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July 9th 2007, 19:55 CEST by lwf Here is a place for all of you to talk about WoW, Magic, LOTRO, C+, C#, Visual Basic, Pointers, Gardening, Astrology, MeyersBriggs, Gaggle vs. Joker, and Jibble's kinks. |
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Please tell me all there is to know about this eggplant. Excruciating detail, if possible. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Cool. Is the meter something you have to actually put in the scene when you fire the flash or do you point it at the scene and get a reading? I went with the cheaper speedlight on my Canon Rebel Xt but it doesn't have a receiver for off the camera firing unless I hook it up via a PC synch cable (or a stupidly expensive Pocket Wizard or something). Which is on my list of camera toys to buy among many other things. I'd love to do more off-camera lighting but I think I'll splurge on a soft box or something before upgrading my speedlight or getting separate strobes. You can actually get them for under $100 if you want to take chances on eBay. |
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#27 by Shadarr I have a Nikon F75, and one of these days I'll probably break down and buy a D80. I want to learn to use the flash off the camera, so I need a way to measure the flash. TTL would work fine if I bought a Nikon flash, but it's way more expensive, doesn't have a PC sync port, wouldn't give me manual control and wouldn't actually teach me anything. The flashmeter I bought has a PC port, so you can fire the flash with the meter at the subject, and it'll give you a reading on the flash. It'll also give an accurate reading if the flash is bounced off a wall, put through a filter or whatever, because it's just measuring the actual light level. I don't know how smart the Nikon system is, but I'm sure there are limits. Plus the Vivitar flash is $90 vs $300-500 for the Nikon. Oooh, the D80? I'm seriously considering the D40 to replace the Fuji S7000(kinda DSLR) I love so much. The only reason I'm hesitating is I don't like the thought of changing lenses every time I want to take a Macro shot or a shot far away. Is it as much of a pain in the butt as I'm imagining it to be? But maybe all the extra control that comes with the D40 will offset that kind of stuff. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Gah, #31 was for #27. |
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We have a D80 and recently purchased the 18-200mm Nikkor lens for it. It should cover most all of our shot ranges without having to change out a lens. Now to learn how to use the thing... |
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#32 by jjohnsen Oooh, the D80? I'm seriously considering the D40 to replace the Fuji S7000(kinda DSLR) I love so much. The only reason I'm hesitating is I don't like the thought of changing lenses every time I want to take a Macro shot or a shot far away. Is it as much of a pain in the butt as I'm imagining it to be? But maybe all the extra control that comes with the D40 will offset that kind of stuff. jjohnson, you can't go wrong with either Nikon or Canon. Both are great, but from what I've read and seen there are more lenses and accessories available for Canons at the moment, so you have more choice when expanding your DSLR system. And switching lenses is the burden of the SLR system, but you get a lot more flexibility. I personally have 3 lenses that cover 99% of my needs. In order of how frequently I use them: A 28-135mm zoom w/ image stabilization A 50mm prime (i.e., doesn't zoom) A 70-300mm telephoto zoom w/ image stabalization I'd like a macro, so it's also on my wish list. The 28-135mm lens covers the majority of that 99%, especially for snapshots and portraits of my family. Something in that range (as most kit lenses are) is more than enough to get you started. The 50mm f/1.4 prime is also a wonderful lens for low light (e.g., indoors) without a flash. |
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Jamie, I know you do macro stuff. How much does that type of lens cost? Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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I don't actually own a real macro lens. "Real" as in it'll do 1:1 magnification without cropping. I just zoom in on stuff with a regular zoom lens and maybe crop for what I've done so far. From what I remember decent actual macro lenses are pretty cheap, in the $200 to $300 range. |
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I'd love a digital SLR, but carrying around that large body with attached lens is a deal-breaker for me anymore. I switched to a pocket-sized camera a couple of years ago and will never go back. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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That's why I have both. :) |
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That's why I have just one! You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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I have both, but I really hate the photos that come out of my pocket camera. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Ergo I'd love a digital SLR, but carrying around that large body with attached lens is a deal-breaker for me anymore. I switched to a pocket-sized camera a couple of years ago and will never go back. Sadly, I think this is the way I must go. I love being able to muddle around with aperture size and shutter speed and whatnot, but the size of those things isn't practical - especially when the results of nearly any pocket camera on the market will put my aging phat camera to shame. - words and stuff -
