Anecdotal evidence...
My Dad is in his early 80's and he rides a motorcycle all summer and skis all winter. He is more fit and more active than many half his age. In fact many younger people literally can't keep up with him on long hikes.
I understand he is an exception, and he is starting to slow down, but with something like people, you cannot put a hard number down a la Logans Run.
For some people, like the grandparent above, 55 is too old, for others like my dad, 75 is too young (he was still active in politics, and maintaining his acreage, and volunteering with search and rescue at 75)
...And local bars don't have live music anymore because local bands aren't allowed on the radio....
You must be going to the wrong bars and listening to the wrong radio stations. Either that, or the Canadian CRTC has a point enforcing local content on radio...
yes, a zoom lens is much easier to design for a small sensor. I really wonder how sharp an image you can get with a slow 1200 or so mm equivalent handheld.
Hi, welcome to the world of 10mm-1000mm focal length telephoto lenses....
There are 10mm lenses and 1000mm lenses, I would love to be proven wrong about a zoom lens from 10mm to 1000mm for a decently large sensor. And apertures for astronomical telescopes usually work out to fairly sedate f10. This lens has an extremely fast f5.6.
PS a 10 mm eyepiece is NOT the same as a 1000mm focal length lens
for "shits and giggles" Angeneux won an academy award for the unprecedented 12-120mm lens with an unheard of 10x range.
Sorry, do your homework and learn the difference between a zoom lens and a telephoto.
never heard of mount adapters to use manual lenses from much older 35mm SLR cameras
Yes, and I have still never heard of a zoom lens with a range greater than 16 times. Most film zoom lenses maxed out at 4X
I understand perspective just fine,
I meant to say parallax, but you don't really understand either. Read farther down on the example of a chimney on a house.
Try this. Use a very wide lens, say 20mm on a full frame camera.
Bring the phone close to the camera so it fills the frame.
shooting edge on, and with the screen on top, tilt the phone up until you just see the screen.
You will not see the bump on the bottom.
or more blatantly, hold a coffee cup close to your face. Can you see the top and bottom? no. This is the same affect.
or look up perspective especially single point perspective
But... but... he has a 26X Optical Zoom on his DSLR Whatever the fuck that means.
If he really has a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) I am not aware of a zoom lens with a range greater than 16x (18-300) You do know that the multiplication factor means the longest focal length divided by the shortest.
Or maybe he meant 26x magnification at the sensor plane, in that case, he must be using a crop frame sensor with an 850 mm lens (approximately) or more likely, a 500mm (mirror) lens with a 1.4x converter
He spent all that money on photography gear and still doesn't understand perspective...
This is one of the biggest problems with our education system. We tend to teach memorization rather than understanding.
I read a quote somewhere recently, "Our brains are factories, not warehouses" yet we, as a society, tend to treat them as storage devices...
I think some sites should try direct sponsorships with a single or a few corporations.
or going the other way, maybe we could try to guess peoples wants and then just show specific ads on a site catered to that guessed want. We could call this process "targeting ads"
Unfortunately I am not sure how well we could guess the wants of random users...
posting to fix a botched moderation, but also to say that I don't follow the methodology in the summary (no I have not RTFA).
Just because advertisers are paying doesn't mean USERS are paying anywhere near that amount.
I understand advertising and marketing better than many, but I I think most companies pay too much for advertising for too small a payback.
a properly managed windows box is good, a poorly managed windows box is crap
a properly managed linux box is pretty much bomb proof, a poorly managed linux box is good.
As an outsider, sometimes I wonder if the US is really trying to kill itself. Arrogant attitudes like this ruling make it more difficult for companies to do business there.
My personal phone is a nexus 5. I was given a blackberry z-10 as a work phone. In almost every way I prefer the Android. Better keyboard, better predective text. better sound quality, better screen, better camera...
I do like the blackberry hub, and in some ways I like the Blackberry approach to email.
In summary, I would say the Blackberry is a decent communication device and a crappy pocket computer. The Nexus 5 is an excellent pocket computer and a decent communication device.
