There has been a lot of talk on this thread about digital cameras and digital photography. But really, who needs to go digital, when there are still gems like this floating about?
Or maybe if your not so keen on large format, maybe a nice Super Ikonta B folding camera would suit sir? Equivalent to 200 megapixels. Better prints, and more "Wows" than any digital camera on the market...
"The photographer is trying to charge high prices for the easy part of the work - making copies - and keep prices low for the hard part of the work - setting up a good pose with good lighting and a good background - because the technology used to allow this pricing model."
Is that study based on black and white or colour printing? What emulsions are being tested? How about a URL? I'm (relatively) interested in doing a cost/quality study of film and digital.
Also, dependent on what size MF you do (645, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 or the panoramic 6x12 / 6x17) you'd get different results. This is before you even start thinking about large format (5x4 and 10x8) - contact printing 10x8, or a small enlargement from 5x4.
Still, I'll stick with the Zeiss Super Ikonta and the Thornton Pickard for a few more decades yet...!
Yes, but the photographer charges for HIGH-QUALITY hand-made prints, which is what you pay your money for. Not some half-assed inkjet print of your PC.
When you look at the cost of the materials, equipment and expertise of having prints made, most photographers charge very well.
Eg. To print Ilfochrome (from slides), it will cost around 2 or 3 UKP per print (paper and chemicals). A good printer should be able to get the right print in 3 goes.
To print black and white, it's cheaper.
But, you are also paying for expertise, which in these Kodacrap, Super Happy Snap Snappey Snap days is something most people don't have...
Okay - I'm fighting a losing battle, trying to tell/.ers the merits of hand-printed darkroom prints over inkjets. I'll just go back to Photo.net and sulk...
Jabber, fantastic technology that it is, really should be made standard. For too long, Instant Messaging has been in corporate pockets and completely useless.
The IETF should give Jabber recognition as the industry standard, and then it is up to the other software manufacturers to comply to the Jabber standard or fall behind.
Now, I would never really say this, but... "w00t w00t!". Okay, I'll come quietly...
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And the whole of the US is not up-in-arms about these situations. They're sitting back and taking it with comfort.
YES! I'm talking to you! The world is warring, people are dying. But that doesn't matter. Does it? Because you've got a widescreen HDTV. Or a new SUV. Or that new Jacko CD.
I wasn't bragging about not watching TV. I said I chose not to watch TV. But, I'm also saying that if I were to watch TV, i would probably watch BBC. because it's the best thing out there. And it's good value for money.
I do like their radio stations as well. Radio 2 has very good music on at times, and Radio 1 is occasionally good.
Yeah you can. I'm running on 10.1 (not for long...) and you can run X apps through XDarwin - go back to the terminal (@console, not Terminal.app), or you can run something like OroborOSX - a system that lets you run X apps in an interleaved space in Aqua.
In OroborOSX it isn't proper Aqua (taken from Mac OS X) - it's simulant Aqua... but you don't notice the difference.
Eg... let's see... haven't played around with it, so I'll use something simple... xedit. It opens up in a blank Aqua window, but has the elements of xedit inside. It also transmits clicking on the Red (close) sphere back to the X program, and it can interact.
It's also themable, so the mock-Aqua bits can be substituted for that of your choice - classic, 'NeXTish' and 'Greyphyte'.
I need to play about with a lot, but unfortunately, have other things to do...
Thank the Lord (and the Open Source Community) for Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up in months... And that 'Block Images from this Server' has helped me take back my bandwidth!
Plus it'll be illegal under the DMCA if your not careful... If you do go to a library, the Police will hunt you down and arrest and Hilary Rosen will come and kill you and murder all your family members.
I'm not saying TV is a bad thing. It could be great. It could be fantastic in fact. BUT, people... a) watch FAR too much of it b) 99.9% of the stuff is complete trash (like home shopping and bad soaps and crap) and c) the stuff that is good is shown so infrequently.
In moderation, and selectively TV can be a good thing. But exercise control extremely tightly.
I'm not "proud" that I don't watch TV. Well, not much. I'm proud that I have more time to spend with my family. I'm proud that I have more time to spend writing my book and working on my site (and helping my mate out with his). I'm proud that I can read more stuff.
And most of all, I'm proud that I'm not getting hyped up about a bunch of overpaid actors acting badly and flinging out bad cliches.
It is good - BBC produce some of the finest content out there, and I'm more than willing to pay the tax (actually, I don't have too... seeing as my house has a resident that is over seventy five).
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Just wait until J.K. Rowling authorises Slashdot to produce the 'l337 h4x0r' version...
/. crowd may read it...
"h4RrY p0773r @nd 7h3 pH1l0z0oPh3rS s70nE".
Perhaps then the
No, I wasn't being serious - it was just a good excuse to post a link to a brilliant Bill Brandt picture!
There has been a lot of talk on this thread about digital cameras and digital photography. But really, who needs to go digital, when there are still gems like this floating about? Or maybe if your not so keen on large format, maybe a nice Super Ikonta B folding camera would suit sir? Equivalent to 200 megapixels. Better prints, and more "Wows" than any digital camera on the market...
Why not? Check out Bill Brandt's "Self Portrait" in black and white (1966). That's how you do a self portrait!!
"The photographer is trying to charge high prices for the easy part of the work - making copies - and keep prices low for the hard part of the work - setting up a good pose with good lighting and a good background - because the technology used to allow this pricing model."
Ever used a darkroom?
