Re: OT: SA Lockdown

Our lockdown started at midnight. It was 41deg yesterday, forecast 23 for today but no rain. The supermarkets were chaotic all over the country with most of the black population leaving for their rural homes while they still could. A lot of the labour force is migrant labour.  I think they

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

Olga Iona Custer wrote: >> On Mar 26, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> Olga Iona Custer wrote: >> >>> Mark and Christine, what is your area? I teach sociology. >> >> This semester I'm teaching Photography I, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe >> Illustrator. Plus I'm doing Photography II as

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

good here too. india declared a complete lockdown for three weeks until april 14 although according to official figures the number of infected patient stands at 716 and the death toll at 18 (for various reasons, the official figures are suspect). for the last six days i have been housebound and i

Today's project

One of the challenges with my studio strobes is that if I use the modeling lights, they very quickly get very hot, especially with soft boxes. Today I modified some Phillips dimmable LED bulbs dropping the power dumped from 250W to 18W https://photos.app.goo.gl/PK53pNzjKcFKu5SV6 The trick is

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

Good like Christine and everyone. It's important for your mental health to get outside as much as you can within the limits of your local rules. Over here we can go out for one exercise session, walk, run or cycle, per day, plus shopping. People where i am seem to be fairly reasonable about

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Olga Iona Custer wrote: > >> Mark and Christine, what is your area? I teach sociology. > > This semester I'm teaching Photography I, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe > Illustrator. Plus I'm doing Photography II as an independent study > with a

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

Olga Iona Custer wrote: >Mark and Christine, what is your area? I teach sociology. This semester I'm teaching Photography I, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Plus I'm doing Photography II as an independent study with a student who needs it to graduate in May (the course only runs in the

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

We're pretty much locked down here, though I don't think we're required to be. Yet. But with Dr. Lisa in the house we're on a pretty short leash :-) Though Lisa and I are edging ever closer to the high-risk age group, her 92-year-old mother who lives with us is decidedly there, so we have to watch

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

On 3/23/2020 12:23:55, Stanley Halpin wrote: I’ve been pretty cautious about going out, about being in contact with others. But today the governor of our state issued a strong Stay At Home order effective through April 13. Still ok to go out for food and meds but otherwise Stay Home. I spent

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > >> On Mar 26, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> We just got an emergency alert via our mobile phones that the City of >> Chicago is closing down the lakefront, beaches etc, which I think is a good >> idea. >> >> I’ve

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

Video unavailable This video has been removed by the user On 3/26/2020 09:01:43, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: This enforced isolation is likely the best way to slow down the spread of the plague, as much as it's a true PITA. I've only barely started doing anything with my new camera other than

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > > We just got an emergency alert via our mobile phones that the City of Chicago > is closing down the lakefront, beaches etc, which I think is a good idea. > > I’ve been pretty busy with shifting my teaching to online. Our community

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

We just got an emergency alert via our mobile phones that the City of Chicago is closing down the lakefront, beaches etc, which I think is a good idea. I’ve been pretty busy with shifting my teaching to online. Our community college district shifted pretty quickly as things turned, and

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Bill wrote: > > On 3/25/2020 8:42 PM, d...@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote: >> Has it been 21 years? Holy smoke. Still, when you get it right... > > Heresy alert: Don't read past this if you are faint of heart our have other > underlying conditions. > > The 77 is a

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 8:42 PM, d...@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote: Has it been 21 years? Holy smoke. Still, when you get it right... Heresy alert: Don't read past this if you are faint of heart our have other underlying conditions. The 77 is a good lens, on film with the AF that we had at the time it

Re: PESOs Getting Outdoors

Thanks Dan. Hope to get out again today. > On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Nicely captured. Saw the lady and the woodpecker on FB and enjoyed them > there. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > > >

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 7:36 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 26/3/20, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> This is a similar "Object Of Desire" for me ... >> https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49700917037_bf4e7e8f52_o.jpg >> >> It's at a higher altitude than my pay grade will

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 26/3/20, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >This is a similar "Object Of Desire" for me ... >https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49700917037_bf4e7e8f52_o.jpg > >It's at a higher altitude than my pay grade will fly at present. :-\ >... Perhaps it's time to sell some stuff. ];-)

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

This enforced isolation is likely the best way to slow down the spread of the plague, as much as it's a true PITA. I've only barely started doing anything with my new camera other than testing and learning it since it got here… :( I think this little piece may well become a classic of the AC

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Looks lovely! Not that I have any use for it, but it's great to see new lenses of exceptional quality (presuming). This is a similar "Object Of Desire" for me … https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49700917037_bf4e7e8f52_o.jpg It's at a higher altitude than my pay grade will fly at present.

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

Am 26.03.20 um 13:10 schrieb Steve Cottrell: Dave if you have a different player, try that for the ones that couldn't be read. I've had some that refused to be read on 2 of my players and when tried in a 3rd - someone else's computer - they read fine! My impression is that it's just as much

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:11 AM Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 25/3/20, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external > >hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player > > Dave if you have a different

Re: COVID-19 - Information is power

Very interesting thanks. Being locked in at home for two weeks now I have already read most of the themes covered in the video, but it is a very well done summary. As a curiosity the video also explains that the Spanish flue is called this way not because of its origin but because, not being

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

On 25/3/20, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external >hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player Dave if you have a different player, try that for the ones that couldn't be read. I've had some

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Yeah, all they ever learn ia how to cost reduce it and sell it for the same price for a bigger profit. jco On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:42:19 -0400, d...@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote: Has it been 21 years? Holy smoke. Still, when you get it right... Sent from my phone, which I’m staring at

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > Hi all! > > Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... > https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/16/18678447/9-11-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pictures-recovered > > I realized that the time flies so fast, and my