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I understand he is an exception, and he is starting to slow down, but with something like people, you cannot put a hard number down a la Logans Run. For some people, like the grandparent above, 55 is too old, for others like my dad, 75 is too young (he was still active in politics, and maintaining his acreage, and volunteering with search and rescue at 75)
You must be going to the wrong bars and listening to the wrong radio stations. Either that, or the Canadian CRTC has a point enforcing local content on radio...
yes, a zoom lens is much easier to design for a small sensor. I really wonder how sharp an image you can get with a slow 1200 or so mm equivalent handheld.
Hi, welcome to the world of 10mm-1000mm focal length telephoto lenses. ...
There are 10mm lenses and 1000mm lenses, I would love to be proven wrong about a zoom lens from 10mm to 1000mm for a decently large sensor. And apertures for astronomical telescopes usually work out to fairly sedate f10. This lens has an extremely fast f5.6. PS a 10 mm eyepiece is NOT the same as a 1000mm focal length lens for "shits and giggles" Angeneux won an academy award for the unprecedented 12-120mm lens with an unheard of 10x range. Sorry, do your homework and learn the difference between a zoom lens and a telephoto.
now that was funny...
never heard of mount adapters to use manual lenses from much older 35mm SLR cameras
Yes, and I have still never heard of a zoom lens with a range greater than 16 times. Most film zoom lenses maxed out at 4X
I understand perspective just fine,
I meant to say parallax, but you don't really understand either. Read farther down on the example of a chimney on a house.
Try this. Use a very wide lens, say 20mm on a full frame camera.
Bring the phone close to the camera so it fills the frame.
shooting edge on, and with the screen on top, tilt the phone up until you just see the screen.
You will not see the bump on the bottom.
or more blatantly, hold a coffee cup close to your face. Can you see the top and bottom? no. This is the same affect. or look up perspective especially single point perspective
oh for mod points...
But... but... he has a 26X Optical Zoom on his DSLR Whatever the fuck that means. If he really has a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) I am not aware of a zoom lens with a range greater than 16x (18-300) You do know that the multiplication factor means the longest focal length divided by the shortest. Or maybe he meant 26x magnification at the sensor plane, in that case, he must be using a crop frame sensor with an 850 mm lens (approximately) or more likely, a 500mm (mirror) lens with a 1.4x converter He spent all that money on photography gear and still doesn't understand perspective...
The US seems to have embraced the concept of "guilty until proven innocent" in a lot of their dealings.
This is one of the biggest problems with our education system. We tend to teach memorization rather than understanding. I read a quote somewhere recently, "Our brains are factories, not warehouses" yet we, as a society, tend to treat them as storage devices...
LibreOffice does about 98 percent of what I need to service my clients, but that last five percent has to be handled, too
no, I only turn on my speakers when I want to hear something, like watching a video...
I think some sites should try direct sponsorships with a single or a few corporations.
or going the other way, maybe we could try to guess peoples wants and then just show specific ads on a site catered to that guessed want. We could call this process "targeting ads" Unfortunately I am not sure how well we could guess the wants of random users...
posting to fix a botched moderation, but also to say that I don't follow the methodology in the summary (no I have not RTFA). Just because advertisers are paying doesn't mean USERS are paying anywhere near that amount. I understand advertising and marketing better than many, but I I think most companies pay too much for advertising for too small a payback.
I'm curious as to what the day to day life is like with a Hackintosh.
me too. Parts are on their way this week, so we will see...
Less Plain? Less Clear? Less Better?
FTFY
When will democracy finally have somthing they can point to that really works to fix politicians?
FTFY
FTFY again
a properly managed windows box is good, a poorly managed windows box is crap a properly managed linux box is pretty much bomb proof, a poorly managed linux box is good.
" And Windows 8 as is is ONLY oriented towards tablets" false.
false
As an outsider, sometimes I wonder if the US is really trying to kill itself. Arrogant attitudes like this ruling make it more difficult for companies to do business there.
This deserves mod points. This is one reason many companies are leery of storing private data in the cloud (among other reasons)
or "see here"
My personal phone is a nexus 5. I was given a blackberry z-10 as a work phone. In almost every way I prefer the Android. Better keyboard, better predective text. better sound quality, better screen, better camera...
I do like the blackberry hub, and in some ways I like the Blackberry approach to email.
In summary, I would say the Blackberry is a decent communication device and a crappy pocket computer. The Nexus 5 is an excellent pocket computer and a decent communication device.
shouldn't you have backups?
This needs at least a +3 Funny