Agreed. The church is after all a place of christian worship and ceremony. They have their own traditions that need to be to looked after. As much as the general opinion seems to be against the church and christianity, isn't it at least historically important to try and preserve these things? It would be fatal to their integrity as a church to simply change policy simply at the whim of others. It seems there has been a recent trend to turn the ceremonies of the church into something they're very fundamentally not. Today it's making the funeral into a wake. Tomorrow it's making the baptism into a baby shower. Some time ago it was turning marriage into a civil service.
Why not let them have their beliefs, traditions and ceremonies? How is it suddenly right to simply impose ours on them?
More likely, the advertising people realized that they couldn't fit an eyeclops AND a child's head into the same photo, resorting to the use of an adult hand to make the thing look like it could actually be used by a kid. Seriously, the thing is huge. Just look at the youtube video and compare proportions to the website photo!
When I throw away electronics, this is what I do: First, I open the thing up, remove any and all useful components like motors, bearings, fans, PSU's, knobs, microswitches, LED's, CdS resistors, diodes, potentiometres, heatsinks, brass tubing, nylon, any clean metal sheet larger than a fingernail and anything else (even the wiring from transformers) that might be useful later on . After this, I close it up (maybe throw in some other small stripped electronics like floppy drive shells) and take it to a recycling center.
Ok, there probably isn't much to recycle after stripping the it clean but at least I end up saving a few euros and the trips to the electronics store (the nearest of which is something like twenty kilometres away).
You can't just lump all photography under the same category. There's still no substitute for film in the field of large format photography. The largest commercially available digital (one-shot, not scan) back is still at least three times smaller than a 4x5" sheet of film. And those backs cost 25,000+.
How do you know the quality of this new lens; have you seen many pictures using them, or do you have a working theory that shows liquid lenses will produce poor quality images?
I haven't seen any images taken with these new liquid lenses but I think I'll stick with glass for a little while. It has only been perfected as an optical material for the last 150-200 years. Exactly how long has liquid been used for this purpose?
Just like many other innovations in the photographic industry, these are likely to never surpass the currently dominating technology (in this case, optical glass), although they will likely be used for some of the less "demanding" areas, such as mobile phones, keychain cams and Olympus DSLR's (sorry, had to say that one).
For what it's worth, I'm a long-time photographer mostly working in the fields of large format (4x5in and up) and small format (Mostly Canon DSLR's, although only for work-related requirements)photography.
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Agreed. The church is after all a place of christian worship and ceremony. They have their own traditions that need to be to looked after. As much as the general opinion seems to be against the church and christianity, isn't it at least historically important to try and preserve these things? It would be fatal to their integrity as a church to simply change policy simply at the whim of others. It seems there has been a recent trend to turn the ceremonies of the church into something they're very fundamentally not. Today it's making the funeral into a wake. Tomorrow it's making the baptism into a baby shower. Some time ago it was turning marriage into a civil service. Why not let them have their beliefs, traditions and ceremonies? How is it suddenly right to simply impose ours on them?
More likely, the advertising people realized that they couldn't fit an eyeclops AND a child's head into the same photo, resorting to the use of an adult hand to make the thing look like it could actually be used by a kid. Seriously, the thing is huge. Just look at the youtube video and compare proportions to the website photo!
When I throw away electronics, this is what I do: First, I open the thing up, remove any and all useful components like motors, bearings, fans, PSU's, knobs, microswitches, LED's, CdS resistors, diodes, potentiometres, heatsinks, brass tubing, nylon, any clean metal sheet larger than a fingernail and anything else (even the wiring from transformers) that might be useful later on .
After this, I close it up (maybe throw in some other small stripped electronics like floppy drive shells) and take it to a recycling center.
Ok, there probably isn't much to recycle after stripping the it clean but at least I end up saving a few euros and the trips to the electronics store (the nearest of which is something like twenty kilometres away).
And yes, I'm a cheapskate.
You can't just lump all photography under the same category. There's still no substitute for film in the field of large format photography. The largest commercially available digital (one-shot, not scan) back is still at least three times smaller than a 4x5" sheet of film. And those backs cost 25,000+.
Yes, exactly. I'd like to see them do aspherical lenses with those Liquid Tension Experiments.