Re[6]: AP UK on why digital is no good.

2002-07-22 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, Sunday, July 21, 2002, 10:17:21 PM, you wrote: I won't pursue my line of argument much further except to say my analogy of film/TV was simply to show how different a function two seemingly similar form of communication can be. And, while TV has become a metaphor for triviality (I

Re: Street Photography (was: Re: AP UK on why digital is no good.)

2002-07-22 Thread Ayash Kanto Mukherjee
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Cotty wrote: 5. Claim to be a photographic student. (this last one works for me - and not a lie - i'm learning all the time!) ...all ways of guaranteeing people will ignore you. Hey Cotty! I liked your last advice. Let me try it out. :-) Ayash. Make sure

Re: AP UK on why digital is no good

2002-07-22 Thread Herb Chong
I thought that the whole point of an LCD is that it consumes low amounts of power. . . . not that I'm trying to attack your use of the viewfinder, I myself prefer using the viewfinder, although the most technically complex slr I have is a Super Program . . . IL Bill a digital camer's LCD is

Re: Street Photography (was: Re: AP UK on why digital is no good.)

2002-07-22 Thread Cotty
Ayash wrote: Uhhh, h, the rotary vacuam pump is giving problem. I have to rush for it now. Oh yeah - that's a pain. That happened to me once and I couldn't sit down for a week... ;-) Cot ___ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL

Re: Street Photography (was: Re: AP UK on why digital is no good.)

2002-07-22 Thread Ayash Kanto Mukherjee
check the gasket check the oil sealing check the oil quality? Has it gone bad? Yes? then change it. another messy job. getting a good bath with vacuam pump oil of grade 18. :-( Oh no! What you have done? You have used the wrong grade. Use grade 100. Drain it out. Another bath but this

Re: AP UK on why digital is no good

2002-07-22 Thread William Kane
Herb, et al . . . First of all, who's this Al guy? :-) . . . . . . somehow I missed that it was a digital camera, which explains it all. When I originally posted I was thinking about the basic LCD (like the one in the super program, in date backs and in watches . . .). Thanks for the

Re: AP UK on why digital is no good.

2002-07-21 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 7/21/2002 6:15:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't study it too much. It was meant to be nonsensical so it would fit right into the discussion. Fair enough. I actually thought at first you might be refering to the way films sell products

Re: Re[4]: AP UK on why digital is no good.

2002-07-21 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 7/21/2002 2:32:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I wrote there was not very clear - this is a problem with email which doesn't really encourage careful proof-reading (I expect you'll jump on this as evidence for your position). No, I won't. Fact

Re: Re[4]: AP UK on why digital is no good.

2002-07-21 Thread Rob Studdert
On 21 Jul 2002 at 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With respect to the digital photography question, I'm convinced that it is a different form of communication than traditional photography. As I say, perhaps we don't know exactly how yet, but I think some of the implications I mentioned are

Re: Re[4]: AP UK on why digital is no good.

2002-07-21 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 7/21/2002 4:03:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Had the Lewinski (film) photo not been properly handled after it was rejected by the editors and sent back to the photographer it wouldn't exist either, and how easy would it have been to scan

Re: AP UK on why digital is no good

2002-07-21 Thread Herb Chong
He'd noticed that rather than spending all their time watching the event through the viewfinder, they were taking their eyes off the action and reviewing/editing what they'd just shot. i have my LCD disabled normally because it saves a lot of power and it gets in the way of using the optical