as well.
>
>I guess you want me to explain.
>
>Open the Gif Optimizer dialogue window, put in the required settings.
>
>Click the floppy icon, top right hand side.
>Give the Preset a name. (I've just called mine "Type87a"
>Look at your Preset list and make sure it includes the line...
>"File version File version 87a"
>
>Then the [OK] button.
>
>Now, when ever you click the Gif Optimizer the "Last used" will auto give
>you 87a type on.
>
>Let me know how you get on... My email address is valid.
>Dave

It's working now thanks to your tutorial. I've learned about the Presets
on all of the tools/functions now.

-ed

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