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The car I drive every day is an '88 Volvo 240. Believe me, its worn, but the damn thing just won't die. I refuse to get another car as long as it still runs.
Fender has been selling pre-worn (relic) guitars for a while now. I wouldn't dream of telling anyone what to spend their money on, but I think it kinda dumb. People also take belt sanders to new instruments so they look worn. Sigh.
The Connoisseurship of Wear and Tear
Apropos the Leikravitz...you'd think I'd like it, because I have a weakness for the look of brassed Leicas and I even took a nickel to a pristine OM-4T once and took some of the paint off the titanium*. Back in the days o' film I used to covet black-paint Leicas, although I never owned one. I on...
Old Hickory knives are pretty good. They hold an edge well and they're not expensive. Their one drawback is that they're not stainless, so they'll rust if you don't care for them properly.
BTW, I don't shave with my kitchen knives, just cut onions and such.
https://ontarioknife.com/cutlery/old-hickory
Fun Facts
The composer and pianist Franz Liszt by Nadar. Notice that neither resolution nor bokeh are problems here...and before you complain about it not being in color, check here. Face it: There are roughly a quarter of a billion photographs uploaded to Facebook every day. That's 10,000 times the numb...
Most people use their phones for casual (or all) of their picture taking these days. I frequently encourage them to get high quality prints made of their favorites. Prints are fragile in their own right, but they're technology independent. I've been in the IT business long enough to know you can do everything right and still lose stuff.
The family album under grandma's bed has no digital equivalent.
As for me, I hope to leave some interesting trash for my heirs to throw out.
Will Your Photos Outlast You?
Words and photographs by Gordon Lewis One of my ongoing interests—I won’t use the word concerns because that could imply worry or anxiety—is how long my images will last. Given my own impermanence, I lack the hubris to expect that any photographs I’ve produced will last forever. I’d certainly lo...
How about some octal humor? Why do mathematicians (or programmers) always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
My all-time favorite nerd joke (perhaps tied with Sheldon's "nearest stars" song) has got to be
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you
All I can say is "Google it".
Saturday Joke
- "There are two types of people in the world. 1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete information." - (G.K. Froehlich, quoting his daughter) Original contents copyright 2014 by Michael C. Johnston and/or the bylined author. All Rights Reserved. Links in this post may be to our affiliates; ...
I've noticed that people in museums will take a picture of an object and then look at the picture on their cell phone, even though the original is right in front of them.
Cell phones are how we experience reality.
Small Joke
Q: A scenic overlook. A man with a large camera bag puts the bag down, sets up a tripod in a selected spot and attaches a large DSLR to it. He fiddles with the controls, peers through the camera, adjusts the lens, moves the tripod a little, peers through the camera again, fiddles some more, and,...
The original Old White Guys did reunion tour a few years back. It wasn't all terrific but "Kashmir" was a real standout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y
Some of the songs are pitched down a bit to accommodate Plant's voice. It's interesting that some people don't notice this just like some people don't notice different color light sources (until you point it out).
The New 'Kodachrome' (Music Notes)
My friend-I've-never-met Gordon Lewis (and we should do something about that someday, Gordon) sent me a link the other day, wondering idly if perhaps photography needed an updated anthem now that Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" is as outdated as—well, Kodachrome. It was a song called "Bad Self Portrai...
"So here we come to the point of this whole reminiscence: what are the chances you're ever going to find an old digital file under a piece of old furniture?"
Exactly! I tell this to people all the time! Pick your favorite pictures, get some quality prints made and store them somewhere safe. Someday you'll be happy you did.
What are the chances that the memories "in your phone" will be readable or even still exist in twenty years? Not high, I'm guessing. What if you die suddenly? What happens to your digital assets? Maybe that isn't the first thing your heirs will worry about, but it still matters.
Open Mike: The Print Under the Whatever-It's-Called
[Ed. Note: This post was modified after many of the first comments had come in.] I found an old print the other day. I was playing fetch with Lulu (in the house—she hates snow because it gets in her pads and makes her miserable) and a tennis ball rolled under the...well, I don't know what the pi...
"Isn't there always a pickup truck?"
As many will point out, that's why we have Photoshop.
There was a partial eclipse of the sun visible from here in November. I drove out to the beach so I could get a picture of the mis-shapen sun as it rose over the ocean. I just happened to put a second camera in the bag at the last minute. Turns out that was a good idea, because the the camera that's ALWAYS packed and ready to go did NOT have a card. There were no spares in the bag, either.
May you always have a spare card and battery in 2014.
Merry Christmas
The view from TOP World Headquarters at sunset last night. Taken about twelve feet away from where I sit at my computer to write. So I stepped outside to get the mail. As soon as I saw the empty mailbox, I realized I'd already gotten the mail. It came back to me what was in it. As I was thinki...
And Amazon already has eight reviews. Man, the world moves fast these days.
Nikon D600: Is This For Real?
Is this true? I just noticed that Amazon is listing the new Nikon D600 as being "in stock." And promising delivery as early as tomorrow. That would be a change from recent industry trends, to have a hot new mainstream camera available within mere days of its announcement. And B&H Photo lists it...
If you agitate the card too much, the zeroes, being round, will fall out before the ones. This will cause your highlights to block up.
Also be careful when you transmit files. As above, the zeroes go through fine but the ones get stuck (they're pointy). They sometimes get caught in the Ethernet.
Proper Handling of Memory Cards for the Digital Photographer
By Lamberto Go SA* Tip #1. Download, email, post-process and/or print your images promptly. If you wait weeks or months, the colors could fade, saturation could suffer and color balance could shift. Or worse, image files could become corrupt or you could misplace your card. Tip #2. When you're ...
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