On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:48 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Not all players are alike...even the ipod will play lossless files. Other
players on the market also have better sound than the ipod, and play FLAC or
other lossless formats. It's all digital so it doesn't really make any
Constance, I am not a professional but very much an amateur.
I have some very good SLR's but at this point cant afford a DSLR.
However even professionals used point and shoots and even Polaroids
to do pre work.
My dad (whose old exackta I have) even had point and shoots for the
everyday
Talk about lowering ones standards.
Stewart
At 08:07 AM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
While I can agree with your basic point about digitized music, the
difference is in how one listens to that music and what they use to
listen to it. A few years ago, the minimum defacto standard for
listening to
-Compact digital cams..just because DSLR is getting cheaper doesn't mean
these little point and shoots are going anywhere.
Yeah. DSLRs don't fit very well in a tiny purse, plus they're overkill for most
people, who only want to take snapshots. Even DSLR owners mostly have
point-and-shoots for
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
Constance, I am not a professional but very much an amateur.
I have some very good SLR's but at this point cant afford a DSLR.
However even professionals used point and shoots and even Polaroids to do
pre
Better lossless formats and better MP3 players, to fully replace
CD's? Well, perhaps. But if you're the agent for one of the
classical groups that's looking for a job, would you take a chance on
emailing the potential employer a digital file, of ANY format? Do
you really think the
You completely bipass the portable cassette player. Not exactly the high
end of audio devices.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:07 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:48 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Not all players are alike...even the ipod will play
Pretty much true. Ashton Kutcher selling Nikons tells me that Nikon
has lowered their sights to target the lowest common denominators
amongst us. Ditto for Maria Sharapova and Canon. Nothing like
getting the word from sex symbols. Who knew they were also camera
experts?
That's true,
The average comsumer will not...but someone whose business is music should
be educated enough to know.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote:
And I kind of doubt that the average consumer is going to educate
himself/herself on the comparative quality of
Reel to reel used to be the gold standard. LP's came next then other
tape formats.
8tracks and cassettes were seen as consumer level formats to get it
into the hands of the great unwashed.
Still Reel to Reel and LP was seen as much superior.
MP3 is equivalent to the cassette and 8track.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
That's true, but Canon has ALSO been running a lot of ads for their new DSLR
(the one that can shoot HD video). That dude, with lens, will set you back
$3,500.
Yeah, but how many megapixels does it have? That's all
I totally agree--it's the photographer, not the fancy equipment, that
makes the picture. Witness, for example, the cult of the Holga, a
toy camera from China that comes in a wide variety of colors and
retails for around $30. The Holga has quite a following among
professional
The great misnomer. Megapixels is not the whole equation.
I have been told there are two other parts of this. Lens quality
(glass versus plastic, manufacturer etc.) and CCD. The size and
quality of the CCD is almost just as important. The CCD's in phones
are small and not very HQ. One of
I believe he was being ironical.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
The great misnomer. Megapixels is not the whole equation.
I have been told there are two other parts of this. Lens quality (glass
versus plastic, manufacturer etc.)
I totally agree--it's the photographer, not the fancy equipment, that
makes the picture. Witness, for example, the cult of the Holga, a
toy camera from China that comes in a wide variety of colors and
retails for around $30. The Holga has quite a following among
professional photographers,
The lens--that's the most critical part.
You want a manufacturer with a good reputation for glass--reviews
are generally available online. Generally, a company that's produced
photographic equipment for many years will give you a better shot at
getting a decent lens.
--Constance
On Jan
Zeiss, Kreuznach, Nikkor etc.
Stewart
At 10:32 AM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
The lens--that's the most critical part.
You want a manufacturer with a good reputation for glass--reviews
are generally available online. Generally, a company that's produced
photographic equipment for many years will
Not really. Many persons in the music business are experts on the
music per se, and not necessarily on computer technology. For
example, the person who auditions the classical music groups (whom I
talked about in a previous email) was an accomplished orchestra and
chamber music musician,
On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:50 PM, D Freye wrote:
I want to dump adobe reader and replace it with a program that
NEVER calls home or even asks unless I suggest it. Any ideas?
Would it not be better to keep Reader and block its bad habits.
These days so many programs phone home that it is a
Canon 5D Mark II.
Gizmodo rates it Officially Awesome. Of course, Gizmodo's not a photography
site, but it does look pretty awesome.
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One of the real problems with today's point and shoot cameras is shutter lag --
the time delay between pushing the button and taking the picture. Even if
you press half-way and hold, there is still significant shutter delay. This is
a real problem if you are trying to take ad hoc (un-posed,
Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
But it still is the point how many Point and Click photographers even
know or care about those items?
Stewart
At 12:52 PM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
One of the real problems with today's point and shoot cameras is
shutter lag -- the time
Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
But it still is the point how many Point and Click photographers even
know or care about those items?
I think a lot of point--shoot picture takers are very much aware of shutter
delay. They may not understand it, or really know what
I am the worst sort of point-and-click photographer. Sometimes the only
camera I have available is my el-cheapo Samsung Glyde. The delay on this
thing is longer than the time it took last week's earthquake to destroy
Port-au-Prince. Annoying as heck.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Rev.
Because they do not know how to take pictures.
I have taken my point and click cameras to Bristol and have gotten
some nice shots without a hitch.
You take pictures of fast moving objects a lot like you fire a gun at
them, lead them
I get a kick out of the films I see where you
Most cameras these days have sensors and will fire the flash if the
light level is low. You have to manually defeat the flash if you don't
want it.
Mike
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Because they do not know how to take pictures.
I have taken my point and click cameras to Bristol and have
I'll argue it. I've only owned two cheap (~$100) digital cameras - a
Kodak and a Panasonic and neither had any shutter lag at all. The few
earlier cameras that had this problem got a lot of press.
Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
One of the real problems with today's point
How is bluray just a marketing tool?
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:10 PM, betty b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
DVDs CDs - CDs, yes, DVDs no. There's no reliable replacement for DVDs.
Over-priced,
over-hyped Blu-Ray disks are a marketing tool, not an answer.
At 04:45 PM 1/18/2010, you wrote:
I'll argue it. I've only owned two cheap (~$100) digital cameras - a
Kodak and a Panasonic and neither had any shutter lag at all. The few
earlier cameras that had this problem got a lot of press.
Shutter lag is a problem with my Nikon Coolpix. But I bought
I'm not taking pictures of fast moving objects. I'm just trying to take a
picture of unposed people at a wedding or some other party or gathering. By
the time the shutter fires, good expressions have gone to bad ones, and heads
have turned so that the face is no longer at a good angle or even
You can make them do both, flash when it is not necessary and not flash when
it is. Easy to regulate.
Marcio
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From: Mike Sloane mikeslo...@verizon.net
Sent: Jan 18, 2010 7:42 PM
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Obsolete consumer products...
The Leica C Lux 3 has a Quick Auto Focus that works fine when you need it. I am
very happy with it.
Marcio
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From: Fred Holmes f...@his.com
Sent: Jan 18, 2010 9:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Obsolete consumer products...
I'm not taking
Wow. When I taught Shakespeare, the required texts (my choice) were
five cheap mass-market paperbacks! (But then, you can't hire
Shakespeare to write an extra act for King Lear or Macbeth, to make a
new and more expensive edition.)
Even when I taught speech (not my choice of textbook),
The great classes are the ones that require you to buy the book the teacher
wrote himself.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote:
Wow. When I taught Shakespeare, the required texts (my choice) were five
cheap mass-market paperbacks! (But then, you can't
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