Is that study based on black and white or colour printing? What emulsions are being tested? How about a URL? I'm (relatively) interested in doing a cost/quality study of film and digital.
Also, dependent on what size MF you do (645, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 or the panoramic 6x12 / 6x17) you'd get different results. This is before you even start thinking about large format (5x4 and 10x8) - contact printing 10x8, or a small enlargement from 5x4.
Still, I'll stick with the Zeiss Super Ikonta and the Thornton Pickard for a few more decades yet...!
Yes, but the photographer charges for HIGH-QUALITY hand-made prints, which is what you pay your money for. Not some half-assed inkjet print of your PC.
/.ers the merits of hand-printed darkroom prints over inkjets. I'll just go back to Photo.net and sulk...
When you look at the cost of the materials, equipment and expertise of having prints made, most photographers charge very well.
Eg. To print Ilfochrome (from slides), it will cost around 2 or 3 UKP per print (paper and chemicals). A good printer should be able to get the right print in 3 goes.
To print black and white, it's cheaper.
But, you are also paying for expertise, which in these Kodacrap, Super Happy Snap Snappey Snap days is something most people don't have...
Okay - I'm fighting a losing battle, trying to tell
I read recentely that if you shoot medium format, to equal the quality digitally, you would have to have a camera that is 27 mega-pixes.
How much is a MF? I know someone who bought a Bronica second hand for 700 UKP, including one lens.
And 35mm is about 12MP - and you can get a 35mm SLR for under 300 UKP, with numerous lenses.
"photographers are not millionares (for the most part! ;)"
Tell me about it. ^_^
Jabber, fantastic technology that it is, really should be made standard. For too long, Instant Messaging has been in corporate pockets and completely useless.
The IETF should give Jabber recognition as the industry standard, and then it is up to the other software manufacturers to comply to the Jabber standard or fall behind.
Now, I would never really say this, but... "w00t w00t!". Okay, I'll come quietly...
Yeah yeah yeah, and you were a "great" help in World War two...
And the whole of the US is not up-in-arms about these situations. They're sitting back and taking it with comfort.
YES! I'm talking to you! The world is warring, people are dying. But that doesn't matter. Does it? Because you've got a widescreen HDTV. Or a new SUV. Or that new Jacko CD.
God, why didn't they just send this stupid idea to /dev/laundry ?
"Why not call it what it is?"
These are marketing people remember.
They're rather aversed to using proper descriptions...
They are the same people who sell you a car but call it a lifestyle...
And later on I Luv The 90's, we look at Pokemon cards, Micheal Jackson's ever-evolving face and the unpopularity of video phones!
I wasn't bragging about not watching TV. I said I chose not to watch TV. But, I'm also saying that if I were to watch TV, i would probably watch BBC. because it's the best thing out there. And it's good value for money.
I do like their radio stations as well. Radio 2 has very good music on at times, and Radio 1 is occasionally good.
I'm a citizen. Not a consumer.
You can provide for me. Not program for me.
"Here are some of our 101 Screen-Free Activities."
some (adj.) Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group - dictionary.com
Yeah you can. I'm running on 10.1 (not for long...) and you can run X apps through XDarwin - go back to the terminal (@console, not Terminal.app), or you can run something like OroborOSX - a system that lets you run X apps in an interleaved space in Aqua.
In OroborOSX it isn't proper Aqua (taken from Mac OS X) - it's simulant Aqua... but you don't notice the difference.
Eg... let's see... haven't played around with it, so I'll use something simple... xedit. It opens up in a blank Aqua window, but has the elements of xedit inside. It also transmits clicking on the Red (close) sphere back to the X program, and it can interact.
It's also themable, so the mock-Aqua bits can be substituted for that of your choice - classic, 'NeXTish' and 'Greyphyte'.
I need to play about with a lot, but unfortunately, have other things to do...
(Most of) The Slashdot crowd aren't the problem - it's the mindless drones who will sit and watch anything for hours on end, even if it's shit.
And to take your joke semi-seriously - how about programming books. How can you bias an instruction book on PHP? Or a reference guide to Linux?
Thank the Lord (and the Open Source Community) for Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up in months... And that 'Block Images from this Server' has helped me take back my bandwidth!
Plus it'll be illegal under the DMCA if your not careful... If you do go to a library, the Police will hunt you down and arrest and Hilary Rosen will come and kill you and murder all your family members.
I'm not saying TV is a bad thing. It could be great. It could be fantastic in fact. BUT, people...
a) watch FAR too much of it
b) 99.9% of the stuff is complete trash (like home shopping and bad soaps and crap)
and c) the stuff that is good is shown so infrequently.
In moderation, and selectively TV can be a good thing. But exercise control extremely tightly.
I'm not "proud" that I don't watch TV. Well, not much. I'm proud that I have more time to spend with my family. I'm proud that I have more time to spend writing my book and working on my site (and helping my mate out with his). I'm proud that I can read more stuff.
And most of all, I'm proud that I'm not getting hyped up about a bunch of overpaid actors acting badly and flinging out bad cliches.
It is good - BBC produce some of the finest content out there, and I'm more than willing to pay the tax (actually, I don't have too... seeing as my house has a resident that is over seventy five).
BBC == darn good!
I don't. And I haven't found my life in any way worse off. In many ways, I have found life without TV a big improvement, in that I can now think.
www.tvturnoff.org is a good place to start if your interested in unplugging from the Plug in Drug.