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I have a Canon 7.1 MP camera and its pictures are great. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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My latest purchase is an Xtreme DS cart, with 512mb on there for homebrew goodness. Does anyone have any particular DS apps thy recommend. Is there any real practical way to turn the DS into a word-processor, for example? - words and stuff -
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I only have a 35-300mm right now, so I've never changed it. The only thing it doesn't do is macro, which is annoying. My old Pentax had a 50mm and a 70-200mm that did macro, and I almost never changed the lens because even for landscapes, the slightly wider angle wasn't worth the hassle. When I get the D80 I want to get basically the exact lens I have now with macro, and that'll be all the lens I'll ever need (unless I run into some money and get a ridiculously long lens for nature photography). The way a flashmeter works is that you measure the light before you shoot, and then you set your exposure manually. It doesn't plug into the camera at all, unlike the Nikon system, so it's all manual. Which will be a little cumbersome at first, but I figure it's a much better use of my time to learn how to work manual than it is to figure out how to get the Nikon system to do what I want. I've had enough trouble learning how to use the camera itself without adding another layer of crazy Nikon interface.. In some ways I miss my old Pentax, because the interface was a lot simpler. Of course, I've gotten some shots that I never would've before thanks to autofocus, but using the Nikon in manual mode can be very frustrating. For example I was trying to use manual exposure settings to do some night photography, and the camera refused to take the picture. I'd push the shutter button and nothing would happen. I had to switch to manual focus before it would respect my authoritah. Horrible song of the nonce: Left Behind
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I don't even know what macro is. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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You know in porn when they zoom in so far you can see every pore and pimple on a woman's vagina? That's macro. Horrible song of the nonce: Left Behind
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You can get great shots out of a point and shoot if you have plenty of light and a cooperative subject. I use mine all the time, especially when I don't want to lug my whole SLR system around. I'd never recommend a DSLR to someone who just wants to take snapshots of their kids or their vacation or party pics. But there are some reasons to put up with the cost and hassle if you want to: 1. Shooting in RAW format, which gives you stupidly high levels of control over post-processing so you can improve white balance, color, contrast, etc. Basically you can fix anything but composition, focus, and extreme over/under exposure. RAW always trumps jpg in this, and I don't think many (any?) P&S cameras shoot in RAW. 2. Getting artistic effects like shallow depth of field (i.e., where the subject is in focus, but the background/foreground are blurred) or motion blur. You can shoot in semiauto or manual mode with most P&Ss, but it requires tedious menu navigation and doesn't work as well as a good zoom lens and a SLR in aperture or shutter priority mode. 3. The ability to add more powerful and more flexible external flashes. I can point my speedlight so that it bounces the flash off walls and ceilings, which gives more flexibility on lighting and keeps the flash from overexposing the subject since it's not fired directly at it. I don't even use the flash on my P&S because it ruins almost every shot. 4. Faster zooming. The optical zoom systems on P&S cameras is slow, cludgy, and at extremes will ruin a pic. If you're trying to photograph something like an active child, sports, or wildlife, being able to zoom in and out with a quick turn of the wrist will result in a lot more good shots. Those are the big 4, but I could go on. And on. Photography has kind of eclipsed gaming as my main hobby in the last couple of years. |
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#45 by Shadarr IThe way a flashmeter works is that you measure the light before you shoot, and then you set your exposure manually. Oh. So like a $3 gray card. ;) For example I was trying to use manual exposure settings to do some night photography, and the camera refused to take the picture. I'd push the shutter button and nothing would happen. I had to switch to manual focus before it would respect my authoritah. Yeah, I've run into this too. The autofocus system needs light to tell if it's in focus. So I do manual, then forget to switch it back and get yelled at by my wife the next time she tries to use it and can't figure out what's wrong. |
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Marsh Davies said in #44: Is there any real practical way to turn the DS into a word-processor, for example? Yes. There are some other more single-minded apps as well. |
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Oh. So like a $3 gray card. ;) If you can see the exposure settings during the 1/60th of a second that the flash fires, you're a better man than me. The autofocus system needs light to tell if it's in focus. Ah, that makes sense. It was a little weird because it would've happily taken a picture in aperture-priority mode, but then refused when I cranked the shutter speed down in manual. But it may have also been because I was using the remote, so I wasn't locking in focus on my subject and then reframing and shooting in one motion, so maybe it was trying to autofocus when there was nothing close enough in the focus zone. Horrible song of the nonce: Left Behind
