I'm still learning too. I recently found that, despite being heavily right-handed, shaving the right side of my neck was cleaner using my left hand. Must be something about getting the angle right. I'm still working my way through my West Coast variety pack. I'm not a big fan of the Merkurs...

Quote: Originally Posted by Towert7 Don't feel bad. Just live and learn. True, true - I just shot a whole roll of 35mm on a camera with a hole in the shutter. Fix the shutter and move on - count that roll as a learning reminder to more closely inspect new cameras before shooting.

A couple out of one of my pinhole cameras during the worldwide photowalk a couple of weeks ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by Audio2004 and probably made in US?. The Gizmo is also made in China.

Note in the terms linked by jsaliga, the date is not guaranteed if: Quote: c. The shipment was detained or delayed by customs authorities or other law enforcement agency for law enforcement purposes;

A little fun with the lens off my new FED3

Quote: Originally Posted by ka-boom My first ever attempt at "panning". And a great one - very nice! @wanderman - I did a double-take on that one because I realized I knew that station. Nice long exposure - the streaking makes the train look like it was going in the opposite...

Nice - my FED 3 has arrived and looks excellent. Fits right in with the crew (Canonet QL17 on left and Canon AT-1 on right)

You can rip the CD to wav and open it in an audio editor that has a spectral display function and see if there's a high-frequency cut-off that's indicative of most compression. Here's an example of a VBR mp3 using Adobe Audition: You can see the abrupt cut at ~19.3kHz as compared to this...

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Since his only other posts are on the same subject, it smells a bit spammy to me.

Quote: Originally Posted by Baines93 Brad, the Reading one is only a 30min train ride away, and only has a few people, but I'm concerned i'll be the only one there who isn't a seasoned pro/adult, and/or won't see anything I can make a good shot out of, while all the others will be...

Baines93 - you should see if there's a photowalk in your area on the 18th. You can see a listing here: Listing of all Photo Walks | Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk (scroll down to UK). Sending a day with other photo junkies might get you back into the groove.

I'm curious about the blue/cyan glasses. I saw both Up and Coraline in 3D and both used circular polarizing glasses (polarized in opposite directions) with a 4x frame rate movie and alternating polarization on the frames. The effect doesn't work perfectly for me, so I suspect my regular glasses...

I dig the color contrast on the first one dfkt. agnostic - Good stuff, particularly the second one - catching the statue in a visible shadow reinforces his somber expression. An Ikon would be a fun camera to try out. BTW: Based on your earlier recommendation, I picked up a FED3 that should be...

Quote: Originally Posted by BradJudy I just did a bit of digging to figure out who this cross was for. About a little over a year ago, a tornado came through downtown Atlanta, doing a lot of damage. Initially, no one was thought to be killed, but days later Gregory Lee was...

A bit of B&W film from a recent outing (Canon AT-1, 50/1.8, Kodak Tri-X) I've been playing with various crops on this one and I can't settle on one that I really like, although I like the overall composition.

RMAF is a great show in general and I'd recommend that any local audio geeks attend. Having Head-Fi there will be an added bonus. I attended the first three RMAF's, but now live out of state and don't attend anymore. Al was a great guy and I had the pleasure of seeing him each year I...

Thanks for the thoughts. I want to step up the potential in my pics, but have always balked at the bulk of moving to a DSLR for traveling. I usually don't carry a backpack when walking around on vacation (unless I'm hiking), but I don't mind a camera around my neck/shoulder. When I was in Prague...

Quote: Originally Posted by nineohtoo Also, pardon my ignorance, but is there a way to manually shoot with this camera? I see the dial on the left side of the camera, but that's an awfully awkward position if that's what it's for. There is a second dial on the right side of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dj_mocok If IQ and high ISO performance are your main reasons to buy a new camera, I think you would be better off with a DSLR, but then again it's not that portable. I'm curious why you think a DSLR would be a better choice with that criteria...

Isn't wifi disabled in airplane mode?

Well, I won't be buying both - at least not in the foreseeable future. The point of the E-P1 (to me) is that it can be both the travel camera and the lens-specific camera, and do both at high quality. My priority for digital is something that travels well on either an international trip, or...

Thanks for the info dj. I'm still debating if I'm going to take the leap with this one. While I'm not a hardcore photographer, my cameras are fairly diverse and in film I shoot with a combination of SLR, rangefinder, dual-lens and pinhole (a wide variety of "viewfinders"). In digital I only have...

Thanks for the tips. Since I don't have extra IC's, I just fiddled with the trimpot for another half hour tonight. I was finally able to get it to settle down (at about -19mV, in line with your suggestion) and we'll see how well it works. I don't remember it being nearly this finicky when I...