Doug Segar wrote:
In addition, 1-2 out of ten result in a question from the screener film? and a
nod OK when you say yes.
A typical example of the intelligence of most security staff these days - you're
hardly likely to reply no its dynamite/a gun are you!
The real problem is that security
Tom Scales wrote:
Yes, the OM-40 (OM-PC in the US) has some reliabilty problems. The one I own
is broken.
The latest trick was a weird fault in the metering system. The OM40 has a
multi-sector metering system, which aims to handle difficult lighting
situations, which is what it used to do
Tom Scales wrote:
I am a neaderthal that shoots with Olympus OM equipment. It may be old but
the lens are excellent. I've owned a number of scanners, from an old
Minolta QS-35 to an Acer Scanwit to a Polaroid SS4000 to my current Nikon
LS-4000.
I also use Olympus OM cameras and the lens
Austin Franklin wrote:
I'm not convinced this is true with all FP cameras. It may very well be,
and it does make sense. That's why I asked if anyone could provide a
reference for this.
I know one SLR that could synch at _all_ shutter speeds - this was the
Olympus Pen F half-frame SLR, one
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Sleep wrote:
Etched on titanium is probably worth a few aeons, at much higher cost.
I understand that someone is working on a method of storing data on
titanium disks. However they don't store it in true digital format. They
etch a microscopic image of the actual
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lynn Allen wrote:
Best backup medium is probably binary printed on acid-free paper as
barcodes. This is well capable of true Dead Sea Scrolls archival longevity,
if suitably stored.
That is probably the most unique solution I've heard all day, and probably
all
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
In that case, I guess you could say that
the bikini bottom was the ultimate IT-8 calibration tool!
No - the ultimate would have been if she was still wearing it!
Brian Rumary, England
http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.rumary/homepage.htm
In 000201c11f04$9a906890$0208d63f@zibzib, Karl Schulmeisters wrote:
Remmember that Sony is the only monitor that supports the Trinitron mask,
which gives you better image clarity than any other shadow mask technology.
I don't think this is still true. I believe that Sony's patents on this
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Geraghty wrote:
Problems like the clock losing the time and the computer forgetting
what hard drives are connected usually indicates a faulty battery on
the motherboard. There is a small battery which allows the static
RAM in the real time clock to remember the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], B.Rumary wrote:
I am having similar problems with my AMD 1Gb system. It have a Gigabyte
GA-7ZXR board and a ATI All-in-Wonder Pro graphics card. I don't get trouble
with the monitor powering down, but I had frequent problems with the system
freezing up and having
In v03007800b78e63b8cc3c@[216.111.20.62], Mike Duncan wrote:
I was about to write a letter to Apple complaining about poor treatment of
Ed (I'm a Apple shareholder).
Write one anyway; it might stop it happening again!
Brian Rumary, England
In 002901c11880$41372ca0$380a@phoenix, Rob Geraghty wrote:
Try the gigabyte newsgroup since you have a GA motherboard, although
I suspect an ATI discussion group may be more productive.
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a look.
PNP is a wonderful
In 000b01c11731$edfb72c0$380a@phoenix, Rob Geraghty wrote:
I had a similar problem on my computer. I had to disable the power saving
features. I think the problem was caused by PNP insisting on putting the
SCSI
card and video card on the same IRQ. It would caue hangs when power saving
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry
Carroll wrote:
That's my point; it doesn't at all. Someone earlier had suggested that a
US copyright registration would assist in the enforcement in other
countries. As far as I'maware, it does not. Now, there's nothing that
would prevent any country from
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arthur Entlich wrote:
In general, some of the older fixed focus lenses proved to have better
glass, and if they are well multicoated they can be great.
One of my best lenses is a Nikkor 135 2.8 tele. It is a Q series, which
was a quality multicoated glass.
The
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard wrote:
I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK
some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then
found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case?
TV series used to be shot on 35mm cine film, while
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lynn Allen wrote:
Atlthough this isn't what Tony's writing about, I'm going to kidnap his
thoughts on this to revisit what I said a few days ago, re flatbed scans vs.
filmscans, vis a vis resolution and detail. A year ago I had the priveledge
and oportunity to
In 001101c0f411$012076a0$380a@phoenix, Rob Geraghty wrote:
FWIW I scanned a frame off a recent roll of T400CN and in the midtones there
is no significant grain visible at 2700dpi. There's something like grain in
the shadows but as it's a C41 BW neg film I'm not sure how to label it.
The
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marvin Demuth
wrote:
While waiting for my RA4 chemicals to come up to 35 degrees C, I had time
to look up Ockham on the web. You live in an interesting area.