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Because I was bored at work, I thought I would expand on my previous answer to Marsh, but I just looked at the Wikipedia entry for NDS Homebrew and realized that they already have everything listed there and categorized nicely. However, I had already written the below so I figure I might as well post it: The most popular apps are MoonShell for media player stuff, DSOrganize for PDA type stuff (text editor, audio player, database, web browser, irc, file browser, contacts, calendar, etc.), DSFTP for ftp stuff, various alarm clock and mp3 player apps (SylphAmp, DSAmp, SIDPlayerDS, MP3Play, DS Web Radio), irc clients (SylphIRC), etc. The newest cool apps are drum machines, sample editors (NitroTracker), X10 compatible remotes, and XBOX 360 media center remotes. Also, Subway maps. And then of course there are the various emulators, including ScummVM. But you ought to be able to find those on your own. Finally, to answer your more specific quesiton, here is a standalone text editor that I have used and do not hate (DSe-Notepad). |
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My old Pentax had a 50mm and a 70-200mm that did macro, and I almost never changed the lens because even for landscapes, the slightly wider angle wasn't worth the hassle. When I get the D80 I want to get basically the exact lens I have now with macro, and that'll be all the lens I'll ever need (unless I run into some money and get a ridiculously long lens for nature photography). Wait, they have lenses that go up to 200 mm and still are useful for macro? Sweet. #46 by CheesyPoof I don't even know what macro is. My humble attempts at macro. Basically getting in really close. It bores the hell out of most people, but I think it's fun to play with. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Those are the big 4, but I could go on. And on. Photography has kind of eclipsed gaming as my main hobby in the last couple of years. I starting to find that as well. I told my wife I needed a break from finals, so she told me to take off and do whatever I wanted. Instead of playing Overlord, I grabbed my camera. Two years ago that never would have happened. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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I'm pretty sure there was a 300mm with macro that I could've bought with my new camera, but I cheaped out. On my old lens, it basically just let you crank the focus way further than normal when you're zoomed in all the way. Horrible song of the nonce: Left Behind
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I would say cameras falls under things I don't care about. At least until I have to buy one. "…a four-dimensional real vector space equipped with a nondegenerate, symmetric bilinear form."
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This thread combined with my compulsion to read every post is filling me with regrets. |
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Let go of your OCD. Let it flow free. Skip posts. Be happy. "…a four-dimensional real vector space equipped with a nondegenerate, symmetric bilinear form."
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I'm happy enough with my panasonic fz7. I'm to retarded to go with a DSLR, but the fz7 cuts a fine enough rug for me. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I bought another bike. With all the ones I've bought and sold within the last three years, that makes (Stumpjumper, Peugot, Bowery, Rush, Mojo, Jake the Snake, OCR-2) seven. Good thing I've sold four of them or else I'd have no room. Also, I'm at WebDesign World in Seattle. This town is beautiful, and awesome. I wonder how crappy it is when it's raining. |
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It's still pretty nice even when it's raining. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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#53 by jjohnsen My humble attempts at macro. Basically getting in really close. It bores the hell out of most people, but I think it's fun to play with. These are old and I've shown them before, but whatever. My old work wallpaper, which I eventually heard was worrying people. Case screws sitting on an old Maxtor hard drive. Flower penis Those thumblatch thingies on windows. |
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Not macro, but here are the two photos I took for my mom's birthday card. I quite like how they turned out. Horrible song of the nonce: Left Behind
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#60 by schnee I bought another bike. With all the ones I've bought and sold within the last three years, that makes (Stumpjumper, Peugot, Bowery, Rush, Mojo, Jake the Snake, OCR-2) seven. Good thing I've sold four of them or else I'd have no room. Also, I'm at WebDesign World in Seattle. This town is beautiful, and awesome. I wonder how crappy it is when it's raining. Three? Street bike, mountain bike and some other form I've never heard of? Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Shadarr-- Those are both really nice pics. Kudos. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religions. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. --Aldous Huxley
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jjohnsen: I'd like to give a shout out for the Pentax range - the K10D is supposed to be a fine piece of kit. Pentax aren't as popular as Nikon and Canon but the K10D (and the older ist* models) have the Pentax KAF lense mount. What this means is that you have access to absolutely loads of Pentax K-mount lenses. |
