The camera body was also a miracle of engineering design because of the way it could fold flat for storage, but pop open in just the right manner for all the optical paths to work (including the SLR aspect).
Actually the folding feature was quite an old and mature technology by the time the SX-70 was released. Before consumers really took on to the 35mm format, medium format folding cameras were quite popular. The technology was pretty mature by the time my grandfather took his folding camera to WW2, and certainly by the 1950's when my own Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16 was manufactured.
Fuji still makes a medium format folding camera today, but it's priced for wealthy enthusiasts.
Now, there's no choice but to go to DigiKey and Mouser, and figure out how I'm going to meet their minimum order requirements, when all I wanted was $5 worth of stuff.
Poo to that! There are a ton of small shops on the 'net that cater to enthusiasts and will sell small quantities of components to you quite happily.
http://www.sparkfun.com/
http://www.makershed.com/
http://store.fungizmos.com/
http://www.adafruit.com/
Though for bread & butter components that I am going to use pretty regularly, I'll buy those on eBay. Mostly from Chinese sellers but sometimes there are some stateside sellers competing for your business. Most of the time I get my components in from China within a week or two. I've actually had them beat Sparkfun to my mailbox when I place orders on the same day. Sometimes things get held up and you can wait a few weeks. So don't be in a rush if you go the eBay/China route.
Last time I was there I picked up some solder, resistors, a couple of LED's, and a piezo. They still have it. Not to the degree that they did, say, 25 years ago. But they had everything I was looking for in a pinch.
When you put it that way, he sounds like a great guy with strong libertarian credentials.
I think I'll send him a donation for his re-election campaign.
I don't know if you've ever checked out Magnatune's offerings or not, but you're a lot more likely to find what you're looking for there than you are to find anything resembling popular music.
Government approved monopolies are the problem. Getting the government more entrenched in broadband is not going to make it any better.
Also get the ISP's out of the business of owning the last mile network and you'll see things improve dramatically.
Centuries ago, scientists were oppressed by religion.
Now this area of science has become a religion. Objectivity is gone. We see what we want to see. Discard raw data that doesn't support the hypothesis. Discredit anyone who objectively questions the faith.
Congratulations! You have become that which your greatest dignitaries fought mightily against!
I've been a Ubuntu user for about 4 years now. A couple of weeks ago I went through the painful process of migrating all of my machines back to Fedora & CentOS. Why? Ubuntu lets people report bugs, but bugs can hang around for years without being fixed. Ubuntu is focused way too much on pushing forward and not paying enough attention to stabilizing a release or fixing long standing bugs. At least Fedora has the secondary mission of getting new technologies stable for upcoming RHEL releases. So far, so good. Fedora is not without its problems but they seem to have their stuff together better than Ubuntu these days.
A real nerd would have a Mac Mini in the car with 100+ DVD's on an actual hard disk, serving up movies from iTunes to all of the iPads in the car over wireless.
Google and others assert that images are only included in the digital copies when permission has been obtained from the copyright holder.
When a photographer sells a license for an image to be used for publication, they don't typically transfer copyright of the image. The photographer is the copyright holder of the images being used, by and large. If Google is obtaining permission from the book publisher, the book publisher often will not have the right to grant second use license of the photographs to third parties like Google.
A person who doesn't own something in the first place can't give you permission to use it.
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Sean Pertwee would give the movie at least some credibility.
Naw. Sounds like a job for Will Smith.
The camera body was also a miracle of engineering design because of the way it could fold flat for storage, but pop open in just the right manner for all the optical paths to work (including the SLR aspect).
Actually the folding feature was quite an old and mature technology by the time the SX-70 was released. Before consumers really took on to the 35mm format, medium format folding cameras were quite popular. The technology was pretty mature by the time my grandfather took his folding camera to WW2, and certainly by the 1950's when my own Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16 was manufactured.
Fuji still makes a medium format folding camera today, but it's priced for wealthy enthusiasts.
Pretty much any courier.
Now, there's no choice but to go to DigiKey and Mouser, and figure out how I'm going to meet their minimum order requirements, when all I wanted was $5 worth of stuff.
Poo to that! There are a ton of small shops on the 'net that cater to enthusiasts and will sell small quantities of components to you quite happily.
Though for bread & butter components that I am going to use pretty regularly, I'll buy those on eBay. Mostly from Chinese sellers but sometimes there are some stateside sellers competing for your business. Most of the time I get my components in from China within a week or two. I've actually had them beat Sparkfun to my mailbox when I place orders on the same day. Sometimes things get held up and you can wait a few weeks. So don't be in a rush if you go the eBay/China route.
Last time I was there I picked up some solder, resistors, a couple of LED's, and a piezo. They still have it. Not to the degree that they did, say, 25 years ago. But they had everything I was looking for in a pinch.
When you put it that way, he sounds like a great guy with strong libertarian credentials. I think I'll send him a donation for his re-election campaign.
He did. They declined.
Apparently my subtle attempts at humor were missed.
You were the only one to catch it.
You, sir, get the cookie.
I don't know if you've ever checked out Magnatune's offerings or not, but you're a lot more likely to find what you're looking for there than you are to find anything resembling popular music.
I noticed that this article contains many single-sentence paragraphs.
My instructors back in school frowned upon this practice.
Did the editor not catch this?
Make it so.
Government approved monopolies are the problem. Getting the government more entrenched in broadband is not going to make it any better. Also get the ISP's out of the business of owning the last mile network and you'll see things improve dramatically.
Amateur radio encourages this sort of Ben Franklin level home lab discovery. Advances in RF science come out of ham shacks all the time.
Anyone who would describe a US$50K car as "affordable" has more dollars than sense.
Butterface.
Here goes my good karma here.
Centuries ago, scientists were oppressed by religion.
Now this area of science has become a religion. Objectivity is gone. We see what we want to see. Discard raw data that doesn't support the hypothesis. Discredit anyone who objectively questions the faith.
Congratulations! You have become that which your greatest dignitaries fought mightily against!
I've been a Ubuntu user for about 4 years now. A couple of weeks ago I went through the painful process of migrating all of my machines back to Fedora & CentOS. Why? Ubuntu lets people report bugs, but bugs can hang around for years without being fixed. Ubuntu is focused way too much on pushing forward and not paying enough attention to stabilizing a release or fixing long standing bugs. At least Fedora has the secondary mission of getting new technologies stable for upcoming RHEL releases. So far, so good. Fedora is not without its problems but they seem to have their stuff together better than Ubuntu these days.
Your numbers do go to show that he breaks promises a lot.
Medium format film also gives you a lot more than 39 megapixels when you scan it at 3200 DPI.
I recommend avoiding the cream filled donuts.
A real nerd would have a Mac Mini in the car with 100+ DVD's on an actual hard disk, serving up movies from iTunes to all of the iPads in the car over wireless.
The Apple II did not run CP/M out of the box. You needed a Z80 card to do that.
The ISP's customers have already paid for this bandwidth. This is just pure greed.
When a photographer sells a license for an image to be used for publication, they don't typically transfer copyright of the image. The photographer is the copyright holder of the images being used, by and large. If Google is obtaining permission from the book publisher, the book publisher often will not have the right to grant second use license of the photographs to third parties like Google.
A person who doesn't own something in the first place can't give you permission to use it.