I also had time to refresh my memory of my first introduction to Occam's
Razor. John Bogel, the founder of
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Croxford wrote:
In most of the world
artistic copyright now extends to 70 years after the death of the author. The
copyright can be sold or transferred to another person or a company, or
passed to the authors descendants but it still only extends to the 70 years
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laurie Solomon
wrote:
currently copyrights in the US are valid for the
life of the originator even if assigned to someone else, I believe, and are
renewable for a limited length of time only once.
I think you may be confusing copyrights for an artistic works, such as a
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
Studios were widespread throughout France and made a quick fortune. 400
pounds a day was achieved which was a small fortune in the mid 1800s. Some
photographers are not able to charge that now!
400 pounds a _year_ was a small fortune in those days! Are you
In 01c0ecc2$a1908ef0$6401a8c0@jamesg, James Grove wrote:
I dont think that will work, as many SCSI devices have to be seen by the
SCSI BIOS on boot up.
It certainly does *not* work on my Windows 98 machine - the SCSI devices
all have to be on at boot-up.
Brian Rumary, England
In 382693518.991527991110.JavaMail.root@web595-ec, Lynn Allen wrote:
It seems to me that George Eastman circumvented Talbot's and other patents
very successfully vis-a-vis sensitized-paper and celuloid negatives--and
then proceded to take over or eliminate almost every other film and
In 004401c0d4b3$1d8a20c0$380a@phoenix, Rob Geraghty wrote:
In defense of the Japanese, I'd like to add the story about Corona and
Pinto: both cars had a bad tendency to explode and burn in a rear-end
collission.
Was it Cannonball Run that featured a car just giving a Pinto the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arthur Entlich wrote:
What I see mainly is wasted
leader due to too much of it being used during the autoload process.
The autoload feature should actually allow for extra frames is anything.
This, I believe, is an agreement with maybe both film manufacturers
and
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Snyder wrote:
I do have a problem with Microsoft copying the
Macintosh interface and denying that it is a copy. Apple copied the ideas
for a mouse, the GUI interface, and more, but there was no denial of where
the ideas came from (somehow better). All shades of
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
Brian, note that I'm from the land down under, so the brands may not be
meaningful anyway.. The ones I'm using are indeed called 'Amazing Wipes'
;-/. 'As seen on TV' the box proclaims, but I have never seen them
advertised.. I actually bought them from a
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Thomas
wrote:
There are a number of brands on the market, some are designed to go on
strange-looking floor sweepers. I have bought several types and found most
contained a light oil, so I used them on my furniture.. But there are a
few brands that have no oils -
In 001901c08bba$9cc7eda0$9513a0d4@a6x4b5, Fotografia - tomasz
zakrzewski wrote:
8-10 Megapixels=35mm format.
Hmm. 35mm enlarged to 4x6" or 8x10"? Or bigger?
No I am talking about the same amount of _detail_ as you would find on
a 35mm film frame. Enlarging can't produce detail that is not
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stuart wrote:
But,of course ,no-one would do so while looking through the viewfinder as
this would be extremely detrimental to ones eyesight and if the shutter
was released would it not burn the blind ??
I don't think this is true of SLR's, as the image is formed on
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Clark
Guy wrote:
WHY?
because we are already approaching the limit of how small a single pixel can
be. It can't be smaller than a wavelength of light, and we are approaching
this limit even now. On top of that, the smaller they are the more noisy
they become, so
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laurie Solomon
wrote:
you are still more or less *cunt* and can afford
Eh!!!
Brian Rumary, England
http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.rumary/homepage.htm
In 001d01c0879f$04737840$cec90fd2@phoenix, Rob Geraghty wrote:
Pardon me. I should have said the only one in the realms of a dekstop
printer
category that someone might buy for home studio use. The 7000 and up
printers
are all *big* printers intended for professional print-shop use. And
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arthur Entlich wrote:
Static build-up is reduced in higher humidity locations. This reduces
dust attraction to plastic surfaces. Also, most bathrooms are not
carpeted, and do not have flocked wallpaper or textured ceilings, all
dust attracters.
Also people don't
I'm not familiar with Google -- I presume that is a search engine.
Yes - at www.google.com
Brian Rumary, England
http://freespace.virgin.net/brian.rumary/homepage.htm
Roman,
you will get your scanner dedicated film as soon as there is market for it.
there still may be a few years before we see something like that.
I doubt that you will get it - by then digital cameras will be so good that
there would be no market for such film!
Brian Rumary, England
Roman,
Ilford XP1 developer had different composition to plain C41. The newer XP2
requires C41.
You _could_ use C41 with XP1, but Ilford recommended their own special XP1
developer for best results. They now seem to have stopped selling special
developer for XP films and say you should use
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