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Three? Street bike, mountain bike and some other form I've never heard of? The third bike is a cyclocross, which is basically a road bike (larger wheels, drop handlebars) with slightly fatter tires. It's a weird Belgian sport where road bikes are raced off-road on grassy, muddy courses with obstacles like logs and fences. The idea is you ride as fast as possible when you can, and put the bike on your shoulder and run when you can't. It's a winter cross-training sport for cyclists. I like the type of bike because they're beefy and strong like a mountain bike while still being fast on the street like a road bike. I can beat the hell out of it, hop curbs, go off-road, and still hold my own with a road bike on street. The gearing is more set up for mountain biking - take really steep hills and whatnot - so it's not ideal for the fast club riding I'm doing now. The new bike is a full carbon Giant limited edition that weights 19.3 pounds. It was normally a $2300 bike, but since it's a 2006 close-out, I got it for $1500. Since you don't care, it's a full Ultegra groupset, which means it's using the second-best level of components for the brakes, gears, shifters, and cranks; that normally costs $900. Factor in everything else, and the bike is a hell of a deal. I'll take pictures when I get back. |
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I've always wanted to get into hardcore biking, but I just can't imagine dropping more than two or three hundred on a bicycle, even if it weighs eight ounces and is made out of titanium and can travel in time when you hit 88 mph. |
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schnee (#68): Three? Street bike, mountain bike and some other form I've never heard of? The third bike is a cyclocross, which is basically a road bike (larger wheels, drop handlebars) with slightly fatter tires. It's a weird Belgian sport where road bikes are raced off-road on grassy, muddy courses with obstacles like logs and fences. The idea is you ride as fast as possible when you can, and put the bike on your shoulder and run when you can't. It's a winter cross-training sport for cyclists. I like the type of bike because they're beefy and strong like a mountain bike while still being fast on the street like a road bike. I can beat the hell out of it, hop curbs, go off-road, and still hold my own with a road bike on street. The gearing is more set up for mountain biking - take really steep hills and whatnot - so it's not ideal for the fast club riding I'm doing now. That actually sounds like a lot of fun for some reason. I mean logically it sounds pretty retarded (Lets make a race where you carry your bike for parts of it!), but for some reason it really appeals to me. I've never been a professional bike rider, but the stuff you describe, minus the almost killing yourself, sounds like a lot of fun. I just ride around here, through swamps and shit. On a mountain bike, with the wrong kind of tires for riding in sand. And every time I do it, I think to myself, "I should get some tires made to ride on sand, instead of these fuckers that dig in..." But I keep forgetting, until I ride on sand again. :P My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
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bishop (#69): I've always wanted to get into hardcore biking, but I just can't imagine dropping more than two or three hundred on a bicycle, even if it weighs eight ounces and is made out of titanium and can travel in time when you hit 88 mph. I spent $550 on my current bike, just to get something that I didn't have to worry about falling apart right away...some Raleigh mountain bike. Been very much worth it 7-8 years later. Easily put hundreds of miles on it with no problems beyond normal wear and tear. Basically, you get what you pay for when you buy a Walmart bike... My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
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My walmart bike is on the porch, leaning proudly with one working brake, a useless kickstand, and hundreds of miles on it, quietly weeping. |
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bishop (#72): My walmart bike is on the porch, leaning proudly with one working brake, a useless kickstand, and hundreds of miles on it, quietly weeping. heh. Kickstand? No thanks! My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
"I'm not sure it's possible to make a "subtle" jab at Matt's writing ability." - Ergo |
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You'll be stunned to find out Gonzales lied: As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005. Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
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We're down to two possibilities again: 1) He lied to Congress. 2) He's incompetent and didn't read the reports. I honestly don't think he lied. I think he, like the rest of the administration, simply ignores any and all reports that have the word "oversight" on the cover. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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So I guess the DC Madam released all her old phone records on the web. Going to be interesting to watch all the political blog followers try in vain to match phone numbers to politicians. I'm guessing most of them would use unlisted numbers, and hence improbable to trace back unless you're a phone company employee. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Jibble (#75): We're down to two possibilities again: 1) He lied to Congress. 2) He's incompetent and didn't read the reports. I honestly don't think he lied. I think he, like the rest of the administration, simply ignores any and all reports that have the word "oversight" on the cover. You really think he's dumb enough to not read the reports? Really? I have a hard time believing that. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in
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His record isn't exactly stellar. He's a lap dog. Gee, I wonder what will happen if we convict him of perjury. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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He'll appeal the conviction to the Supreme Court and win in a 5-4 decision? Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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